The research is devoted to studying the Folk Medicine concept in English based on British ethnographic and folklore materials, as well dictionaries of dialects published XIX early XX centuries. work aims analyse its representation a component folk world picture, verbalised that time’s medical language, core which set nominations used denote names diseases associated with ancient practices. On p...

This paper presents two toolsets for transcribing and annotating spoken language: the EXMARaLDA system, developed at the University of Hamburg, and the FOLK tools, developed at the Institute for the German Language in Mannheim. Both systems are targeted at users interested in the analysis of spontaneous, multi-party discourse. Their main user community is situated in conversation analysis, prag...

Folk theories—untutored people’s (often implicit) theories about various features of the world—have been fashionable objects of inquiry in psychology for almost two decades now (e.g., Hirschfeld and Gelman 1994), and more recently they have been of interest in experimental philosophy (Nichols 2004). Folk theories of psychology, physics, biology, and ethics have all come under investigation. Fol...

After a group of Hakka people migrated to Meizhou at the end Qing Dynasty in China, folk songs began circulate widely areas such as Meizhou. Rooted soil real life, these represent oral creations by masses and possess unique artistic characteristics. The tonal language songs, based on intonation language, gives rise distinctive vocal art form. As type migratory culture, have been introduced into...

For the last 25 years discussions and debates about commonsense psychology (or “folk psychology,” as it is often called) have been center stage in the philosophy of mind. There have been heated disagreements both about what folk psychology is and about how it is related to the scientific understanding of the mind/brain that is emerging in psychology and the neurosciences. In this chapter we wil...

There remains a broad consensus that current folk racial categories— those categories usually used on surveys, recognized by tbe U.S. Office of Management and Budget (OMB), and used on census forms and by U.S. Federal Drug Administration (FDA)—do not correspond to meaningful biological categories. Pace some recent attempts to defend the use of folk racial categories as a proxy for ancestry and ...

Music classification has been widely investigated in the past few years using a variety of machine learning approaches. In this study, a corpus of 3367 folk songs, divided into six geographic regions, has been created and is used to evaluate two popular yet contrasting methods for symbolic melody classification. For the task of folk song classification, a global feature approach, which summariz...