INTRODUCTION TO SECTION II - VOLUME 27, ISSUE 1

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 ...

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...

Introduction to Volume Ii

The writings that have been collected in this volume are closely related to Wilhelm Dilthey’s efforts to complete the second volume of the Introduction to the Human Sciences. Dilthey himself pub­ lished the first volume (Books One and Two) of his Einleitung in die Geisteswissenschaften in 1883. He never completed Books Three to Six. Drafts for Books Four to Six did exist, but were only publishe...

Editorial note Volume 6 Issue 1