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The article is motivated by the idea of developing practical rhetoric as an area of modern rhetorical knowledge. It has been argued that the field of applied rhetoric reflects both the traditions and continuity and the new manifestations of the science of persuasion. The high effectiveness of the application of communicative-training models in the contemporary study of rhetoric is analyzed. The main methodological tool – rhetorical exercises, with their inherent variety of forms and functionality, are the intersection of ancient traditions and modern perspectives and show the strong connection between rhetorical classics and the new manifestations of the science of persuasive communication.
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Prosocial communication defined as interaction during which the aim is to protect the dignity of the other person even in cases of conflict and to act prosocially falls into the focus of the current material. It presents the definitions of prosocial behavior and prosocial communication and the attempts to operationalize prosocial communication. Alongside this theoretical overview the material discusses ideas and approaches to training of professionals, in this case medical staff, in communication skills and prosociality. The training methods are based on the principles of experiential learning.
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Corporate culture is a symbiosis between the mission, vision, and values of a company. This article reveals the rhetorical models used in the implementation of a workshop to improve the effectiveness of business communication within the company team. Increasingly used as a major tool for increasing the popularity of Employer Branding, corporate culture is becoming a prerequisite for sustainable development. It is the basis of corporate communication and uses proven rhetorical techniques to achieve a balanced and successful communication with the organization’s internal and external audiences.
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This article analyzes basic verbal techniques and strategies in political and business negotiations. Negotiations can take place differently. A universal recipe for negotiating behavior cannot be stated. In summary, it is worth mentioning that negotiations that are pragmatic when the parties are not digging into their own positions but looking for alternative options and applying compromise options are positive. In order for negotiations to be successful, several basic rules relating to advance preparation must be observed. There is a need to carefully diagnose the situation, determine the negotiator’s goals, and assess the goals of the other party.
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This article gives a brief analysis of the characteristics of the model of legislation and state administration of justice, established in the Continental legal system, with a view to their effectiveness in regulating public relations and resolving legal disputes. A comparison is made with the historical and contemporary forms of alternative dispute resolution: the Ecclesiastical court of Christian church, justice of the peace and mediation.
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The parliamentary government is a form of governance of a state, a political regime and a „big public debate stage“. The article presents the activities of the National Assembly during the period 2009-2019 as a political regime and a debate stage. It represents a critical analysis of the constitutional and political functions of the Bulgarian Parliament. Negative trends in parliamentary procedures are presented through the implementation of legislative, constitutive and control functions. There is a refusal or avoidance of parliamentary debate between the parliamentary majority and the parliamentary opposition.
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This study aims to review some of the rhetorical and communication aspects of live online streaming. The format is used by the Prime Minister in his car journeys, in which he broadcasts live conversations with his car, documents his work day, records his business visits and meetings. The study’s hypothesis is that live online streaming has greater rhetorical, communication, media and PR potential, can be persuasive, a political influence, and has many advantages over traditional forms of public communication.
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The following research focuses on the development of the cultural dialogue between Bulgaria and Greece through researching and analysing of virtual rhetoric and oratory in cultural meetings held by the association “Aristotle – cultural bridge”. The aim is to follow the rhetorical practices of this association, which serves as a cultural and spiritual centre, used in order to build a cultural bridge between the two countries. Moreover a bridge which serves as link for good ideas aimed at a common constructive collaboration between them. The conclusion at the end of this research is that any successful intercultural dialogue is a complicated process, which requires a wide range of rhetorical skills and techniques in order for each to effectively breakthrough into the culture of the other. The mutual understanding and discovering of Bulgaria and Greece is done through the historical and contemporary societies in which the people of both nations form the multicultural plateau of the Balkans, with their language, habits and traditions.
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The aim of the rhetorical analysis of David Černý’s art installation “Entropa: stereotypes and barriers to be demolished” is to answer the following the questions: What is the rhetorical situation? What is the audience it addresses? Who is the author? What is the purpose of the visual rhetorical message? In what genre can the art installation be placed? What visual images and visual argumentation are used to achieve the purpose? What is the effect and how did the audience respond to Černý’s installation? The specific interdisciplinary scientific field of the relation between rhetoric and neoavantgarde art is the background against which we analyze the creation as well as the setting in which the art installation is perceived and interpreted as visual political rhetorics.
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The article presents and analyzes poorly researched and deliberately taboo questions and cases of the phenomenology of training methods and techniques. Some discrete relationships and dependencies between different – synchronous or diachronic – epoch
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Professional interactions in psychotherapy and medicine are an important healing tool with a number of elements and particularities. The realtionship between the patient and the therapist is a structured relationship where a working alliance is built. The purpose of this paper is to present some of the characteristics of the impact on the other in the psychotherapeutic and medical communication. It is focesed on the methods of possible manipulation, which can take place on conscious and unconscious level. The manipulativeness of the approach is based on the influence of characteristics such as appearance, non-verbal behavior, tone of voice, sound of speech, etc. It is associated with certain suggestions for goodwill, security, privacy, community, authority, autonomy and more.
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This report aims to introduce to the audience the practical application of the ancient rhetorical exercises of encomium and ethopeya, which are an important part of a speaker’s training and education, a way to upgrade his personality, to acquire specific and essential qualities that are fundamental for every successful speaker. These rhetorical exercises are of great use to this day in the media and in other spheres of society, which are a practical and creative tool for shaping a orator’s speech, putting it into practice in front of an audience, developing particularly key rhetorical skills, and helping the personality of the speaker to grow up.
