Bollywood, aka the Mumbai film industry, is one of biggest movie industries in world with a current market share worth 2.1 billion dollars and target audience base 1.2 people. While entertainment impact terms lives that Bollywood can potentially touch mammoth, no NLP study on social biases content exists. We thus seek to understand developing country through lens popular movies. Our argument si...

this study investigates the effect of different types of subtitle on incidental vocabulary learning among iranian efl learners. to this end, 60 high school students in behbahan were selected after taking a proficiency test. the test was administered to ensure participants' homogeneity. participants were randomly assigned to three experimental groups, namely, bimodal group (a), standard gro...

In our modern life, the introduction of new technologies and subsequent boom in satellites, television, as well as the Internet has made the world a much smaller place allowing different nations, cultures, and languages to interact more frequently. One of the biggest concerns of audiovisual translators is cultural and ideological items which taboo terms are included. This study aims at investig...

The purpose of this study is to examine gender portrayals in family films rated G, PG, or PG-13 by the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA). Theatrical release of the films occurred between September 5th, 2006 and September 7th, 2009 in the United States and/or Canada. For G-rated films in the sample, all English language fictional narratives (n=22) released across a three year time fra...

This study aimed to determine the significant mediating effect of using English movies on relationship between language exposure and attitudes towards learning English. A total 240 students from 1020 were selected through stratified random sampling. The used quantitative non-experimental method research correlational technique. Mean, Pearson r, Regression Analysis, Medgraph Sobel z-test employe...

This chapter reports research on evaluative language in English and Spanish consumer-generated reviews on books and movies. Within the Appraisal framework, a contrastive study is carried out on the spans of Graduation embedded in spans of Attitude in 64 reviews. A qualitative analysis, covering a syntactic description of these expressions of Graduation and proposals for doubtful cases, is follo...

This paper reports on part of the research on evaluative language currently carried out within the CONTRANOT project,1 which aims at the creation and validation of contrastive functional descriptions through corpus analysis and annotation in English and Spanish. More concretely, we will present the coding scheme designed for Attitude, a subcategory of Appraisal as studied within Systemic-Functi...

Translators face a number of difficulties while translating. Not only translation of cultural elements is of utmost importance in translation studies, but also it is an arduous task for translators, especially in the case of interlingual translation. One of the biggest concerns of audiovisual translators is culture-specific items amongst which taboo expressions are included. This study aimed at...

In the early period of implementation of the policy of opening China to the outside world when many English teachers of China paid great attention to the puzzling phenomenon: “New Concept English” and “English 900”enjoyed great popularity in China and they were used as the textbook in many English training institutions. They used to be broadcast constantly by TV and radio stations and many pare...

the main objective of the present study is to elaborate the contrasts between males and females in their use of different strategies of request in english and persian and ascertain the degree to which independent variables like gender and language affect the application of these strategies during informal communication.furthermore, it offers comparable corpora which provide a good basis for cro...