PERCEPTION AND REPRESENTATION AS LIMITS OF KNOWLEDGE
Abstract: The problem of perception is fundamental for a general epistemology. In the history of philosophy every analysis of the possibilities of knowledge had a foundation in the problem of reality perception. Even today this problem is still recent and unsolvable. The modern anatomy and psychology give a new vision of this problem, but it is not enough. In relation with the traditional epistemology and modern science, we try to explain the limits of perceptive realism, and how it is possible to construct a unitary vision of reality.
Keywords: visual, perception, knowledge, Gestalt, holism,imaginary
INTERROGATIVE STRATEGIES OF DOCTOR – PATIENT COMMUNICATION
Abstract: The doctor-patient communication as the basis of health communication matrix, regardless the level at which it takes place – national, international or global – has a diversified, inhomogeneous base. This disparate legacy led to a development of health communication types of communication patterns taken from other sciences (psychology, computer science, anthropology, sociology, public policy, etc.) applied in particular contexts. The direct consequence of this fact has led to the proliferation of communication patterns based on medical schools, successful personalities in health, cultural values, moral, social, political of the various communities. In recent research in this field, that see in communication an end in itself, reducing communication theories as more structured models adopt a bottom-up perspective on specific issues facing today’s society (poverty, human rights, health) but with wider applicability (Jon Christianson) has been tried to be applied. Another perspective in health communication is the overall approach (Obregon and Waisbord) that tried a strengthening of health communication through the convergence of communication theories. The paradigm in which we have outlined these tests is a common communication development. In this paper I will try an approach to doctor-patient communication starting from the communicational paradigm, supporting the possibility of convergence of communication theories based on interrogative strategies essential to any kind of communication. As methodology for addressing this problem, of pragmatic reasons I will outline first the current directions of development of communication intended to provide an overview of the doctor-patient communication as an integral part of global health communication. In the second stage, the research will focus on interrogative strategies, questions types and ways to use. The pragmatic aim of this paper would be to outline an effective tool easy to adapt to complex situations involved in the doctor-patient communication.
Keywords: doctor-patient communication, health communication, participatory model, questioning strategy
THE TREATY ESTABLISHING A CONSTITUTION FOR EUROPE - THE EUROPEAN CONSTITUTION
Abstract: The project for the Treaty establishing a Constitution for Europe was approved at the Intergovernmental Conference on the 18th of June 2004, after the shock wave caused by the terrorist attacks in Madrid (Spain) in March 2004, when the leaders of the European Union’s finally came to an understanding regarding the European Constitution. On October 29, 2004, in Rome, one of the most important historical events of the last decades took place by signing the Treaty establishing a Constitution for Europe. Leaders of the EU member states have put their signature on this document during a ceremony that was held in the same place where, about half a century ago, the famous Treaties of Rome had been signed, constituting the European Economic Community (EEC) and the European Atomic Energy Community (Euratom).
Keywords: socio-economic harmonization, juridical harmonization, political harmonization, European Constitution , European Parliament, European Senate, Federal Supreme Court, Local Federal Court, Council of the European Union
CINEMATOGRAPHIC DYSTOPIAS ALARM SIGNALS IN THE GLOBALISATION ERA
Abstract: The present paper analyses the role of several cinematographic dystopias in shaping mentality in the globalisation process. Cinematography, an independent art form and also an industry, is a part of the globalisation process. Cinematographic works are accessible worldwide and reach peoples of all cultures and cultural level, raising awareness of several problems that affect the people on entire planet: scientific progress, love, political forms of government, pollution, virtual reality, massmedia ethics etc. The dystopias discussed in our study are successful cinematographic production, multi awarded and popular: “Branded”, “Equilibrium”, “The Island”, “Aeon Flux”, “Never let Me Go”, “Cargo” and “The Matrix”. We will argue that these productions help raising awareness to the issues named above and help mould people’s emotional response to them.
Keywords: cinematography, dystopia, possible future, ethics, responsibility, totalitarian regimes, manipulation
THE LACK OF CRITICAL THINKING IN THE ROMANIAN EDUCATIONAL SYSTEM: A SIMPLE COMMUNICATION PROBLEM?
Abstract: Critical thinking helps to formulate the right questions to evaluate responses to formulate value judgments about the credibility of sources and information and to formulate your own value judgments based on evidence.
Although continuously reformed over the past 20 years, the Romanian higher education has not yet internalized study subjects to ensure the development of critical thinking. Students still do not realize that must ask themselves: Why? and formulate value judgments considering the consequences of their statements or actions. Although theoretically academics know that a modern educational system synthesizes the earlier stages of learning, knowledge and generates prospective relationships transferred in the future in an attempt to understand the needs of human nature, to look beyond known landmarks and find new steps of waiting, basically they are limited to the present the evolutionary precepts and principles of education modernization without adding practical component to effectively develop skills designed to continue the evolution of human civilization. The lack of awareness of the need to shape a critical thinking could it be only a matter of communication? How can teachers and decision makers of Romanian higher education debate the issue of critical thinking and to reach reliable conclusions, without the results to be evident in practice and students to stick to the retrieved value judgments and avoid their own efforts of detection, corroboration and interpretation of data mysteries of the intellect, that is, those of the thinking mechanisms and of the human action.
