Means Of Self-presentation Research Articles

Defending our borders: Metaphor scenarios in Hungarian and Romanian political discourse on migration

Metaphor in political discourse has been described as a device for persuasion and providing legitimacy for political action. Besides these roles, however, Andreas Musolff draws attention to the dialogic potential of metaphors in public discourse when used as variations of universally accepted metaphorical frames applied and tailored in accordance with the specific ideologies, attitudes, and values of the discourse community addressed. Such subcategories, named scenarios, not only convey the target domain in terms more familiar to the audience, but they also invite evaluation and assessment on the part of the audience. In this role, metaphors, and their subcategories, and scenarios, allow expression of alternative viewpoints and particular perspectives within the frame of a public debate. This study proposes to track such reformulations in Hungarian and Romanian political discourse during the migrant crisis in 2015 concerning the CONTAINER metaphor. Conceptualizations of various discourse communities as containers are common in political discourse, circumscribing the ingroup as homogenous and compact, entailing elements like boundaries and possibilities of approach or, on the contrary, keeping away outside elements. In the concrete situation of the migrant crisis, entailments like closing or opening borders or conditions on crossing that border are common features. The corpus is composed of declarations from Romanian President Klaus Iohannis and Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán related to events that occurred during the crisis, not only formulating attitudes and positioning toward the migrants but also towards the European Union and its policies regarding the issue. The metaphor scenarios are traceable in these speeches are means of self-presentation, defining the role and the position assumed by the two countries as members of the organization.

Peculiarities of Internet Self-Presentations of People with Eating Disorders

The article presents the research results concerning self-presentations of people with eating disorders on specialized Internet forums. The purpose of the article is to reveal the peculiarities of self-presentation of anorexic and overweight persons on the basis of psychological analysis of their avatars. Research method is discourse analysis as a tool revealing specificity of symbolic information (avatars, nicknames) to identify the peculiarities of selfpresentation of people with eating disorders. The results of the research. Avatars of users visiting sites for anorexic and overweight people are analysed from the psychological point of view, the analysed results assert that images used as avatars reflect specific nutritional problems and self-attitude in connection with them. Such sites are visited mostly by the female audience, and hence the problem of standards of a woman body is really important. The main categories of images used as avatars are differentiated to: personal photos; anime characters; food related images; images of well-known people as examples of success; emotionally-coloured images, etc. The differences in self-representations of anorexic and overweight people have been determined on the basis of content, colours of used images, in particular, a more positive self-presentation and self-attitude of people with excess weight compared with anorexics have been revealed. Conclusion. The article argues that the analysis of avatars’ characteristics as a means of self-presentation is useful both for psychological diagnosis of people with eating disorders, as well as for provision of professional psychological assistance for them. Such analysis is appropriate at contact establishing, primary psychological diagnosis and psychotherapy for people with eating disorders combined with chronic dissatisfaction with their own weight.

Comparative analysis of future specialists' image formation in military and civilian institutions of higher education

The article analyses the essence of the scientific definition of "image" from the standpoint of different scientific approaches. The image has been considered as a holistic reflection of an individual, containing a set of external (verbal, kinetic, environmental) and internal (knowledge, skills, abilities, attitudes, values, self-esteem) factors, personal qualities and means of self-presentation. In order to study the level of image formation of future specialists-managers, a diagnostic study was conducted on the basis of Ternopil Volodymyr Hnatiuk National Pedagogical University and Bohdan Khmelnytsky National Academy of the State Border Guard Service of Ukraine, The object of the study were 97 Master's students of I-II courses of Specialty "Public Management and Administration"; the method "Evaluation of the image" (according to V. Shepel) was used to identify the level of satisfaction of the components of image and the method "Evaluate your image" (according to J. Jaeger). The training program "Image of a specialist" aimed at the formation and development of image was developed and tested with participation of students and cadets.

Onyms in Internet communication and electronic environment: new phenomena and functions

The development of electronic communication brings to rapid language and speech-communicative changes. These changes make the scientific task of their timely conceptualization urgent. The purpose of this study is to generalize and analyze the research results on the onyms functioning in the electronic environment and Internet communication. The analysis highlights two the main areas of the research that have developed in science to date. The functioning of the proper name in the Internet discourse is the study object of the first group. The Internet environment is mainly a source of language material according to this group research, which is analyzed considering the electronic communications features (its polycode, informality, interactivity). The feature of this group research is that its’ the main object is represented either by specific linguistic phenomena or special types of discourse, while electronic communication is a secondary feature for its highlight. The second research direction involves the study of new onomastic phenomena that owe their existence to the context of the electronic environment and its communicative, pragmatic, and technical features. This research direction implies both the detection of new types of onyms that were generated by Internet communications, and the description of their characteristic semantic, pragmatic, stylistic, and formal grammatical features. A special status among the objects studied in the second direction is given to such a phenomenon as a nickname, which implements a whole set of features that allow us to talk about its principal novelty and uniqueness. A nickname is the result of autonomy in terms of pragmatic and communication. This contributes to its use as a means of self-presentation and expression; also, a nickname has noticeable formal features that represent the ways of its construction (free choice of motivational bases, language play, active use of non-alphabetic characters). There is also noted an impact of new phenomena in Internet onomastics on the onomastic system and emphasized the need for closer attention to this influence.

