Utopia and iconicity: reading Saint-Simonian texts

the role of semantic and communicative translation on reading comprehension of scientific texts

the following null hypothesis was proposed: h : there is no significant difference between the use of semantically or communicatively translates scientific texts. to test the null hypothesis, a number of procedures were taken first, two passages were selected form soyrcebooks of food and nutrition industry and gardening deciplines. each, in turn, was following by a number of comprehension quest...

The Analysis of Reading Tasks and Texts

Learning from Reading Syntactically Complex Biology Texts

This paper concerns learning information by reading natural language texts. The major aim is to develop representations which are understandable by a reasoning engine and can be used to answer questions. We use abduction for mapping natural language data into concise and speci c theories underlying the textual data. Techniques for automatically generating usable data representations are discuss...

Reading Multimodal Texts in the 21st Century

Discussions concerning which literacy skills will be required of students in the 21st century have appeared in numerous educational publications recently and have been greeted with mixed reactions (Bellanca & Brandt, 2010; Trilling & Fadel, 2009). It has been proposed that the skills necessary to be a literate citizen in the new millennium have expanded from simply being able to read and write ...

Ancient medical texts, modern reading problems.

The word tradition has a very specific meaning in linguistics: the passing down of a text, which may have been completed or corrected by different copyists at different times, when the concept of authorship was not the same as it is today. When reading an ancient text the word tradition must be in the reader's mind. To discuss one of the problems an ancient text poses to its modern readers, thi...