the extent of popularity and circulation of a foreign language words inside a specific region can be considered as an evidence of mental, social and political impact of that foreign civilization and culture upon the people of that area. this paper deals with the influence and popularity of persian words in pre-islamic poetry. the wide range of this popularity in various fields emphasizes the re...

thesaurus is one, out of many, precious tool in information technology by which information specialists can optimize storage and retrieval of documents in scientific databases and on the web. in recent years, there has been a shift from thesaurus to ontology by downgrading thesaurus in favor of ontology. it is because thesaurus cannot meet the needs of information management because it cannot c...

Abstract The Comprehensive Assessment of Psychopathic Personality-Self-Report (CAPP-SR) is the most recent operationalization CAPP model which uses 33 symptoms to conceptualize psychopathic personality disorder. In current study, we sought examine cross-cultural utility CAPP-SR in an Iranian sample. Study 1, translated into Persian and assessed linguistic convergence between original English ve...

Intercultural communication is concerned with communication across cultures. Since cultures as well as languages differ from one another in significant ways, speakers conceptualize the world around them in different ways. These cultural conceptualizations form part of the collective cognition of a speech community or cultural group. This paper is an attempt to delineate some cultural schemas in...

Objective: Hypoactive sexual desire Disorder (HSDD) is a common sexual problem among women. Sexual interest and desire inventory -female (SIDI-F) has been widely validated and used to measure sexual desire in women. The aim of this study was to determine the psychometric properties of the Persian version of SIDI-F for Iranian population. Method: This was a methodological study on the psychometr...

OBJECTIVE Bayley Scales of infant & toddler development is a well-known diagnostic developmental assessment tool for children aged 1-42 months. Our aim was investigating the validity & reliability of this scale in Persian speaking children. MATERIALS & METHODS The method was descriptive-analytic. Translation- back translation and cultural adaptation was done. Content & face validity of transl...

The article presents the main provisions of theory thesaurus-type dictionaries, gives definitions thesaurus, describes relationship thesaurus with type writing, considers Sapir-Whorf l inguistic relativity and their connection way thinking methods conceptualizing extra-linguistic reality by representatives different ethnic cultures. authors propose ideographic writing as one models ethnocogniti...