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Working from home (with several term variations: home-based work, homeworker, telecommuting) has become a major trend in recent years and especially during the COVID-19 pandemic. This topic is extremely relevant and interesting for both the corporate world and society, capturing the attention of many researchers. This paper provides more details on the transformations in communication and the importance of new digital tools and technologies that have become indispensable for corporate success in this new working p...

The purpose of this paper is to investigate whether the bimodal input (videos in theEnglish language with English captions) can lead Italian high school students toimprove their listening comprehension skills. The trigger for this research comes frommy EFL teaching experiences at Italian schools where the syllabi employed tend toneglect the training of the listening comprehension skills and focus mainly on grammartranslation and English literature instructions. The literature review describes in detailtheoretical ...

The present paper wants to analyze the perception of communism. It is structured in two main parts: the theoretical preliminaries and the case study. In the first part, we will build a theoretical base about the main concepts that influenced the cultural world and daily life during the years of communist dictatorship in Romania. In the second part, we analyzed a database composed of photographs of objects chosen by the respondents as significant for the period we are talking about. We want to see what are the reas...

One of the most compelling of all cultural and economic institutions, advertising is a genuine entertainer whose dramatic performance allows for the intrinsic and interdependent relationship between representational, interactive and compositional meanings. Traditional portrayals of the female body in advertising have been heavily relying on non-verbal modes generating a multiplicity of problematic messages co(n)textualized by extra-linguistic features that interact within the cognitive environment of the target au...

The Covid-19 pandemic has changed just about everything in terms of how we operate personally and professionally. Now involves less physical contact and more digital touchpoints. The study looks at the third period of the pandemic in Latvia, almost two years after the initial outbreak of Covid-19 and at a point when most European countries have achieved majority/ herd immunity thanks to double vaccination. At this time, vaccination certificates have already been introduced in Latvia, which would allow the curb of ...

The importance of communication in society is invaluable for modern science. Aggression, expressed in verbal and non-verbal forms, produces a particularly significant effect on the effectiveness of communication. There is no doubt, however, that communicative aggression can in no way serve the success of communication. Modern research is aimed at identifying strategies, tactics and lexical units, the use of which allows communicants to have successful and effective communication. The communicative category of miti...

This paper aims to analyze and discuss a concerning aspect regarding virtual worlds and their dangers, specifically. Many teenagers transcend themselves into artificial, phantasmagorical worlds. Set-ups such as vivid, evergreen maps containing different NPCs (non-player characters) that offer you missions for you to advance your progress and gain experience and gain more powerful items, potions, armor, or weapons to progress into the game are always present. Mobs (living entities within the game) are meant to be p...

Television talk shows often present a mix of well-reasoned and baseless debates,showcasing diverse communication styles. The way individual attitudes are articulatedcan highlight instances where the speaker employs communication tools ofmanipulations. This study focuses on the presentation of arguments, specifically theconveyance of informative and persuasive functions pertaining to a range of political,economic, social, and personal topics. The objective is to identify instances of adhominem communication, determ...

Ever since it was developed, the internet facilitated communication between individuals and created new ways of interaction by removing the barriers of space and time. Nowadays, people have a wide range of social networks which they can use for various purposes, one of the most popular social networks being Facebook. In this regard, people in general, and students, started to use Facebook not only to communicate with friends or family members, but also for educational and romantic purposes. All around the world, s...

Globalization and the evolution of technology have put a lot of pressure on organizations to reshape and update themselves, and there is an upward trend in terms of organizations adapting to technology, especially the use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in business. Currently, a recruitment process is largely carried out by recruiters who review CVs, online profiles and other sources to find suitable candidates for vacancies. Because employees have limited skills, keeping up with all the necessary tasks is not an ...