Although children take over a year to learn the meanings of the first three number words, they eventually master the logic of counting and the meanings of all the words in their count list. Here, we ask whether children's knowledge applies to number words beyond those they have mastered: Does a child who can only count to 20 infer that number words above 'twenty' refer to exact cardinal values?...

This article highlights the significance food may have in group therapy with children and adolescents and its meanings for particular group members. It focuses on the interactions between the group members and leaders in response to food. Along with providing actual nutrition, food represents emotional and symbolic nurturing, and may trigger salient conflicts and issues with which group members...

this article focuses on this problem: why and by what factors have rolled oral and written literature in social process for changing during the process of movement era? based on the analysis of narrative text and the sociology of literature methodology, survey results show that although historical theme has always been one of the topics discussed in the literature but the new iranian literature...

The article analyzes mental representations of Russian lyrical prose texts. The texts demonstrate collective memory engrams that are defined by cultural and historical legacy of the nation and authors’ creative world perception. In architectonics of a lyrical prose text, sense perception reveals itself in accumulated underlying meanings and wisdom conveyed by expressive means. The author’s inte...

The purpose of this study is to examine the representation trees in Jad El Hage’s Myrtle Tree (2007) and Sinan Antoon’s Corpse Washer (2013). Due growing concerns over global environmental crises, these writers have showed significant attention nature by using as symbols comment on political, social, cultural issues. Through a close reading texts, analyses multifaceted meanings from postcolonia...

The study of the color picture world is interest in linguistic and cultural aspect, since one most important means emotional impact on reader, meanings express author’s view world, are also for constructing a national world. There some patterns that link values different cultures It worth noting there differences symbols languages. depends historical past people, its geographical location, etc....

there is no doubt that colors are important factors in creating arts including poetry. the poets use them because of their visual beauties to show their hidden values. sometimes they go further – beyond the external features – ad use colors as symbols to express their own meaning. moreover, modern poet’s deep insight and vision are the main causes to change the colorful portrait to a bright won...

Despite Saussure's famous observation that sound-meaning relationships are in principle arbitrary, we now have a substantial body of evidence that sounds themselves can have meanings, patterns often referred to as "sound symbolism". Previous studies have found that particular sounds can be associated with particular meanings, and also with particular static visual shapes. Less well studied is t...

This paper describes a neural computing architecture which develops distributed symbolic representations of its environment. Experiments applied the neural system to the sensory and motor environment of a simulated robot navigating across a cluttered oor. The system autonomously deenes and adjusts the meanings of its symbols. Another feature of the system is its ability to remember an event in ...