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This article presents a theory of communication for media and a related model that aim at explaining how communication is a process comprising various areas of human existence, while its manifestation in the voice is a concrete performance with a pertaining power. In Aristotle we find a scholar who described with the logos a faculty present in the human mind and speech, but his writings allow to reconstruct a more comprehensive perspective on the voice with the distinction between the modes of speaking and saying. In order to show this communication process we employ the concepts of mediation, enmediation, and remediation and the modes of speaking and saying in the Aristotelian tradition, we develop our model of a voice-centered theory of communication for media that comprises the for the voice permeable intrapersonal, interpersonal, and extrapersonal areas of communication.

This article provides, first, a description then an analysis of the overall framework of a communication situation on X/Twitter. By opting for an analysis according to the model of settings of Brown and Fraser, we identify the contours of the notion of reception as a component of the more developed diagram of communication. Apart from the particularities marking computer-mediated communications, the analysis we carried out allows us to dissect the context and reveals how reception must be adapted to interaction on Twitter.

Communication can be studied from a subjective perspective, which focuses on the participants of communication and their decision-making. Human action can be considered in theoretical, practical, and artistic dimensions. In all of these, the human being is the agent, which means that they are dependent on their will. Therefore, communicative actions, which particularly distinguish humans from other actions they undertake, deserve attention. In communication, various aspects of individual and social life are concentrated, expressed in human decisions. These decisions can be understood through the message, which contains individual personal experience. The interpersonal relationship that forms in this way can deepen through communication. Then, the concept of “co-participation” becomes significant, indicating the structure of this process. Co-participation thus becomes the key to understanding interpersonal communication. The goal of the article is to show the way humans function through communication, especially by highlighting the key moment that reveals the meaning of communication in social relations.

The goal of this paper is to present the characteristics of Eugène Ionesco’s dramatic texts, a reason why the genre of avant-garde and theatre of the absurd are also considered, with a view to revealing their major ways of functioning. By pointing out the different dimensions of dramatic language, the emphasis is on those elements that differ from current oral and written language. Starting from the times of decadentism, a crisis of character can be noted in the theater around a type of individual who, as an alienated individual, cannot find his identity in a hostile surrounding world. One of the direct consequences of this crisis will be the impossibility of interpersonal communication, which will be best demonstrated with the concept and tenets of the theater of the absurd. In this context, the study of the theater of the 20th century is done from the perspective of cognitive semantics, as an autonomous level of language. The approach is organised around two notions: dramatic conventions and the actual language of the dramatic texts. The interpretative theory rooted in semantics is applied while analysing Ionesco’s short plays. The starting point is the linguistics of the text as described by Eugen Coşeriu. Capturing the meaning and the means by which it is constructed is one of the objectives in accord with the main principles of cognitive linguistics. The way of analysing the meaning in a text is given by the presence of some textual functions, as possibilities provided by language through relationships that the linguistic sign establishes in the discursive act. The specificity of the discourse comes from the combination of verbal and non-verbal elements, in order to highlight the playwright’s original style. The particularities of this type of language based on an ontological representation of the actional nature in human existence are also investigated. There are two dimensions recognisable in the language of literature: one is specific to the genre and the other one is particular, giving originality and uniqueness. The textual meaning in between these dimensions needs to be reconstructed from all their constituents identifiable at different levels of analysis. Ionesco distanced himself from the conventional and traditional theatre, finding a new formula for the dramatic genre in his own vision of what drama should be like. Ionesco’s dramatic work includes short plays and extensive plays in which the author expresses his adversity against totalitarian regimes. He is the representative of the theater of the absurd and anti-theater. The corpus for this research is composed mainly of the plays The Bald Soprano, The Lesson and The Chairs, the most representative plays for the avant-garde spirit, short plays on the theme of language emptied of meaning and non-communication. Language has an impact on thinking and the resulting actions, which relates it to the ontology of human existence. As dramatic language is preponderently structured on dialogical interactions (and less on monologues, soliloquies and asides), its essence can be revealed by decomposing and recomposing them, from the angle of the conventions specific to the dramatic genre. The analysis of the selected fragments from the corpus has the role to highlight their semantic features in terms of conceptual representations.

The following paper examines effective language-teaching strategies for international students learning Romanian amidst the increasing globalization. Addressing challenges faced by diverse learners, the study employs a methodology encompassing literature review, classroom observations, and interviews with experienced instructors. Emphasizing the importance of pragmatic elements in language instruction, the research explores the integration of technology, cultural immersion, and real-world applications to enhance pragmatic competence. Grounded in sociolinguistic theories, the article underscores the role of pragmatic competence in effective communication. Beyond linguistic structures, language instructors are urged to incorporate nuanced elements reflecting Romanian culture. Pedagogical strategies tailored to international students include task-based activities, role-playing, and language immersion. Assessment involves qualitative analysis of student performance, feedback, and proficiency assessments. The article also delves into the role of technology, discussing the integration of virtual reality, online platforms, and multimedia resources for immersive learning. The study concludes with implications for educators, curriculum developers, and policymakers, advocating for culturally sensitive language curricula. Overall, it contributes to the discourse on language education by emphasizing the interconnectedness of language and culture, promoting pedagogical approaches that foster cross-cultural communication.

