EFL textbooks are not only grammar references but also a tool through which learners get their first glimpses to the target culture. Thus, content should be carefully selected avoid providing with conventionalized view of society is likely contribute create cultural stereotypes. This paper analyzes culture examination two categories: Popular Culture and Cultural Heritage in five 2nd Baccalaurea...

this study was conducted to identify and compare the strategies applied by two native farsi translators in rendering the culture specific items (csis) of a literary text titled savushun in their english translations. in this study, csis refer to the materials, social customs, religious concepts, and traditions available in one language and culture but nonexistent in the other language and cultu...

Abstract The analysis undertaken in the article focuses on a group of memes selected from database which drew culture-specific references. Specifically, they embrace memories socialist times and call references to comic films easily recognized characters order bring out re-discovered absurdity current COVID-19 situation. This material seems ideal revisit Raskin’s early notion sophistication, wa...

The advent of large-scale citation services has greatly impacted the retrieval of scientific information for several domains of research. The Humanities have largely remained outside of this shift despite their increasing reliance on digital means for information seeking. Given that publications in the Humanities probably have a longer than average life-span, mainly due to the importance of mon...

We build culture-specific dialogue policies of virtual humans for negotiation and in particular for argumentation and persuasion. In order to do that we use a corpus of non-culture specific dialogues and we build simulated users (SUs), i.e. models that simulate the behavior of real users. Then using these SUs and Reinforcement Learning (RL) we learn negotiation dialogue policies. Furthermore, w...