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Strategic Development Model in the Era of Globalization Case Study: Purcari Wineries Public Company Limited

Strategic Development Model in the Era of Globalization Case Study: Purcari Wineries Public Company Limited

Author(s): Mihaela Birsan / Language(s): English / Publication Year: 0

Keywords: Globalization; growth opportunities; international strategies; business management; partnerships; performance; wine industry;

To succeed in this new era, companies must take a more nuanced approach to identifying and creating growth opportunities. Globalization involves economic and industry integration with the rest of the world, removing restrictions on imports and foreign investment. Many firms go global and orient themselves more and more internationally, making firms’ search for foreign market opportunities necessary in order to survive in this era of globalization.And more important to these firms it has need to adopt strategic decisions to try to succeed in international markets.For the company we are studying the questions are: What factors determine entrepreneurial decision-making in the process of internationalization? What kind of strategies the firms need to formulate while going international? Did the strategies implemented make the company more profitable one?

The Jews of Iraq

The Jews of Iraq

Author(s): Birgit Ammann / Language(s): English / Publication Year: 0

Keywords: Iraq; Jews; 20th century; Kurdistan; minorities;

Describing the Jewish communities in the multi-religious history of Iraq can only take place from a historical perspective, simply because they no longer exist. Apart from a few individuals, there is no future perspective at this point in time.

Massive Displacement Meets Cyberspace: How Information and Communication Technologies are helping Refugees and Migrants and How We Can Do Better

Massive Displacement Meets Cyberspace: How Information and Communication Technologies are helping Refugees and Migrants and How We Can Do Better

Author(s): Joseph G. Bock,Kevin McMahon,Ziaul Haque / Language(s): English / Publication Year: 0

Keywords: Crowdsourcing; digital apps; machine learning; ICT4D; Information and Communication Technologies; social media;

Since the global response to the earthquake in Haiti in 2010, the use of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) for humanitarian assistance has grown dramatically. These technologies include mobile phones, applications (“apps”) installed on phones, and computer connectivity or internet-based sites which receive data from or send it to phones. We call these collectively “platforms”. Employing them has the potential to improve efforts to assist displaced people, or to liberate them in being more able to help each other, or both. The magnitude and visibility of the current refugee and migrant crisis has yielded a rich harvest of new platforms, a survey of which we cover in this paper. Similar to the acronym ICT4D, commonly used to denote the use of ICTs for development, we refer to the technologies in this paper collectively as ICTs for refugees and migrants, or simply ICT4RM. And while platform development has resulted in a patchwork of initiatives-an electronic version of “letting a thousand flowers bloom”-there are patterns emerging as to which flowers grow and have “staying power” as compared to ones that wilt and die. In hopes of providing guidance to wouldbe developers, we offer explanations for what leads to a successful ICT4RM initiative.

RESTRICTION, PRAGMATIC LIBERALISATION, MODERNISATION: GERMANY’S MULTIFACETED RESPONSE TO THE “REFUGEE CRISIS”

RESTRICTION, PRAGMATIC LIBERALISATION, MODERNISATION: GERMANY’S MULTIFACETED RESPONSE TO THE “REFUGEE CRISIS”

Author(s): Axel Kreienbrink / Language(s): English / Publication Year: 0

Keywords: migration; refugee crisis; Germany; modernisation; restriction; pragmatic liberalisation;

In 2015 and 2016, Germany faced an influx of asylum seekers on an unprecedented scale. How did the country react to this so-called “refugee crisis”? The response was a major effort at all levels of the federal state: the federal level, the Länder, the local authorities, but also civil society, welfare associations and NGOs. There have been countless measures in the most diverse fields of action (Grote, 2018). This article will specifically deal with the question of how and which legislative and administrative changes were put in place at the federal level in order to better manage the changing influx.

COMMUNICATING REFUGEES AND HUMAN RIGHTS: THE GERMAN GOVERNMENT’S ASSESSMENT OF THE ROLE OF THE EUROPEAN COURT OF HUMAN RIGHTS

COMMUNICATING REFUGEES AND HUMAN RIGHTS: THE GERMAN GOVERNMENT’S ASSESSMENT OF THE ROLE OF THE EUROPEAN COURT OF HUMAN RIGHTS

Author(s): Johanna C. Günther / Language(s): English / Publication Year: 0

Keywords: migration; refugees; human rights; Germany; European courts assessment;

The European Union’s asylum and refugee policies have evoked as much vehement criticism from human rights activists as from media outlets – most expressly in 2015 and 2016, when the numbers of refugees crossing the EU’s external borders either in Greece and Italy or in Bulgari, and Hungary, reached their peak. There are various accounts of human rights violations at the EU’s external borders, and within national asylum systems. The same holds true for analyses addressing the EU’s asylum and refugee policies, the acts of its agencies, and decisions made by individual member states in terms of their compatibility with the European human rights regime.

