Words in a Cultural Context?

Learning Words in Context: a Survey

This paper surveys a number of theories of word meaning acquisition from context; it discusses possible (text-dependent or text-independent) constraints or biases that might help in the process, and also factors like student ability and the strength of contextual support that aaect the learning task. It also reviews incidental learning from context during normal reading.

Mindfulness in cultural context.

Mindfulness meditation and other techniques drawn from Buddhism have increasingly been integrated into forms of psychotherapeutic intervention. In much of this work, mindfulness is understood as a mode of awareness that is present-centered and nonevaluative. This form of awareness is assumed to have intrinsic value in promoting positive mental health and adaptation by interrupting discursive th...

A survey on the verse: Jews distortion words from their context

In some verses of holy Quran including 75 of Baqara, 46 of Nisaa and 13 and 41 of Maida the word distortion, tahrif, has been mentioned clearly. This Quranic term being used with regard to the people of the book, has been linked to the changing of the Testaments. The verses in the field have not described the changing in detail, considering the traditions, however, one may understand a kind of ...

a frame semantic approach to the study of translating cultural scripts in salingers franny and zooey

the frame semantic theory is a nascent approach in the area of translation studies which goes beyond the linguistic barriers and helps us to incorporate cognitive and cultural factors to the study of translation. based on rojos analytical model (2002b), which centered in the frames or knowledge structures activated in the text, the present research explores the various translation problems that...

Knowledge transfer in a cross - cultural context