it is well-known that environmental graphic design is one of the messaging and advertising requirements in our life. Therefore, acquaintance with culture of society and knowing its norms, values, customs, and regulations can be significantly important to environmental graphic design. As designer knows deeply about culture and moods of society people, he can easily establish simple and deep communication with audience through simple and clear express, and in simple words designer can return audience identity to him with the new express and different framework and in this way can speak to him. Environmental graphic is a knowledge in which discussed and studied about how use different kinds of forms, colors, figures, and various pictures in a skillful, systematic, and planned way in order to making better and more simple relations, informing, and orientation, and also making beautiful the urban spaces such as public spaces. This knowledge is one of the most effective tools to effect on citizenships, and with visual design and relation it can return identity to audiences and seek to reform it based on components such as culture, customs and social contracts, economic and political trends and so on. This research aims to study the communicative role of the interactive environmental sign as an environmental graphic system. The research concludes that interactive environmental sign as an environmental graphic system through common media applied in urban environmental graphic such as poster, signs, highway signs, road signs, advertisings on vehicles, parks environmental design, design of buildings and resulted colors, public services spaces design, bus stops, phone booth, seats, environmental design of cultural and pleasure centers, design advertising sculptures in squares and parks, and different outdoor advertising

Il est incontestable que le cinéma a un impact significatif sur les spectateurs. La lecture de l'image cinématographique revêt une importance cruciale pour sensibiliser le public à la vision des cinéastes et au message qu'ils cherchent à transmettre pour influencer leurs idées, leurs croyances, voire leurs opinions. Notre objectif est d'instruire le public sur les effets néfastes de l'image cinématographique au travers d'une étude descriptive et analytique du film "Abdo Moutah". Les cinéastes usent de toutes les techniques de mise en scène, de l'histoire du film, de la sélection de costumes et d'acteurs, ainsi que de la création de symboles pour déformer délibérément l'image de la morale, de l'intellectualité et de la religion, au détriment des constantes et des valeurs des adolescents. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The present work aims to provide a real perspective on a bilingual's balance between communicative intention and adoption of strategies in simultaneous interpreting. Two methodological methods are adopted by analyzing the SI corpus: quantitative, in which metalinguistic aspects of the performance are examined, and qualitative, which focuses on the shifts of the interpreting product. It is concluded that: i) there are indeed communicative "strategy" that a bilingual interpreter without academic training resorts to to ensure the quality and fluidity of simultaneous interpreting, however, these intentions do not present a sufficient reasoning nor do they reveal a systematic pattern, therefore they would be designated as "intuitive strategies" of a bilingual; ii) a bilingual privileges the communicative role of interpretation to ensure the transmission of messages, instead of seeking to follow their pre-established strategies.

Technology integration has fundamentally transformed education, particularly in the field of second language (L2) acquisition. This experimental study explores the effectiveness of various digital tools and media—including online courses, educational applications, and multimedia resources—in enhancing English language skills among L2 learners. By leveraging technology, language learning becomes more flexible, personalised, and engaging, fostering active participation through virtual classrooms and real-time feedback mechanisms. This approach which is called adaptive learning cultivates a stimulating environment that encourages student engagement and motivation. Despite the advantages of digital tools, speaking anxiety remains a significant barrier for many L2 learners. This study posits that digital teaching methods can mitigate this challenge by facilitating dynamic and flexible communication; thereby, enhancing overall language proficiency in the digital age. The research involved a sample of 120 first-year B.A. English Literature students from eight Arts and Science Colleges in Kanyakumari District, Tamil Nadu, India. Descriptive and inferential statistical analyses were conducted on the data collected from the participating institutions. Descriptive analyses highlighted students' experiences and preferences for tools such as PowerPoint presentations, multimedia content, Padlet, and Edmodo. Inferential analysis, employing t- tests, revealed significant improvements in students' language skills attributable to digital teaching interventions. The findings reveal substantial enhancements in both productive and receptive language skills among EFL learners, underlining the positive outcomes of digital interventions. This study underscores the transformative potential of digital tools in L2 education, advocating for a shift towards a more technologically enriched educational landscape that prepares learners for the demands of the modern world. It contributes valuable insights into leveraging digital technologies to advance language education, advocating for their integration across diverse academic disciplines in literature, arts, and humanities.

The article discusses the teacher's communication culture within foreign language classes, in our case Romanian as a non-native language. The focus is on teacher-student communication, playing an important role in the exchange of information. It progressively comes to the idea that in a language learning process, the teacher should facilitate effective communication, pay attention to the correct use of the language, provide a model of correct pronunciation and appropriate pace for learning, and encourage students to master sustainable language skills. Teacher-student communication is a fundamental aspect of the learning process, and the teacher's ability to motivate and adapt teaching methods to students' needs is essential in developing their language skills. This article aims to explore and analyse how a teacher's communicative culture can motivate students to learn a foreign language more attractively. It therefore identifies the answer to the question “To what extent can teacher communication quality develop students' listening skills?” This article aims to contribute to the dialogue by providing balanced and informed recommendations on teacher communication in the context of language learning.

