Coordination of multiple ontologies is one of the inherent problems for the realization of world-wide knowledge sharing. However, it is difficult to construct or standardize a single ontology for a domain that has some cross-cultural aspects. Regional information is a typical example of this because the cultural differences among multiple regions vary ontologies according to region. Cross-cultu...

This paper deals with the problem of interference within context language convergence in virtual space. The study aims to analyze detail role space communication as a new favorable environment for interferential processes not just on structural level, conceptual level too, since deviation from norms serving instrument terms formation linguistic picture world results changing way one conceptuali...

Cultural factors have long been known to influence the communication and success potential of competition in conducting international business. Cultural awareness shapes how business firms behave in cross-culturally reflected international markets. It is broadly recognized that cultural factors act as invisible barriers in international marketing communications. Understanding cultural differenc...

This paper aims at studying the speech act of congratulation in Persian and English with regard to semantic formulas. To gather the semantic formulas related to congratulation, the researchers chose 100 movies (50 in Persian and 50 in English) as the instrument of the study. The only model of cross-cultural comparison was related to that of Elwood (2004). Therefore, we used Elwood’s model as th...

Cross-domain classi cation for speech understanding is an interesting research problem because of the need for portable solutions in the design for spoken dialogue systems. In this paper, a twotier classi er is proposed for speech understanding. The rst tier consists of domain independent dialogue acts while the second tier consists of application actions that are domain speci c. A maximum like...

The present study aimed to identify strategies used to realize the speech act of offerin Persian. To do so, 195 male and female native Persian speakers were selected fromdiverse age ranges, educational backgrounds, and social classes, and were assigned a36-item Discourse Completion Task (DCT) to elicit the speech act of offer. Thirtyfield workers also recorded naturally occurring interactions c...

This study is a contrastive one on the speech act of request in British English and Mandarin Chinese. It investigates the similarities and differences in request modifications used by native speakers of both languages on the bases of nine designed situations. The choice of modifications in each situation is determined to some degree by the social variables of power and distance. However, a deep...