george bernard shaw's masterpiece pygmalion deals with the social function of language and reveals that linguistic competence is one of the markers of social status. it presents the story of the social transformation of a flower girl into a ‘lady’ through linguistic retraining. this work has been analyzed from a variety of perspectives such as freudian psychology and sociolinguistic perspective...

translation includes delicate points that if being ignored, it will damage the text and its meaning. one of these main points is the social dialect which should be considered in translation, just like geographical dialects. the social dialects that sometimes create the main body of a story introduce characters and contain important information concerning the speakers. the following article is c...

A social welfare function entitled ‘ordinal Nash’ is proposed based on risk preferences and assuming a common, worst social state for all individuals. The crucial axiom in the characterisation of the solution is a weak version of IIA, in which only the relative risk position with respect to the worst state is considered. Thus the resulting social preference takes into account non (necessarily) ...

Henry Ford, it is said, commissioned a survey of the car scrap yards of America to find out if there were parts of the Model T Ford which never failed. I lis inspectors came back with reports of almost every kind of breakdown : axles, brakes, pistons all were liable to go wrong. But they drew attention to one notable exception, the kingpins of the scrapped cars invariably had years of life left...

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(pp. 132,?952) (1933) quoted in The Social Function of Science. Professor Bernal has done great service, both in exposing the falsity of this point of view, and in demonstrating the interaction of scientific and social phenomena. As he rightly points out, it has always been disastrous when there is a division between theory and practice. While it is difficult to emphasise all the important crit...

The studies of emotion function and emotional disorders complement one another. In this article, the authors outline relations between the social functions of emotion and four psychological disorders. The authors first present a social-functional account of emotion and argue that emotions help coordinate social interactions through their informative, evocative, and incentive functions. They the...

social phobia is one of the anxiety disorders. the people wit h social phobia fear social situations and they are afraid to meet and talk with others and try avoid social situations .social phobia influence on academic and occupational function. many researches have confirmed the effect of family therapy based on cognigive-behavioral approach on social phobia. the main purpose of the present re...