ИНДУСТРИАЛЬНОЕ РАЗВИТИЕ И ОБРАЗОВАТЕЛЬНОЕ ПРОСТРАНСТВО ПРОВИНЦИАЛЬНОГО ГОРОДА В КОНЦЕ XIX – НАЧАЛЕ XX В. (НА ПРИМЕРЕ ИВАНОВО-ВОЗНЕСЕНСКА)

Author(s): Kirill Evgenievich Baldin / Language(s): Russian Issue: 1/2014

The article is devoted to the features of Ivanovo- Voznesensk industrial development at the turn of the 20th century. It was one of the biggest industrial centers in pre revolutionary Russia. The problem and potential analysis of the local textile industry is made. Also it was studied in the connection with Ivanovo- Voznesensk professional schools activities research. Ivanovo-Voznesensk had more professional schools than contiguous cities.

PUBLIC DIPLOMACY AS A TOOL TO CHANGE THE IMAGE OF A COUNTRY IN CRISIS

Author(s): Maria Vaxevanidou / Language(s): English Issue: 8/2016

The aim of this study is to explore the means, the methods, and the techniques of public diplomacy that a country in crisis, such as Greece, should use. The paper addresses the very issues of whether a country in crisis can conduct public diplomacy and whether it should be recognized as a legitimate and powerful actor in the field. In a broader sense, it focuses on the processes that a country should follow and how a better understanding and framing of its situation, principles, and policy can be provided. A crucial factor for such countries is the choice of communication channels, which includes traditional tools like press releases, letters to editor, editorials, interviews, or more active tools like social media, events, campaigns, and networking. In this paper, three dimensions of public diplomacy are examined, and appropriate tools to be developed in the short, medium and long-term are proposed. The results of the study are based on case studies, methods, and tools employed by Greece during the last years that the country has faced a huge economic crisis. There is a short presentation on the methods that Greece tries to adopt in order to enhance its image worldwide.

Предговор

Author(s): Elya Tsaneva / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 3/2016

THE ETHNIC CONFLICTS AND MASS MEDIA

Author(s): Graham Ebenezer Kurtis / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2018

The media have played and continue to play a significant role in many ethnic conflicts and wars that ever took place in history and through its reportage humankind has become informed and aware about ethnic-conflict on the globe through various forms. Irrespective of the increase in knowledge, media has negatively impacted the ethnic conflict by several escalations that took place because of the manner information that was provided. This study investigates what these negative impacts are by examining literature and sorting them to consider media location, outlets and presentation impact of media. An overlapping discovered has gingered the reclassification of the impact of media in the face of dilemmas. They are Psychoanalysis propaganda and profiteering, freedom and ethics, distortion of reality and public safety. The media tries to balance in order to choose the lesser consequential path to survive. However, they have all steered to an escalation of ethnic conflicts.

THE JOURNALISM BETWEEN POLITICAL INSTRUMENTALIZATION AND TECHNOLOGICAL INNOVATION

Author(s): Iskra Koroveshovska / Language(s): English Issue: 2/2019

Democracy begins and ends with the media – according to this worldly recognized sentence, every ordinary Balkan could estimate the democratic perspective of its own country. That is why the effect of the new media (social networks), deserves continuous scientific and research attention, also done in this paper basically through comparative and statistic methods, with specific analysis of the Macedonian case. The media revolution produced largely positive changes in everyday life. But negative effects could not be abstracted: Internet - populism, loss of confidence in the media, fake news and hate speech. Perhaps the first solution that comes to mind is law regulation. But knowing that clear basal of the network services is freedom of speech and expression, any attempt of regulation (objectively or not) is legitimately considered censorship. This paper attempts to answer the question: is it possible journalism to fight fake news through a direct media battle?

Актуалност на проблема за прилагане на театралнопедагогическо взаимодействие в подготовката на бъдещи учители (Резултати от измерителна процедура)

Author(s): Rositsa Penkova / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 5/2020

The article analyzes the results of a survey with students from the pedagogical specialties of the Pedagogical College - Pleven at the University of Veliko Turnovo „St.St. Cyril and Methodius". The measurement procedure reflects the students' opinion about the application of pedagogical animation in teaching, which is based on the theatrical pedagogical interaction. The survey was conducted in order to determine the degree of recognition of the nature of pedagogical animation, the degree of readiness to apply innovative forms and methods of pedagogical animation and the degree of satisfaction of students in their basic preparation.

