DEVELOPING PRAGMATIC COMPETENCE WITH ENGLISH SCHOOL TEXTBOOKS

Author(s): Iulia Ignatiuc / Language(s): English Publication Year: 0

The paper focuses on the importance of pragmatic competence acquisition in the EFL classroom and on the great role the textbook plays in this process. It provides the results of an analysis of five English textbooks used in the schools of Moldova in the first five years of pupils’ studying English. The results show that all the textbooks contain some implicit and explicit pragmatic information, which, however, is not equally distributed. Special attention was paid to the treatment of speech acts in the textbooks. The results show that the success of pragmatic competence development depends on several factors revealed in the paper.

INTERKULTURELLE STUDIENGÄNGE AN HOCHSCHULEN IN DEUTSCHLAND UND IN DER REPUBLIK MOLDAU

Author(s): Oxana Chira / Language(s): German Publication Year: 0

Preserving cultural identity’ and ‘achieving social integration’ are among the few universally accepted objectives of educational policy. Therefore, we recommend to always consider each person’s individuality in intercultural situations, to suspend judgment and to find out more about possible reasons for behavior before acting. Communication on the one hand is frequently considered as being an important key competence, but on the other hand many employers think that having covered this as a subject of university studies may not count as having acquired academic expertise in a specialized field. The article will close with a short presentation of the Master’s programme in Intercultural Communication

ИСПОЛЬЗОВАНИЕ ЗАДАЧНОГО ПОДХОДА В ФОРМИРОВАНИИ МЕЖКУЛЬТУРНОЙ КОМПЕТЕНЦИИ У СТУДЕНТОВ

Author(s): Tatiana Panco / Language(s): Russian Publication Year: 0

This article examines the problem of intercultural competence’ formation at the students in the process of initial pedagogical training. The author considers the problem of intercultural competence’s formation from the standpoint of the task approach, as one of the modern ones, ensuring the formation of all the constituent components of intercultural competence. This approach is ensured by the practical implementation and development of necessary knowledge, skills, and value attitudes as a basic component of intercultural competence

ИНДИЙСКИЕ СТУДЕНТЫ – АКТИВНАЯ СОСТАВЛЯЮЩАЯ СОВРЕМЕННОГО ОБРАЗОВАТЕЛЬНОГО КОНТИНГЕНТА ВЫСШЕЙ ШКОЛЫ УКРАИНЫ

Author(s): Natalia Bojco / Language(s): Russian Publication Year: 0

DISCURSUL IDENTITAR ÎN MEDIUL EDUCOGEN. O ANALIZĂ PRAGMATICĂ A INTERACȚIUNILOR CATEHETICE ACTUALE DIN DIASPORA

Author(s): Anamaria Gheorghiu / Language(s): English Publication Year: 0

Starting from the instructive-educational features of current catehetic activities, this paper aims to analyse the architecture of discourses, interactions and verbal means that stimulate argumentation in such contexts, from the multimodal, multichannel perspective of the catehetic medium. The corpus, comprising current Romanian spoken language, which presents the three facets of language: verbal, paraverbal and nonverbal, was put together by transcribing personal recordings taken in Vienna, Austria. It is analysed as a whole, based on the statuary and communicative features of these religious discoursive events, which, in turn, in various proportions, reach the four objectives of the catehetic speaker’s communicative intentions: to inform – persuade -convince - form a collective identity. The last one is strategically addressed, by stressing the feelings of belonging, by appealing to the collective memory and by stimulating its prospective function, through various discoursive means that define discourse as being identity discourse.

Poglavlje 10: Informaciono društvo i mediji

Author(s): Chiara Gaia Iascone / Language(s): Montenegrine Publication Year: 0

Poglavlje 10 sadrži pravila koja omogućuju efikasno funkcionisanje zajedničkog tržišta u području telekomunikacionih usluga i mreža, kao i njihovu promociju, razvoj i širu dostupnost. Cilj EU je da korisnicima osigura usluge po povoljnim cijenama (mobilna i fiksna telefonija, pristup internetu, besplatni hitni pozivi i dr.) uz stimulaciju tržišne utakmice i smanjenje dominacije monopola koji se i dalje održavaju za određene usluge (npr. pristup internetu velike brzine). Jedan od prioriteta EU je inkluzija informatičkog društva, radi smanjenja digitalne podijeljenosti na različitim nivoima. U području audiovizuelne politike odnosno medija, naglasak je na zaštiti maloljetnika od neprimjerenih programskih sadržaja i oglašavanja, kao i na pravilima o televizijskoj trgovini i oglašavanju.