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The elevator pitch (also known as elevator speech) is a widely used communication tool in a business context. The elevator pitch is a micropresentation: a short, direct, engaging and approachable speech, specifically adapted to the audience and the situation in which it is delivered. The current article reviews the persuasive characteristics of the elevator speech through the prism of the science of Rhetoric. The text emphasizes the different types of arguments used in an elevator speech, together with the characteristics of nonverbal communication to make an elevator pitch persuasive and effective.
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This paper examines the communication practices during protests and social initiatives (in 2014 and 2015) in order to understand how activists are promoting their movement and its goals, how successful are they in mobilizing the public to join their cause and what tools do they use for this purpose. Furthermore, it examines how government officials responded to calls for accountability and how they engaged in talks with those movements. The previous government seemed to be in a standstill in terms of communicating with the public and the various social initiatives in society. Government officials communicated mainly through the media that had the reputation to be “pro-government”, and shunned critical media outlets that include different viewpoints in their reporting. Additionally, the media environment in the country was severely polarized, and dominated by media outlets that are known to favor the government’s policies, and mostly criticizing the opposition’s ones. This left activists with a limited arena for expressing their opinions and dissatisfaction of public policy that is affecting their live. They therefore were conducting their communication with the public and their target groups through social media and through some of the online news portals that enabled them to voice their attitudes, opinions and requests. The paper investigates the communication practices of the activists with government officials and institutions during the student protests in 2014, the case of an imprisonment of a journalist in 2013, and the protests against the reshaping of the exterior of the Skopje City Centre Mall (GTC) that began in 2013. The paper aims to provide an improved understanding of communication dynamics during protests and will enable recommendations for improvements of communication practices of activists with government officials, media and citizens during times of unrest and social protests.
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It can be said that when “freedom of speech and thought” acquires “the right to citizenship,” then the history of democratic societies begins. Since the second half of the 20th century, freedom of speech and thought has not only become one of the compulsory categories in national legal systems, but it also has taken a central place in international law. The primacy of freedom of speech is inviolable, while censorship - the largest extent of non-freedom - is unconditionally excluded. This right has multiple and multidimensional nature; hence today, in order to be practiced, this right “covers” a whole series of laws, which enable or guarantee the right to free speech and thought. As freedom of speech and thought is not unrestricted freedom the most important is that the limitations are based on laws and are necessary in democratic society. The level of democracy in any society is not depending only from the formal institutional infrastructure, but also how the freedom of speech is assessed from informal institutions, like the public. The paper analyses research data for different elements of freedom of speech. Such approach provide much broader understanding of the potency of democratic practices of the institutions and citizens of the Republic of Macedonia.
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Young population in the twenty-first century is a generation with the best technical and technological conditions for education, personal development and success. Completely aware of the digital technologies, this generation accepts the innovations and the new developments, trying to keep pace with the trends. They are flexible and fully opened to the future horizons. The Internet can be massively found into all spheres of life. However, do young people know how to use properly the benefits of the new social media? Is the awareness of young people at a sufficiently high level for them to use digital tools, to engage themselves in solving the social problems that affect them? Are young people sufficiently educated and involved in the processes of electronic engagement? There are many national youth studies which lead to the conclusion that it is necessary to improve key competences and skills of young people out of their everyday educational environment. The reason for this is to enable better usage of their potential and all of the benefits of technologies, as well as to raise awareness among them to use the advantages of advanced new technologies for involvement in solving social issues that have an influence on them. It is necessary to enhance the development of young people through a combination of knowledge, skills and technologies that will motivate them to upgrade and promote themselves, and also to exploit suitably the potential and the benefits of new technologies and social media.
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AbstraktThe article presents a critical discourse analysis of media coverage of the most important Lithuanian strategic object — the Ignalina Nuclear Power Plant INPP — in the three biggest news portals. Media news focuses mostly on certain aspects of decommissioning of the INPP management issues and the transparency of financing mechanisms. Environmental and social aspects of the decommissioning are not sufficiently disclosed and discussed. The community of Visaginas the satellite town for the workers of the INPP remains an invisible and silent actor of the discourse. In the media news portals, the town is portrayed as disconnected from the INPP. This divide could be explained by assuming that after the closure of the INPP as a major feeding enterprise the town must search for a re-definition of its identity and construct this identity without nuclear energy and without the INPP. On the other hand, such a divide reflects a common trend characteristic of the entire nuclear discourse — to disempower communities and the public, create a boundary between the industry and the public, between the experts and ordinary citizens.
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In 2014, the famous researcher and Nobel laureate Bruce Lipton proved that human thoughts, not just thinking, are energy, they are real and have power. “‘Do not doubt that you command your body and mind... If thoughts are weak and life is like that. Our thoughts are energy and have the power to create.” These can be simple connections, analogies, combinations, or mature, coherent conclusions. Then, at higher mental levels, human thinking often gives birth to very significant, occasionally even ingenious and grandiose thoughts, which in turn become bearers of new energies, social inventions, practices, and interpersonal relations that were previously unimaginable. Human thoughts are power.
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The social doctrine of the Church involves greater commitment and engagement of the Church in social problems as well as the promotion of relationships that serve justice and peace. The Catholic Church first began relating mass media to its social teaching in the 19th century. As the Church aimed at a broader scope of public, it dealt with means of social communication and examined it through numerous sources – papal encyclicals, conciliar and episcopal documents. The relationship between the Catholic Church and the media is not simple. Approaches to ethics, morality, responsibility and dignity of human beings are sometimes different in media reports and in the aims of the Church in its social doctrine which should provide all members of the society with a sense of direction and instruction for everyday actions. Through the documents presented here, the Church has shown a readiness to face the media as well as the possibility to use them for advancing justice, truth, peace and freedom.
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