Automobiles, Individualism-Collectivism, and Psychic Systems: An Essay on the Functional Perspective in Cross-Cultural Psychology [PDF]
This chapter identifies the mainstream approach in (cross-cultural) psychology as variables psychology and contrasts it with two versions of functionalist thinking.
Stefan Strohschneider +1 more
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Developing Learners’ Top-Down Processing Skills in Listening
Listening is the first receptive skill that we develop as human beings, and it helps us improve other skills and gain confidence as language learners.
Lilit Bekaryan
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On Some Forms of “Out-Group” Intolerance and “Unlimited” Tolerance in Linguoculture
The subject of the research is ethnic intolerance as a form of relationship between “we” and “other”, manifested in various modifications of the hostility towards others.
Narine Harutyunyan
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The Use of Manipulative Tactics in Hate Speech
The aim of the present article is to study some ways of verbal expression of adversary social relationships. It is a study based on the linguistic material of one online article, which shows clearly that the language resources used by the Azerbaijani ...
Shushanik Paronyan
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Adult and His Other: Conceptualization of the Childhood in the Austrian Modernist Fiction (On the Example of R.M. Rilke) [PDF]
The childhood as the subject of psychology, philosophy, and art is object of intensive study in the 20 th century Austrian culture. Childhood is seen as the origin of personhood, its “code” that calls for interpretation. Psychoanalysis of Freud and Rank,
Vera V. Kotelevskaya
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Cross-cultural impression management: a cultural knowledge audit model [PDF]
Purpose – Many people moving into a new culture for work or study do so without prior cross-cultural training, yet successful cultural adaptation has important ramifications.
Spong, A., Kamau, Caroline
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The Communicative Function of English Parenthetical Constructions
The main function of parenthetical constructions is to characterize the sentence from the position of the speaker to the listener. In English parenthetical constructions are essential, since they not only connect ideas, sentences, paragraphs making them ...
Marine Yaghubyan
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Utilizing Videoconferencing to Develop Emotional Awareness in Cross-Cultural Communication [PDF]
The current teaching methods in cross-cultural business communication have paid relatively less attention to developing students’ emotional skills in cross-cultural interactions.
Ozcelik, Hakan, Zoltainé Paprika, Zita
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Approximation as a Semantic Process of Occasional Modification of the Meaning
Approximation is a semantic process when occasional modification of meaning, i.e. partial actualization of a linguistic unit is carried out. This process takes place when one of the elements of a situation, an object, an action or a quality mentioned is ...
Marine Yaghubyan
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Axiological Aspect of Sovereign States Armorial: Russia vs. Great Britain
The semiosphere reflects universal and culturally determined characteristics. Heraldry is one of the most complex sign systems. Alive and flexible semiotics is urgent for studies.
Ekaterina V. Sklizkova
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