the purpose of this study was to investigate the content analysis of recent persian songs (2013-2014) according to emotions of anxiety, depression, anger, fear and happiness. the research method was content analysis type. the sample consisted of 50 persian songs from 2013 to 2014 which they were selected by simple sampling. to analysis of data, massages were categorized in emotions of anxiety, ...

Earlier linguistic studies of political discourse revealed that, not many works exist on pragmatic analysis of impoliteness in this genre. Apart from Mullany (2002), who employs relational and face works to analyses impoliteness in political discourse, Taiwo (2007), Adetunji (2009), and Ademilokun (2015), who employ discourse analytical tools in analyzing the political speeches, there exist ver...

The purpose of this study was to investigate the content analysis of recent Persian songs (2013-2014) according to emotions of anxiety, depression, anger, fear and happiness. The research method was content analysis type. The sample consisted of 50 Persian songs from 2013 to 2014 which they were selected by simple sampling. To analysis of data, massages were categorized in emotions of anxiety, ...

     The objective of the present study was to identify and examine the influence of instructional tools, namely, games, songs and stories on young Iranian EFL learners’ achievement utilizing a quantitative design. To conduct the study 65 Iranian EFL learners, divided into an experimental group and a control group, learning English at Navid English Institute, Shiraz, Iran, participated in the s...

We use results from the 2011 MIREX “Audio Music Similarity and Retrieval” task for a meta analysis of the hub phenomenon. Hub songs appear similar to an undesirably high number of other songs due to a problem of measuring distances in high dimensional spaces. Comparing 17 algorithms we are able to confirm that different algorithms produce very different degrees of hubness. We also show that hub...

We analysed 2166 songs of 90 males of the tree pipit (Anthus trivialis; Passeriformes: Motacillidae) from five Czech localities to evaluate variation in song characteristics, the song structure and syntax rules, and differences between songs performed in flight and from perches. We measured temporal and spectral song characteristics; structure analysis was based on the identification of individ...

Cultural processes occur in a wide variety of animal taxa, from insects to cetaceans. The songs of humpback whales are one of the most striking examples of the transmission of a cultural trait and social learning in any nonhuman animal. To understand how songs are learned, we investigate rare cases of song hybridization, where parts of an existing song are spliced with a new one, likely before ...

Please cite this article in press as: Jill A. Soha (2009), doi:10.1016/j.anbehav.2009.02.021 T E D P R O Adult male grasshopper sparrows sing two structurally and functionally distinct songs: buzz song and warble song. To investigate how these songs develop, we tutored three groups of young males in the laboratory: one with recordings, one with live adult tutors and one with no song (isolate bi...