The teaching of Chinese culture in TCFL was initiated in the 1950s, almost at the same time the TCFL started. Teaching culture at that time was more for political propaganda than for increasing language competency. Chinese cultural subjects were not widely established in the university until the 1980s. In practice, the teaching of Chinese culture and the teaching of Chinese language have been t...

Increasing ethnic diversity fosters scholarly interest in how the spatial segregation of groups a ects opinion polarization in a society. Despite much empirical and theoretical research, there is little consensus in the literature on the causal link between the spatial segregation of two groups and the emergence of opinion polarization. We contribute to the debate by investigating theoretically...

nowadays, election is one of the important issues in all the countries that their political system is based on democracy. this study investigated the effectiveness of promotional tools on the behavior of voters in the eleventh round of iran's presidential election. in this study, media campaign tools were divided into two categories of media and non-media ones and the effect of each on the vote...

Students are continually exposed to a variety of stressors during their academic career, and this can have significant negative effects on their mental health and subjective wellbeing. In this paper we explore how gamified persuasive interventions can promote engagement in performing random acts of kindness to improve wellbeing and help students manage stressors more effectively. In a pilot stu...

How do people behave under severe pressure, when they have only minutes to make major decisions? That is a question of profound significance in the nuclear age. Stimulation, a small amount of stress, increases an individual’s ability to react rationally. However, once the tension passes a certain threshold, fear and anxiety set in and have an adverse effect. Individuals regress to conventional ...

Implicit strategies are known to increase persuasion performances. Implicits of content (vagueness, implicatures) and implicits of responsibility (presuppositions, topics) will be compared semiotically to non-linguistic implicits such as images and sounds. The results of psycholinguistic and neurolinguistic experiments will be used to propose that presuppositions and topics arose in language as...

So far, several approaches have been done in detecting and classifying argumentation in persuasive essays. In this paper, we proposed some new features on top of the state-of-the-art researches in argumentation mining. We grouped 68 features into 8 categories; they are structural, lexical, indicators, contextual, syntactic, prompt similarity, word embedding, and discourse features. Instead of h...

This paper suggests the democratic direction in which the right of freedom of expression should be conceived and applied. In the first two sections it suggests some counter-examples to, and diagnoses of, the libertarian and liberal conceptions of freedom of expression, taking Scanlon (1972) and Scanlon (1979), respectively, to be their chief proponents. The paper suggests that these conceptions...

The impact of the Internet on Chinese politics is a hot topic in contemporary academic debate. Some scholars believe that political discussions in cyberspace will lead to a more pluralistic and democratic China. Others argue that the ruling Communist Party will strengthen its position by using the Internet as a tool for censorship and active propaganda. The purpose of this article is to contrib...