In this article there were proposed psychological factors of the discourse’s actualization. They are, first all, psycholinguistic presupposition in process communication, quasi- communication or understanding text is a special kind logical mastering information, cognitive explication frames by means actualization common fund knowledge participants about world, its organization, place person it ...

Contemporary reality presents the paradoxical world of information at its most extensive against the subsequent global spread of the individual's isolation. Isolation presented from the perspective of Finnish filmmaker Aki Kaurismäki. His film The Match Factory Girl is a story about human frailty, which brings us to recognize some of the weaknesses of our time and at the same time allows us to ...

This chapter proposes to the discussion a set of principles for a design-oriented analysis of technico-organisational systems as dynamic, living, social and cultural systems, through eleven questions. After developing an ontological notion of complexity adequate to technico-organisational systems, these questions deal with the different theoretical, epistemological and methodological (data coll...

This paper analyses the expansion of the world’s largest food and beverage multinational enterprises (hereafter, F&B MNEs) over 1996-2002 using a database that provides detailed information on the location and activities of more than 8,000 affiliates. The research provides abundant empirical support to the view that F&B MNEs operate on a worldwide scale and although their share of foreign to to...

The Ethnosocial identification actualizes the issue of interaction population groups on both sides border in a global world. dual ethnic residents regions, their acquisition new features neighboring cultural environment, formation special identity is raised. Similar examples exist various countries world, including European Union, United States America, People's Republic China and Russian Feder...

Research Article * Michael Barrett was the accepting senior editor. This article was submitted on 31st March 2010 and went through three revisions. Diane M. Strong Worcester Polytechnic Institute