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Negative political advertising
No full textPolitical advertising as a main communication during an election campaign is accompanied by the “temptation” to negatively influence political opponents. Every communication expert involved in the process faces the dilemma of professional ethics on one side and political pragmatics on the other
Contemporary Europolicy in the Context of the Green Deal
Get PDFThe energy crisis and the environmental problems facing the modern community require modernization of the legislative framework and the introduction of more effective, sustainable, and ecological measures to preserve the health of people and the planet. The paper examines the contemporary European policies in the context of the Green Deal, emphasizing their possible impacts on the Bulgarian economy. The Green Deal is one of the key European documents which combats climate change and aimed the decarbonization of Europe, by implementing sustainable development, circular business models, new technologies and innovations, and new legislative measures. Certainly, for every single transformation, in addition to positives, there are also possible negatives, therefore the transition to sustainable development and circular economy must be carried out at all economic and institutional levels, based on the analyzes and assessments made in advance
How Talented Second-language Learners Regulate their Emotions and Cope with Stress
No full textMost studies of talented learners focus on the nature of their accelerated cognitive abilities, and on structuring curricula to support them in achieving academically. Few studies of talented learners explore their emotional regulatory and coping strategies, as part of how they learn. Yet emotional regulation and coping strategies are an essential component of self-efficacy and self-regulation. Many talented learners are now also second-language learners. Programmers are among the most talented of 21st century learners. Programming requires linguistic proficiency, advanced quantitative reasoning, and multiple, complex forms of procedural reasoning. Mixed methods were used to explore how 34 talented programmers responded to a stressful second-language task. Data was analysed using one deductive and one emergent content coding frame, Appraisal analysis, and transitivity analysis. Results show that talented programmers handle stress by identifying and solving contextual problems. They realise positive subjective attitudes as evaluations of context, but frame negative emotions as interior experiences. As actors, they represent themselves as closely aligned with their team
Genre-Specific Irrealia in Translation: Can Irrealia Help Define Speculative Fiction Sub-Genres?
No full textSpeculative fiction texts and their translation, particularly from English, have been gradually rising in prominence. However, not only do speculative fiction and its sub-genres remain only vaguely defined in general despite numerous attempts by both writers and theoreticians, but their specific features are often even less explored from the perspective of translation studies. This article aims to enrich translation studies understanding of irrealia as signature features of speculative fiction texts. It builds on existing conceptions of both irrealia and realia in order to propose the concept of genre-specific irrealia. Hence, it discusses how irrealia relate to individual sub-genres of speculative fiction and how such distinctions can help the recipient or translator realise the specificity of these elements. The paper has a particular focus on science fiction, although it also discusses fantasy and supernatural horror specific irrealia. The article then illustrates the concept of genre-specific irrealia and discusses its implications for translation on examples drawn from the novel Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury and its Slovak translation by the translator Jozef Klinga
The life and works of Ingmar Bergman
Get PDFThe article presents biographical moments of the life of Swedish film director Ingmar Bergman, which have influenced his life‘s work and apear in the films he has made. Bergman himself is one of the main participants of the European auteur cinema of the second half of the 20th century. His films inspire a vast number of directors of the next generation, who continue the tradition of art cinema, including Woody Allen, Martin Scorsese, David Lynch, as well as Scandinavian authors like Lars von Trier and Thomas Vinterberg. This text aims at showing the life‘s event, which shaped Bergman‘s personality and to give basis for further understanding of his work
The More Economic Approach to Exclusionary Abuses Under Article 102 TFEU
Get PDFThe present paper examines in a comparative legal aspect the more economic approach in the ‘rule of reason’ doctrine, formulated in connection with the implementation of the American antitrust legislation, and the approach defined in the Guidelines on the application of Article 102 TFEU to exclusionary abuses, adopted by the European Commission. The purpose of the comparative legal research is to establish whether the approach taken by the European Commission to exclusionary abuses follows the analytical model of the ‘rule of reason’ doctrine
The Effects of Armed Conflicts on Treaties
Get PDFWhat happens to treaties, concluded in peacetime, if and when an armed conflict between some or all of the parties thereto breaks out? The answer to such a question was and is one of the most disputed in international law. In the past there have been several attempts to regulate the related to this issue legal aspects on the international level, however the present study aims to make a review mainly of the rules, elaborated in 2011 by the UN International Law Commission. This set of 18 draft articles are of special importance in 2022 in the light of the outbreak of hostilities of February 2022 between the Russian Federation and Ukraine since there exist a good number of treaties to which those two states are parties as of 2022
The Rule for Offsetting Damages with Benefits in Determining the Compensation Under Article 200 of the Labour Code
Get PDFThe study examines the applicability and demonstration of the general principle of offsetting damages with benefits (compensatio lucri cum damno) in determining the compensation due by the employer to the employee for damages arising from workplace accident or occupational disease. The nature of the social security compensation and pension are analysed alongside with the hypotheses of their deduction from the amount of pecuniary and/or non-pecuniary damages. The problem is examined in the context of the question posed in the interpretative case 1/2023 of the GACC of the Supreme Court of Cassation. Particular attention is given to the deduction of the sums paid under contracts made by the employer for compulsory insurance of employees for the risk of “workplace accident”. In addition, other cases that are relevant to the topic are discussed. In conclusion, an attempt is made to formulate a general conclusion on the rule of offsetting damages with benefits and the criteria for its applicability in determining the amount of compensation under Article 200 of the Labour Code
