This study was a contrastive analysis of the evolution of English and Persian advertising slogans to investigate their similarities/differences in using rhetorical figures, and the evolution in the use of these figures in the slogans of each language. Thus, 800 Persian and English slogans from the last four decades were collected. Lapsanka's framework (2006) including different aspects with som...

Condolence is part of Austin’s expressive speech act and is related to Searle’s behabitives illocutionary act. Although a theoretically sound issue in pragmatics, condolence speech act has not been investigated as much as other speech acts in discourse-related studies. This paper aims at investigating interjections and intensifiers while performing condolence speech act among Persian and Englis...

Language comprehension proceeds at a very fast pace. It is argued that context influences the speed of language by providing informative cues. How syntactic contextual information processing incoming words is, however, less known. Here we employed masked priming paradigm in four behavioural experiments German to test whether primes automatically influence categorisation nouns and verbs. We foun...

This paper proposes a visually based teleoperation with accumulation method and system where the visual and control information sequences are stored and available for syntactically indexed playback. Visually based teleoperation systems heretofore described in the literature unfortunately can only display an instantaneous representation of the control sequence. Past control experience should ins...

Systems for syntactically parsing sentences have long been recognized as a priority in Natural Language Processing. Statistics-based systems require large amounts of high quality syntactically parsed data. Using the XLE toolkit developed at PARC and the LFG Parsebanker interface developed at Bergen, the Parsebank Project at Powerset has generated a rapidly increasing volume of syntactically par...

Positron Emission Tomography (PET) was used to determine regional cerebral blood flow (rCBF) when eight normal right-handed males read and made acceptability judgments about sentences. rCBF was greater in Broca's area (particularly in the pars opercularis) when subjects judged the semantic plausibility of syntactically more complex sentences as compared to syntactically less complex sentences. ...