Равнище на формираност на езиковите, социолингвистичните и социокултурните компетентности на учениците в начален етап според учителите

Author(s): Desislava Petrova / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 5/2020

The article presents an analysis of the theoretical statements in relation to language, sociolinguistic and sociocultural competences and the results of empirical research through a survey with primary teachers about their opinion on the level of formation of language, sociolinguistic and sociocultural competences in primary school pupils. Teachers' views on distance learning in relation to limiting the spread of Covid-19 are analyzed. Specific conclusions are made.

Koncepcja działań sieciocentrycznych – droga do sieciocentryczności

Author(s): Sabina Olszyk / Language(s): Polish Issue: 1/2019

The aim of the article is to explain the issue of network-centricity, which operates on military grounds and characterizes modern battlefields. Considerations were divided into two parts due to the large volume of the issue. The first part contains introduction to the topic of network-centricity and analysis of impact of civilization and technological development on the emergence of network-centric concepts. It is also an attempt to define concepts focused on this subject and to show the origin of the concept. Detailed, practical issues related to methods and techniques of network centric activity and the concept of Network Centric Warfare will be discussed in the second part, which will be constitute as a separate article.

Styl jako praktyka i forma pamięci zbiorowej

Author(s): Marta Wójcicka / Language(s): Polish Issue: 1/2017

Przedmiotem artykułu są relacje między stylem językowym a pamięcią zbiorową. Styl,ujmowany semiotycznie i antropologicznie, stanowi jedną z form pamięci zbiorowej, obok typutekstu kultury, odmiany, a także gatunku tekstu. Styl jest wyrazem, świadectwem przeszłości.Ze stylu indywidualnego, np. uznanych pisarzy, odczytać można ich obraz rzeczywistości, wtym także przeszłości. Styl jest więc nośnikiem zarówno pamięci indywidualnej danego pisarza,jak też świadectwem przeszłości, w której żył i tworzył. Style typowe stanowią lustroodzwierciedlające właściwe dla danej epoki konwencje wyrażania. Styl przechowuje więcobraz przeszłości, indywidualnej i zbiorowej, jest środkiem dotarcia do niej oraz sposobemwyrażania przeszłości oraz mówienia o przeszłości i jej niewerbalnych nośnikachwspółcześnie. Styl funkcjonalny ukazano więc jako praktykę oraz formę pamięci zbiorowej:komunikatywnej lub kulturowej. Styl potoczny stanowi praktykę wcielania, podczas gdypozostałe style funkcjonalne są praktykami zapisu. Pamięć komunikatywna przekazywana jestprzez środki i wartości typowe dla stylu potocznego, pamięć kulturowa związana jestpraktycznie ze wszystkimi stylami funkcjonalnymi, w zależności od treści pamięci. // The subject of the article are relations between a language style and collective memory. Thestyle, semiotically and anthropologically presented, is one of the forms of collective memoryalong with a type of culture text, variety and text genre as well. On the one hand, the style isan expression, evidence of the past. From an individual style of e.g. recognized writers one caninterpret their image of reality, including also the past. Thus the style is a means of conveyingboth individual memory of a particular author and evidence of the past he used to live in andcreate. Typical styles are the mirrors reflecting conventions of expression appropriate for agiven period. Thus, the style stores the image of the past, individual and collective, and is ameans of reaching it, a way of expressing and talking about it, including its contemporary nonverbal means. Thus, a functional style has been presented as practice and the form ofcollective memory: communicative or cultural. A colloquial style is the practice ofincorporating, whereas other functional styles are practices of recording. Communicativememory is conveyed by means and values typical for the colloquial style, while cultural memoryis practically associated with all functional styles, depending on the contents of memory.

