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Editorial, Volume 8, Issue 1

A new vocabulary item has been added to English dictionaries: Covid-19. For linguists, the addition of a meaningful linguistic element to any language should change the whole language as, for T. S. Eliot, a new poem changes the whole literature of a nation. But let us see how seriously the addition of the vocabulary item Covid-19 might change the English language. According to Cambridge online ...

Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, Volume 69, Issue 1

outcome knowledge, judges immediately assimilate it There are conflicting hypotheses regarding the effect with what they already know about the event in quesof a surprising outcome on hindsight judgment. Action” (Fischhoff, 1975, p. 297), and the outcome informacording to the hypothesis presented in this paper, high tion is effortlessly assimilated in the schematic reprelevels of surprise will ...

Editorial Volume 6, Issue 1

The editor’s notes in our Journal have been so far a site for the clarification of the Journal’s policy and the task still continues. With an inclination towards solving our real world problems in language teaching (and literary studies, which I will discuss in the next issue of the Journal), we would like to take that the introduction of the concept of “life-world” to Social Sciences can be a ...

Editorial Volume 7, Issue 1

JALDA, therefore, would like to show inclination towards the view that the reality of the world is not a fixed entity standing out there to be measured by our pre-fabricated ‘scientific’ instruments. In line with Haghshenas’ argumentation, not only can theories and instruments shrink to ornamental entities but also they can turn into what Karl Popper calls pseudo-science, knowledge of an ‘ideol...

Editorial note Volume 6 Issue 1