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2014 | OriginalPaper | Buchkapitel
Understanding of Class Diagrams Based on Cognitive Linguistics for Japanese Students
verfasst von : Shigeo Kaneda, Akio Ida, Takamasa Sakai
Erschienen in: Knowledge-Based Software Engineering
Verlag: Springer International Publishing
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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.