Migrants’ assimilation is a major challenge for European societies, in part because of the sudden surge of refugees in recent years and in part because of long-term demographic trends. In this paper, we use Facebook’s data for advertisers to study the levels of assimilation of Arabic-speaking migrants in Germany, as seen through the interests they express online. Our results indicate a gradient...

  This study aspires to examine the concept of ellipsis by comparing and contrasting English and Persian written texts. For this purpose, three Persian novels and three English ones were selected. These novels were analyzed carefully; they were compared and contrasted for types and amount of ellipsis used, through a Chi-square analysis.  The results of the data analysis revealed that various t...

Are robots perceived in the same manner in the West and in Japan? This article presents a preliminary exploration of several aspects of the Japanese culture and a survey of 15 the most important myths and novels involving artificial beings in Western literature. Through this analysis, the article tries to shed light on particular cultural features that 17 may account for contemporary difference...

We study the distribution dynamics of the demand for books in Italy. We find that for each of three broad sub-markets in which the book publishing industry can be classified − Italian novels, foreign novels and essays − sales over a three-year sample can be adequately fitted by a power law distribution. Our results can be plausibly interpreted in terms of a model of interactions among buyers ex...

this research deals with the differences in the writings of male and female authors in the contemporary persian novels, and employs lakoff's (1975) linguistic approach to reach this objective. the main aim of this work is to make sure if the factor of gender may lead to differences in methods of writings between men and women in terms of vocabulary choices and syntactic variations. in this...

Japanese bishoujo videogames take on the characteristics of highly detailed “choose your own adventure” novels. The current case study seeks to present a series of “classic” bishoujo videogames and explain how they function to orient the Western player to the culture of modern Japan through the phenomenon of telepresence. Aspects of telepresence that include transportation and immersion are con...

Hypothermia and death caused by hypothermia may be found in a number of fiction works, mainly in novels. In the well-known story "The Little Match Girl" by Hans Christian Andersen, one can notice that the descriptions of the phenomena occurring before the girl's death are in fact a literary presentation of the pathophysiological mechanisms of the onset of death through accidental hypothermia. T...

Sentiment Analysis is a Natural Language Processing-task that is relevant in a number of contexts, including the analysis of literature. We report on ongoing research towards enabling, for the first time, sentencelevel Sentiment Analysis in the domain of German novels. We create a labelled dataset from sentences extracted from German novels and, by adapting existing sentiment classifiers, reach...

This article analyses two novels on academic plagiarism, namely Solar by Ian McEwan and Perlmann’s Silence by Pascal Mercier. Both novels describe experiences of academics in the second half of life who have lost contact with their areas of research and no longer seem able to live up to the daunting expectations associated with their international status, prominence and fame in the natural scie...