mystical texts are the most important texts have been set to convey epistemic teachings and to influence the audiences concerned with awareness and esoteric training.  therefore it seems that specific techniques have been used in rhetoric to fulfill this objective. according to the style of speech in mystical texts, they can be considered as rhetoricals. reviewing the concept of rhetoric and it...

We propose to mine parallel texts from mixedlanguage web pages. We define a mixedlanguage web page as a web page consisting of (at least) two languages. We mined Japanese-English parallel texts from mixedlanguage web pages. We presented the statistics for extracted parallel texts and conducted machine translation experiments. These statistics and experiments showed that mixedlanguage web pages ...

Warren Maguire. 2017. ‘The emergence of Scots: Clues from Germanic *a reflexes’. In Cruickshank, Janet and Robert McColl Millar (eds.) 2017. Before the Storm: Papers from the Forum for Research on the Languages of Scotland and Ulster triennial meeting, Ayr 2015. Aberdeen: Forum for Research on the Languages of Scotland and Ireland, 1-32. ISBN: 9780-9566549-4-6. The emergence of Scots: Clues fro...

The effect of blue light (400–500 nm) removal on the elongation of Scots pine (Pinus sylvetris L.) seedlings was investigated in a field experiment in Northern Finland during two growing seasons. The seedlings were grown in plexiglass chambers and ambient control plots. The blue wavelengths were removed from the light spectrum by using chambers made of orange plexiglass. The results of nearly d...

finally abandoned in favour of Lowland Scots in the course of the 18th century. Even though Norn is now an extinct language, it still lives on in the many Norn words and idioms which are one of the most wellknown features of the local dialects. Most islanders are conscious of these Norn remnants in dialect vocabulary, which have also been documented in the dictionaries of Jakob Jakobsen, Hugh M...