Keywords: Formative, informative, effective training, development and critical thinking
ORGANISATIONAL CULTURES FOR PRE-EXPERIENCE LANGUAGE LEARNERS
Abstract: This paper aims at rendering the perception of preexperience learners of ESP (Ellis and Johnson, 1994) on organisational cultures at a Romanian Faculty of Economics and Business Administration based on the results of a questionnaire intended for upper-intermediate students. The respondents’ choices will be interpreted in the context of their specialism at the undergraduate level
Keywords: communicative language teaching, organisational cultures, pre-experience language learners, questionnaire-based research
THE PROCESS OF COMMUNICATION IN THE CLASSROOM
Abstract: Starting from the definition of communication, its components, objectives and taxonomy, we will try to point out some of the most important characteristics of this process of delivering information and feelings that should be taken into account in a classroom environment. We will also discuss some of the problems that might appear in transmitting the message to students and their possible solutions. Thus, in our endeavour we will focus on the teachers and how they can use those communication principles in day-to-day activities, as well as in the related tasks that concern class management.
Keywords: written and oral communication, metacommunication, problems and solutions
COLOUR TERMS IN SELF-TRANSLATION: THE NOVELS “CONCLUSIVE EVIDENCE” AND “DRUGIE BEREGA” BY VLADIMIR NABOKOV
Abstract: The present research is centred around one of the most interesting aspects of text analysis – the colour. The novels chosen for the analysis – “Conclusive Evidence” by Valdimir Nabokov and its self-translation “Drugie berega” – present a great interest from this perspective since they abound in colour. Moreover, the colourful picture created in these two novels seems to be of major importance for the author since Nabokov’s palette is extremely elaborate; thus, by studying colour we aim to penetrate into the author’s purport. The aim of this article is to present the results of the numeric analysis of colour occurrences in the texts of the two novels under discussion. Such kind of analysis seems to be significant for our purposes since it can give us a most clear idea of some basic features of both texts, as well as some essential discrepancies between them.
Keywords: colour terms, Vladimir Nabokov, selftranslation, confrontational analysis
THE NARRATIVE ART IN THE WORK OF MIHAIL SEBASTIAN
Abstract: Characterized by wit and lucid analytical sense Mihail Sebastian’s narrative is a direct or indirect confession which combines common themes with those found in the works of his generation colleagues, such as the a adventure for the pursuit of knowledge, the erotic adventure, the feeling of the tragic, of failure, of holiness, the sane passions but also rebellion of the spirit. The narrative essence of Mihail Sebastian’s prose demonstrates introspective thinking, a fact, a character being analyzed from several perspectives, and this determines the increase of the authenticity and of very similitude dimension of his work.
Keywords: narrator, narration, narrative art, narrative structure, narrative technique , wars, character authenticity
CRISIS COMMUNICATION – BETWEEN INABILITY AND MASTERY
Abstract: Despite all the warnings and social experiences of postmodernity, we are dealing with a crisis of communication, the reasons varying from ignorance to the distrust in the virtues and “recipes” associated to the field. The hope in miraculous solutions from the public relations “prophets” does not soothe the dialogue deficit of the moment, whether talking about organisations, public figures, nations or ordinary people.
The cases present in the specialty literature accredit the idea of an optimistic approach of any crisis of communication, not only bearer of professional challenge beneficial to the personal development of the “public relations specialist” or to the history of the suffering institution, but also tenderer of an unhoped opportunity: public visibility or extra confidence and, why not, the possibility of winning strategy export.
The fact that too few crises of communication convert to (professional) social success denotes the inability of the actors employed in such roles to put in work the emergency therapeutic arsenal. Mastery requires something more…
THE CRISIS OF COMMUNICATION IN DEMOCRACY
Abstract: The predominant theory of democracy that of rational deliberation is based on the presumption that there is a moral theory as a basis of normative validity of the decisions acquired in a process of rational deliberacy. That person that starts from the idea that he has to use rational means of persuasion will implicitly believe that the rational argument will be the only instrument of persuasion, a priori excluding force, coercion or manipulation from the space of the common living. In other words, the process of rational deliberation presumes a equality of positions in society, that deriving from the symmetry of positions in dialogue. Starting from these considerations, Habermas builds up a theory focused on the following principle: in society, rules have moral validity only and if only they are discursively built up as a result of a deliberative process that must follow some conditions: anyone can bring any assertion in dialogue; anyone can contest any assertion; no one can be prevented from practising the rights mentioned above.