How Jokes Change and May Be Changed:

Author(s): Christie Davies / Language(s): English Issue: 1&2/2016

Many excellent jokes can pose potential difficulties for tellers and listeners since they require considerable knowledge of the subject of the joke and have a long and elaborate narrative structure such that only a very skilled joke-teller can do justice to them. In a democratic, fastmoving, plural, urban world such features can create problems since they mean that on a particular occasion when jokes are being told some of the listeners may miss the point of the joke and others will feel inhibited from telling a joke. Jokes with seemingly pointless endings may likewise disappoint the broad masse, who like clear, well structured jokes with a strong resolution and who may be bored by one that disappears into nonsense. Each of these points will be considered in turn, partly from an analytical point of view and partly in relation to empirical observations of how jokes in the English language have evolved in the course of the twentieth century.

Dezvoltarea competenței de comunicare în predarea limbii române ca limbă străină

Author(s): Elena Museanu / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 2/2022

The present research will first present an analysis of the specialized literature, which offers definitions of intercultural communication and importance of its study in teaching foreign languages, communication competences and intercultural communication competences. It will highlight the way in which foreign students can improve intercultural competences by learning the four basic competences. Intercultural competence, acknowledged as the key component of the study of foreign languages, increases the need for an adaptation of methods and teaching materials in order to increase the degree of intercultural knowledge of the trainees.

Sistemul de învățământ irakian de la mărire la decădere

Author(s): Simona Iacob / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 2/2021

In Iraq, the education is, as in Romania, administered by the government, more specifically by the Ministry of Education. The country experienced in the past the best systems of education in the region and enjoyed a special reputation for the pre-university and academic system. But in the last two decades, the education in Iraq became problematic. The fall of Sadam Hussein’s regime, in 2003 and the invasion of the United States destabilized the education system and quality has constantly deteriorated.

Verbal Periphrases in Spanish as a Foreign Language: Language as “a Potential of Meaning” - A Pragmatic and Didactic Approach

Author(s): Victor-Emanuel Ciuciuc / Language(s): English Issue: 2/2021

e purpose of this paper is to shed some light on the very sinuous subject of verbal periphrasis. When starting to work on verbal periphrasis in Spanish, the first thing that the researcher and / or the ELE teacher will notice will be an enormous difficulty in finding an adjusted definition and a coherent classification of this grammatical category. Likewise, the very scarce work on their uses and functions stands out, since most of the research that deals with this topic focuses on theoretical definitions referring to their formal / categorical nature.

Sintagmas mixtos (español-inglés, rumano-inglés) de alta frecuencia en el sector de los viajes

Author(s): Mihaela Ciobanu / Language(s): Spanish Issue: 1/2021

Many of the words used today in the tourism field come from English. Despite the existence of similar concepts in Spanish and Romanian, today people tend to use English words for all levels of specialization. This preference can be translated as an image of globalization, a characteristic of tourism on all levels and sectors, which does not complicate the decodifying process of the message considering the existence of equivalent explanations, phrases or terms, all of it easing the access to a specialized level in tourism.

Conexiunile între educație și tehnologie în predarea limbii române ca limbă străină

Author(s): Ana-Mihaela Istrate / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 2/2020

The present study highlights the most important challenges faced by moder education as a result of the transfer of class from face-to-face to the on-line system. Starting from a definition of synchronous methods of teaching and continuing with an understanding of the role of the computer in online teaching of foreign languages, the article explains the way in which the two basic components of the acquisition of Romanian as a foreign language – grammatical competences and vocabulary acquisition, have been influenced. The study explains the way in which Microsoft Teams platform was used as a means of communication for the students enrolled in the Foundation Year of Romanian as a Foreign Language, explaining the challenges faced by teachers in the online period. Last but not least, the article highlights the technical difficulties posed by the use of Microsoft Teams platforms, but also the accomplishments achieved while successfully using interactive work techniques, during the Grammar and Vocabulary classes.

JOURNALISTIC STYLE - GENERAL ASPECTS

Author(s): Valentina Andreea POPOVICI / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 39/2024

All functional styles involve the use of a specific language just as the journalistic style uses language constructions specific to the journalistic language. The beginning of the formation and use of journalistic language coincided with the establishment of the press, respectively in the 17th century, when the first newspapers were sent for publication. The advent of the media represented the beginning of real-time information, constituting a reference point for human civilization. Over time, access to information became faster and faster, but the press remained the most influential information segment even today.

