this paper examines the nature of language in the works of mawlana jalal al-din rumi and consists of three sections: language and reality in rumi; the complex view of language in fihi ma fihi (the discourses of rumi); and, poetry and mysticism in rumi. the paper discusses three main topics: rumi's ambivalent attitude to language, which is seen as both a means of conveying truth and guidanc...

This paper presents an investigation into the relationship between individuals’ attitudes towards their mother tongue and lexical attrition. The is based on data from a study wherein 10 Kurdish-Turkish bilinguals were asked to narrate well-known story in of Kurdish. These individuals selected among 104 participants according score Mother Tongue Attitude Scale (MTAS), scale used determine attitu...

In the process of English learning, each learner has his/her own attitude towards learning. In this path, s/he should feel free to be responsible for what s/he wants and seeks to learn which shows how autonomous the learner is. This study is based on the hypotheses that there is a relationship between what the learner feels towards English language learning and his/her level of autonomy. For th...

abstractthe interference of the native language in acquiring a foreign language is unavoidable. in an attempt to explore the phenomenon why this occurs, the study was conducted in english as a foreign language writing. the study also investigated how the native language interference occurred in the writing process. in fact, this qualitative study explored the reasons and the process of native l...

Attitudes or social affects are strongly implied in interaction processing, and specifically to socio-cultural aspects of language. This paper presents the modeling of attitude to apply in expressive speech synthesis in Vietnamese, an under-resourced tonal language. A prosodic model for Vietnamese attitude is proposed based on the concept of “rendez-vous” between linguistic levels and prosodic ...

In this paper, we investigate the adaptation of language modeling for conversational Mandarin-English Code-Switching (CS) speech and its effect on speech recognition performance. First, we investigate the prediction of code switches based on textual features with focus on Partof-Speech (POS) tags. We show that the switching attitude is speaker dependent and utilize this finding to cluster the t...