Kinship is central to social organization in many societies; how people think about kinship should be relevant to social cognition generally. One window onto the mental representation of kinship is afforded by variation and universals in terms for kin. Kin terminologies are commonly organized around binary distinctive features, and terms for some types of kin are consistently linguistically mar...

Kinship terms has both similarities and differences in English Chinese cultures, which is also same with the 
 metaphorical use of kinship terms. This paper applies Conceptual Metaphor Theory to analyze Chinese. The reasons cause these will be explored aims help learners better communication order reduce misunderstanding.

We consider a problem in descriptive kinship systems, namely finding the shortest sequence of terms that describes the kinship between a person and their relatives. The problem reduces to finding the minimum weight path in a labeled graph where the label of the path comes from a regular language. The running time of the algorithm is O(n3 + s), where n and s is the input size and the output size...

lakish dialect in darrehshahr belongs to kurdish language (southern kurdish) and is the common dialect of people who live in darrehshehr town of ilam county that is situated in the west part of iran which is highly changing under the influence of standard persian. the present article surveys linguistic relativity with the emphasis on kinship words of the lakish dialect in darrehshahr. firstly, ...