Pengaruh E-Commerce Terhadap Perilaku Konsumtif Masyarakat Di Kelurahan Karang Panjang Kota Ambon

The development of technology and ease of information is currently very influencing in all aspects of life, for example, the use of social media is not only used as a means of obtaining information and as a means of self-presentation, but social media is widely used as a means of doing business which we usually call an online shop. With technology that is increasingly developing, nowadays there are many online buying and selling sites wherein it collects many online shops into one site that makes it easier for buyers to get the items they want with various promos that attract people to shop on these sites. The purpose of this study is to determine whether e-commerce has an effect on people's consumptive behavior. The data collection technique used was a questionnaire, while the method used in this study was a descriptive quantitative method with a sample of 117 people who work as housewives and mothers who work by distributing questionnaires. The results showed that there is an effect of e-commerce on the consumer's behavior in Karang Panjang Village, Ambon City, this is shown by the correlation test data that has been carried out, the regression line equation Y = α + βX is Y = 16.890 + 0.491X and the regression results are obtained. r count = 0.762 and the significance level is 5% with N = 117

Women activists’ strategies of online self-presentation

Activists present themselves on- and offline using a diverse range of tools, discursive strategies, and means of self-presentation, all conducive to making both themselves and their cause well known. To that end, of paramount importance is their ability to make audiences and readers empathize, and a key factor all strategies have in common is the repetitive nature of their multiplatform, multimodal discourse. I build on previous research about platforms such as Twitter and TED talks as forms of self-narration to look at the ways human rights activists deploy such strategic communicative techniques to construct a public persona. I focus on young women from the Global South using English as a lingua franca. These tend to re-use rhetoric drawn from famous historical figures who stood for social justice in the past, and nuanced repetitive techniques characterized by emotion and affect to mobilize various constituencies. Both kinds of repetition, enhanced by the affordances of technology, create a new kind of ubiquity and can thus potentially influence policymaking. The article makes the case that the recent global viral popularity of young women activists such as Malala Yousafzai, Bana Alabed, and Nujeen Mustafa deserves deeper analysis. At stake is whether digital affordances of immediacy and reach can not only amplify such activists’ messages, but help them cross new borders and create new kinds of transnational solidarity.

Вербальная самопрезентация немецкоязычных инфлюенсеров в Instagram

The article covers the features of verbal self-presentation in the German-speaking segment of the Instagram Internet service. The study focuses on the virtual personality of influencers from Germany, who through blogging gain popularity among a large audience of users and achieve commercial benefits. The relevance of the work is predetermined by the anthropocentric paradigm of modern linguistics and the unflagging attention of philologists to the issues of Internet communication. The novelty is seen in the fact that for the first time an attempt is made to comprehensively consider verbal methods and means of self-presentation in the Instagram environment. The linguistic analysis of self-positioning of a special category of virtual communicants-influencers, which has no analogues in modern linguistics, is proposed. The author distinguishes four ways of verbal self-presentation in Instagram: self-nomination (user name and account name), self-description, caption for a photo or video, comment. The use of each method for the construction of a virtual image of the blogger is characterized separately. It is noted that all components of self-presentation of influencers demonstrate certain trends in the use of language tools. The structural, lexical, thematic, graphical specificity of the self-presentational ways is describes. The results of quantitative analysis of the vocabular diversity and readability of the texts produced by the influencers performed with the help of special software are presented.

Коммуникативно-прагматическая специфика моделей самопрезентации (на примере микроблога «Твиттер» Стивена Фрая)

The models of self-presentation as a way of constructing identity and a form of self-reflection are considered. The empirical material for the study was S. Fry’s self-identifying statements in the social network “Twitter,” which is estimated as the most egocentric discourse. Lexical-stylistic and grammatical means of self-presentation are analyzed, classification of models and structures of self-presentation is created. Particular attention is paid to the bright features of S. Fry’s idiostyle, such as the ironic self-identification with the help of special autoreference formulas. The question is raised about the possibility of gaming use of self-presentation statements to draw attention to his own figure, to construct identity through the creative use of language resources. Attention is paid to how the gaming self-presentation is used to create a speech mask, the construction of a special artistic image in which self-centeredness, awareness of self-importance is combined with an ironic attitude to himself. Conclusions about the language personality of S. Fry, idiocentrics microblog “Twitter” and the referential meanings of expressions, characterized by a communicative orientation.

