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Public awareness of the health hazards of smoking intensified when the subject received national publicity. To assess tobacco industry tactics to counter adverse publicity, we performed a content analysis of cigarette ads in selected issues of Time magazine, for selected years from 1929-84. The analysis showed direct responses to health concerns in all of the years of major smoking-and-health "...

This paper reviews current research regarding the prevalence and possible etiological factors associated with male sexual coercion, defi ned here as a class of inappropriate male behaviors in which nonphysical tactics (e.g., verbal pressure, lying, deceit, and continual arguments) are utilized to obtain sexual contact with an unwilling adult female. This form of sexual misconduct is contrasted ...

This article is devoted to the study of verbal aggression. question has been little studied in modern linguistics so far. The analyzed statements Donald Trump and Joe Biden framework political discourse. Types aggression were identified using methods content analysis, discourse analysis pragmalinguistic analysis. In addition, characteristics linguistic personalities terms their use tools actual...

Mand functions for two stimuli (A1 and A2) were trained for 3 children with autism and were then incorporated into two related conditional discriminations (A1-B1/A2 -B2 and B1-C1/B2-C2). Tests were conducted to probe for a derived transfer of mand response functions from A1 and A2 to C1 and C2, respectively. When 1 participant failed to demonstrate derived transfer of mand response functions, t...

Information seeking process is an important topic in information seeking behavior research. Both qualitative and empirical methods have been adopted in analyzing information seeking processes, with major focus on uncovering the latent search tactics behind user behaviors. Most of the existing works require defining search tactics in advance and coding data manually. Among the few works that can...

The paper considers the metanarrative (exegetical) and metafictional (diegetical) aspects of a work, ways author’s contacts with reader/listener. nature addressing may be direct, which implies explicit addressee, hidden, designed for implicit addressee. latter is present as an ideal recipient who perceives aesthetic mode work. strategy intimate connection reader based on ascending evaluative di...

The present paper deals with the study of tactics implementing strategy language influence in English-language movie posters. It is considered that advertising posters are oriented on pragmatically focused impact potential viewers, stimulate their interest, persuade them, emotions, feelings or rationality and create algorithm behavior. Motivational strategies proposing, reminding encouraging ac...