Utilizing the Meaning Response: Naturopathy as Meaning-Based Medicine in the Western Cultural Context

on the comparison of keyword and semantic-context methods of learning new vocabulary meaning

the rationale behind the present study is that particular learning strategies produce more effective results when applied together. the present study tried to investigate the efficiency of the semantic-context strategy alone with a technique called, keyword method. to clarify the point, the current study seeked to find answer to the following question: are the keyword and semantic-context metho...

Socio-Cultural Meaning of Kitchen in Religious Context of Iran (Case Study: City of Qom)

Introduction of modern architecture in Iran and its popularization in 1950s and after, brought some new concepts in everyday life of Iranian women, among which was “kitchen as heart of home-life”. Younger members of current generation are grown in these modernized spaces while a bit older ones have experienced houses of traditional style. This study is designed to explore what previous concept ...

Meaning in the Lexicon: Cultural Implications

Meaning in Context

A model for context-dependent natural language semantics is proposed and formalized in terms of possible worlds. The meaning of a sentence depends on context and at the same time affects that context representing the knowledge about the world collected from a discourse. The model fits well with a “flat” semantic representation as first proposed by Hobbs (1985), consisting basically of a conjunc...

The Meaning of Social Medicine

The author is impatient with a Medicine that cures disease but does not bestow health, and urges a reorientation to concern with life and its fulfillment rather than with death and disease. The current dilemma is blamed upon a faulty philosophy of medicine traced to the influence of Pasteur and von Behring, who led into the search for single causes of disease and disregarded broader concepts of...