The article is devoted to the analysis of two pieces of research that develop the idea of diachronic consideration of narratological categories in application to the Russian literary process — the monograph by V.I. Tupa “Horizons of Historical Narratology” and the collective work “Thesaurus of Historical Narratology (Based on Russian Literature): An Experimental Dictionary.” The purpose of the article is to present the worldview and axiological principles, conceptual and methodological innovations of the emerging scientific school, and to define its role in the space of modern humanities. A semantic approach to storytelling, inspired by the work of P. Riker, is a priority for scholars developing a project of historical narratology. The narrative appears not as a sphere of constructive techniques but as a space of interaction of strategies formed by culture and tactics embodying the author’s initiative. The article concludes with the undoubted heuristic and methodological perspective of the historical narratological project and its conceptual and ideological relevance.

Fyodor Dostoevsky’s novels resonate with the vibes of the current epoch: the fundamental issues that his personages tried to fathom are as relevant now as they were in the XIX century. The problem of communication is one of such issues: oral verbal interaction between people is one of the most disputed problems in modern humanities. The authors relied on the systematic approach, as well as on hermeneutical, analytical, and statistical methods, to analyze the peculiarities of verbal communication in F. M. Dostoevsky’s Demons. The analysis covered the way the author introduced the main characters (Daria Shatova, Pyotr Verkhovensky, Stavrogin, Lebyadkin, Marya Lebyadkina, Kirillov) through their speech and made it possible to build their speech profiles. As for the forms and functions of speech communication, the authors believe that F. M. Dostoevsky understood the need for human communication as fundamental and urgent. The writer tested his personages for this need: it was through interpersonal communication that Dostoevsky’s characters manifested their existence and attitudes.

This study aimed to investigate the predictors of preschool children’s communication skills. The sample consisted of 84 children aged eighteen months to four years. Half of the sample consisted of children who were included in an institution for preschool education, while the other 50% of the children from the sample were not included in these institutions. Parents were surveyed using a questionnaire called the Language Use Inventory (O’Nell, 2009). Our results showed that the multiple linear regression models have an acceptable fit to the data and have a statistically significant proportion of the variance (R² = 0.83, p < 0.001). It was found that, of all the assumed variables, the length of involvement in PU, the number of gestures, words and sentences used by the child are good predictors that significantly explain children’s communication abilities.

Through this paper, we explore plurilingual and intercultural communication’s situations in a medical context from the point of view of epistemic injustices (Fricker, 2007). Using narrative explicitative interviews on two situations (concerning birth and death), described by two intercultural mediators, we analyze their practices and highlight what they do to ensure that non-native speakers’ voice is listened to and believed. Our study contributes, on the one hand, to highlighting certain aspects related to epistemic injustices in intercultural communication, and on the other hand, to rethinking critically the relations between the ontologies underlying the relationship to the other, to the body and to health, mobilized in medical institutions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The portfolio has an important role in the educational process for all subjects of study in the university system, being justified by the need to measure the efficiency of the training process, in order to obtain relevant information on student results. The portfolio provides the necessary feedback to all those involved in education, representing a set of actions and operations, which creates a good mood and awakens the motivation to research, discover and acquire new content independently or through cooperation. An important component of the modernized curriculum is assessment, which must pursue a dual purpose: control and guidance. The evaluation will be carried out by the teacher during all the activities of the educational process and will target not only the competences formed, and knowledge in terms of information but also competences, capacities, qualities and attitudes. The purpose of developing the portfolio resides in confirming the fact that is provided in university curricula and the didactic projects developed by the teachers, are being mastered by the students as well. The portfolio is made in a certain context, which depends very much on the age of the one who prepares it, on the specifics of the discipline, on the taxonomic level of the factors that determine the choice of the didactic strategy by the teacher (objectives/purposes, level of motivation, quantity and complexity of the contents didactic, the level of education of the students, the reserved time, the previously applied didactic strategies and the professionalism of the teacher.

The simple system of spreading an opinion or appreciation must not be confused with the broad system of forming public opinion. The criterion according to which an opinion is considered public opinion is not the degree of dissemination through mass media or other means but the degree of fidelity of the transmitted opinions that express what is common to the general public. The system of forming group opinions and the polarity feature of individual opinions should not be confused with the process of creating public opinion, whose action is to involve consensus, not to exclude it. The process of forming public opinion does not eliminate the confrontation of individual opinions on different issues. Discussions and confrontations between individual opinions or between currents of opinion, including some larger or smaller communities, do not constitute public opinion; they express the common point of view reached.

