The meaning of a wide variety of natural language expressions can be stated in terms of degrees on scales. This paper provides an overview of the contribution of scales to linguistic meaning. I discuss the ontology of scales, survey the role of scalarity within and across languages, and summarize recent research into the linguistically relevant features of scales, organizing these findings into...

Domain Specific Languages (DSLs) and Software Measurement are at present increasingly important in Software Engineering research. Domain Specific Languages (DSLs) and Software Measurement are at present increasingly important in Software Engineering research They have, in fact, become important aspects of the software industry. Domain languages facilitate the software development process in a s...

Abstract This article reports on a two-step investigation of foreign language learning boredom amongst Chinese university non-English-major EFL students and English teachers. In Study 1, 22 11 teachers were interviewed 659 responded to an open questionnaire, recalling describing their experiences perceptions in English. The data allowed multidimensional conceptualization Foreign Language Learni...

the recent increase in the number of publications devoted to teaching the persian language to speakers of other languages and the development of such courses in iran and elsewhere signify a cultural movement. however, one of the shortcomings of this movement pertains to its oblivious stance to persian language proficiency. this paper aims at defining language proficiency bringing its importance...

This volume collects all papers accepted for presentation at Ontobras 2015, the VII Brazilian Ontology Research Seminar (7o Seminário de Pesquisa em Ontologias no Brasil), held on September 7-10, 2015 in Sao Paulo, Brazil. In its 7th edition, we sincerely hope Ontobras to be once more a valuable and pleasant opportunity for researchers and practitioners from Information Sciences and Computer Sc...

We address the problem of assessing value a language. consider stylized model multilingual societies in which we introduce axioms formalizing principles impartiality, monotonicity, invariance and consistency. show that combination these characterizes family communicative benefit functions assign to each language society. The within involve two-step procedure. First, they identify groups agents ...