The Relationship Between Communication Skills and Tourism Perceptions of Local People: The Case of Sinop

Author(s): Hasibe Yazit,Gul Erkol Bayram,Melike Sak / Language(s): English Publication Year: 0

Local people are one of the important drivers of tourism. They have a significant role on tourist behavior for having a positive destination image and repeat visits. This situation emphasizes the importance of the communication of the local people with the tourists. Tourism perception of the local people is seen as an indicator of its contribution to tourism development. The local people’s positive perception of tourism will enable tourists to be satisfied with this region and contribute to the touristic development of the region. It is thought that tourists from the local people who can develop effective communication skills and positive tourism perception will also be satisfied. In this context, the aim of the research is to determine the relationship between communication skills and tourism perception. In the scope of the research, a questionnaire was applied to 500 people residing in the city of Sinop. The data obtained were evaluated with the SPSS program and the relationship between the communication skills of the local people and their perception of tourism was tested. According to the results, a positive and negative relationship was determined between the communication skills of the local people and the sub-dimensions of tourism perceptions. Some suggestions were made according to the results of the research

Drepturi și libertăți în criza sanitară. Dreptul la liberă exprimare. Fenomenul fake news

Author(s): Versavia Brutaru / Language(s): Romanian Publication Year: 0

The citizen, in a democratic state, has assumed duties and freedoms guaranteed by the state, equal for all citizens. The two notions are not in the same plan and do not have the same content. Human rights are a minimum of prerogatives necessary for human self-determination, while public rights and freedoms are prerogatives that ensure the security of the individual and his protection, they being his true claims on society. A human activity is legally free, to a greater or lesser extent, in a hierarchical system: there are, however, totally forbidden acts (crime, violence, destruction, etc.); there are acts or actions permitted under certain conditions, for example, obtaining an authorization from the competent authorities; and there are acts / actions allowed, free, but in compliance with state laws. Therefore, some of them may be banned altogether, and this may be legitimate depending on the purpose pursued - for example, to uphold the rights, freedoms or dignity of others. Public freedoms are not absolute. Everyone's freedom must respect the other's, and any form of freedom is limited by a legal system (even in states with liberal regimes).

O znaku niekonwencjonalnym w kulturze staroprawosławnej

Author(s): Elżbieta Janus / Language(s): Polish Publication Year: 0

The paper pertains to treatening a linguistic sign as unconventional, i.e., invariant, with its content and expressive shape (form) rigidly attached to each other. A given content can be expressed in one way only, there is no synonymy, no polisemy, no translation. The phonetic aspect of the linguistic sign, its exceptional liturgical expression (prounanciation) in the Old Slavic language is examined, expression that is rooted – as by Boris Uspensky’s findings – in the XII Century. By the reference to texts been read during the Christmas Liturgy Service in the female monastyr in Wojnowo (Poland), in 1977, the most characteristic features of the prounanciation are scrutinized. The unconventional sign underlies the binary of culture, different aspect of life gain their semiotic importance.

Kod personalny w obrzędzie dorocznym jako tekście kultury

Author(s): Katarzyna Smyk / Language(s): Polish Publication Year: 0

The article analyses the personal code of the Corpus Christi feast in Spycimierz (Poddębice county, Łódź voivodeship), distinguished by its tradition of a two-metre wide flower carpet created by the parishioners along the entire two-kilometre route of the procession. The author applies an innovative solution by using the findings of V. Propp concerning character functions in a fairy tale to interpret the ritual. The author identifies the following ritual roles: 1) the hero-protagonist (collective: the whole community of the parish, children scattering flower petals; individual: people skilled in creating flower patterns and managing works); 2) the villain (people who hamper flower picking and tourists destroying flower carpets); 3) the donor (institutional: parish priests, the mayor; individual: people giving flowers to parishioners); 4) the helper (families and tourists coming to Spycimierz to arrange flower carpets together with the parishioners); 5) the false hero (people from the parish who take credit for the feast but do not help prepare it). To sum up, the article presents the ritual process of transformation of the parishioners and their guests into ritual characters.