Background: Few interventions are documented to meet person-centred needs of older people with serious multimorbidity in low- and middle-income countries where access to palliative care is limited. Most of the care in these settings is delivered by primary care health workers. Aim: This study reports the development and acceptability testing of a communication skills training and mentorship intervention for primary health care workers in Malawi. Setting: This study was conducted at Mangochi District Hospital in the south-eastern region of Malawi. Methods: Twelve primary health care workers (four clinical officers and eight nurses) working in the primary care clinics received the intervention. The intervention was designed using modified nominal group technique, informed by stakeholder interviews and a theory of change workshop. Acceptability is reported from thematic analysis of a focus group discussion with primary health care workers who received the intervention using NVivo version 14. Results: Older persons with serious multi-morbidity and their caregivers identified a need for enhanced communication with their healthcare providers. This helped to inform the development of a communication training skills and mentorship intervention package based on the local best practice six-step Ask-Ask-Tell-Ask-Ask-Plan framework. Primary health care workers reported that the intervention supported person-centred communication and improved the quality of holistic assessments, although space, workload and availability of medication limited the implementation of person-centred communication. Conclusion: The Ask-Ask-Tell-Ask-Ask-Plan framework, supported person-centered communication and improved the quality of holistic assessment. Contribution: This intervention offers an affordable, local model for integrating person-centered palliative care in resource-limited primary healthcare settings.

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Michael A. Gilbert has contributed significantly to the field of contemporary Argumentation Theory. Most notable are his multi-modal theory of argumentation and coalescent argumentation, models of argument that he developed to address how interlocutors actually argue in the marketplace. His ideas were not always understood, appreciated, or acknowledged by the larger argumentation community. Recently, though, the Centre for Research in Reasoning, Argumentation & Rhetoric (in Ontario, Canada) recognized Gilbert’s contributions in a week-long Institute dedicated to his scholarship. Provoking as his theories might seem, rhetorical scholars can find some common ground with Gilbert’s works.

Michael A. Gilbert a apporté une contribution significative à la théorie contemporaine de l’argumentation. Ses apports les plus remarquables résident dans sa théorie multimodale de l’argumentation et dans sa théorie de l’argumentation dite « coalescente », des modèles novateurs qu’il a développés pour étudier la façon dont les interlocuteurs discutent réellement dans la vie courante. Ses idées n’ont pas toujours été comprises, appréciées ou reconnues par l’ensemble de la communauté des spécialistes d’argumentation. Néanmoins, récemment, le Centre for Research in Reasoning, Argumentation and Rhetoric (en Ontario, au Canada) a reconnu l’importance de sa contribution en organisant un institut d’une semaine entière consacré à ses travaux. Aussi provocantes que puissent paraître ses théories, les spécialistes de la rhétorique n’en peuvent pas moins trouver un certain terrain d’entente avec ses travaux.

İnsan hakları, tüm bireylerin hiçbir ayrım gözetmeksizin yalnızca insan olmalarından dolayı eşit ve özgür yaşama hakkına sahip olması, cinsiyet, ırk, dil, din ve yaş gibi farklılıklar gözetmeksizin kanun önünde eşittir anlayışını savunmaktadır. Her ne kadar insan hakları evrensel beyannamesinde herkesin eşit olduğu dile getirilse de ve ülkelerin büyük bir çoğunluğu tarafından kabul edilse de geçmişte olduğu gibi günümüzde de özellikle ataerkil yapıya sahip toplumlarda kadın üzerinde erkek egemenliğinin söz konusu olduğu bilinmektedir. Bu çalışma ile iletişim bilimleri literatüründe Türkiye’de gerçekleştirilen ilk beş doktora çalışmasında Peltekoğlu (1988) ve Akgün (1993) kadın haklarının gelişiminin kadın yazar ve gazetecilerin varlığına yani basın aracılığıyla kadın haklarının gelişebileceğine vurgu yaparken, kadının toplumdaki konumunun varlığı ise eğitime bağlı olduğunu ifade etmişlerdir. Işınbark (1992) ve Kırlar’ın (1994) ise, TV programları ve TV reklamlarının kadın üzerindeki etkilerine odaklanmışlardır. Her iki yazarda TV sektörünün ve reklam piyasasının hayatlarını idame etmesinin ötesinde kadını bir meta olarak görmesi ve kadın üzerinden toplumu yönlendirmesi TV’nin toplum üzerinde önemli bir baskı ve yönlendirici aygıt olduğunu göstermektedir. Son olarak Yapar (1999) Fransa ve Türkiye’de kadın dergilerini karşılaştırdığı araştırmada, dergilerin geçmişte kadın hakları için mücadele verdikleri ancak sonraları ekonominin öncü konuma gelmesiyle temelinde toplumu tüketime sevk eden erkek egemen bir bakışın olduğu ifade edilmektedir. Bu çalışmalarda dönemin kitle iletişim araçları aracılığıyla toplumsal gelişme ve kadın çizgisinde reklam-kadın, TV proğramları-kadın ve dergi- kadın gibi ikili ilişkilerin detaylı bir şekilde ortaya konulması ve dönemin etkili kitle iletişim aracı olarak görülen TV’nin yanı sıra gazete ve dergi içeriklerini kadın profilinden aktarması ve dönemin ruhunu yansıtma çabası önemli bir ayrıntı olarak görülmelidir.

