The question, Do men and women use language differently played a central part in the emergence of feminist socio linguistics more than two decades ago, and it casts a long shadow. This paper focuses on the literature that has contributed to the understanding of the major research questions underlying two major strands, language and gender, concentrating on the development of the literature from...

as social health is a condition-driven, dynamic and fluid concept, it seems necessary to construct and obtain a national and relevant concept of it for every society. providing an empirical back up for iran's concept of social health was the aim of the present study.this study is an ecologic study in which available data for 30 provinces of iran in 2007 were analyzed. in order to prove construc...

background: the aim of this study was to investigate the psychometric properties of social capital questionnaire (scq) developed by onyx and bullen (2000) among a sample of medical science students in tehran university of medical sciences, iran and to compare the factor analysis with findings from two previous studies in australia and the united states. methods: multistage cluster sampling was ...

This position paper 1 argues that in addition to the familiar approach using formal contexts, there is now a need in AI to study contexts as social constructs. As a successful example of the latter approach, I draw attention tòinterpreta-tion' (in the sense of literary theory), viz. the reconstruction of intended meaning of a literary text that takes into account the context in which the author...