Confronting perspectives: Modeling perspectival complexity in language and cognition

Social Cognition of Gender and Language

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...

Evolutionary Complexity of Social Cognition, Semasiographic Systems, and Language

Perspectives on the Unified Modeling Language semantics

The Unified Modeling Language (UML) is a graphical language for visualizing, specifying, constructing, and documenting the artifacts of a software-intensive system. The UML offers a standard way to write a system’s blueprints, including conceptual things such as business processes and system functions as well as concrete things such as programming language statements, database schemas, and reus...

Perspectives in Applied Cognition

“The proof of the pudding is in the eating”. This symposium shows how results of cognitive studies could be “eaten” in practice. The goal of basic cognitive research is the elucidation of cognitive-affective processes and their functional architecture at different levels of biological and social organization. On the material from several domains, such as perception, attention, memory and commun...

the effect of task complexity on efl learners’ written task performance in terms of accuracy and complexity

هدف اصلی این تحقیق بررسی تاثیر افزایش میزان پیچیدگی تکالیف مکالمه محور بر دقت و صحت و پیچیدگی عملکرد نوشتاری زبان آموزان می باشد. بدین منظور، 50 نفر از دانش آموزان دختر در رده ی سنی 15 الی 18 سال درسطح pre-intermediate از طریق petو vhs تست به عنوان شرکت کنندگان در تحقیق انتخاب شدند و به دو گروه آزمایشی و کنترل بصورت اتفاقی تقسیم شدند. اعضای گروه آزمایشی دو تکلیف ساده و پیچیده را طی 2 جلسه انجام...