The autofiction in Dubravka Ugrešić’s novel Fox

Autofikcyjność Lisicy Dubravki Ugrešić

Author(s): Anita Gostomska / Language(s): Polish / Publication Year: 0

The latest and long-awaited Dubravka Ugrešić’s novel Fox (2017) poetically accounts for the past quarter of the century, which for the post-communist Slavonic states was above all the time of great and difficult transformation, and for the writer herself – the beginning of a completely new stage in her personal life. Thoughts taken into a precise form, among which one can recognize the issues already mentioned by Ugrešić, are most of all marked by the widely understood maturity. Dubravka Ugrešić’s Fox clearly refers to her own prose written in the 1980s, but she updates the concept of using Russian literature as an intertext, strongly associated with her debut and autobiographically connotated, enriching the personal perspective with the experience of expatriation. A successful return to Russian subjects may signal a change in Ugrešić’s attitude to the category of Yugonostalgia, with which she was (or still is) commonly associated. Ugrešić in her latest novel takes the fundamental problem of literary studies juxtaposed with the crisis of the fiction, which is the concept of truth (the truth of fiction), and – experienced by the trauma of collapse and exile – in an original and extremely personal way she responds to key questions for subjectivity issues: Who am I? Where do I go? Fascinated by the “literary character of literature” from the beginning of her writing career, in search of the means of artistic expression that can fully (apart from the content and structure of the work) express the mentioned fascination, but also her painful experiences, she utilizes the autofiction.

Conceptual prominence and anaphora in English and French referential metonymy

Conceptual prominence and anaphora in English and French referential metonymy

Author(s): Issa Kanté / Language(s): English / Publication Year: 0

Keywords: metonymy; anaphoric reference; cognition-utterance (CU) verbs; backgrounding; foregrounding

This analysis examines the issues of anaphoric reference and conceptual prominence in work for author metonymy in English and French academic discourse. It argues that contrary to the apparent violation of the Domain Availability Principle, the matrix domain of this mapping is ultimately available for anaphoric reference through a syntagmatic and/or paradigmatic construal. The study also indicates that although the target meaning is not conceptually prominent in the construction, it does involve other significant pragmatic features, such as the speaker’s rhetorical intentions and the foregrounding of the source in order to defocus the target. Finally, it is argued that common cross-linguistic and language-specific strategies are employed to background the actual agent of the verb. From this perspective, in addition to metonymy, other constructions, that is, impersonal-passive and sentential relative, are frequently used by academic researchers to background authorial presence.

A metaphostructional analysis of sports terms in the context of business

A metaphostructional analysis of sports terms in the context of business

Author(s): Jarosław Wiliński / Language(s): English / Publication Year: 0

In this paper, a quantitative corpus-based analysis of sports terms is conducted. The aim of this analysis is to uncover subtle distributional differences between sports terms occurring in the context of business: in other words, to determine which source domain lexemes derived from sports terminology are strongly attracted to or repelled by the target domain of business. To this end, the corpus-based method, referred to as metaphostructional analysis, is applied and the data are extracted from the magazine section of the Corpus of Contemporary American English. The findings of the analysis show that there are indeed sports terms that are significantly attracted to or repelled by the target domain of business, and that these instantiate various metaphorical correspondences.

The influence of the Italian neostandard language on the newspaper language

Wpływ włoskiego języka neostandardowego (mówionego) na komunikację prasową

Author(s): Adrianna Siennicka / Language(s): Polish / Publication Year: 0

Keywords: language; the language of journalism; stylistic inversion; dislocation;colloquialisms;

The author, after a short presentation of the distinctive features and some definition problems associated with the main varieties of the Italian language, demonstrates (on selected examples from the Italian press), how the variation of modern neostandard Italian, based on a spoken language, permeates the language of the press and displaces traditional structures based on a written tradition. Through the use of new highly simplified structures the language of the press is more expressive. The author shows that these changes are occurring on many levels: morphological, syntactic, textual and with the creation of vocabulary also on a semantic level.

Puns as tools for teaching English grammar in a university context

Puns as tools for teaching English grammar in a university context

Author(s): Agnieszka Solska / Language(s): English / Publication Year: 0

Keywords: Explicit and implicit grammar teaching; puns; ambiguity; wordplay; language play; consciousness raising activities

This paper addresses the issue of teaching grammar to students who are learning English at the tertiary level, especially those who have taken up English as a university subject. It makes a case for incorporating yet another tool in the extensive toolkit already available to their teachers: puns, an ambiguity-based wordplay whose effect springs from correlating two distinct meanings via one linguistic form. The paper outlines arguments for the pedagogical value of using puns in the classroom and presents examples of specific activities that can be employed in the classroom to raise L2 learners awareness of a whole range of grammar-related issues.

