Name
Abstract | ||
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This paper demonstrates that the structure of a class diagram reflects the cognitive structure of English based on cognitive linguistics. Native English speaking students of software engineering are expected to easily utilize class diagrams because no impedance mismatch exists between their mother language and class diagrams. On the other hand, since the cognitive structures of Japanese are quite different, class diagrams are hard to understand for Japanese students of software engineering. To overcome this impedance mismatch, this paper argues that Japanese students must understand the correspondence between seven English sentence patterns and class diagrams. The cognitive view shows that Is-a and Has-a relationships are necessary and sufficient as specially prepared relationships. Our proposed cognitive linguistics views result in essential and applicative understanding of class diagrams for Japanese students. |
Year | DOI | Venue |
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2014 | 10.1007/978-3-319-11854-3_8 | Communications in Computer and Information Science |
Keywords | Field | DocType |
Object Oriented,Requirement Analysis,English seven sentence patterns,A class diagram,cognitive linguistics,English,Japanese,Relationship | Data mining,Object-oriented programming,Computer science,Cognitive science,Requirements analysis,Cognitive linguistics,Cognition,Sentence,Linguistics,First language,Class diagram,Applied linguistics | Conference |
Volume | ISSN | Citations |
466 | 1865-0929 | 1 |
PageRank | References | Authors |
0.38 | 0 | 3 |
Name | Order | Citations | PageRank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Shigeo Kaneda | 1 | 69 | 26.85 |
| Ida, A. | 2 | 1 | 1.06 |
| Takamasa Sakai | 3 | 2 | 1.68 |