Notions of “Good” and “Bad” in General but also in Terms of Attitude Towards Environmental Issues

2019 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 13-15
Author(s):  
Nicoleta Aurora Popescu

Abstract The contrastive analysis of the lexical and semantic traits of the adjective phraseology from the Romanian and English languages was made on the basis of notions presenting different qualities of man, such as good and bad generally speaking but also with regard to man’s attitude towards the environment and the man created environmental issues. The contrastive analysis has demonstrated that the phrasal systems of the Romanian and English languages generally have both common x and specific features. Their knowledge allows for a deeper understanding of these two languages.

2020 ◽  
Vol 28 (1) ◽  
pp. 223-248
Author(s):  
Marine Abraham

The aim of this study is to define the semiotic and linguistic components of social advertising, the objective of which is to raise awareness in western populations. To this end, we compare the procedures used in social and commercial posters, and highlight the importance of environmental issues in recent years, in which defending nature or commending natural concerns are more and more commonplace. Using a contrastive analysis of two campaigns by a French charitable organisation, France Nature Environnement (FNE), in 2011 and 2016, we reflect on the specific discursive strategies employed to seduce message receivers and demonstrate that both campaigns, the first through the use of irony and the second though the auguring of a better world, convince people of the need for sustainable development. En este trabajo, determinamos los parámetros semio-lingüísticos de las publicidades sociales que tienen como objetivo la concienciación de las poblaciones occidentales en la actualidad. Para ello, comparamos los procedimientos utilizados en los carteles sociales y comerciales, y ponemos de relieve la importancia de la cuestión medioambiental en estos últimos años, razón por la cual los objetos publicitarios defendiendo la naturaleza o preconizando lo natural resultan ser cada vez más frecuentes. En concreto, a partir del análisis contrastivo de dos campañas de la asociación francesa France Nature Environnement (FNE) de 2011 y 2016, revelamos pues las estrategias discursivas concretas empleadas para seducir a los receptores de nuestras sociedades contemporáneas y evidenciamos que tanto la campaña de 2011 basada en la ironía como la de 2016 presagiando un mundo mejor consiguen persuadir a los individuos de la importancia de un planeta sostenible.


2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (6) ◽  
pp. 753-758
Author(s):  
Silvia Woll

Innovators of in vitro meat (IVM) are convinced that this approach is the solution for problems related to current meat production and consumption, especially regarding animal welfare and environmental issues. However, the production conditions have yet to be fully clarified and there is still a lack of ethical discourses and critical debates on IVM. In consequence, discussion about the ethical justifiability and desirability of IVM remains hypothetical and we have to question those promises. This paper addresses the complex ethical aspects associated with IVM and the questions of whether, and under what conditions, the production of IVM represents an ethically justifiable solution for existing problems, especially in view of animal welfare, the environment, and society. There are particular hopes regarding the benefits that IVM could bring to animal welfare and the environment, but there are also strong doubts about their ethical benefits.


Crisis ◽  
2005 ◽  
Vol 26 (1) ◽  
pp. 25-33 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elizabeth King ◽  
Neil Frost

Abstract. A retrospective suicide study revealed that the Forestry Commission car parks in the New Forest in southern England were a previously unrecognized magnet for nonlocal suicides, attracting as high a proportion of “visitors” (35/43 in 1993-97) as among suicides who jumped from the cliffs at the infamous Beachy Head (39/48 in 1993-97). Over 95% of the car park suicides died from car exhaust gas poisoning. A multiagency initiative aimed to reduce the number of suicides in the 140 New Forest car parks where restricting access was impossible, and environmental issues paramount. Signs displaying the Samaritans' national telephone number were erected in the 26 car parks in which 50% of the car park suicides had occurred. Numbers, location, and residence of all car park deaths were monitored for 3 years. Corresponding changes in other forest registration districts were also monitored. During the 3-year intervention period the number of car park suicides fell significantly from 10/year, 1988-1997, to 3.3/year. The average annual total number of suicides in the New Forest registration district also decreased. No significant changes were found in comparable forest districts. The number of suicides in the New Forest car parks remained low during the 2 years following the evaluation.


2002 ◽  
Author(s):  
F. van Staden ◽  
V. Willers ◽  
L. Craffert ◽  
J. Marais ◽  
A. Fiedeldey ◽  
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