This article examines the use of euphemisms in contemporary diplomatic language, specifically analysing their application in the context of the War in Ukraine. The primary objective of this research is to investigate the reflection of language functions in communications related to the War in Ukraine, focusing on the role of euphemisms in diplomatic contexts, with an emphasis on the contrastive aspects in Romanian, English, and French. Through a comprehensive examination of diplomatic language, the study uncovers the strategies of using euphemisms to mitigate or manipulate the semantic impact of sensitive issues. The analysis reveals that the referential function is the most frequently utilised, while the phatic one is largely disregarded. Euphemism also serves as a persuasive communication strategy, enabling the address of sensitive geopolitical issues with tact and with a specific goal in mind.

With the recent surge in the number of countries willing to repatriate and reintegrate their citizens from camps in Iraq and Syria, policymakers and practitioners around the world are revisiting their approaches to the management of foreign terrorist fighter (FTF) returnees and their families. FTF management policy and practice has significantly evolved in the last decade driven by a growing body of empirical research and a greater awareness of best practices. Despite these advancements, the role of strategic communications in FTF repatriation and reintegration is too-often absent or, at best, underappreciated, by scholars, policymakers, and practitioners alike. Yet, interviews with policymakers and practitioners in this field reveals that they are often directly (e.g. as spokespeople) and/or indirectly (e.g. advising to public figures) engaged in public messaging. Without appropriate policy cover and practical guidance, public messaging risks becoming an inadvertent amplifier of policy missteps, public misunderstandings, and malign influence activities. This policy paper argues for an approach to strategic communication in FTF management that is multidimensional, integrated, adaptable, and crosscutting. To these ends, it offers a framework of guiding principles for strategic communication in FTF management that is relevant for both policymakers in government and practitioners in non-government roles.

Abstract In this paper we analyse how populist leaders in UK and Italy – namely Nigel Farage, Nicola Sturgeon, Giorgia Meloni, and Matteo Salvini – reacted to the first and second lockdowns on their Twitter accounts, communicating directly to their people. The analysis was carried out following a combined qualitative and quantitative approach to discourse. The qualitative analysis focused on comparing populist leaders’ rhetorical and semiotic choices, while the quantitative analysis observed the response by the community of common Twitter users. This work aims on the one hand at unveiling the strategic use of social media by populist leaders and on the other at investigating conflictual interactional dynamics, especially in times of crisis.

In the paper, on the basis of a multimodal critical discourse analysis of political posters and social media posts, the authors outline the complex interplay of multimodal means serving to convey a political leader’s charisma. The paper aims to advance a set of historically conventionalized features typical of the charismatic personality (such as intelligence, self-confidence, persistence, ability to inspire, sociability, dominance, narcissism, and vision), present the updated definition of this notion, and substantiate theoretical and methodological grounds for the study of the interplay of multimodal means portraying a charismatic political leader that assist in conveying a political speaker’s charisma creation through its graphical image, namely political posters and social media posts. The results of the study reveal that charisma is a complex communicative and cognitive phenomenon reflecting person’s beliefs about certain innate, obtained or promoted by media, internal or external subliminal traits of a leader. These beliefs are shaped in the recipients’ consciousness during interactive communication on the basis of the leader’s strategy, techniques, and methods used in oral or written communication, as well as a set of linguistic and extralinguistic means associated with the speaker’s ability to satisfy certain needs of the community. As a study material the authors opted for the images of Boris Johnson, a politician already acknowledged as a charismatic one by international audiences, who has been a prominent political figure for almost a decade and has recently come to the forefront of political and diplomatic support of Ukraine in the ongoing Russian-Ukrainian war. The carried out analysis proves the highly informative as well as subliminal potential of multimodal visual pictographic means aimed at creating a charismatic image of a public person. The authors outline a set of verbal (elliptical sentences, catchy slogans in imperative mood, assonance, alliteration, the use of first person plural pronoun “We”, the lexical unit together, etc.) and visual-graphical means (font of the message, symbolic colour scheme, clothes style, body posture, gestures, oculesic features, etc.), whose interaction is aimed at triggering cognitive processes in the recipient’s mind in perceiving a charismatic image of the politician. Boris Johnson’s charisma is confirmed by the survey conducted among British and Ukrainian respondents as well as by his subscribers’ reactions, comments and likes following his posts on social media. The carried out analysis allows summarising the markers of a politician’s charisma portrayed on social media as follows: the number of comments and likes for their posts; informality while addressing the Prime Minister by his first name “Boris” and presence of a “popular name” “BoJo”; high degree of the followers’ messages expressiveness actualised through verbal means (significant amount of exclamatory sentences, interjections, evaluative epithets and idiomatic expressions), as well as graphical-visual means, in particular through the usage of graphic emoticons (emojis), serving to intensify the overall expressiveness of a message. The conclusion is that social media graphical images are aimed at conveying charismatic political leaders’ vision, offering their followers support and promise of a better future, portraying them as approachable, down-to-earth, considerate but at the same time serious leaders, ready to work to endure a better future. The results of the performed study can provide grounds for interdisciplinary research of both oral and written charismatic communication within the cognitive approach framework considering verbal, nonverbal and paralingual means’ (physiological, psychological, social, etc.) interplay that allows the audience to perceive a speaker as a charismatic one.

