The Bankrupt Act. A Compliment to American Legislation

a gender-based pragmatic analysis of the use of english compliment responses by iraqi efl students:a speech act perspective

تعارفات کنش های گفتاری هستند که افراد در زندگی روزمر? خود به منظور برقراری دوستی یا تداوم روابط مسالمت آمیز به کار می برند. ساز و کار تعارف مختص زبان انگلیسی یا هر زبان دیگری نیست و پدیده ای است جهانی و در همه زبانها حضور دارد. تفاوتی که از این نظر در زبانها و فرهنگ ها وجود دارد مربوط به پاسخ به این کنش گفتاری در گفتمان است. این مطالعه به بررسی تنوع پاسخ های انگلیسی و عربی به کنش گفتاری تعارف د...

Credit Supply to Bankrupt Households

The rate of households filing for personal bankruptcy soared in the past two decades, spurring extensive investigations on its causes and policy implications. Recent research suggests that the driving factor may be the sharp decrease in the cost of providing credit, especially unsecured credit cards, to the borrowers that would be not served by traditional lenders (e.g., Livshits, MacGee, and T...

Rehabilitation robots: a compliment to virtual reality

The aim of this paper is to discuss the use of robots for upper limb rehabilitation following strokes in adults. We describe the main robots currently being developed and the results of clinical studies that have been carried out. The association of virtual reality interfaces and the robotic rehabilitation programs providing therapy in the form of games with a view to helping therapists increas...

from linguistics to literature: a linguistic approach to the study of linguistic deviations in the turkish divan of shahriar

chapter i provides an overview of structural linguistics and touches upon the saussurean dichotomies with the final goal of exploring their relevance to the stylistic studies of literature. to provide evidence for the singificance of the study, chapter ii deals with the controversial issue of linguistics and literature, and presents opposing views which, at the same time, have been central to t...

Legislation—The Uniform Simultaneous Death Act in Missouri