EDITORIAL - مجله Applied Linguistics and Applied Literature مقاله

ALDA, 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.

EDITORIAL Dear JALDA reader, JALDA can be recognized as an attempt to put into realization what applied linguists call solving real world problems in/through language studies, disregarding of which should be seen as going astray. Ali Mohammad Haghshenas, the late outstanding Iranian linguist, author and literary critic, in an interview on revising the trend of linguistic and literary studies in Iran, says: At present, linguistics has actually turned into a field for conceptualization. ) And applied linguistics confined to imported concepts and theories from overseas is expected to, The Journal of Applied Linguistics and Applied Literature: Dynamics and Advances, Volume 7, Issue 1, Winter and Spring, 2019, pp. 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 µideological¶ rather than of a µscientific¶ nature (see Fuller, 1996). 2 The Journal of Applied Linguistics and Applied Literature: Dynamics and Advances, Volume 7, Issue 1, Winter and Spring, 2019, pp.