We describe research in progress on a dialogue system that simulates social conversation between animated characters representing a person with Alzheimer's Disease and his caregiver. The goal of the research is to enable caregivers to practice techniques to improve their assistive conversational skills. These skills are expected to reduce caregiver stress and to improve the quality of life of p...

shahanshāhnāma is one of the historical epic poems composed by ahmad tabrizi at the end of the ilkhanids’ reign. at the time, the poet was not able to openly criticize the mongols. at times, one may even think that he is praising them. on the contrary, in the hidden layers of his composition, the poet tries to show his criticism by using rhetorical and linguistic tools and praising iran and ira...

nader and simin—a separation is the first iranian movie which won manyinternational awards as well as admiration from critics and the public. many reviewsby critics, however, have revolved around problems in spousal relationships ofcouples in different social classes of iran. through highlighting the self-evidentdismantling elements and unreliable readings in the acting, directing, and even the...

Children as young as three engage in the art of make-believe exploring the boundaries of the real and the fantastic [9]. One of the most important aspects of drama is that it provides a type of activity where children engage in the play actively, with several senses. Aristotle refers to this as ”enactment”: which means to act rather than to read. Enacted representations involve direct sensing a...

Literary writers always carefully and consciously depict their characters places to reflect the roles assigned those in literary endeavour. Such are created have greatest effect on plot of work. Oftentimes, names a writer assigns his fictional character reflective characters’ behavioral traits antecedents surrounding history such places. In light above, we examine one Fágúnwà’s classics, Àdììtú...

This essay seeks to open up some two-way traffic between Kafka the narrative artist and the rhetorical theory of narrative. More specifically, I seek to identify the narrative logic underlying what I take to be the irreducible strangeness of Kafka's ―Das Urteil‖ (1916) and then to use the results to expand the explanatory power of rhetorical theory. I choose ―Das Urteil‖ as my case study for th...

Is Is a novel that attempts much and accomplishes little. The Nest is the name given to a decaying house in the country which houses three schizophrenics who have been incarcerated there for over twenty years. In their seventies, sixties and fifties, the three principal characters are Nora, who nourishes her royal delusions; Wassler, his R.A.F. world; and Hugo?the hero of the story?his versatil...

Political novel is one of the kinds of Persian Literature with special factors, which are different from other contemporary story writing styles.  These types of stories are more accommodated with critical discourse analysis (CDA) among other methods of novel analyses compared to other types, because of their specificity and unique quality of and their close relations with society and political...