Awareness Method – Effective Foreign Language Teaching in a School Context

Efektywne nauczanie języka obcego w rzeczywistości szkolnej: założenia dobrych praktyk

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

Keywords: foreign language teaching; effectiveness; method; teacher; student

Each school is a specific environment for teaching foreign languages and the effectiveness of this process may not be sufficient according to expectations of students, parents and the educational authorities. In search of the best ways to raise this effectiveness I put forward the Awareness Method – Effective Foreign Language Teaching in a School Context, which, on the basis of applying the method in school practice, seems to be an effective tool contributing to better students’ results in tests checking various aspects of their foreign language capacity, raising their motivation as well as enlarging teachers’ expertise and methodological skills. The research on the method is being continued and it aims at verifying whether applying the rules of the Awareness Method in classroom practice will result in both students’ successful using a foreign language in everyday context and their optimal preparation to pass the final exams.

PART I: FEMINIST ECONOMY

I DIO: FEMINISTIČKA EKONOMIJA

Author(s): Tatjana Đurić Kuzmanović / Language(s): Serbian / Publication Year: 0

Keywords: Feminist economy; School of thought; Gender studies; gender questions; Feminist Macroeconomic analysis;

Feministička ekonomija, kao posebna škola ekonomskog mišljenja i nastavna disciplina, razvija specifično analitičko razumevanje za rodna pitanja u nejednakosti koje funkcionišu u poliekonomskim procesima na nivou makro i mikro ekonomije društva, koja ostaju nedovoljno vidljiva i objašnjenja u konvencionalnim ekonomskim teorijama, istraživanjima i sudijama. Na makro nivou različiti feminističko ekonomski pristupi istražuju i objašnjavaju rodne pristranosti u makroekonomskim analizama, poliekonomskom i finansijskom upravljanju rodne uticaje ekonomskih politika.

Ancient Myth in the Contemporary World

Ancient Myth in the Contemporary World

Author(s): Agata Mikołajko / Language(s): English / Publication Year: 0

The main aim of the article is to present selected casus of the contemporary realizations of ancient myths in the context of fidelity and infidelity in Wit Szostak’s Zagroda zębów and Margaret Atwood’s The Penelopiad. The two novellas are more than mere re-interpretations of the Odyssey story (or rather stories). The comparison of the motif of Homer’s The Odyssey in the above novellas shows that they are regarded as infidèles, but contrariwise – considering the various aspects and versions of the Odyssey’s myth immersed in ancient culture and literature, they are fidèles. The form of literary expression is certainly renewed, but the plot in both cases is the transposition of the ancient Odyssey’s themes. An interesting interpretative context for Zagroda zębów and The Penelopiad has been put forward by Piotr Sadkowski, that is, the context of migration literature in the Odyssey’s reactualizations, especially one of its elements, namely, the “imagined spacetime, where the cultures and languages coexist in hybrid narrative identity.” The subject of the article allows for the classification of the analyzed works as the translational refractions of the ancient myths. One of the pillars of European identity is ancient culture, either Greek or Roman. Representatives of Manipulation School, or rather the cultural turn in Translation Studies, Susan Bassnett and André Lefevere connect translation theory with cultural credentials. From such a perspective, cultural heritage can be one of the fundamental metaphorical languages. It is the myriad thesaurus, being derived to art, literature, cinema, etc. regardless of historical, political, social, and linguistic circumstances. The subsequent concretizations not only translate ancient ramifications but also modernize them, and in such a modernization it is possible to perceive the reflections of contemporary philosophical, literary, cultural, political ideas and phenomena, that is, at the same time they are modernized as fidèles-infidèles translations.

Opportunities and problems in the EU-Ukraine relations: perceptions of actors

Opportunities and problems in the EU-Ukraine relations: perceptions of actors

Author(s): Alexander Duleba / Language(s): English / Publication Year: 0

Keywords: EU-Ukraine relations;

With the aim of identifying perceptions of the opportunities and obstacles for further development of EU-Ukraine relations, including an assessment of the current contractual framework and policies, members of the research team collected empirical data through semi-structured interviews with representatives of the institutions of the EU and Ukraine, who at the time of the interviews were involved on one side or the other in the implementation of the Association Agreement or reforms in Ukraine that follow from its provisions. In October 2017, interviews were conducted in parallel with 10 representatives of EU institutions and 10 representatives of Ukraine’s governmental institutions.26

