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This present research deals with cultural and psycho-sociological reexamination of both structure and function of the collective behaviour, characterized by non-conventionalism and which are, in public opinion, evaluated negatively from the ethical perspective, giving birth to a disappointing feeling and a guilty attitude of the community. The authors have proposed the term of disappointing collective behaviour for efficiency, and they have identified two major components: the problematic situation and the presence of an arbitrary constituted community, as well as the double proportion (real and imaginary) between them. They have presented two emblematical cases of disappointing collective behaviour: Deletha Word (Detroit, 1995) and Angel Arce Torres (Hartford, 2008) and they have investigated them from the procedure perspective, as well as their public perception. The authors have identified three types of disappointing sources in front of collective non-interventionist behaviour (cultural, psycho-cultural and social). The penultimate chapter is dedicated to analysis of three recent cases of disappointing collective behaviour, while the last chapter presents the research conclusions. Adapted from the source document.

If the academic field of death studies is a prosperous one, there still seems to be a level of mistrust concerning the capacity of literature to provide socially relevant information about death and to help improve the anthropological understanding of how culture is shaped by the human condition of mortality. Furthermore, the relationship between literature and death tends to be trivialized, in the sense that death representations are interpreted in an over-aestheticized manner. As such, this.

Set against a double background, the sociology of ageing and the digital sociology, and using concepts and theories from the field of leisure studies, the present study approached Romanian elderly (60+) users of Facebook in an exploratory qualitative research, combining content analysis, interviews and participative observation. The main objectives are to explore the elderly online behaviour in terms of preferences, distributed content, as well as motivations, perceived benefits and challenges related to their online life, and also to investigate the connection between their digital selves and their offline identities. The paper also discusses the measure in which social media is understood by Romanian senior citizens as a digital leisure, beyond the instrumental role of connecting the lonely elders with their families and friends. The study reveals the tension between the attraction that Facebook exerts on Romanian seniors and the anxiety it generates. It highlights also that for Romanian elders, Facebook provides a fragile digital leisure, as they see their time spent on the social network as rather shallow and hedonistic. Moreover, seeing Facebook as a territory dominated by younger generations contributes to digital exclusion, sometimes along with a feeling of inadequacy and vulnerability.

This book features a selection of the most representative papers presented during the international conference Dying and Death in 18th-21st Century Europe (ABDD). It invites you on a fascinating journey across the last three centuries of Europe, Other death as your guide. The past and present realities of the complex phenomena of death and dying in Romania, the United Kingdom, Bulgaria, Serbia, the Czech Republic, the Netherlands, and Italy are dealt Other, by authors from varying backgrounds:.

With a qualitative methodology and an interdisciplinary approach, this paper focuses on the most prominent public narratives related to elders and old age produced in the context of the January-February 2017 collective manifestations against the attempts of Romanian government to decriminalise corruption, manifestations where old people were believed to play a negative role. The study highlights the thanatic imagery which infuses the attitudes towards ageing and old age and intensifies the negative stereotypes of old people. The findings show that, starting from the use of the social syntax of war, the diverse identities of Romanian elders are totally ignored in these narratives, while a general, narrow identity is constructed through horizontal and vertical generalization, through replacing positive stereotypes of old age with negative ones and through transforming the elders into a radical Otherness. Undermining elders’ social identities was discussed as an element of affecting their social inclusion and increasing the risk of condemning them to social death. Also it was observed and examined the existence of three major thanatic metaphors: the toothless mouth, the bowed head and living on borrowed time.

This paper aims to identify the most recurrent linguistic devices used in advertising texts. As previous research has established that language use shapes and determines consumer behavior, its importance in any advertising message is unquestionable. Therefore, we propose to find out the most widely used linguistic patterns, grammatical structures, and occurrence of certain linguistic features by investigating a corpus of advertising messages selected from print and online media.

Business English governs almost all business communication at global level, which has led to an increasing concern of how we learn and teach business English for various economic fields. Over the years, business English teachers and trainers have used various teaching methods and approaches, while permanently examining the impact of each technique on learners' language proficiency. Information and communication technologies have brought about new tools that business English teachers can make use of and incorporate in the teaching process. The digital age reshapes all fields of activity, and offers innovative ways of meeting targets. Thus, the business English teacher was offered virtual learning/teaching environments, and plenty of tools, such as multimedia tools, online resources, email, TEFL blogging, social networks, etc., to take advantage of in the teaching/learning process. Traditional teaching methods have been blended with modern techniques and approaches, while constantly incorporating various components of ICT tools. [PUBLICATION ABSTRACT]

In intercultural business negotiations, awareness of intercultural differences is a vital issue. Businessmen acting and negotiating in intercultural environments need to consider culture-related aspects and pay attention to specific patterns of thinking, feeling, and behaving which vary across cultures. In all business negotiations, non-verbal communication plays a key role alongside verbal communication. Non-verbal communication includes body posture, gestures, facial expressions, eye contact, touch, body distance, etc. Gestures and body language communicate as effectively as words. Non-verbal communication is culturebound and body language and gestures have to be interpreted according to the appropriate cultural context. [PUBLICATION ABSTRACT]

Our study aims to point out, especially from a cultural point of view, using an interdisciplinary approach, the fact that the problematic status of cremation in contemporary Romania, as well as the status of Western cremation makes a bioethical perspective necessary. Our paper supports the idea that bioethics should study cremation, because cremation symbolises life and death at the same time and it is a delicate subject as far as the communication between the historical and religious aspects is concerned. Also, bioethics is underpinned by a strong ontological principle (e.g. noticeable in the human dignity concept), fundamental to a good understanding of cremation, especially as a personal choice and decision towards one's own post-mortem situation. A second purpose of the study is to demonstrate that the reinvestigation of imaginaries corresponding to cremation (fire, ash and death) is a premise for its bioethical reconstruction, because the imaginary can offer answers for a series of current attitudes regarding cremation.

In the pseudo-summary of the book there are over 90 authors whose writings are discusses in the book. [...]the analysis of the literary works slips often in the analysis of the literary critique that has approached them, so that the death theme and inclination tends to spread in a fractal manner. [...]we may say that there is a benefit of being aware and knowing death as a universal phenomenon and yet reflected in multiple manners by literary works, just as there is the possibility that the reader experiments the revelation of his own mortality (and then of a new beginning of ars moriendi), of his own deathness culturally and literally mediated, as Irina Petra§ highlights.