O zamęcie symbolicznym, czyli historia walki o krzyż

Author(s): Iwona Jakubowska-Branicka / Language(s): Polish Publication Year: 0

On April 10, 2010 Smolensk catastrophe happened. A few days after the crash, scouts put a cross in front of the Presidential Palace as a symbol of remembrance for the victims of the crash. From that moment a rapid process of dichotomization of the Polish society started. In my analysis I focus on considering the process of symbolic encoding of the cross in the social discourse in the context of theories of social constructivism, sociology of knowledge, symbolic interactionism, sociolinguistics and communication theory.

Jak Homo sapiens spadł ze scala naturae

Author(s): Agnieszka Kloch / Language(s): Polish Publication Year: 0

Like Copernicus, Darwin revolutionized the place of a man within creation: he thrown the man from the top position in the chain of beings and placed him among other living beings. Emergence of human as a species was not an unique act. Humans evolved within primates in a result of inherently non-directional evolutionary processes, and human is by no means one of this kind among animals. In a geological timescale, even the impact of humans on the Earth ecosystem may not prove profound. Thus, the proposed geological epoch “anthropocene” reflects human fondness for our own greatness.

Nauka w czasach pandemii

Author(s): Ewa Bartnik / Language(s): Polish Publication Year: 0

In the year 2020 biomedical scientists have been faced with an unprecedented challenge, but on the other hand the established process of science communication has been perturbed, as results which had not been peer reviewed have been published very rapidly and the press and politicians have become involved in their distribution and evaluation, and this has met with a rapid reaction from scientists.

Blizna jako znak

Author(s): Aleksandra Brylska / Language(s): Polish Publication Year: 0

In the article, the author analyzes photos which are representing the victims of nuclear attacks and the so-called shadows of Hiroshima. She reflects on the role of the wounded body and scar in creating a story about an atomic catastrophe and the status of a victim created by selected survivors. She examines the status of photography after atomic attacks and the role it plays in creating an archive of this event.

Prawda dyskursu średniowiecznej kroniki

Author(s): Maciej Abramowicz / Language(s): Polish Publication Year: 0

All narrative genres of French medieval literature employ a complex rhetorical device which is conceived to persuade the reader to believe in the historical veracity of the narrative that he or she is reading. That this and other related discursive devices can also be found in a chronicle may strike one as surprising, considering that this genre depends on historical referentiality by definition. My analysis of the 13th-century chronicles of Henry of Valenciennes has shown that the notion of ‘truth’ presented in the text does not fit within the narrow parameters of referential or historical truth. This broader notion of truth can be referred to as syncretic truth, one that combines the truth about historical events with commonly accepted cultural assumptions, beliefs, and ideals. It is on the authority of this notion of truth that the idealisation of the main character, who thereby assumes the role of a textual sign, takes place. In this frame of reference, Henry of Flanders is more accurately defined as an ideal ruler and warrior rather than the Emperor of Constantinople of 1206–1216.

Homo Signorum – znakowość ludzkiego ciała a tworzenie nowego modelu świata w Anglii przełomu XVI i XVII wieku

Author(s): Barbara Bienias / Language(s): Polish Publication Year: 0

Using the example of early modern English astrological and astronomical texts such as the medical case books of Simon Forman (1552–1611) and Richard Napier (1559–1634) and the treatise Astrostereon by Edward Gresham (1565–1613), as well as dramatic works, this text discusses the relationship between Renaissance astrology and epistemology in the context of celestial influences on the human body. Michel Foucault’s categories of ressemblance and signatures, and the metaphor of a seal in wax, are employed to demonstrate the semiotics of the human body in this period. The primary assumption of the article is the ordering function of the sciences of the sky in the Renaissance, which ensured both social and cognitive order.

