langacker provided new schema-based descriptions of linguistic categories when he was questioning traditional theories of categorization. langecker's model of grammar deals with the reflection of grammatical subsystems of concepts related to space and time in language. also he explains how phenomena such as attention and point of view are encoded in language. the present research aimed to ...

Learning a new language also involves learning a broad system of norms for social relations.This study broadly showed how EFL learners’ speech act is conveyed from their nativecultures when they are communicating in English and demonstrated that there are somepossibilities of cross-cultural misunderstanding when interlocutors are engaged in the speechact of complimenting with native speakers of...

A narrative is a brief summary of specific events experienced by patients, during the course of a clinical trial. Narrative writing involves multiple activities such as generation of patient profiles, review of data sources, and identification of events for which narratives are required. A sponsor outsources narrative writing activities to leverage the expertise of service providers which in tu...

Large numbers of Indo-Fijian women are using marriage agencies and advertisements to find husband in Australia, New Zealand and Canada: this article investigates this new type of arranged marriage. Half of the Pacific island of Fiji are Indo-Fijians who are farmers, professionals, educated and prosperous, but have limited political, educational and land rights relative to the native Fijians. ...

This research aims at proposing a new method for discovering frequent temporal itemsets in continuous subsets of a dataset with quantitative transactions. It is important to note that although these temporal itemsets may have relatively high textit{support} or occurrence within particular time intervals, they do not necessarily get similar textit{support} across the whole dataset, which makes i...

Although there is a clear and intuitive mapping between linguistic arguments of verbs and event participants, the mapping is not perfect. We review the linguistic evidence that indicates that the mapping is imperfect. We also present the results of a new experimental study that provides further support for a dissociation between event participants and linguistic arguments. The study consists of...

To address the hesitancy, inconsistency and uncertainty of decision makers’ cognitions, linguistic interval hesitant fuzzy sets (LIHFSs) are efficient tools. This paper focuses on studying the application of LIHFSs. To do this, two correlation coefficients of LIHFSs are defined, which needn't consider the length of elements in LIHFSs or the arrangement of their possible interval values. To addr...