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the goal of this research is to study the policy of democratization of culture and is trying to find out whether democratization of museums leads to democratization of art or its only result is accumulation of artistic behaviors. deploying pierre bourdieu’s theory who believes that “the love of art” is the result of cultural capital and utilizing surveys with the method of quantity evaluation a...

The importance of sport as a social, psychological, and cultural agenda in today’s world can by no means be denied. This is, as a rule, reflected in all its aspects through the language of media. The present descriptive study has thus tried to investigate how the language of sports media shape sport consumers such as coaches, players, the audience, and sporting officials at large. For this purp...

This chapter sketches a basic conceptual framework for identifying and analysing the audiences receptions of kind medieval biographical collections studied in this special issue. To do so, it sets out range approaches taken by contributors situates these relation to previous scholarship on reception interpretation textual sources. Particular attention is given dynamic relationships between thos...