Purpose – The aim of this paper is to examine the impact of the digital culture on the music industry through an analysis of official and unofficial websites, media reports and discussions with musicians. Research Design A critical social theory approach is adopted to examine structures and processes related to communication between artists, fans, the media, as well as commercial and independen...

the purpose of this research is to prioritize the indexes of discretion, heterogeny and autogeny factors in order to analyze and evaluate their readiness for ideal situation of central bank of the islamic republic of iran (cbi). this research is an exploratory kind and in terms of method is a survey kind. the data collection tool is questionnaire. after two delphi cycles, in final questionnaire...

Since the early 1980s, composition studies has arrived at a broad consensus that it is important to understand how social contexts relate to the cognitive processes and individual behaviors involved in writing and reading texts, although within this broad consensus are various notions of context and of how contexts relate to processes and texts. Drawing on both structuralist and everyday accoun...

This paper aims to show how we can make progress in elucidating how people understand speech by changing our focus of inquiry from abstraction of formal units of linguistic analysis to a detailed analysis of global aspects of the communicative situation, of which speech is just one part. It uses evidence of (a) the communicative importance of fine phonetic detail and (b) exemplar memory for spe...

This paper aims to show how we can make progress in elucidating how people understand speech by changing our focus of inquiry from abstraction of formal units of linguistic analysis to a detailed analysis of global aspects of the communicative situation, of which speech is just one part. It uses evidence of (a) the communicative importance of fine phonetic detail and (b) exemplar memory for spe...

A repeated game is a formal model for analyzing cooperation in long-term relationships. The case where each player observes her opponent’s action with some observation errors (imperfect private monitoring) is difficult to analyze, and existing works show that cooperative relations can be sustainable only in ideal situations. We deal with a generic problem that can model both the prisoner’s dile...

The study describes an effort to evaluate the speech difficulties as perceived by individuals with dysarthria. A self-report questionnaire, Living with Neurologically Based Speech Difficulties (Living with Dysarthria), was answered by 55 individuals with varying types and degrees of dysarthria. Results show that both type and degree of subjectively perceived communicative difficulties varied. D...

employee empowerment and organizational citizenship behavior have very important roles in the process of accomplishment and continuous development of organizational performance. therefore, the purpose of this article is to determine the relationship between these two variables in employees of qom province pedagogical organization. ninety nine statistical samples were selected from the populatio...

A comprehensive approach for describing the functional and behavioral aspects of communicative actions, e.g. facial, manual, and vocal tract actions, has been established for face-to-face-communication (Cogn Process 11:187-205, 2010). Within the speech domain, this approach will now be extended in two ways: (i) by introducing level actions such as turn, breath group, phrase, stress group, sylla...