The construction of meaning in humor research falls within the cognitive group of operations present in everyday human life and occurring at a lightning speed invisible to the conscious human mind. The topic of this paper is, hereby,…
The assessment of learners’ competence provides objective evidence necessary in the decision-making process in education.This is a key factor to decide the development and understanding of the students' learning. In most higher education…
Although many studies have been conducted on second language acquisition and bilingual education, there is a lack of research-based information on developing foreign language identity, especially regarding the frequency of language use and its…
As discussed by Newmeyer (1998), the debate between “formal” and “functional” approaches to explanation in linguistics has a long pedigree, and in some respects the two perspectives may seem almost irreconcilable. Here I suggest that, taking…
Expansion of the borders of the European Higher Education Area (EHEA) provides members of academic communities with a challenging opportunity to participate in various exchange programmes. The phenomenon of mobility tests the proficiency level of…
As an extremely important social interaction food is not about eating only but may be viewed as discourse, because in many ways, just as language, it is socially determined and pre-conditioned. Awareness of the conceptual significance of food as…
This paper examines the connections between folk heritage and literary creation, between folk religion and writing. How have writers named or recognized folk tradition in relation to their own writing? At what point does the writer act as a conjurer…
Language program evaluation is one of the key elements of systematical language education. It may focus on many different aspects of a language program such as curriculum design, classroom processes, teachers and students. Throughout the history,…
Human beings live in an environment in which they encounter and learn new things in every second.They all learn but even if they look at the same thing, can they interpret it in the same way? The answer is certainly NO.All the people in the world…
Euphemisms are the forms of language used to replace unpleasant, inappropriate and undesired words. In linguistics, however, the words that are forbidden or unwanted in a particular society are referred to as taboo words. Since these two terms have…