The theory of post-truth and the conviction that absolute objective truth does not exist have many supporters in the modern world. A lie seen from this point of view appears to be one of the many ways people contact each other. The conducted research shows that this reasoning is incorrect. It proves that a lie is a reality that destroys those who have been lied to and those who are lying, as well as other people who are found in their environment. A lie drives people away from the truth, replacing it with untruth. In this way, it strikes a person and disturbs the order in one’s social environment. Thus, it becomes an anthropological destruction. This creates an “alternative world” that “competes” with God’s created world. Also, by rejecting God’s call to live according to the truth, man moves away from God and draws closer to Satan. The world “created” by a liar is not appropriate to human nature, it cannot become a space for his development, but is only regression and, consequently, destructive. The matter of lying and its consequences appear to be very topical today when the “power of disinformation” is being revealed more and more clearly.

Human communication means the transmission of informational content from one person to another. Information can be powerful, new, interesting, but we often encounter messages with quite limited informational content, with a limited area of interest, where often factual elements are combined with speculation or even fiction, lying also being a constant of communication. Everyone communicates, and specialists in the field are few. The result of message exchange depends on many factors, from data quality to the professionalism of the sender and the disposition of the end receiver. Under these circumstances, professional communication can be successfully achieved when specialists in the field manage to avoid pitfalls arising on the route of information exchange. It all starts with collecting the information that will be contained in the message, in the communication product. The operation shall be carried out according to clear rules, in order to avoid or reduce distortions. The purpose of this study is to present the prerequisites for the information gathering process.

The nature of the relationship between the state structures that administer power regardless of its political determination and the ideological actions of political actors is not a very frequent topic, this is because it is considered that there is no reaction of public institutions and authorities to the actions of politicians or that the relationship between the two levels of power is easy to harmonize. Political action and the institutions of power are, as a rule, seen together as part of the dialog with the public of politics, that is citizens or more precisely civil society. Our approach highlights a less visible or commented aspects, that of the dialogue between „political power” and „administrative power”, in other words, between the political formula of the government and the „deep state”, the latter more or less consolidated, having as a determining variable the age and quality of democracy.

Dans le domaine des arts du spectacle, la communication signifie avant tout partage. Ce partage ne peut s’accomplir si l’émetteur/le producteur du message ne sonde, en toute première instance, son intérieur, ses ressources cachées, par la voie du sensible. Ensuite, c’est l’observation du monde extérieur et la perception de la sensibilité des autres. Par cette voie, l’art peut aboutir à une forme de communication « sensible », qui peut même exclure le verbal. Notre travail propose une analyse des modalités de communication mises en marche pendant le festival « Sensibilis 2023 », organisé à Cagnes-sur-Mer par l’association CieBe. En partant de la théorie de la communication de Jakobson à laquelle nous avons ajouté le concept de signe selon Umberto Eco et Jean-Marie Klinkenberg, nous faisons une analyse des enjeux communicatifs de cette manifestation. De cette manière, nous montrons que, à « Sensibilis 2023 » le signe a été valorisé comme une structure tétradique, ce qui a assuré le succès du processus de production du sens.

The printed format of information has been replaced by digital tools which have acquired a particular importance for learners and information users in the 21st century. Developing digital literacy and encouraging information dissemination through various channels, videos, visuals etc., have also become a relevant part of the teaching environment, especially in higher education. The right selection of the communication content by means of digital tools is equally significant to provide a high-quality teaching act in ESP classes. The present work aims to highlight how digital literacy contributes to a better and more creative educational setting. At the same time, the variety of tools used to disseminate information is even more valuable as it helps to develop critical thinking and contributes to the engagement of students in a more inspiring and motivating learning environment.

Communication involves a host of factors, being embedded in the broad sociocultural context in which messages are conveyed. Several theoretical frameworks have been proposed concerning patterns of communication and the way(s) they differ according to culture. Our paper draws on Hall’s (1976) key notions of low-context and high-context cultures, coupled with strategies of explicitation and implicitation. Our analysis focuses on the extent to which communicators rely on “context” to overtly state something in low-context cultures, or to covertly render a message in high-context cultures. Accordingly, we aim to highlight that culture-specific ways of communication are typically reflected in the use of phrases and/or idiomatic expressions that count as allusions (historical, literary, etc.) or opaque culture-specific items.

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This text proposes a transactional mentoring perspective to help bioethics students better address the ethical challenges that exist in all areas of social life. A transactional approach is best suited to bioethics mentoring that produces positive change and fosters human flourishing on the part of both mentor and mentee.

