Indirect requests vary in politeness, for example, Can you tell me where Jordan Hall is? is more polite than Shouldn't you tell me where Jordan Hall is? By one theory, the more the literal meaning of a request implies personal benefits for the listener, within reason, the more polite is the request. This prediction was confirmed in Experiment I. Responses to indirect requests also vary in polit...

What does it tell us about the conceptual structures underlying language use that a language can use ”prick the law” but not ”sing the law” to mean ”break the law”? Some theorists have speculated about the existence of conceptual primitives, which permeate the meaning of all words in any language (Schank, 1975, Mandler, 2004). If this premise is correct, then these concepts could also be used t...

ambiguity and obscurity are frequently used to indicate a similar meaning yet there are real differences between them. the ambiguity is an affirmative concept in arabic poetry, and the critics consider it as an artistic standard in best literary samples. whereas, obscurity is a negative concept which results to the lack of text's values of skillfulness. this article deals with an explanation of...

terrorism is regarded as among the current issues discussed in the international community. it has particularly attracted the attention of people all over the world, both in the east and the west, after the events of september 11, 2001. however, there is no consensus in determining its semantic framework, with each definition admitting to this terms’ relativity. our religion, nevertheless, is a...

Daru Haridra is identified by the modern pharmacognosy as Berberis aristata DC or its allied species. Though there are more useful species of Berberis. they are said to be possessing more or less equal properties. The author explains in this paper that the use of Coscinium fenestratum in the name of Daru Haridra by the Kerala-physicians is justifiable basing on its literal meaning in Malayalam ...

This paper presents a maximum entropy (ME)-based model for Chinese noun phrase metaphor recognition. The metaphor recognizing process will be viewed as a classification task between metaphor and literal meaning. Our experiments show that the metaphor recognizer based on the ME method is significantly better than the Example-based methods within the same context windows. In addition, performance...

The right hemisphere's role in language comprehension is supported by results from several neuropsychology and neuroimaging studies. Special interest surrounds right temporoparietal structures, which are thought to be involved in processing novel metaphorical expressions, primarily due to the coarse semantic coding of concepts. In this event related fMRI experiment we aimed at assessing the ext...

The goal of the research described here is to automate the recognition of connotative meaning in text using a range of linguistic and non-linguistic features. Pilot results are used to illustrate the potential of an integrated multidisciplinary approach to semantic text analysis that combines cognitiveoriented human subject experimentation with Machine Learning (ML) based Natural Language Proce...

This study discusses gender in Egyptian Arabic proverbs from a sociolinguistic point of view to see the correlation between language and socio-cultural society. The research method used this is combination intralingual, extra lingual, hermeneutic, correlational methods. Based on results analysis, it known that disclosure uses lingual units form words phrases. As for meaning, expression literal ...