We describe here our ongoing research on modeling conceptual and narrative structure of fairytales by a computer system. In this paper we focus on the variations of fairytales based on Cinderella from all around the world. We analyzed twenty-three Japanese texts of Cinderella tales and modeled their conceptual and narrative structures using the notions of composition elements and motifs. We the...

Proverbs from Pakistan are one of the lesser-noted areas paremiology. The article examines proverbs in five orally transmitted languages northern for statements about relationships and values within family. Many clichés confirmed: women subordinate, untrustworthy, children wished for, but hard to raise, mothers good, stepmothers evil, honour family must be protected. However, there remarkably f...

Transcription activator-like effectors (TALEs) are proteins secreted by Xanthomonas bacteria to aid the infection of plant species. TALEs assist infections by binding to specific DNA sequences and activating the expression of host genes. Recent results show that TALE proteins consist of a central repeat domain, which determines the DNA targeting specificity and can be rapidly synthesized de nov...

the unfinished or very short cook's tale is an exception among the canterbury tales. this quality didn't make the author or later editors to dismiss it from the collection. yet, it made the tale absent from almost all anthologies and caused it to suffer from the negligence of most critics and chaucer scholars. however, both the narrator of the tale, who is a lower class londoner livin...

As has been repeatedly pointed out elsewhere, the linguistic structure of proverbs has hardly ever been seriously studied with regard to underlying regularities. Basically, proverb research has hardly ever transgressed the level of symptomatic descriptions and not yet reached a systematic level (Grzybek 2000a, 2000b, 2001, 2002). Quite logically, first attempts at filling the evident gaps in th...

This article identifies and examines the symbolic significance of two-story concrete wall murals in Takoradi, which currently evidences need to decode irreplaceable glimpse into diversity Ghanaian culture for future use while maintaining their original meaning purpose. The qualitative research approach was adopted using unstructured interviews on-site direct observations data collection. study ...

semantic shifting which is one of the most important semantic processes forming the meaning of some linguistic structures was first introduced by safavi (1379). the meaning of different structures such as proverbs, are made by semantic shifting which takes place on the syntagmatic axis, but is shown on the paradigmatic axis. the corpus used in this study consists of 10 persian proverbs which ar...

Proverbs is an archaic language and it rich in simplicity, antiquity sweetness. are use since ancient times itself. Earlier proverbs used by the people on daily basis to express their culture. result of people’s experience. because its clarity, brevity relevance. Tholkappiyam, grammar text here author defines as, nothing but a two-line sentence which gives perfect meaning. all day life. Human l...