Representation of lexical form.

The Effect of Semantic Transfer on Iranian EFL Learners’ Lexical Representation and Processing

Mental Representation of Cognates/Noncognates in Persian-Speaking EFL Learners

The purpose of this study was to investigate the mental representation of cognate and noncognate translation pairs in languages with different scripts to test the prediction of dual lexicon model (Gollan, Forster, & Frost, 1997). Two groups of Persian-speaking English language learners were tested on cognate and noncognate translation pairs in Persian-English and English-Persian directions with...

Gender Representation of Emotions in the Novel A Hero of Our Time by Mikhail Lermontov

The article deals with emotions represented through images of the characters of M.Y. Lermontov’s novel A Hero of Our Time. The author consecutively analyzes elements of the text, in which emotions of male and female characters are nominated, directly expressed and described. The number of lexical units and text elements involved in the representation of a particular emotion is recorded in...

The Representation of Iran’s Nuclear Program in British Newspaper Editorials: A Critical Discourse Analytic Perspective

In this study, Van Dijk’s (1998) model of CDA was utilized in order to examine the representation of Iran’s nuclear program in editorials published by British news casting companies. The analysis of the editorials was carried out at two levels of headlines and full text stories with regard to the linguistic features of lexical choices, nominalization, passivization, overcompleteness, and voice....

Word Type Effects on L2 Word Retrieval and Learning: Homonym versus Synonym Vocabulary Instruction

The purpose of this study was twofold: (a) to assess the retention of two word types (synonyms and homonyms) in the short term memory, and (b) to investigate the effect of these word types on word learning by asking learners to learn their Persian meanings. A total of 73 Iranian language learners studying English translation participated in the study. For the first purpose, 36 freshmen from an ...

What is the Lexical Form of 'BEI'?

Shun Ha Sylvia Wong and Peter Hancox School of Computer Science, University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham B15 2TT, United Kingdom. E-mail: fS.Wong,[email protected] ABSTRACT The lexical representation of the Chinese word ` ' has been an issue of on-going debate. The lexical form suggested by Her seemed to provide a complete representation of the different syntactic behaviours of ...