In media science, the concept of the costume language is only vaguely defined. We propose a formal definition of this concept, which is based on the concept of pattern languages. In order to derive the patterns of such a language we introduce a method that supports capturing knowledge about clothes, identifying costumes based on clothes and abstracting costumes into costume patterns. Thus, cost...

We study concept languages (also called terminological languages) as means for both defining a knowledge base and expressing queries. In particular, we investigate on the possibility of using two different concept languages, one for asserting facts about individual objects, and the other for querying a set of such assertions. Contrary to many negative results on the complexity of terminological...

the existing literature on bantu verbal semantics demonstrated that inherent semantic content of verbs pairs directly with the selection of tense, aspect and modality formatives in bantu languages like chasu, lucazi, lusamia, and shiyeyi. thus, the gist of this paper is the articulation of semantic classification of verbs in kiswahili based on the selection of tam types. this is because the sem...

objectives: nouns and verbs are the central conceptual linguistic units of language acquisition in all human languages. while the noun-bias hypothesis claims that nouns have a privilege in children’s lexical development across languages, studies on mandarin and korean and other languages have challenged this view. more recent cross-linguistic naming studies on children in german, turkish, engli...

along with the beginning of novel and short story writing in persian and urdu languages various literary movements like realism, social realism and surrealism overshadowed the contemporary literature of iran and pakistan. modern prose of persian and urdu consists of great assets from novels and short stories, and their considerable background . during various periods of the growth and prosperit...

the present study is an attempt to find common structural characteristics ofhonorific expressions in japanese and persian. to achieve this purpose, first wewill focus on two parameters: “honorific as vocabulary” and “honorific assentence” in recent researches on honorific expressions in japanese. then, wewill compare the structure and characteristic of honorific expressions inexamples from both...