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Moscow cut gas supplies to Kyiv for nonpayment, may halt coal deliveries over Crimea blackout.
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The paper studies the nature of a media release as a basic genre in public relations. A necessary distinction between media advisory and news release is made. The article presents the contemporary development of the media release into a social media release.
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This paper deals with the needs of IT students in ELT in the context of business communication skills. The results presented in this paper are a part of much greater research. The mix-method research was conducted at eight IT departments in five cities in Serbia during the academic year 2011/2012. The quantitative sample included 775 IT students at II and III year of their studies and 77 professors and assistants teaching domain content courses while the subsample for the structured interview included 16 students, 10 professors and 10 assistants. One of the aims of this research was to establish a detailed framework of English language courses suitable for IT students in Serbia. Among the courses that emerged, as the ones that meet the needs of IT students in ELT at tertiary level in Serbia, was the course of Business Communication. In this paper, the authors present the aims of the Business English Communication Course and elaborate on the specific activities and genres that emerged essential for this type of course. The findings may be useful for all ESP teachers teaching at Technical faculties, especially the ones teaching IT students.
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In the Social Sciences today, there are a variety of ways to approach the various areas of investigation and a wide range of observational methods. Depending on academic background and research interests, researchers explore and emphasize certain approaches and categorizations at the expense of others in the implementation of their audiovisual investigations. These observations lead us to first question the definition of image in its connection to the object of research and its status and, secondly, to identify the diversity of current practices and uses. Indeed, the status of an image changes according to the media used and the contexts of reception. The circulation of images promotes exchange and connection between the various groups of actors. If we awkwardly accompany images, we risk unwittingly betraying their original meaning. Furthermore, there is the possibility of conflicts or unintended distortions linked to the activities of projection and identification. Our goal will be to propose a methodological framework and establish an initial model for all researchers in Communication Studies using the audiovisual method. Finally, the researcher accepts not only to properly conduct his research, but also to present an audiovisual project taking into account from the start advantages, constraints, issues of influence and scientific impact.
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Did Putin threaten to castrate a journalist? And why it matters to get it right.
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In article approaches existing in modern criticism to studying of the Soviet children's classics are considered, communicative intentions of authors of articles from "thick" magazines are defined, it Becomes clear that by means of the children's book which invests serious world outlook, public problems with a simple form, the ambiguous image of the Soviet culture is broadcast. Authors of articles show it through the appeal to the sphere of a literary life and intra shop relationship, a political situation of that time, bible motives, specifics of consciousness of the Soviet person.
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The phenomenon of "forced overhearing" is considered in the article. The author analyzes the communicative processes of mobile phones use, leading to the transformation or blurring of boundaries of private and public dimensions. The value and nature of public/common/social spaces and features of modern people’s behaviour are studied in the situations when there is a need or a wish for a mobile phone talk. The author describes the concepts of ethics of indifference and mobile etiquette.
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This article focuses on the Cynic strategies of communication and on the problems of interpretation of Cynicism. The author uses Goffman’s theory of self-production, which treats a life as a theatrical performance, and applies some ideas of sociolinguistics and social anthropology to the analysis of Cynicism as a rhetorical practice. The theatricality of Cynical behaviour appears in their careful self-presentation and stylised of their lifestyle, which may be analysed as the exercise of a philosophical rhetoric. The article rests on the assumption that the most significant points of Cynicism are theatricality, use of non-verbal communication and transgressive forms of communication, and preference for such a literary form as chreia. Theatricality can take place in any stylistic register, but the author has concentrated on non-verbal elements in Cynic communication. The author analyses the Cynics’ rhetoric using the modern groundbreaking studies of Donald Lateiner and Robert Branham. The article analyses the Cynic performances, the interactions of Cynics with the public environment, and their use of eating and physical attributes to mark their philosophical position. The author examines Diogen’s use of transgressive non-verbal communication, paying special attention to his conscious use of the body for philosophical purposes. The analysis demonstrates that bodily processes are used as forms of symbolic action, while non-verbal media are designed to strengthen the effect of verbal language.
