Deixis is manifested especially as the pronouns I, you and he. It possible to appoint person producing discourse participant in it. may be received, accompanied by gestures, express a specific purpose help addressee communicate meaning of what referred to. When using pronoun, refer one parties determine their place it, if speaker has political authority. The mechanism used deixis direct success...

The review covers the collective monograph “Communicative Aggressions of 21st Century” dedicated to study destructive manifestations communicative aggression in media sphere connected with functional specifics contemporary information technologies and, particular, Internet. deals contents book and its structure, evaluates understanding by authors aggression, features consequences. Special empha...

analysis and the continued success of the moderate islamic discourse on other discourses in turkey in a social environment that nearlya century in the western orientation and secular changes in the basis of social, political and cultural, is the central issue to the most article. this article goes beyond the ideological debates, in the analysis of this fundamental change in this country as a lo...

We examine the relation between a firm’s campaign contributions and lobbying expenditures and its Tobin’s q. We follow other studies that use q to measure the value of the firm’s intangible capital (e.g., the value of advertising, R&D, or environmental performance). Researchers have found a positive and significant relation between intangible assets and q. If political capital exists, it is an ...

Introduction This article explores the growth and impact of the medicalisation of HIV and HIV-related stigma. Since the early days of the virus when treatments were unavailable, political voices for HIV advocacy were powerful; public discourse reflected these changes with growing public-health campaigns that began to demystify HIV as a concept. However, with the development of antiretroviral th...

Although campaign reformers may believe otherwise, it is not only the money in campaigns that is problematic. Campaign speech can also threaten the integrity of the electoral process. It can be misleading, manipulative, offensive, defamatory, and, in the case of judicial campaigns, unethical. It can distort the issues, distract the voters from making informed decisions, inhibit voter turnout, a...

How do Americans acquire the impression that their political foes have some understandable basis for their views, and thus represent a legitimate opposition? How do they come to believe that reasonable people may disagree on any given political controversy? Given that few people talk regularly to those of opposing perspectives, some theorize that mass media, and television in particular, serve ...