Editor’s Words

Rhetoric and Communications E-journal, Issue 33, March 2018

Special issue – papers of 4th ESTIDIA conference “Dialogues without borders: strategies of interpersonal and inter-group communication”

Prof. Ivanka Mavrodieva, assoc. prof. Stefan Serezliev, assist. Prof. Nikolina Tsvetkova

Three consecutive issues of the Rhetoric and Communications E-journal (issue 33, issue 34, issue 34) will include papers from the 4th ESTIDIA conference “Dialogues without borders: strategies of interpersonal and inter-group communication”. Организатори на събитието са ESTIDIA, the Institute of Rhetoric and Communications and the Faculty of Philosophy, Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridski”.

The 4th ESTIDIA conference “Dialogues without borders: strategies of interpersonal and inter-group communication was held on 29 30 September 2017 at the Faculty of Philosophy, Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridski”, Sofia, Bulgaria.

More than 100 representatives of universities from 25 countries took part in the conference. They delivered papers in 10 sections and 5 workshops.

The papers were selected, reviewed and edited by members of the Scientific Committee of the 4th ESTIDIA conference, members of the Editorial Board and experts from the fields of rhetoric, media, communication, etc.

Issue 33, March 2018 includes 11 papers in the following sections:

  • Rhetoric: traditional and new manifestations;

  • Media and Online Communication;

  • Intercultural Communication;

  • Communication and Arts;

  • Communication and Business.

The authors are:

– well-known scientists among whom Rafael Jiménez Cataño (University of the Holy Cross, Rome, Italy); Katarzyna Gajlewicz-Korab, Anna Jupowicz-Ginalska, Joanna Szylko-Kwas (Warsaw University, Poland), Lilia Raycheva (Sofia University, Faculty of Journalism and Mass Communication);

– lecturers from various universities in Bulgaria: Kamen Tsvetkov (University of Architecture, Civil Engineering and Geodesy, Faculty of Architecture), Eli Popova (Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridski”); Tsvetelina Tsvetanova Panchelieva (Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridski”);

– young researchers: Iglika Kassabova (City College, International Faculty of Sheffield University, Bulgaria), Mariyan Tomov and Gergana Rayzhekova (Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridski”, Faculty of Journalism and Mass Communication);

PhD students: Maya Yaneva (University of Finance, Business and Entrepreneurship), Maria Genova (Teacher-in-chief, 2ELS, Sofia, Bulgaria).

Сп. „Реторика и комуникации“, брой 33, март 2018 г., http://rhetoric.bg/

Rhetoric and Communications E-journal, Issue 33, March 2018, http://journal.rhetoric.bg/

Special Issue“Dialogues without borders: strategies of interpersonal and inter-group communication, 29 30 September 2017, Faculty of Philosophy, Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridski”, Sofia, Bulgaria