Until recently there were only scattered essays and one book attempting to apply cognitivist assumptions to film and emotions.l The very question seemed strange: how could cognitivism, with its emphasis on rational processes, hope to explain the irrational world of filmic emotion? Yet in the past few years several landmark books have appeared which pose compelling answers to that question.2 It ...

the present article aims to conduct an ethnographic study of the confrontation between the local culture and global commodities in baneh. theoretically, this article suggests that confrontation with the global should be understood in relation to neoliberal market, identityand collective ideologies. thus,while carrying out a participant observation,we interviewed fifteen people in baneh. the res...

We study the notion of hierarchy in the context of visualizing textual data and navigating text collections. A formal framework for " hierarchy " is given by an ultrametric topology. This provides us with a theoretical foundation for concept hierarchy creation. A major objective is scalable annotation or labeling of concept maps. Serendipitously we pursue other objectives such as deriving commo...

Over the past twenty-five years, researchers have expressed considerable interest in titles of academic publications. Unfortunately, conference paper titles (CPTs) have only recently begun to receive attention. The aim of this study, therefore, is to investigate the text length, syntactic structure, and lexicon of CPTs in Applied Linguistics. A data set of 698 titles was selected from the 2008 ...

Over the past twenty-five years, researchers have expressed considerable interest in titles of academic publications. Unfortunately, conference paper titles (CPTs) have only recently begun to receive attention. The aim of this study, therefore, is to investigate the text length, syntactic structure, and lexicon of CPTs in Applied Linguistics. A data set of 698 titles was selected from the 2008 ...