The linguistic expectancy bias is defined as the tendency to describe expectancy-consistent information at a higher level of abstraction than expectancy-inconsistent information. The communicative consequences of this bias were examined in 3 experiments. Analyses of judgments that recipients made on the basis of linguistically biased information generated by transmitters indicated that behavior...

January 23, 2015 was the 7th death anniversary of Prof. Dr. Baki Komşuoğlu, MD, PhD who was the Legendary Rector of Kocaeli University, Founder of Kocaeli Faculty of Medicine and Affliated Hospitals, and Mastermind of Umuttepe Campus. Prof. Sezer announced the sad news on the morning of January 23, 2008 “I lost my other half, Professor Baki Komşuoğlu is no more.” I commemorate my mentor Prof. K...

Persistent mistakes at schools are difficult for teachers, parents, and most of all the children to deal with. Children who keep making the same mistakes tend to be viewed as bad students, but here we propose a different point of view! We think that children often make mistakes not because they do not know the correct answer, but because they fail to block a quicker but wrong answer that seems ...

Research related to colonialism and post colonialism shows how the identities of indigenous people were constructed and how these identities are reconstructed in our contemporary world. The thrust of this paper is that colonialism brought a shift in the linguistic structure of Ghana with the introduction of the use of English among Ghanaians. The coexistence of both Ghanaian languages and Engli...

based on how formal a conversation is, how much familiar the speaker and the listeners are with each other and how distant is the speaker's social status from the listener's one, the speaker uses certain forms of language known as styles of language. linguistic styles are different from language varieties. selection of the styles depends on definite social situations and the kind of r...

Infective endocarditis remains a major cause of morbidity and mortality in the U.S., with an estimated number of 10–15,000 new cases being diagnosed each year (1). Although the number of cases of infective endocarditis occurring as a result of rheumatic disease is diminishing, this reduction in cases has been replaced by an increased incidence of endocarditis among intravenous drug users and ol...