Robo Sapiens Japanicus: Robots, Gender, Family, and the Japanese Nation

Cui bono robo sapiens?

Ever since Czech writer Karel Capek's well-known play " R.U.R. – Rossum's universal robots " [Capek], first published in 1920 and performed in 1921, man-made robots of human-like shape have inspired fiction writers to envision worlds with artificial creatures far superior to human beings – either in friendly coexistence or taking over by eliminating their creators and leaving them behind as an ...

Gender and Nation-Building: Family Law as Legal Architecture Symposium - Nation Building: A Legal Architecture: Articles and Essays

ترجمه،نقدوبررسی بخش پایانی کتاب : women family and gender in islamic law

موضوع این تحقیق ترجمه ، نقدوبررسی بخش پایانی کتابی است بانام "women, family and gender in islamic law" [زنان، خانواده وجنسیت درحقوق اسلام]. اصل کتاب به زبان انگلیسی است؛ ما علاوه برترجمه، برآن حاشیه نیززده ایم. ونهایتا نقدوبررسی نیز کرده ایم. درفصل نقدوبررسی پس ازایرادمقدمه، نخستین سخن را به بحثی به نام "تنازع پیش فرض ها" اختصاص دادیم. جان سخن ما دراین بحث این است که ازآنجاکه مسلمانان باغیرمسل...

Affiliation and Filiation: The Nation-Family in Scott’s Ivanhoe and Anne of Geierstein

This article studies Sir Walter Scott’s use of the family-as-nation trope in Ivanhoe and Anne of Geierstein. The importance of this trope in his figuration of nationhood is discerned by carrying out a close reading of the texts and placing them in their historical context, which primarily consists of a comparison with Edmund Burke and Maria Edgeworth. Consequently, his position is revealed as b...

efl students gender and socioeconomic status: the use of politeness strategies in the first and second languages

within the components of communicative competence, a special emphasis is put on the “rules of politeness,” specifically the politeness strategies (brown and levinson, 1978) that speakers deploy when performing the request speech act. this is because the degree of imposition that making a request places upon one’s interlocutor(s) has been seen to be influenced by several factors among which, as ...