In recent years, discourse analysis has contributed to raising language practitioners’ awareness of the pragmatic aspects of culture in language and communication. However, the application of research data to teaching has often been limited to ESL contexts. On the other hand, the need to use research data in teaching cross-cultural pragmatic competence has been strongly advocated in the literat...

Menstruation comprises an important procedure in women’s life. Crosscultural studies are taking place, using instruments like Menstrual Attitude Questionnaire (MAQ), which was constructed for American people and has been validated for different populations, in order to investigate menstrual aspects among women. The aim of this study is to investigate the psychometric properties of the Greek ver...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE This study describes the development of a Rasch-built scale measuring activity limitations in stroke patients, named ACTIVLIM-Stroke. METHOD This new Rasch-built measure was constructed based on stroke patients' perceptions of difficulty in performing daily activities. Patients were recruited from inpatient and outpatient rehabilitation departments in Belgium and Benin....

We examined whether there are crosscultural differences in the magnitude of genetic and environmental contributions to risk of becoming a regular smoker and of persistence in smoking in men and women. Standard methods of epidemiologic and genetic analysis were applied to questionnaire data on history of cigarette use obtained from large samples of male and female like-sex twins from three diffe...

Behaviour settings such as work, family, church and community are primary settings in which we participate, they provide us with meaningful roles, relationships, and social identities. In fact, these are settings that provide us with a sense of community (SOC). SOC has been heralded as the guiding value for community research and action. It reflects the integration of people into networks and s...

Olfaction was poignantly dubbed the ‘mute sense’ by Diane Ackerman [ 1. D. A Natural History of Senses. Vintage Books, 1990 Google Scholar ], and it is regularly claimed that modern ancient languages lack resources to communicate about smells 2. Bradley M. Smell Ancient Routledge, 2015 ]. In a recent article 3. Majid A. Human olfaction at intersection language, culture, biology. Trends Cogn. Sc...

In this paper we provide a full overview of GikiCLEF, an evaluation contest (track) that was specifically designed to expose and investigate cultural and linguistic issues involved in multimedia collections and searching. In GikiCLEF, 50 topics were developed by a multilingual team with non-English users in mind. Answers should be found in Wikipedia, but not trivially, in the sense that the tas...