This perspective explores the role of the bioethicist in shaping public discourse through the media, while accounting for the power of narratives and voice.

As a consequence of the cultural turn, the cultural approach focused on the spatial processes in which culture is involved. Hence a widening and deepening of cultural geography. (i) Culture is partly shaped by the modes of transmission responsible for its passing down from one generation to the next. They stress more or less know-hows and knowledge (i.e. intelligence) and emotivity and imagination (i.e. imaginaries). (ii) Culture is equally shaped by the debates and opinions it induces, the genesis of identities, the dynamics of imitation or distinction and the process and conflicts of civilization or decline they initiate. (iii) Culture is combined with other processes when it deals with matter or life, produces artefacts, deals with nature, is applied to the human body, analyses the role of senses and shapes the landscape. (iv) It contributes to transform social life into a show and its setting into a stage. In its present form, cultural geography completes by a socio-cultural approach the older

Background: Health research is typically disseminated through peer-reviewed journals and academic forums. However, evidence suggests limited exploration of alternative communication methods for effective knowledge dissemination. Objectives: This study aimed to determine the extent to which policymakers in Malawi consult health researchers while translating their knowledge. This study aimed to determine the post-research endeavours of Malawian health researchers to incorporate research findings into policy and decision making. Method: Conducted at Kamuzu University of Health Sciences (KUHeS), this cross-sectional study employed a 5-point Likert scale survey to collect data from researchers, offering a snapshot view without indicating temporal changes or causality. Results: Researchers rarely created suggestions, take-home messages, or actionable instructions for use by health officials. They seldom give users access to a searchable database of papers, studies, and syntheses that summarise recommendations for policymakers in the field of health. They seldom send reprints of papers from scientific publications to decision-makers. Few researchers have created summaries of articles or systematic reviews for health officials’ use. Conclusion: Traditional channels, such as journals and conferences, dominate the dissemination of health research. However, limited evidence suggests the need for broader communication strategies. The current landscape lacks effective products and methods, urging researchers to produce accessible formats with clear, key messages to address policy questions. Contribution: Researchers should develop research products in compelling formats by using clear key messages. The summarised evidence should answer important policy questions. Researchers should involve the media to communicate their research outputs.

Background: The COVID-19 Pandemic had profound effects on healthcare systems around the world. In South Africa, field hospitals, such as the Mitchell’s Plain Field Hospital, managed many COVID patients and deaths, largely without family presence. Communicating with families, preparing them for death and breaking bad news was a challenge for all staff. Aim: This study explores the experiences of healthcare professionals working in a COVID-19 field hospital, specifically around having to break the news of death remotely. Setting: A150-bed Mitchells Plain Field Hospital (MPFH) in Cape Town. Methods: A qualitative exploratory design was utilised using a semi-structured interview guide. Results: Four themes were identified: teamwork, breaking the news of death, communication and lessons learnt. The thread linking the themes was the importance of teamwork, the unpredictability of disease progression in breaking bad news and barriers to effective communication. Key lessons learnt included effective management and leadership. Many families had no access to digital technology and linguo-cultural barriers existed. Conclusion: We found that in the Mitchell’s Plain Field Hospital, communication challenges were exacerbated by the unpredictability of the illness and the impact of restrictions on families visiting in preparing them for bad news. We identified a need for training using different modalities, the importance of a multidisciplinary team approach and for palliative care guidelines to inform practice. Contribution: Breaking the news of death to the family is never easy for healthcare workers. This article unpacks some of the experiences in dealing with an extraordinary number of deaths by a newly formed team in the COVID era.

Cet article étudie la communication transhumaniste à travers l’analyse de La fable du Dragon-Tyran de Nick Bostrom. Philosophe du posthumain, l’auteur recourt au texte littéraire pour illustrer le débat idéologique qui oppose, d’un côté, un fort enthousiasme pour le progrès technoscientifique et, de l’autre côté, la crainte liée à la fois à la perte de contrôle de l’humain sur ses créations et à la disparition des repères éthiques conventionnels. Reprenant en partie le modèle de construction utopique, l’auteur clive et réduit au vertueux l’avènement du posthumain. L’analyse ici proposée est celle de la mise en récit de la rhétorique transhumaniste développée par Bostrom et de l’idéalisation de son projet intellectuel. La lecture des scènes principales de sa Fable met en exergue les leviers de la stratégie narrative de l’auteur ainsi que les enjeux moraux et sociaux d’une évacuation potentielle d’une partie de la condition humaine : sénescence, mortalité.

In a context marked by a diversity of reforms, unpredictability of crisis and an intensity of ecosystem requirements, public enterprises meet challenges qualified as complex and multi-dimensional. In addition, there is an increasing need to innovate products, services, and managerial practices. Meeting these challenges requires switching the mode of management to a more proactive one based on Strategic Intelligence. In our knowledge, the previous studies analyzed the impact of Strategic Intelligence on innovation from different angles and without articulating the functions of Strategic Intelligence which generate ambiguities involved in practical application. For this purpose, our study aims to investigate how to articulate Strategic Intelligence with innovation in a public enterprise. Our study was based on the qualitative method by conducting interviews in a public enterprise. The main results of our study pointed out that Strategic Intelligence could support innovation through its triptych, highlighting the importance of adopting a holistic approach to analyze Strategic Intelligence and innovation.

