In his most recent books, Piketty offers a global history of inequality in its economic, social, political, and intellectual dimensions, arguing that is moved by the struggle ideologies. To take part this battle ideas, he conceives new ideal model society, ‘participative socialism’, as an egalitarian alternative to dominant neoproprietarian ideology dangerous resurgence nationalism populism. Th...

Learners’ dictionaries aim to give clear indications of meaning, but not all aspects of meaning can be neatly packaged up in definitions – even without the constraints of a restricted defining vocabulary. It is difficult, for example, to deal effectively with connotation and culture-bound meanings; to show evaluations clearly and consistently; or to explain even-handedly the ideological undercu...

In today's world, literature does not seem to be merely a piece of art for human's spiritual excellence, but is something likely controlled subtly and already planned for a specific purpose and specific audience. Through many literary works Harry Potter series seem to be the most effective work that took the lead. It is officially turned into a phenomenon for all generations. This article attem...

Two studies examined whether everyday food choice motives (FCMs) and abstract values constitute food choice ideologies (FCIs), whether these ideologies reflect the same normativism-humanism polarity as Tomkins' theory suggests to reflect ideologies in general, and whether various dietary groups endorse FCIs in different ways. In Study 1, 82 female participants filled in the Food Choice Question...

The present special issue goes back to the online conference entitled Integrationism and Language Ideologies (March 15-20, 2021), which was organized by Policy Group of Federal University Santa Catarina in conjunction with International Association for Integrational Study Communication (IAISLC). contributions this are most part revised versions papers presented at event. also features an interv...

Ideologies use for their conservation and propagation persuasive methods of communication: Rhetoric. Rhetoric is analyzed from the semiotic and logical-mathematical points of view. The following hypotheses are established: 1) Language L is a self-explanatory system, mediated by a successive series of systems of cultural conventions. 2) Connotative significances of an ideological advertising rhe...