"Economic integration" and "business culture," two concepts that are also processes, have great importance in today's international business arena. Contemporary financial literature contains many separate references to each and sometimes, though not as often as one would wish, features discussions of their connections. Many people understandably invoke the notions of economic integration and bu...

the persian literature, whether verse or prose, is filled with the ethic, moral, mystical, and educational concepts and ideas. among the great poets, sa' di has a specific approach toward these supreme notions. one may notice many moral and educational concepts and attitudes in the 7th & 8th chapters in his golestan. in this research, it has been tried to survey the various factors and gro...

The user’s behavior and his interpretation of interactions with others is influenced by his cultural background, which provides a number of heuristics or patterns of behavior and interpretation. This cultural influence on interaction has largely been neglected in HCI research due to two challenges: (i) grasping culture as a computational term and (ii) infering the user’s cultural background by ...

This paper discusses some of the challenges in constructing multimodal intercultural artificial communicators. Such challenges concern the notions of intercultural communication and culture, e.g. what aspects of culture are investigated and what methods are used. The paper also presents two example of types of investigation that are needed and concludes with a short discussion of some consequen...

the aim of my argument (1) is to reconceptualise what is now called religious studies as the study of institutionalised values, and the relation between values and the legitimation of power in a specific society. though i do not talk much about power here, it is always a fundamental issue in the study of specific social groups.the first assumption which i make in this paper is that the way anal...

Translators face a number of difficulties while translating. Not only translation of cultural elements is of utmost importance in translation studies, but also it is an arduous task for translators, especially in the case of interlingual translation. One of the biggest concerns of audiovisual translators is culture-specific items amongst which taboo expressions are included. This study aimed at...

This article explores how emotions are practised within retrospective Facebook groups and these practices shaped by the logics of interface. Theoretical inspiration is drawn from Ahmed’s discussions on mood work study based netnographic fieldwork involving six groups. Overall, a positive emotional relationship with past analysis illustrates that three interrelated works found in groups; fascina...