Maurycego Dzieduszyckiego „Dziennik z podróży do Włoch”, 2 marca – 4 maja 1876 r.

Author(s): Elżbieta Olechowska / Language(s): Polish Publication Year: 0

A diary from the only trip to Italy ever made by Maurycy Dzieduszycki (1813–1877), a conservative Galician writer, historian, art connoisseur, and politician. The author describes the sights and monuments visited during his travels, as well as meetings, mostly with representatives of the clergy, church dignitaries, and Poles who lived in Italy. In Florence, he visits the youngest (among his thirteen children), a 14-year-old daughter treated there for tuberculosis, who dies the day of his arrival. He is assisted with funeral arrangements by his friend, Teofil Lenartowicz, a Polish poet and sculptor established in Italy. One of the reasons for Dzieduszycki’s trip to Italy was a private audience with Pius IX to update the Pontiff on the assistance for the Uniate clergymen who fled to Galicia from the diocese of Chełm abolished by the tsar in 1875.

Człowiek jako znak nieprzezroczysty

Author(s): Grażyna Borkowska / Language(s): Polish Publication Year: 0

The article polemicises against the book’s catchword, Human Being as a Sign. The author accepts the slogan but makes an essential correction: human being is an opaque sign, le signe opaque. Apart from systemic, foreseeable threads, human biographies quite often–virtually, always–introduce elements that disturb the model solutions. The author analyses this phenomenon based on the lives of two literary critics, Józef Rosenzweig (1865–1951) and Zygmunt Lubicz-Zaleski (1880–1967). The former apparently tried to escape his Jewish identity, more or less efficiently; the latter, in spite of his impressive education and extraordinary personality traits, was enchanted by the ideals of the National Democracy and the one who developed them – namely, Roman Dmowski. While the juxtaposition of these two men is rather coincidental, they share certain regularities: as it appears, the ‘Jewish question’ was in the twentieth century not only an object of journalistic and political disputes but also a real biographical problem, a task to revisit and rework on one’s own.

Wschód to Wschód i Zachód to Zachód, i nigdy się nie spotkają?

Author(s): Zoja Morochojewa,Matylda Urjasz-Raczko,Anna Wróbel / Language(s): Polish Publication Year: 0

The article presents the main conclusions from the sociological research conducted in 2014–16 among the foreign students from Eastern Europe and Asia at the University of Warsaw (UW). The authors argue that the UW represents a “classical” university education, the aim of which is reproduction of one model of subjectivity: a citizen related to a one-culture national state. The foreign students, though, are representing quite a different model of socialization. While in the European social world this is an individual, who is in the centre, striving to be autonomous and independent, in Eastern civilizations a notion of “Me” is based not on an individual subjectivity, but on the ability to launch a and support the relation with “Other”. The authors argue that a new model of education should be taken into account at the UW: a Dialogue Centered Learning (DCL) program, which takes into account these differences in the perception of an individual and the world in the East and West.

Małe ojczyzny, wielka ojczyzna i emocje – czyli o istotności ich powiązań w obecnej Polsce

Author(s): Joanna Kurczewska / Language(s): Polish Publication Year: 0

The article titled "Small fatherlands, big fatherland and emotions – about their connections in present Poland" refers to diverse dimensions of functioning of individuals in society. The author confronts two patterns: one, built of the idea of the national community – determined mainly by the romantic tradition (the metaphor of “national wardrobe” seems to be a good image of the complex relations) and second, built on the idea of identity ties(the metaphor of the “wardrobe of identities” reveals the dynamics of individual social activities). Emotions – in this context – are situated in the diverse local and regional centers of public activity; the space implies the ontology of contemporary understanding of the nation. There are three context described in the paper: 1. remarks about two meta-theoretical wardrobes, 2. remarks about small fatherland treated as the social and cultural space, 3. remarks about the „essence” of small fatherland and its places of cultures of emotions.