This study explores literature reading and reception of narrative texts among Swedish middle school students. Through a written assignment think-aloud protocol, students’ comprehension interpretation are investigated. The shows that students tend to focus mainly on the plot. main hindrance is at lexical level, but cultural aspects, such as general knowledge surrounding world, also crucial. have...

To test whether the pride expression is an implicit, reliably developing signal of high social status in humans, the authors conducted a series of experiments that measured implicit and explicit cognitive associations between pride displays and high-status concepts in two culturally disparate populations--North American undergraduates and Fijian villagers living in a traditional, small-scale so...

The word bridge is a symbol that contains many implicit meanings outside of the dictionary meaning. Searching for her symbolic past in cultural sphere like an excavation. For this, it necessary to examine how made meaningful mythologies, beliefs and holy books. While bridges rainbow as contract form bond between earth sky, there are seen threshold other world can be dangerous or easy cross pers...

One of the many possibilities of understanding culture is proposed by Clifford Geertz who understood culture as “a system of control mechanisms— plans, recipes, rules, instructions ... that guide behavior”(Geertz, 1973). This opinion is based on the assumption that “man is exactly the animal that is the most dependent upon such control mechanisms that exist outside the skin” (p. 44). But these ...

Although the explicit attitudes of Chinese people toward the self over time are known (i.e., past = present < future), little is known about their implicit attitudes. Two studies were conducted to measure the implicit subjective temporal trajectory (STT) of Chinese undergraduates. Study 1 used a Go/No-go association task to measure participants' implicit attitudes toward their past, present, an...

ABSTRAGT In the context of the declining legitimacy of the war in Vietnam and widespread challenges to the authority of established institutions and cultural norms, the American Library Association (ALA) was the target of criticism by a diverse coalition of librarians who asserted two broad demands; first, that the ALA expand the scope of its activities to include consideration of social and po...

accessory thing is a thing that stands in a dependency relationship with the principal thing. an accessory thing ordinarily serves the economic or other purposes of the principal thing and shares its legal fate in case of transfer or encumbrance. there are some questions? different opinions about the meaning of it and the is it a contractual subject or not? and may it be determined by implicit ...

The paper presents a proof-theoretic semantics for sentences headed by transitive verbs allowing an unexpressed (implicit) object. Such sentences are shown to have the same (proof-theoretic) meaning as the same sentences with an explicit existentially quantified object something. This semantics is contrasted with a model-theoretic semantics based on truthconditions in models. The models used co...