Humans follow circadian rhythms, visible in their activity levels as well as physiological and psychological factors. Such rhythms are also visible in electronic communication records, where the aggregated activity levels of e.g. mobile telephone calls or Wikipedia edits are known to follow their own daily patterns. Here, we study the daily communication patterns of 24 individuals over 18 month...

The article deals with analyzing the nature of Joan Harris’s novel “Chocolat” mystical symbolism. authors state that culinary discourse is a mixed, personal-oriented type communication, which manifested in everyday communication sphere has an institutional character. Foreign language Culinary represented by precedent texts recipes reflect specifics national culture, social and gender characteri...

INTRODUCTORY AND METHODOLOGICAL REMARKS It was years ago when I first bought my Bulaq edition of Arabic dream texts authored by the three canonical interpreters: Ibn S|r|n, Ibn Sha≠ h|n, and al-Na≠ bulus|. In the eighties it was a favorite pastime among some Cairene intellectuals to read such popular classics, a way to converse with and learn more about the past. But what began as a pastime dev...

Author profiling consists of predicting some author’s traits (e.g. age, gender, personality) from her writing. After addressing at PAN@CLEF mainly age and gender identification, in this RusProfiling PAN@FIRE track we have addressed the problem of predicting author’s gender in Russian from a cross-genre perspective: given a training set on Twitter, the systems have been evaluated on five differe...

a foreign language teaching method is supposed to take into account the real communicative needs of the foreign language learner. using literary texts is a suitable way not only to teach a foreign language but to consider particular facts that relate to human and cultural needs of learners. using the humanistic-oriented literary texts as an authentic document in the foreign language course allo...

This paper explores differences between male and female writing in a large subset of the British National Corpus covering a range of genres. Several classes of simple lexical and syntactic features that differ substantially according to author gender are identified, both in fiction and in non-fiction documents. In particular, we find significant differences between maleand female-authored docum...

Idiolects are person-dependent similarities in language use. They imply that texts by one author show more similarities in language use than texts between authors. Sociolects, on the other hand, are group-dependent similarities in language use. They imply that texts by a group of authors, for instance in terms of gender or time period, share more similarities within a group than between groups....

Language means play a crucial role in the shaping stereotypes within cultural groups. The present study addresses issues of gender neutralization English-language advertising and newspaper texts. paper investigates linguistic involved creation genderneutral analysis gender-unmarked texts was conducted on material from rubrics "Lifestyle", "Health", "Sports", "Culture" Guardian edition. As resul...