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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 ‘ideological’ rather than of a ‘scientific’ nature (see Fuller, 1996). The knowledge based on positivism is prone to shrink to pseudo-science, for instance, because it is knowledge based solely on natural phenomena and their properties and relations that are accounted for according to man-made networks of laws. Any biased insistence upon such knowledge and hostility towards what lies outside the network, the darkness of the world, an experience of the recent politico-scientific history of the world, should push what was expected to be ‘scientific’ towards ‘pseudo-science.’ JALDA’s policy is to see its pages colourfully arrayed with findings and views from even the darkest corners of the world, where things are seen in ways quite different from the ways we are used to seeing them.
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Book Review: Rhys Jones and Huw Lewis, New Geographies of Language: Language, Culture and Politics in Wales.
com The book New Geographies of Language: Language, Culture and Politics in Wales is naturally seeking a very interesting goal rarely been witnessed before.
It is only here that the reader might find out that the authors have envisaged bringing Wales as a country and Welsh as a language into a single game.
Chapter 2 talks about two distinct ways of viewing the whole concept in focus: First, the authors introduce their own conceptual understanding of how languages can be studied from a geographical perspective.
The bottomline argument is that language and geography can have a very close and undeniable connection with each other, and we might be able to make newer and more creative approaches of learning and teaching language via the help of 244 The Journal of Applied Linguistics and Applied Literature: Dynamics and Advances, Volume 7, Issue 1, Winter and Spring, 2019, pp.