In this paper, Event Process Chains (EPCs) and activity diagrams (ADs) of the Unified Modeling Language (UML) are compared with respect to (1) their syntax and its expressiveness, (2) their semantic domains and problems, and (3) their pragmatics and application conditions. The comparison is based on industrial experience and a survey of the research literature. Our conclusion is that while earl...

This paper focuses on the Brazilian Portuguese (PB) prosodic phrasing and has two main goals: (1) to find a correlation between constituents boundaries, as described by Prosodic Hierarchy Theory (Nespor & Vogel, 2007 [1986], a.o.) perception production of spontaneous reading speech breaks, (2) describe phonological characteristics syntactic ranking perceived non edges. The corpus under anal...

In linguistics the structuring role of conjunctions is emphasized, whereas its pragmatic and contrastive study often foregrounded. Conjunction may be prerequisite for study.
 The present research mainly aimed at establishing semantic – functional characteristics conjunction “and”, as well identifying equivalents in Armenian translation. other words only one translation direction investigat...

the process of globalization entails the acquisition of a construct, cultural intelligence, with which efl students can function appropriately in intercultural situations. this study was, first, intended to find the relationship between cultural intelligence and the use of expressions of gratitude by iranian efl learners. second, it sought to determine whether there were any significant differe...