Falling and being in love is a cross-cultural universal. The poet Khwaja Šams ud-Din Muhammad Hafez-e Širazi, or simply Hafez (14 th century D.C.), an important influence for both Persian and European culture, is noted for his love poetry. The first aim of the present study was to check to what extent items of a current questionnaire of love match themes of love found in Hafez‘ poetry. Then, we...

this paper aimed to investigate the differences between english and persian religious elements which may be problematic in translating from english into persian. the study aimed also to investigate the way cultural elements in general and religious ones in particular were dealt with in the selected corpora and to check whether the procedures proposed by newmark, were sufficient and adequate for...

This article reflects philosophical ideas in the Shahnameh poem. Analysis of teachings, study place knowledge philosophy, man and culture. Firdousi’s Shakhnoma memorably repeated history Persian kings, strengthened influence language as a literary medium, preserved Iran's ancient glory, its political ethics cultural identity.

This paper aimed to investigate the differences between English and Persian religious elements which may be problematic in translating from English into Persian. The study aimed also to investigate the way cultural elements in general and religious ones in particular were dealt with in the selected corpora and to check whether the procedures proposed by Newmark, were sufficient and adequate for...

This paper describes the motivation for, and methodology behind the creation of ELSST (European Language Social Science Thesaurus), a broad-based multilingual thesaurus for the social sciences. The thesaurus was produced by the UK Data Archive (UKDA) as part of the EU-funded LIMBER (Language Independent Metadata Browsing of European Resources) project and was derived from their in-house English...

The paper describes the structure and properties of a large linguistic ontology – a new kind of information retrieval thesaurus Thesaurus on Sociopolitical Life for Conceptual Indexing. The thesaurus is used in various realscale information-retrieval applications in the legal domain. At present one of the main applications of the Thesaurus is knowledge-based text categorization. Categories are ...

objective: to translate the structured clinical interview for dsm-iv axisi disorders (scid-i) into persian (farsi) and to adapt this instrument for the iranian culture. method: the scid was translated into persian using an elaborate procedure to achieve a satisfactory cross-cultural equivalent. this included forward translation by bilingual (english/persian) translators, discussion and revision...

The purpose of the article consists in study modern Ukrainian composer V. Antoniuk’s reading T. Shevchenko's program poem “Testament” using means musical expressiveness inherent his individual manner with use arsenal artistic and technical tools choral writing. Research methodology comprises a cultural approach, structural-systemic, complex musicological analysis generalisation results. Scienti...