MORAL CHALLENGES IN THE DIGITAL AGE

Author(s): Anca Delia Dabija / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 39/2024

When the idea of the utility of philosophy is uttered, most of the times the collective imaginary remains trapped in the nets of the ironic, of the naive, even that of the aggressive. The purely scientific knowledge receives unconditional credit, while the points of morality, of the philosophical and practical ethics, being left in the background. Today, the accent is placed especially on the practical utility followed by the immediate application of epistemological concepts against the philosophical meditation and the fundamental interogations about the being, the existance, the becoming. The evolution of current society has been propelled by the unrestricted circulation of information, which led to social, economic and political transformations, boosted by the emergence of new technologies. The virtual space that we make use of, facilitates the act of comunication, leaving behind temporal, spatial, cultural-lingvistic frontiers. This informational vortex created at the same time possibilities to remove the human from moral authentic values, leading, often, to imbalance and chaos. The moral deficiencies mirrored in human’s choices and deeds bring back to the fore the obvious need for ethical benchmarks. The current interpersonale relations are really deficient; although we leave in the digital era, we not a precariousness of the act of communication, a poverty at the level of natural dialogue at a significant distance of ethical values. Through the proposed research, we are triyng to emphasise and argument the importance of knowing and applying the axiological and normative contents of moral philosophy in a technopolis paradigm.

SOCIAL MEDIA AND THE FIGHT FOR HEARTS AND MINDS: GENERATIVE ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AS POLITICAL CAMPAIGN INFLUENCE TOOL

Author(s): Dorel DANCIU / Language(s): English Issue: 2/2024

Social networks are important tools at the hands of political actors due to the direct connection with voters. Candidates and campaign teams can easily send messages to voters and can also see how they react to those messages and access the personal data available in each account. From the aggregation of this data through specific technical instruments, it is also possible to obtain segmented voting profiles. Campaign teams can thus adapt their communication flow to the expectations of the electorate and develop campaign strategies based on data. In the era of digital revolution, political actors' use of generative artificial intelligence through social media gives them the ability to create personalized messages, but also to accurately estimate their impact on individuals and groups. Different state and non-state entities can interfere with ongoing campaigns, influencing the electorate by favoring certain political actors and jeopardizing the democratic practices that should govern the electoral process.

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE IN THE EUROPEAN UNION. LEGISLATIVE BENEFITS AND CHALLENGES OF NON-COMPLIANCE

Author(s): Andreea-Alexandra Dincă / Language(s): English Issue: 2/2024

The legislative benefits of artificial intelligence (AI) are multifaceted, driving innovation and economic growth while safeguarding citizens' rights. Clear regulations foster a trustworthy environment for investments, facilitating job creation and enhanced efficiency across various sectors, such as healthcare and education. For instance, AI can improve medical diagnostics through advanced data analysis, leading to the discovery of new treatments. The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) exemplifies the EU's commitment to protecting personal data, thereby boosting public trust in technology. Furthermore, legislation promotes ethical AI solutions, addressing social and moral implications to prevent abuses. Standardization and interoperability enhance international collaboration and efficiency among AI systems. However, non-compliance with these regulations poses significant risks, including security breaches, discrimination, and severe legal consequences. Organizations face substantial fines for violating laws like GDPR, which can reach up to 4% of global annual revenue. This uncertainty may hinder innovation and complicate international partnerships. Ultimately, while the European AI regulatory framework presents substantial opportunities for economic and social advancement, it is crucial that stakeholders adhere to these standards to ensure ethical and responsible use of AI, safeguarding fundamental rights and fostering sustainable development in society.

Challenges of Teaching in a Multicultural Environment

Author(s): Elena Museanu / Language(s): English Issue: 2/2023

Teaching in a multicultural environment presents both enriching opportunities and unique challenges for educators. The diverse backgrounds, languages, and cultural perspectives of students contribute to a dynamic learning environment, but they also require teachers to navigate various complexities. This article explores the key challenges faced by educators in multicultural settings and suggests strategies to overcome these obstacles. Foreign language teaching and learning today are characterized by a blend of technological integration, communicative methodologies, a focus on intercultural competence, individualized approaches, and innovative assessment practices. These developments aim to equip language learners with the skills and cultural awareness necessary to thrive in our interconnected and multicultural world.