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Review of: Van der Horst, Joop. 2016. Propast standardnoga jezika: mijena u jezičnoj kulturi Zapadne Europe
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В рамках празднования 290-летия города Перми на базе Пермского государственного гуманитарно педагогического университета при поддержке Министерства культуры, молодежной политики и массовых коммуникаций Пермского края проходила конференция «Город как стиль — Пермь как стиль: формирование современной городской идентично- сти». Любые городские и региональные проекты в сфере культуры, экономики или политики, так или иначе, касаются проблем территориальной идентичности. Идет ли речь о брендинге городов или о решении социальных проблем, о планировании городских территорий или о местных политических элитах, научное сообщество, власть и общественность не могут избежать обсуждения содержания идентичности и ее представления внешнему наблюдателю.
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Czesław Miłosz was born in 1911 in the countryside of Lithuania then located in the Russian empire, a part of Europe ravaged by wars and unknown to Westerners. It is on these lands, both central and remote, that he had his first premonition of ideological terror: “my consciousness was born with the war. … The Germans arrived, the Tsarist armies were evacuated from Lithuania, accompanied by masses of fugitives.” Violently deprived in this way of political credulities, Miłosz became a poet. He was seized by the need to write in order to protect himself from the grandiloquence of speeches that arouse fear: “We had to write, [...] cultural life refused to be crushed.” In his essay published in 1953 in Paris, The Captive Mind, Miłosz denounces the subjugation of writing in times of political totalitarianism or softer suppression. Its pages contain striking lessons on the development of ideological language, through the contrary arts of concealment and of political monitoring. Then it touches upon the difficult yet necessary tasks of reflection and of its expression. The person who on the 1st of October, 1980, will receive the Nobel Prize for Literature explains past and current pressures coming to enslave the speeches and even the attitudes of personalities to the point of their destruction. The work of Czesław Miłosz allows us to question the methods contained in the official language and the means given by rhetoric to express a thought. That is the question often asked by the author: How to reason correctly and to write in a meaningful way so as to communicate to readers something important?
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This paper extends a recently published preface (in Lageot & Marchadier F. (dir.), Le blasphčme dans une société démocratique. Paris: Dalloz, 2016). In the polymorphous and paradoxical works of Lucian of Samosata, “the ancient Voltaire,” I propose to focus on some rhetorical devices which intensely perform and stage the freedom of speech denoted by the Greek notion of parrhesia, as M. Foucault reappraised it, in a cultural and political perspective (Foucault M. Le courage de la vérité. Le gouvernement de soi et des autres II (Cours au Collčge de France, 1984). Paris: Gallimard/Le Seuil, 2009). For instance, in The Dead Come to Life or The Fisherman and Philosophies for Sale, or Zeus Rants, Lucian stretches and articulates sophistic and true (or false) philosophy, Socratic dialogue and comedy, epideixis and dialectics, by renewing, hybridizing or inventing genres and registers which still inspire contemporary critical theory, as well as a significant part of post-modern creations. As he applies a pragmatic conception of thought, which is not reluctant to use satire, allegorical fiction, and polemical or fantastic discourse, Lucian may become an important reference for new rhetoric, as it both resists and produces new dynamic values, altogether practical and theoretical, or even, while facing discourses and images, is able to combine active, even critical and distanced, reception and sensitive immersion, and reflexivity or meta-fictionality. Four main enunciative strategies and processes have been scrutinized in this study: the interplays of rhetoric and false or true philosophy; the dynamics of hyperrealistic, fantastic, and specular auto-fiction, e.g., in Alexander the False Prophet, True Stories, The Dream or Lucian’s Carrier; the dialogic powers of serio-comic (spoudogeloion), between reflexion and comedy, e.g., in The Fly, Charon or the Inspectors, and the Dialogues of the Dead; and the dialectics of critical / immersive readership and meta-fictional / committed authorship, e.g., in Heracles, The Hall and About Dance.
