This article attends to recent discussions of validity in psychometric research on human life history strategy (LHS), provides a constructive critique of the extant literature, and describes strategies for improving construct validity. To place the psychometric study of human LHS on more solid ground, our review indicates that researchers should (a) use approaches to psychometric modeling that ...

In her article, “Kazuo Ishiguro and the Service Economy,” Kate Montague argues that Kazuo Ishiguro’s novels enact a poetics of work for present moment—not just at level narrative but also in kind language used to describe service economies his characters are doomed inhabit. best-known novels, clinical, bureaucratic, even glorifying lexicon “donations,” “completions,” “substitutions,” “lifting” ...

this work supports the effectiveness of the employment of communication strategies for bet-ter and more efficient communication. communication strategies varies as a function of dif-ferent factors such as personality traits, pedagogical setting, l2 context, etc. the present re-search aimed at delving into the relationship between shyness, task nature and the frequency and type of communication ...

interlanguage pragmatics (ilp) has witnessed a growing body of research in the past two decades. one of the under-explored domains of l2 pragmatics is the role of learning strategies specifically tailored for the development of ilp knowledge. therefore, this investigation aimed to determine the significant interlanguage pragmatic learning strategies (ipls) used by high vs. low l2 pragmatic achi...

The mass media tends to use euphemisms in political news narratives. euphemistic was chosen by the editor avoid controversy due broadcast of a material. This research aims discuss types narrative on Tempo articles (December 2022-January 2023). Political euphemism is seen through van Dijk's paradigm which focuses local semantics and lexicon, especially how leaders tend this style language as lin...

Euphemism can be said as a style of language that becomes better communication tool and avoids important actions or things are sensitive. The use euphemisms is used in to provide information messages usually contain taboos meaningful words, phrases sentences euphemistic expressions. This study aimed an insight into the strategy using order prioritize politeness when speaking general context sit...

This study examined firsthand observations of adults (N = 70) making public verbal threats to physically punish or hurt children. While many adults threatened the child with a "spanking," most used a variety of other terms, some euphemistic and some menacing, to label the threatened event. Angry shouting seemed rare, and swearing was almost nonexistent. Many threatening adults, however, also hi...

In spite of the fact that taboos change over time, death is still a delicate and sensitive subject in today’s Western societies. Our unwillingness to talk openly about dying makes people resort euphemism as safe way human mortality related matters. Following Steen’s Deliberate Metaphor Theory, this study discusses role euphemistic metaphors play on sample 174 gravestone inscriptions from Englis...