A social identification approach to the effects of religious disclosures in business communication

This research expands on prior research into the effects of religious disclosures on interpersonal attraction by drawing from social identification theory to explain attributions stemming from religious disclosures in professionals’ e-mail signature blocks. Participants (N = 268) were randomly exposed to one of three experimental conditions (a Christian, Islamic, or secular quotation in a signature block) and completed measures of social identification and perceptions of professionalism. Results indicate that, contrary to prior research, merely disclosing one’s religion does not increase attributions; rather, attributions of a sender’s professionalism are positively derived from the receiver’s social identification with the sender’s religion. Implications of these findings are discussed with regard to social identity theory, as well as for professional practice in developing signature blocks as a means of self-presentation.

Adolescents in Web 2.0: risks and chances

That almost all adolescents possess an individual access to the internet and that they use it every day, lays the foundation for the improved means of self presentation and participation that are known by the notion of Web 2.0. Social networks and other interactive internet formats give rise to new risks like cyber mobbing which is the topic of three contributions. At the same time, Web 2.0 offers chances in the form of online counseling and online therapy that cater to the preferences of media-friendly target group of adolescents.

The Other Side of the Story and Alternative Scripts: Dones, Nosotras and Homes

The Other Side of the Story and Alternative Scripts:Dones, Nosotras and Homes Kathleen M. Glenn Jo sóc de la generació dels Beatles, una generació que va trencar amb tot: amb la música, amb la pintura, amb la literatura... Els de la meva edat no tenim gaires tabús i no ens espantem per res. - Isabel-Clara Simó, Domínguez Interview Feminist critics, in particular, have pointed out that the language and values of the powerful differ from those of the powerless and readers need to be sensitive to such differences. Years ago Judith Fetterley wrote of the importance of being a resisting reader and not letting oneself be co-opted by the values presented in male-produced literature. Rip Van Winkle may have considered his wife a shrew because she wanted him to be responsible and support his family, but readers need not buy into his (and Washington Irving's) masculinist prejudices.1 Writers too can offer resistance, and in her 1989 book Molly Hite draws attention to a strategy frequently utilized by contemporary women authors: that of showing the other side of what historically has been considered "the" story (male-authored, male-centered) and offering alternative versions which express different emphases. This other side, Hite declares, "has a venerable history of being the woman's side, the version that discloses how the heroine is constrained by a set of narrative givens not of her own making" (6). The concepts of the other side of the story and readerly resistance are important to the fiction of Catalan writer Isabel-Clara Simó, who has been a resisting [End Page 51] reader of male-centered literary and social scripts, which she has reformulated.2 Reflections on and portrayals of women's status are a constant of her fiction and constitute the essence of the collection of short stories Dones (1997). The present essay concentrates on several narratives that subsequently are woven together in the film Nosotras (2000) and then briefly discusses the film and Simó's Homes (2010).3 Simó emphasizes in Dones that all women are not alike ("Cada dona és un individu, no és l'espècie" [back cover of Dones]), and her tales depict a diverse group of characters and situations. The age and socioeconomic situation of the women differ, as does their civil status: single, married, divorced, "kept." Some are strong and some weak, some rebellious and others passive, some liberated and others not, some victims and some victimizers. Simó examines their values - which vary considerably - and the roles imposed upon them, in addition to their relationships with one another, with their boyfriends, husbands, lovers, or johns, and with their children. She subverts stereotypes and hackneyed ideas not only as to what women are like but also as to what they are capable of and what they want. In the process she employs diverse techniques and narrative structures, different focalizations and voices, and uses humor, hyperbole, irony, and colloquial language as effective strategies of subversion. Proceeding on the principle that not just by their fruits but also by their words ye shall know them, Simó has her characters speak for themselves. What they say and how they say it produces revealing portraits of self, with dialogue becoming the vehicle for often unwitting self-exposure. Readers are cast in the role of listeners who eavesdrop on a series of oral exchanges and, as in real life, determine the significance as well as the reliability of what others say. A number of feminist critics have shown that humor is a weapon that the powerless can wield against the powerful and a means of voicing principles and goals that differ from those of the dominant, male culture. In A Very Serious Thing: Women's Humor and American Culture, Nancy A. Walker declares that women tend to be storytellers rather than joke tellers. Humor functions for them more as a means of communication than as a means of self-presentation, a sharing of experience rather than a demonstration of cleverness. Related to this is the fact that women's humorous expression is almost never purely comic or absurd. Even when, as is frequently the case, it points to...

