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The proposed text reveals little known aspects of personality and creative work of Bulgarian cartoon’s father Alexander Bozhinov. It is outlined the figure of the intellectual in public space and media climate at the beginning of 20th century with its artistic syncretism, which is a feature of all modern periodicals of that time.
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The strategy of the speaker in the speech act is formed in accordance whit the communicative task, and tactics requires reconsideration of the concrete linguistic means, suitable for the completion of the communicative task. In connection whit the „task suggestion”, syntactic, lexical and morphological linguistic means are looked into. Special attention is drawn on the morphological phenomena „neutralization” and „transposition” as having „suggestive” effect.
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In 1936, two years after the establishment of the Peace Pledge Union (PPU), Britain’s largest pacifist organisation of the twentieth century, one of the organization’s founders, Aldous Huxley, undertook to write a pamphlet to promote the Union and its cause. In the thirty-one-page booklet, Huxley set out to persuade hard-headed opponents of pacifism that peace was not only a desirable, but also a practicable alternative to war. He pleaded that any kind of peace was preferable to any kind of war, even at the cost of rewarding the aggressor: Italy attacking Abyssinia, Japan devastating Manchuria and Germany bent on annexing “Middle Europe”and overrunning Russia.1 Assessing the lessons of ancient and modern history, post-Darwinian biology, advanced economics, and even modern ethnography, Huxley formulated three major postulates: that war is alien to human nature; that war is always the problem and never the solution; and that lasting peace can only be achieved through fairness, mutual understanding, and the generosity of the powerful. The specific conclusion was that Great Britain, one of the “satisfied” powers of the international community—to use, somewhat anachronistically, a term introduced into Britain’s political discourse by George Lansbury a year later, one of the “haves,”—should set a political example to the rest of the world by addressing the justifiable complaints of the “dissatisfied” countries—the “have nots.”2 In the meantime, fair-minded Englishmen and Englishwomen were exhorted by Huxley to set a personal example to their government by supporting the Peace Pledge Union. The answer to the question in the pamphlet’s title, What Are You Going to Do About It? is thus simple: embrace the cause identified in the subtitle by taking immediate action to achieve “Constructive Peace.” Or, as the opening of the booklet advances its thesis, act in the belief that “what is called the utopian dream of pacifism is in fact a practical policy.”
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This essay was written as a contribution to The Paradox of Realism project (National Research, Development and Innovation Office – NKFIH K 117041). George R. R. Martin’s fantasy book series, A Song of Ice and Fire (1996–, followed by the Game of Thrones TV series based on the books, 2011–) was critically acclaimed as a dystopian depiction of a world of dynastic wars, civil discontents, and feudal feuds. Its plot is centered around power hunger, violence, conspiracies, and treachery. Not surprisingly, many reviewers welcomed the series as a textbook example of Machiavellian political realism. Self-contradictory as it may seem, a story of imagined lands, decadelong winters, zombies, magic, and dragons proves to be markedly realistic, at least in comparison with the classics of the fantasy genre, especially J. R. R. Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings trilogy. How can this be possible? If political realism, in a nutshell, is the refutation of the Kantian assertion that “all politics must bend its knee before right,”1 then Tolkien’s novels may justly be described as representing Kant’s ideal, while Martin’s books present us a world where “might is right.” Most of Martin’s characters would readily concur with the crude sincerity of the Athenians recorded in Thucydides’ Peloponnesian War, an unsurpassed classic of realist thinking, that “you know as well as we do that when we are talking on the human plane questions of justice only arise when there is equal power to compel: in terms of practicality the dominant exact what they can and the weak concede what they must.”
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Baba Yaga is a collective image, which reflects the attitude of people towards the fairy and the real world, their perceptions, beliefs and hopes. The aim of this paper is to introduce new and unknown features of her character and appearance for the Bulgarian reader and in particular to prove that these new features can change imposed conceptions about her character in fairy tales and her place in contemporary culture.
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The paper reviews the harm the organisation`s reputation crisis is, induced by some characteristics of the social medias. Examples with mistakes are shown. Reached is the conclusion that in the conditions the contemporary character of the interactions the social networks are the reason for the increased transparency of the communication and the social responsibility of the organisations
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The article presents the figure of a literary critic and literature historian — Wiktor Weintraub.Weintraub’s biography has been summarized here, focusing on his literary criticism, whereasspecial attention has been given to the strategies he adopted. The article shows how, depending on the author of a reviewed text, as well as its research reliability and opinions presented therein, Weintraub selected and adjusted various methods of evaluation and appraisal. Additionally, the article presents differences between printed evaluations and those expressed in the letters to the editors of the “Wiadomości,” as well as emotional bias visible in the commentaries prepared for press releases to be published in the London magazine.
