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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...

Our Journal's tendency towards the real world in applied linguistics and literary studies should have significant epistemological and methodological consequences in researching the fields. The interest in the real world makes the problems we may have in our everyday lives our 'points of departure' in research. According to my experience of research in our universities throughout their history, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Multiple referenda consists in making a common decision about each of a set of binary issues, given the preferences of a set of voters. Asking voters for their preferences on all combinations of values is not feasible in practice, because of the exponentially large number of such combinations; on the other hand, voting issue-byissue on each of the issues can lead to strongly paradoxical outcome...

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To change the quality of service (QOS) of a continuous-media processing dynamically according to the system environment, a new resource management model is needed that supports resource negotiation between the application and the system by combining resource reservation and adaptation. Realization of such a model will require the solution of several problems, such as how to specify requests for...