Literary and dialect languages influence each other and, as a result, mutual enrichment occurs, in particular botanical vocabulary. Comparison of folk literary floristic names the Ukrainian language reveals: common for dialects (with phonetic, word-formative, semantic variants dialects); with different lexical meanings; many words broader structure dialects; figurative meaning existence lexemes...

Latinos comprise nearly 16 percent of the U.S. population, and this proportion is anticipated to increase to 30 percent by 2050. Latinos are a diverse ethnic group that includes many different cultures, races, and nationalities. Barriers to care have resulted in striking disparities in quality of health care for these patients. These barriers include language, lack of insurance, different cultu...

Dört temel dil becerisinden biri olan okuma becerisi bireylere örgün öğretimle birlikte kazandırılmaya başlanmaktadır. Okuma bireylerin yeni bilgilere ulaşabilmesi için gerekli beceridir. Ana dili olarak Türkçe öğretiminde edebi metinlerden oldukça sık yararlanılmaktadır. Bu metinler sayesinde bireyler hem becerisini geliştirmekte de estetik zevk almaktadır. Aynı şekilde Türkçenin yabancı metin...

The consideration of folk medicine places us in a hazy domain where meanings are clouded by interests and assumptions which are often at odds with one another. This article on folk medicine in the Iberian Peninsula reveals that while there is no doubt of the vitality of the practice and the relevance of the concept, its content and function depend on the context in which it is used. Folk medici...

The report presents the dialect archives in Department for Bulgarian Dialectology and Linguistic Geography of Institute Language "Prof. L. Andreychin" Academy Sciences, which include authentic lexis from different regions language territory, collected more than 70 years. process collecting material a card-index its use lexicographic linguo-geographical scientific works is described. ways enrich...

(Forthcoming, Journal of Cognition and Culture, 2009, Vol. 9, 3-4) ABSTRACT Many theoretical claims about the folk concept of moral responsibility coming from the current literature are indeterminate because researchers do not clearly specify the folk concept of moral responsibility in question. The article pursues a cognitive approach to folk concepts that pays special attention to this indete...

This contribution discusses the current status of folk costumes in south-eastern Moravia. At the theoretical level, it categorizes levels of clothing culture as they pertain to folk costumes and further addresses the political, social and economic conditions and associations that enable, or even support, the parallel existence of these categories of folk costumes. Although folk costumes, in the...

Although Lewis Carroll's 'Jabberwocky' is traditionally considered to be 'nonsense', such a characterisation ultimately rests on a Western folk notion of language as fundamentally semantico-referential. A more semiotically, and pragmatically, informed view of language and language-use, however, is capable of describing in considerable detail both the means by which a text such as 'Jabberwocky' ...

Folk song is a type of oral literature that lives and develops in society, especially rural communities. songs have the power to represent local knowledge community. Therefore, study needed reveal this. This research aims at revealing Buru people contained Buru’s weneks (folk songs). The data are texts (eight weneks) obtained from four informants, namely several village elders as owner songs. q...

Among the folk music of China, Hakka Mountain Folk Songs Gannan are a unique system with long history. Understanding rich humanistic connotation and its place in spiritual life people is far-reaching significance to study culture, language sentiment Ganzhou; arouse people’s awareness inheritance protection this precious cultural heritage which on verge extinction. The distinctive local characte...