Figurative Language, Language Disorders, and Language(s) Evolution

Figurative Language, Language Disorders, and Language(s) Evolution

Geriatrie Speech and Language Disorders

As the elderly census rising in the world, most of the developed and developing countries are engaged with implementation of many different geriatric programs in their governing agendas. As such increament includes Iran as well, Therefore providing many social, educational and economical programs which all must focus upon the elderlies well living style are considered crucial. Preserving the sp...

The evolution of language and languages

1 Languages and the human language faculty Human languages, such as French, Cantonese or American Sign Language, are socio-cultural entities. Knowledge of them (`competence') is acquired by exposure to the appropriate environment. Languages are maintained and transmitted by acts of speaking and writing; and this is also the means by which languages evolve. The utterances of one generation are p...

Computational approaches to figurative language

concepts that are associated with the same source domain are often related to each other in the way we conceptualise them, but their meanings are not necessarily synonymous or even semantically close. Compare, for example, the target concepts MARRIAGE and POLITICAL REGIME. Although not directly related in semantic space, they are both metaphorically mapped to the source concept of MECHANISM (e....

Computational Approaches to Figurative Language

The heading figurative language subsumes multiple phenomena that can be used to perform most linguistic functions including predication, modification, and reference. Figurative language can tap into conceptual and linguistic knowledge (as in the case of idioms, metaphor, and some metonymies) as well as evoke pragmatic factors in interpretation (as in indirect speech acts, humor, irony, or sarca...