Rhetoric and Communications E-journal
Issue 35, July, 2018
Special issue – ESTDIA conference – 29-30 September 2017, Sofia, Sofia University, Bulgaria
Rhetoric: traditional and new manifestations
Fotini Egglezu – Rhetorical ‘paedeia’ in modern educational settings: From theory to praxis… again
Foteini Englezou is born in Athens. She studied Philosophy, Pedagogy and Psychology at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (School of Philosophy). She has been awarded by the Greek State Scholarship Foundation for her Master’s Degree in Language Arts. She is Doctor of Philosophy in Language Arts Education and Rhetoric. She speaks Greek, French, English, Italian.
Since 2017 she teaches Critical Pedagogy for the post-graduate students of the Master’s Program language Learning for Refugees and Migrants at the Hellenic Open University, while for the period 2015-2017 she taught as academic teacher Rhetoric and Argumentation. Also, since 2014 she is collaborating with the laboratory of Strategic Communication and Mass Media of the Department of International and European Studies at the University of Piraeus both in research level and as a certified trainer in debate by the International Debate Education Association (IDEA).
She participates to many conferences in Greece and abroad, while she has published numerous scientific papers on rhetoric, argumentation, the relation of rhetoric to critical pedagogy and to critical and active citizenry as well as in the uses of argument in political speech. Her first book The Teaching of Argumentation: From Oral to Written Speech. Theory and Praxis was published in 2014 (in Greek).
Since 2016 she is the founder and president of the Hellenic Institute of Rhetorical and Communication Studies (https://rhetoricinstitute.edu.gr/), which aims at empowering the scientific interest in Rhetoric, Argumentation and Communication both at theory and praxis level in education as well as in various fields of knowledge and action in Greece and abroad. E-mail: fegglezou@yahoo.gr
Samuel Mateus – Psychagogia and the Rhetoric of Desire and Affect
Samuel Mateus, phd, is Professor of Rhetoric and Communication in Madeira University (Portugal) and researches, among other topics, Visual Rhetoric and Advertsing Rhetoric. He is the author of “Introduction to Rhetoric” written in Portuguese (soon to be published). E-mail: sammateu@gmail.com
Rhetoric: traditional and new manifestations
Kathy O’Sullivan – English-medium instruction at university in China – student perceptions
Professor Kathy O’Sullivan is President, Global Partnerships at United Business Institutes, a group of business schools with campuses in Belgium, Luxembourg & China. With a PhD in Applied Linguistics from the University of Portsmouth, UK, a distinguished career has seen her assume many roles in education, including: consultant, executive director of student affairs, registrar and teacher. She has authored numerous works, winning a host of awards. Her career in K-12, undergraduate, postgraduate and executive education has spanned the Middle East, Europe and Asia. Her research interests are multidisciplinary, with a focus on language education, teacher training and leadership. E-mail: kathyos@hotmail.com
Nikos Filipu – The role of Language Teachers in the CLIL curriculum
Nikos Folipu is a PhD student at Sofia University, the Faculty of Classical and Modern Philology. He is English Language Teacher, First English Language School, Sofia, Bulgaria. E-mail: nikosphilippou0368@yahoo.gr
Radeya Gesheva – Strategies for interpersonal and inter-group communication in the educational process: 21-st century skills
Radeya Gesheva is an assit. prof. at Sofia University, the Faculty of Classical and Modern Philology. She is a lecturer on Italian Language. Email: radeya.gesheva@gmail.com
Strategic and Business Communication
Ivan Angelov – Innovation Culture and Effective Management of Organizations
Ivan Ilchev Angelov, PhD. He defensed the dissertaion on managment of clasters at the Faculty of Econimics and Business Administration. E-mail: ivanangel@abv.bg
Philip Stoyanov – Similarities and differences between corporate social responsibility and social marketing
Philip Stoyanov is PhD Candidate. He is chief assist. professor at the University of National and World Economy. He is a lecturer on managment, corporate social responsibilty and marketing. Department of Management, Faculty of Management and Administration. E-mail: ph.stoyanov@unwe.bg
Intercultural Communication and International Branding
Margarita Bakracheva, Yanka Tosheva – Stereotypes and social representations as intercultural dialogue facilitators or impediments
Margarita Bakracheva, assos. prof. at Sofia University St. Kliment Ohridski and at European Polytechnical University. She is a lecturer on Psychology of personality, Social psychology, Strategic leadership, Sociopsychological training, Psychology of the Self-image, Diagnosis of abnormal behaviour. Differential psychology, Consultative psychology. Email: m.bakracheva@abv.bg
Yanka Tosheva
Yanka Tosheva – Prof. Ph D Yanka Totseva graduated Sofia University „St. Kliment Ohridski“ in 1984 year. She was a lecturer at the Shumen University until 2010. Since 2001 is Associate Professor of Theory of education and didactics (pedagogical rhetoric and didactic). She was a guest lecturer at universities and colleges in Italy, the Netherlands and Ireland.
Her’s interests are in information educational technology, intercultural education, intercultural communication, rhetoric and andragogy. Has extensive experience of working in the NGO sector. She has participated in over 30 national and international projects in civil and intercultural education. She has worked as an expert in Council of Europe and UNESCO. E-mail: y_totseva@abv.bg
Juliana Popova, Natalyia Venelinova – Reconstruction of the Internal and External Intergroup Relations of the University of Ruse through the Establishment of a Communication Strategy
Juliana Popova
Research and teaching activities in Intercultural Communication, Cross-cultural Management, International Negotiations and Organizational Culture at the Department of European Studies and International Relations, University of Ruse. Member of the Council of International Association of Cross-Cultural Competence and Management, Vienna, Austria, SIETAR-Bulgaria and the Bulgarian Union of Scientists, Ruse branch. Member of the Editorial board of the European Journal of Cross-Cultural Competence and Management, Innovative Management Journal and Journal of Applied Linguistic and Intercultural Studies. Author of 7 books and more than 80 publications in the field of Intercultural Communication, Cross-cultural Management and Organizational Culture. E-mail: jppopova@uni-ruse.bg
Natalyia Venelinova
Chief Assistant Professor Nataliya Venelinova, PhD
Research and teaching activities in communication studies, Image-making and branding, manipulative communication and persuasion, crisis and risk management as well as project management. Full-time lecturer at the Department of European Studies and International Relations, University of Ruse. Member of the Bulgarian Union of Scientists, Ruse branch. Co-author in 3 books and more than 10 publications, and author of large number of scientific articles dealing with communication management, images, lobbying, international communication and institutional branding and image-management.
E-mail: nvenelinova@uni-ruse.bg
English-medium instruction at university in China – student perceptions
Kathy O’Sullivan
Author biography:
Professor Kathy O’Sullivan is President, Global Partnerships at United Business Institutes, a group of business schools with campuses in Belgium, Luxembourg & China. With a PhD in Applied Linguistics from the University of Portsmouth, UK, a distinguished career has seen her assume many roles in education, including: consultant, executive director of student affairs, registrar and teacher. She has authored numerous works, winning a host of awards. Her career in K-12, undergraduate, postgraduate and executive education has spanned the Middle East, Europe and Asia. Her research interests are multidisciplinary, with a focus on language education, teacher training and leadership.