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The article concerns the occasional poetry of the Philomaths, which has not been highly valued in historical and literary studies. This resulted from the fact that this work was regarded as not Romantic enough, although the Philomaths themselves were treated as initiators of a new movement in literature. The name day poems, letters, and parting verses did not suit the image of the onset of Vilnius Romanticism; they were associated rather with Classic aestheticism. However, the occasional poetry of the Philomaths should not be described as a kind of confrontation between Classicism and Romanticism, but as a phenomenon of Rococo literary culture and a cultural manifestation of communication among a group of friends, within the circle of a certain special rhetorical community.
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Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) represents the obligation of an individual, or in this case the company, to be beneficial to the society. The concept will no longer consider profit maximization of a company but to take care of the society and the environment in which they operate. In simple words, Corporate Social Responsibility is the way of doing business by combining economic benefit with sustainability of the environment. This paper puts special emphasis on the importance of Corporate Social Responsibility reporting and on the role of companies’ websites in it. This is the main reason why we analyzed the websites of the companies in Bosnia and Herzegovina with the specific focus on the CSR content.
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Departing from the problem of quantitative overload of social media definitions and their diverse quality I intend to examine the definitions of “social media” which have been in use since 1896. It appears that social scientists used them more than 100 years before the emergence of the internet. Contemporary attempts to define the term social media lack coherence not only because of the competences demonstrated by their authors, but also because of the lack of reflexivity on notions such as „content”, „user”, „community” or Web 2.0 and their mutual relationships within the online environment based on “user‑generated content”.
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Research presented in the article concerns copyright as a sociological phenomenon, considered in a broad socio‑cultural context. From this perspective, copyright is not just a codified law, but most importantly a social construct and shared imaginary. Norms and values – described in our text as “copynorms” – are as important a research subject as the state of knowledge about law itself. We define what we call “copyright anomie”, a state of moral ambivalence with regard to copying and copyright, caused by sudden technological change.
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The article describes the potential influence of games’ interactivity on the discourses that produced them and, as a result, on power relations created by those discourses. For that purpose, the author discusses Niklas Luhmann’s concept of autopoietic systems, its connection to Foucault’s notion of discourse, and the way games adjust to the image of reality inherent in the discourse that creates them. The author posits that each game containing narrative elements is at the same time a text and a reality model. He also presents mechanisms by which games’ interactivity strengthens the discourse. Finally, the author investigates whether the presented concept can be used with regard to games where less emphasis is placed on narrative structures or where such structures are seemingly non‑existent.
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The aim of the paper is to present chosen techniques getting to the customers which are used by companies in advertising communication and clarify the mechanism of their impact. In article are also presented the possible consequences of untruthful communication. The author indicate that such an approach to advertising communication which trays to manipulate the buyer, quickly generates negative emotions and certainly does not affect the willingness to maintain a longer relationship with the brand.
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The position of marketing and the opinion of it in an organization that utilizes it have changed in time. This is also caused by changes in the environment of an organization which influences the creation of new attitudes of customers- their often disloyal and demanding attitudes. Such attitudes hinder marketing from achieving its goals and lowers general opinion of it. The paper focuses on the issue of the problems of firms with their present-day difficult customers. It utilizes findings of research programs conducted in the USA, concerning the customer relationship management and the effectiveness of modern means of marketing communication (CPV – Customer Portfolio Management; Multichannel Communication). In the author’s opinion they may be applied in conducting marketing activities which will increase the prestige of marketing itself. The work is of theoretical (analytical) character, utilizes secondary sources of information, and contains conclusions relating also to general problems that organizations have with their present customers.
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Marketing, like other sciences, has developed significantly in recent years. New techniques, continuously evolving styles of mix marketing composition and ongoing research have given rise to the creation of innovative marketing trends. They enable companies to reach more and more effectively the target groups with their products and they make that their message is received in a deliberate and effective way. Entrepreneurs, looking for new and revolutionary ways to reach customers, more and more often use the ambient marketing in the elaboration of competitive advantage. On the basis of primary researches' results, it was found that unconventional and original forms of customer interaction can produce positive results in reinforcing the brand’s position in a competitive market.
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