When people learn that I study lethal injection, they are usually curious to know more (or at least they are polite enough to ask questions). Interestingly, the question that arises most often— from lawyers, law students, and laypeople—is why states behave as they do. In the wake of botched executions and ample evidence of lethal injection‘s dangers, why do states fail to address their executio...

A student, supported by his classmates, throws a piece of chalk at the teacher who is writing on the blackboard. The teacher rapidly turns back and promptly catches him in the act. The student blushes and suddenly realizes how bad it was what he did. What happened to the guy? Why did he decide to throw the piece of chalk? And why, after a few seconds, he would have liked that what he did had ne...

Nowadays, university students suffer from a broad range of problems, such as educational underachievement or the inability to control themselves, that lead to procrastination as a consequence. The present research aimed at analyzing the determinants of decisional procrastination among undergraduate students and at assessing a path model in which self regulated learning strategies mediated the r...

This article tackles the topic of taboo, highlights some most recurrent types taboos in language and literature sheds light on mechanism which enabled people to create euphemistic expressions diminish rigidity tabooistic words. Derived from Polynesian term taboo (ta designates sacred bu functions as a superlative degree), refers set absolute prohibitions that aim prevent negative effects magica...

Euphemisms, as a common linguistic, social and cultural phenomenon in the process of human development, have attracted lot academic community’s attention. Due to differences aspects between countries nations, English Chinese differ their expressions vocabulary choices, are mainly seen fact that uses more euphemisms than Chinese, but is not devoid euphemistic ways presentation. With both having ...

This paper is the first to describe Black Friday in Turkey as a taboo from perspective of translation studies. It intends analyze euphemistic strategies employed by national and international companies that conduct business aims find out whether their euphemisms potentially assist them marketing products. The corpus study consists 15 Turkish translations ‘Black Friday’, which were retrieved web...