Abstract After pointing out mainstream migrant integration’s conceptual issues, we use communication theory to argue that researching migrants’ positive discourse about their trajectories depends on analyzing their establishment of philia in the host country. Then, we present a qualitative study with five migrants who work as teachers at a language school in Rio de Janeiro. We explore their experiences according to three categories: connection to Brazilian people, connection to brazility, and identity convergence to Brazil. This paper concludes that although interviewees cite some indicators used to measure integration in mainstream academia (e.g., language and employment) in their discourses about the country, the specific meanings of these factors are understood only by linking them to participants’ intersubjective exchanges and philia in Brazil.

Notre article tente de mettre en évidence l’émergence du néologisme, des mots nouveaux et des expressions nouvelles entrainés par la pandémie de Covid-19 en Ouganda. L’objectif est d’analyser les différents facteurs qui ont une incidence sur les langues locales. Une enquête par questionnaire a été menée auprès de 10 enseignants de langues locales différentes en Ouganda. Pour démontrer que face à une situation inconnue, les mots nouveaux ou les expressions nouvelles vont envahir le vocabulaire déjà établi, La question est de savoir comment les Ougandais interprètent ces mots qui peuvent durer ou s’éteindre après le coronavirus. Notre hypothèse est que pour arriver à combattre le coronavirus, le lexique utilisé doit être compris par les personnes touchées et chargées de diffuser l'information.

The decline of Neoclassical dominance has paved the way to a more fragmented Mainstream. In this article, we empirically explore the Mainstream’s thematic structure and its fragmentation’s effects on within-discipline communication. For this purpose, we exploit a dataset containing 10,064 articles published in economics in seven Blue Ribbon Eight journals between 1985 and 2006 and their citations. Articles are assigned to 18 topics created via Latent Dirichlet Allocation to represent specialities within economics. Results show that the economic Mainstream has yet to experience a dramatic increase in fragmentation in the observed period, and the prevailing topics are related to market equilibrium and econometrics. Moreover, the Mainstream’s thematic structure does not include any heterodox approach. Regarding communication, economists increasingly tap into diverse sources of information, and such diversity positively impacts the citational patterns of articles. The same result holds for the articles written by Nobel Prize winners and the most cited articles in the discipline, which exhibit a higher diversity than the whole sample.

L’idée de conspiration est évoquée par les complotistes pour expliquer l’origine des attentats du 11 septembre 2001. Cette vision des faits peut conduire à la radicalisation. Pour certains, la théorie du complot est l’ultime refuge dans l’explication quasi-impossible de certains événements. Elle peut être exploitée sur des forums Internet pour pousser des jeunes vers la radicalisation en créant un ennemi fictif à devoir combattre. Dans cet article, il est question d’une étude de l’argumentation sur un forum Internet en optant pour la pragma-dialectique2 . Nous veillons à travers la systématicité dans le traitement de l’argumentation à identifier des stratégies argumentatives en faveur de l’idée de conspiration et de la participation de celle-ci à la radicalisation à travers la diffusion d’un discours persuasif s’appuyant sur la théorie du complot.

The objective of the present study is to evaluate the communication needs of the parents of children with cancer from the perspective of the semantic values of the morphological units used and integrated into sentence structures or sentence segments (with response status to open questions) and from the perspective of the factual analysis of the percentages of closed questions. We believe that the results we have reached, processed with interdisciplinary tools of psycholinguistics, morphology, syntax and semantics of the Romanian language and psychological analysis, can provide data that can contribute to the identification of the best strategies for ensuring emotional well-being and increasing the quality of life of families where there is a child with cancer.

La malnutrition en Afrique reste un de majeurs problèmes sociétaux de santé publique. Elle frappe surtout les enfants en bas âge, ceux particulièrement du niveau préscolaire. Dans cette étude, il s’agit, d’une part, de connaitre le niveau d’accompagnement du Programme National de Nutrition (PRONANUT), structure spécialisée du Ministère de la santé, aux établissements de santé, surtout ceux du sous-secteur privé, et, d’autre part, de s’appesantir sur la communication pour la promotion de l’Allaitement Maternel Exclusif dans ces derniers établissements. Cette étude porte exclusivement sur la zone de santé de Lemba, coïncidant, dans sa constitution, avec la commune portant le même nom, située dans la ville de Kinshasa, capitale de la République Démocratique du Congo. Il ressort de nos enquêtes que, quoique la communication soit une composante essentielle de la promotion de l’Allaitement Maternel Exclusif, le PRONANUT n’assure pas de collaboration suivie avec les établissements de santé du sous-secteur privé constituant pourtant la grande majorité d’établissements sanitaires dans la zone de santé de Lemba. Ceci entrave l’atteinte du résultat envisagé.