Exploring the Purchasing Motives of Young Pakistani Consumers for Foreign Brands

Cross-border service relationships are considerable issues in Pakistan, which tend researchers to work in this area of research. The core purpose of this study was to explore the impact of quality, satisfaction, and value on purchase intentions for foreign brands among young Pakistani customers. The data was collected from a random sample of 500 university students through questionnaire designed by the researchers. The findings suggest that providing quality and satisfaction to Pakistani ethnocentric customers does not guarantee the brand to earn loyalty in return. Foreign brands can succeed in creating brand value through creating a convinced link with some tangible benefits and by creating means of self-presentation for the customers. The student’s responses can be assumed as a limitation of this study, which can be justified by considering the fact that the study is first of its type in the Pakistani environment.

Visual Communication on the Hungarian Social Networking Site IWIW

The aim of this paper is to analyze the visual communication means of self presentation on the Hungarian social networking site IWIW. On the one hand, it aims at mapping young IWIW users’ habits of a small town from Romania, Miercurea Ciuc; on the other hand it examines to what extent the visual self presentation of young people is marked by self-idealization practices and by the tendency of revealing one’s privacy, as described by social networking literature. Our hypothesis is that young people under study have a considerable tendency to self-idealisation and exhibitionism.

Picturing the New Middle Class: Two 19th Century Portraits of Serbian Women

Picturing the New Middle Class:Two 19th Century Portraits of Serbian Women* Ljubomir Milanović [Illustrations] During a recent visit to Belgrade fashion designer Milan St. Marković's apartment, my eye chanced upon two portraits of young women (Figs. M-1 and M-2 in the graphic insert following p. 200 of this issue).1 What drew my attention is that the women in these paintings looked very similar, and yet they sent a markedly different message to the spectator. Their most attractive features are the dresses that fill both canvases and the clandestine eroticism emanating from their carefully comported bodies. Little is known about these sitters except that they were cousins of Mr. Marković and siblings of Stevan Petrović, better known as Knićanin (1807-59). Knićanin was a member of the Council in Serbia during the reign of prince Aleksandar Karaðorðević (1842-58) and was a commander of the Serbian volunteers in Vojvodina during the revolution of 1848.2 The author of the portraits is unknown; however, several indicators, which will be discussed later, suggest the hand of Uroš Knežević (1811-76). The rise of the new elite classes in Serbia in the nineteenth century was accompanied by a new taste for secular subjects that reflected everyday life. This interest in representations of everyday life grew stronger at every level of [End Page 181] society and elicited an artistic response. Portraiture played a crucial role in the development of these new bourgeois modes of representation. The evolution of Serbian portrait painting was therefore deeply bound up with the economic, social, and national changes that took place during the nineteenth century.3 Given that the subject of a portrait is the human body, it may be argued that ideological content plays a greater role here than in any other genre of painting.4 Baudelaire wrote that there are two ways of understanding portraiture: either as history or as fiction.5 With this insight, the French critic recognizes the conflicting demands of portraiture in relation to its dual function as historical record and transformative fiction. The discussion of portraits of Serbian women in the middle of the nineteenth century touches on the broader question of the role of women in society at large, of their emancipation and participation in the exercise of social power. During the nineteenth century interest in human personality and the desire for self-knowledge increased. With this, however, came heightened investment in the use of representations as a key form of public self-fashioning. The new visual idioms of nineteenth century Serbian female portraiture attempted to satisfy the paradoxical demands for naturalism on the one hand, and the evolving social roles of their sitters on the other. Visual representations could ideologically reconcile these two opposing impulses by giving the semblance of the real while furthering the social aspirations of their subjects. Corporeal rhetoric was a key component of this program. This new body language paralleled the traditional rules of verbal action, which encompassed every aspect of behavior, posture, gesture, facial expression, and even dress, i.e. all the instruments which a "speaker" can use in order to make a desired impression on his or her audience. In this paper I will, therefore, argue that we may view the portraits of Petrović sisters in light of their social context as manifested in the representation of their gestures, clothing, compartment, and other indicators of the evolution of women in nineteenth century Serbian culture. [End Page 182] Uroš Knežević was a well-known Serbian portraitist of the nineteenth century.6 Most of his commissions came from members of the middle class who tried to find a way for a more public means of self presentation. Knežević become famous for his keen eye for detail. In his attempt to be more historically accurate, the artist meticulously noted every particular detail of the elaborate costumes of the epoch. After completing two years at the Vienna Academy of art, where he was educated in the classical tradition, he introduced romantic elements into his paintings: brighter color, contemporary fashion, and often included some folk elements. These innovations were employed in order to emphasize the status of the individual...