This paper investigates the popularity of Christian videos among born-again
Christians in Enugu, Nigeria. This study is anchored on the theoretical foundations of
reception analysis. Following a qualitative research design, the research adopted a threestage research method, namely, qualitative content analysis, focus group interviews, and…[Read more]

The development of information and communication technologies in the formation
of a new technical and economic paradigm has changed the structure of the modern media
landscape. The article shows the change in media consumption in Kazakhstan as a result of
technological development and popularization of the Internet. The reflection of this…[Read more]

The relevance of the study of speech etiquette is stipulated by the increasing
interest of linguists to the problem of the relationship between language and
culture, the peculiarity of speech behavior, and the national-cultural specifics
of speech communication. The object of the research is the formulas of speech
etiquette of the Russian and…[Read more]

The article aims to study the problem of the peculiarities of the communicative
functions of interrogative sentences. The relevance of the problem is connected
with the rich pragmatic fullness of these linguistic units. The issue of
communicative functions of interrogative sentences was considered from the
theory of speech acts, in which they…[Read more]

The article discusses the problem of identifying a global intercultural discourse
of communication participants, characterizes its parameters, and reviews
strategies for its actualization. The purpose of the article is to build and justify
a model of this discourse. The methods used in work include discourse analysis,
modeling method…[Read more]

The article discusses the linear cohesion regularities of the blogger’s initiating
message and the respondent’s subsequent reaction, which in the process of
forming the integral text replace each other based upon the relay principle.
Special attention is paid to the cohesive frames, which are treated as the relay
structures, revealing the sta…[Read more]

The relevance of the study is based on the fact that in sociology, the phenomenon
of mass media is included in the object-subject field of several industries:
sociology of mass media, sociology of the media means, sociology of journalism,
sociology of the Internet, and sociology of online media. The novelty of the work
is determined by the…[Read more]

The relevance of the study is determined by the question as to in which version
the environmental consciousness of a person should be considered. The novelty
of the study is determined by the possibility of not only forming ecological
awareness but also imparting environmental education in their professional
and everyday living environments.…[Read more]

The article aims to study the structure of the literary problem in the formation of
the local text substrate. The study uses the methodology of studying the language
when it changes in time and space. The article explains the basics of the
methodological support of the translation complex and the structure of its
application in private studies…[Read more]

This paper examines the framing of Kashmir conflict in the editorials of three
PakistaniEnglish newspapers, The Nation, The Nation, and Dawn during dictatorial
(Musharraf regime, 2005-2007) and the democratic regime (Zardari regime (2008-
2010). It argues that in case of conflict press conforms to the government policies,
change in governments…[Read more]

This experiment was designed to explore people’s critical, differentiating capacity between actual news and content that looks like news. Four groups of post-millennials read four versions of a news story. While the first condition included a real news story derived from a mainstream medium, the other three conditions tested three attributes of f…[Read more]

Unfortunately, tragedies occur all around the world every day. It is perceived by many as particularly devastating when children are the victims of the tragedy. When these events do occur, the media is likely to cover them in part due to the innocence and vulnerability of the victims. In reading media accounts of tragedies involving children, we…[Read more]

There seems to be a continuum between Fernando Pessoa’s metadrama of heteronyms and his strict-sense plays, but this is more hypothesis than theory, because Pessoa’s dramas—notwithstanding the editions of Teatro Estático (2017) and Fausto (2018)—are still largely unknown. Written between 1903–1908, the tragedy of Marino is the earliest of Pessoa’…[Read more]

This is a gut-reaction response to the recent article “The value of mass-digitised cultural heritage content in creative contexts” by Melissa Terras, et al, published in Big Data and Society on April 6, 2021, doi: https://doi.org/10.1177/20539517211006165. My main argument is that exploiting labor and appropriating cultural heritage are int…[Read more]

The aim of this article is to challenge heteronormative as well as homonormative practices in English language teaching. In doing so, the paper demonstrates that both complete absence of LGBTQI+ references in ELT materials, as well as recent attempts to provide more inclusive approaches to materials design and classroom practices, can be…[Read more]

Following the work of Hellman, this paper examines homosexism (the stigmatisation of non-penetrative sexual activities of men who have sex with men as non-sexual practices) in relation to hegemony, masculinity, and sexuality theories. In doing so, it discusses the function of sides, men who have sex with men but do not engage in penetrative sexual…[Read more]

The aim of this article is to examine how Michael Nava appropriates the conventions of Detective/Crime Fiction to engage in artivism, whereby art is used to challenge sexual and ethnic social oppression and inequality. By providing an analysis of the heteronormative conventions of the Detective and Crime Fiction genre, the article focuses on the…[Read more]

Método canvas para posibilitar una serie de dinámicas que permitan aplicar el método de María Zambrano desde el estudio homónimo realizado por Mª João Neves.

I will mainly focus on a collection of films made between 1972 and 1985 by the Staatliche Filmdokumentation (SFD)—the State Film
Documentation unit—which survived as part of the collection of the Staatliches Filmarchiv der DDR (SFA), the former national film archive
of the GDR.