Executive functioning in childhood stuttering: An overview

Funkcje wykonawcze w jąkaniu wczesnodziecięcym – przegląd badań

Author(s): Kurt Eggers / Language(s): Polish / Publication Year: 0

Keywords: Stuttering; children; executive functions; attention; inhibition;working memory;

Purpose: Current chapter provides an overview of some our research findings on executive functioning in childhood stuttering. Method: Different methodologies were used, ranging from a verbal performance paradigm, i.e., the Nonword Repetition Test (Gathercole, Willis, Baddeley & Emslie, 1994), to neuropsychological computer paradigms such as the Attention Network Test (Fan, McCandliss, Sommer, Raz, & Posner, 2002), the Go/NoGo task and Auditory Set-shifting task of the Amsterdam Neuropsychological Tasks (De Sonneville, 2009). Participants were children who stutter (CWS), ranging between 3;04 and 10;11 and a gender- and age-matched control group of children who do not stutter (CWNS). Results: CWS, as a group, were shown to have a lower efficiency of the working memory, attentional orienting, inhibitory control, and attentional flexibility. In other words, CWS scored significantly lower on all of the executive functioning processes measured. Conclusions: These findings provide support for the hypothesis that CWS and CWNS differ on executive functioning processes. The findings were linked to previous related studies and to etiological frameworks of stuttering development.

Value preferences of university students according to the research based on the Shalom Schwartz’ model of human values

Preferencje wartości młodzieży akademickiej w świetle wyników badań opartych na modelu wartości Shaloma Schwartza

Author(s): Andrzej Rozmus / Language(s): Polish / Publication Year: 0

Young migrants’ experiences with voluntary legal guardians in Palermo, Sicily

Young migrants’ experiences with voluntary legal guardians in Palermo, Sicily

Author(s): Francesca Viola / Language(s): English / Publication Year: 0

Keywords: Young Migrants; Voluntary Legal Guardians; Palermo; Sicily; Italian; Ministry; Labour and Social Policies;

According to the Italian Ministry of Labour and Social Policies, as of June 2018, in Italy there were 13,1511 Unaccompanied and Separated Children (UASC) outside their country of origin2; 92.5% of which were males and 99.2% between the ages of 14-17 (Ministero del Lavoro e delle Politiche Sociali, 2018). At the time, the highest concentration of UASC (more than 40%) resided in Sicily (ibid.); research about UASC in this region is, therefore, particularly relevant.

Unaccompanied Minor Refugees’ Vulnerabilities in Sweden: Testimonials from a Voluntary Support Network

Unaccompanied Minor Refugees’ Vulnerabilities in Sweden: Testimonials from a Voluntary Support Network

Author(s): Amber Horning,Sara Jordenö,Tanja Dejanova / Language(s): English / Publication Year: 0

Keywords: Unaccompanied; Minor Refugees; Vulnerabilities in Swedan; Voluntary Support;

The Vocational and Voluntary Network #VISTÅRINTEUT (Eng. “We Can’t Stand It”, abbreviated: VSIU) was founded in September 2016 by a teacher, two social workers, and an educator. Using Facebook as a way to connect across Sweden, the VSIU network includes nearly 11,000 professionals and individuals who meet and support UMRs. The VSIU network includes teachers, social workers, physicians, psychologists, guardians, welfare officers, counselors, school nurses, and others who came in contact with UMRs at their places of work or in their communities. The VSIU network works to support UMRs in Sweden by organizing protests in connection to deportations, by helping to appeal asylum cases and providing support in the process, by alerting media and the UN to the injustices in the asylum processes and documenting how Swedish society is denying UMR’s their fundamental human rights. Most of all, they voluntarily provide housing and emotional support to UMRs. The VSIU network took on the role of the State that, in many cases, stopped providing support for UMRs when Sweden deemed that they were 18 or denied their asylum cases.

Jakob/якобы in the press discourse

Jakoby w dyskursie prasowym

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

Prožít mládí na venkově, přežít válku A few words on the difference between the Czech prefixes pro‑ and pře‑ in comparison with the Polish prefix prze‑

Prožít mládí na venkově, přežít válku. Kilka słów o różnicy między czeskimi prefiksami czasownikowymi pro‑i pře‑na tle polskiego przedrostka prze‑

Author(s): Dorota Górnicka‑Urban / Language(s): Polish / Publication Year: 0

The article focuses on identifying the differences between the two Czech verb prefixes pro‑ and pře‑, whose Polish equivalent is the prefix prze‑. The author analyzes pairs of Czech verbs derived from the same root and prefixed with the aforementioned prefixed, excerpted from the Czech National Corpus. The research material consists of those pairs of Czech verbs with the prefixes pro‑ and pře‑ for which there exists a Polish equivalent with the prefix prze‑ (e.g. projít/ přejít – przejść; to walk).