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The conversations/correspondence of Jarosław Borowiec with Krystyna Miłobędzka and Andrzej Falkiewicz, Tymoteusz Karpowicz with Miłobędzka and Falkiewicz, Karpowicz with Heinrich Kunstmann make up an intriguing testimony of “friendship of diversities”, a collection of affirmations of intellectual co-presence. In Dwie rozmowy [Two Conversations], which the present sketch refers to, the portrayals and self-portrayals of the writers are perpetuated — moments of honest, hearty concern, proof of intellectual affinity and traces of diversity. While reading this volume, one may observe the erudite “thoughtful hours” of the participants of the debates, discussing the ideas and message of literary works and designing next publications. The subject matter of the article is a composition of letters, thanks to which one can follow the aspects of “life and work” as well as the issues related to the “metaphysics of art.”
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In 1998 the Catholic Church defines the Internet as a "treasury of human knowledge," and according to the newspaper "The Times", the internet is among the ten words that characterize the century. One purpose of this report is to give a small part of the answers to questions about how the Internet and new media influence the way we collect and the knowledge that the vast arrays of information overload individual and public memory. How to adapt to new conditions and you lose old habits of storing information.
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This report aims to identify some major differences in the delivery of information, online newspapers and conventional newspaper. Looking for an answer to the question why new media are preferred over traditional. Commented to the emergence of a new type of recipients, namely active users who are one of the main factors for the emergence and development of a new communication environment. Monitor the „new” way the „old” media, outlining new opportunities for them to provide information and knowledge.
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The television is the arena for building political image in the increased personalization during the recent years. The attention of this mass media is focused on the individual politicians using its genre diversity and forums for debates and publicity. The article aims to show the importance of the political rhetoric in the TV air, the imposition of images through TV messages
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One of the requirements of the international community to the training of specialists is a quality education. The Republic of Kazakhstan is actively implementing new information technologies in the educational process to promote quality of learning materials. One of the most promising educational technologies are the technologies of distance learning. Distance learning gives students the opportunity to study at a distance from the training center and thereby expands the boundaries of education, going even beyond a single state. The article shows the main trends and ways of implementing distance learning in higher educational institutions of the Republic of Kazakhstan, their advantages and problems, the conditions which are necessary to implement the Distance learning technology.
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The article explores the problems arising from the global character of knowledge in the new subject field „Global Education” and the required new way of knowledge construction and methods and dilemmas of teaching.
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The quality of practical training of pedagogy students is determined by the possibility of this training to meet the need for professionals in the practical field of the educational and social institutions. Finding the balance in the higher professional pedagogy education seen as a result and social needs, aims, requirements, norms, standards and conditions of the contemporary educational and social activities, is a task of a primary importance for a e quality education that is directly linked to the practical training of students. Finding solutions of particular exploratory tasks in the course of the practical training of the students realized into different forms: seminars, different observational and practical lessons in real schools, ets., allow the students to develop in respect with their own attitudes and needs, to acquire competences that will enhance their professional and social realization and to their advantage in a competitive environment. The paper presents the possibilities of practical training that includes exploratory tasks and implements the dynamics of motivation and interest of the students in the course of its realization.
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This article is based on an analysis conducted by the questioning of students to identify the quality of the student's self-education in the performance of tasks and determining their attitude to the organization of independent work. There were 60 students in the survey. We proceeded from the fact that the educational process is focused on the formation of student readiness for independent work. Therefore, the management of the performance of the students’ tasks in groups on the educational platform Moodle and conducting selfmonitoring and self-assessment according to the criteria provided by the teacher is an actual problem in the context of an effective organization and management of independent work through information and communication technologies, such as Web quest. This technology contribute to the formation of intercultural communicative and linguocultural competences of trainees capable for independently and creatively operate at any convenient time and place to monitor and evaluate their actions.
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The article is devoted to reflection on ways of translating socio‑cultural allusions. The difficulties discussed centered around a number of issues, among which the most important are: analysis of translation of allusive content and its effects and attempt to answer the question about the possibility of developing a universal method of translation allusions.Diversity of allusive references and unlimited possibility of introducing them to the text make the adoption of a single model of translating socio‑cultural allusions impossible: each caseis different in terms of type of allusions, the method of its introduction and the interpretationof its meaning. Therefore, the key to systematize the activities in the process of translating allusion may be moving methodological reflection on a more general level of relations between evocation, text and recipient. Any socio‑cultural allusion on the one hand it is interfacing with the text, which has been introduced, on the other hand provided the renovation is the potential visibility in the process of receiving. The relational approach to socio‑cultural references allows, in the initial phase of translation, to determine their importance (significance) and readability (visibility). The analysis of the relation allusion‑textallows identify and assess the status of specific allusions in relation to formal and narrative structure of the text. The question of readability concerns while the relation text – recipient. Its analysis can determine the status of allusions in the hierarchy of translation: the clearer allusion to the recipient source and – potentially – the target, its “saving” in translation seems to be more important. The proposed classification of socio‑cultural references can serve to systematize the process of translation and to facilitate the process of finding concrete solutions of translation. The practical illustration of reflections on the factors determining the treatment of allusions in translation and reflection on the existence of a system of rules translations were made comparative analysis of selected examples taken from three versions of the translation of the French comic Tour de Gaule d’Asterix, René Goscinny and Albert Uderzo (1965.) made by Jolanta Sztuczyńska (1992.) and Jaroslaw Kilian (1998. and 2011.) on request Egmont Publishing.
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