The purpose of the study is to conduct a cognitively-comparative analysis representation communicative-pragmatic frame intellect (Russianум, German Klugheit) objectified in proverbs English and Russian languages, which, being reflection world view particular ethnic group, are conventional way expressing stereotypes people.The scientific novelty lies comprehensive stereotypical assessments intel...

The present investigation sought to comparatively explore the effect of length of residence (LOR) as well as EFL instruction on the pragmatic competence of Iranian learners. The participants were 45 EFL learners in Iran and 45 learners in Canada selected based on snowball sampling and each group was divided into three sub-groups based on the years of learning English in an EFL or a natural sett...

This paper discusses ‘the shape of space’, in terms of search algorithms and traversal operators. It is pointed out that it is the combination of traversal operators and representation that gives rise to a fitness landscape. This provides an intuitive background to recent discussions on the formal limitations on search algorithms. Dynamic and random remapping of space via base changes—applying ...

A framework for a structured representation of semantic knowledge (e.g. word-senses) has been defined at the IBM Scientific Center of Roma, as part of a project on Italian Text Understanding. This representation, based on the conceptual graphs formalism [SOW84], expresses deep knowledge (pragmatic) on word-senses. The knowledge base data structure is such as to provide easy access by the semant...

The purpose of this article is to discover the correlation among language elements- semantic, syntactic, pragmatic- and cognitive barriers towards accuracy Geometry proofs. This interdisciplinary study was carried out in response fact that students Math neither focus on mathematical procedures nor integrate topics math into representation concept which brings about constraint achieving goal lea...

This paper discusses the extension of ViewGen, an algorithm derived for belief ascription, to the areas of speech acts, intensional object representation and metaphor. ViewGen represents the beliefs of agents as explicit, partitioned proposition-sets known as environments. Environments are convenient, even essential, for addressing important pragmatic issues of reasoning. The paper concentrates...

Emotions entail distinctive ways of perceiving and assessing situations, processing information, and prioritizing and modulating actions [24]. The paper aims to study theoretical and pragmatic aspects of emotions and to propose a semantic representation of emotions for oral dialogues, based on an analysis of real-life conversations, telephone messages and recorded TV programmes, focusing on a r...

In this paper the methodology followed to build a questionanswering system for the Portuguese language is described. The system modules are built using computational linguistic tools such as: a Portuguese parser based on constraint grammars for the syntactic analysis of the documents sentences and the user questions; a semantic interpreter that rewrites sentences syntactic analysis into discour...

This paper aims at analyzing phonological representation of connective words frequently used in Gouyu and Taiwan Min. Based on 180-mintue spontaneous speech in Gouyu and Taiwan Min, it is found that speakers tend to use connective words quite often to link phrases or sentences either consciously or unconsciously. Thus, following the labeling of the ToBI system, this study will focuses on phonol...

Extracting meaning from speech requires the use of pragmatic, semantic, and syntactic information. A central question is: Does the processing of these different types of linguistic information have common or distinct neuroanatomical substrates? We addressed this issue using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to measure neural activity when subjects listened to spoken normal sentences ...