Search results for "websites"

Closeness and distance through the agentive authorial voice: construing credibility in promotional discourse.

2020

Credibility is a function associated with promotional genres and persuasion, and a powerful marketing concept (Eisend, 2006; Ming, 2006) which provides trustworthiness about the quality of products or services offered by hotels (Suau-Jiménez, 2012a, 2019). It is partly attained through the hotel‘s self-mentioning in websites. When this self-mentioning is agentive with action verbs, the main instantiation is the pronoun we, projecting closeness and assertiveness. However, this self-representation is also construed with depersonalized realizations like the hotel‘s proper name, other nominalizations or even pronouns like it and they, which provide attenuating aspects and create a sense of dist…

La diffusion des NTIC au sein du réseau urbain français et le rôle des acteurs publics

2001

The study deals with the ways in which the general public and the government make use of new information and communication technologies. We analyze the physical locations of Internet sites with “fr” as their domain names. The data were provided by the French NIC center (AFNIC). Using this sample (a quarter of all French sites), we find a rather even distribution of French sites in the Paris area plus the other main French cities, and the remainder of France. In addition, we try to enumerate the initiatives of the public actors responsible for the regional planning of the new information and communication technologies. Firstly, we clarify the economic and legal framework in which public acto…

Ważność kryteriów oceny wiarygodności witryn internetowych na podstawie badań

2019

Wiarygodność witryny internetowej oznacza przeświadczenie użytkownika, że jego oczekiwania dotyczące otrzymania określonych informacji z tej witryny zostaną spełnione bez ponoszenia dodatkowych, nieuzasadnionych kosztów: ekonomicznych, społecznych, psychologicznych, prawnych, etycznych. Dokonywanie oceny wiarygodności witryn wymaga jej konceptualizacji i operacjonalizacji. W literaturze przedmiotu zidentyfikowano różne wymiary wiarygodności witryn oraz wiele zestawów kryteriów jej oceny. Jednak w zasadzie brak jest określenia ważności poszczególnych kryteriów, co pozwoliłoby na tworzenie rankingów witryn. Dlatego celem wstępnych badań przeprowadzonych metodą sondażową było wypełnienie tej l…

Il processo decisionale online: rassegna di studi empirici e confronto tra Siti Internet per l'Aiuto alle Decisioni negli Stati Uniti e in Europa

2005

With the advent of the Internet, decision making researchers have extended their research scope from traditional "offline" contexts to the increasingly more common "online" decision environment. At the same time, on the Web an increasing number of "decision-facilitating websites" have appeared - spaces finalized to help users make "online" decisions. In the present work we a) present and discuss the most important decision facilitating websites; b) review the main results obtained by the fledgling field of Web-based decision research.

Discourse about the end of the world

2015

Abstract The increased prevalence of discourse concerning the expected end of the world was observed in various countries and manifested in various genres especially in the years 2000 and 2012. Some of the discourse was conducted in a serious manner, whereas other instances included humorous motifs and were used for commercial purposes. The aim of this paper is to take a closer look at the typical motifs prevailing in the discourse concerning the end of the world, with special emphasis on the humorous aspect - both universal and culture-specific. Texts found on Polish, German, English and Russian websites were analyzed. In the studied material, the end of the world was understood literally …

Advance booking across channels: The effects on dynamic pricing

2021

This research analyzes the effects of advance booking and channel type on hotel rates. While this relationship has been addressed in the literature, most studies take a partial approach by focusing only on one distribution channel or one destination. This study fills this gap by analyzing the price dynamics for four channels and multiple destinations. The data set consists of 39,363 bookings for 1085 hotels over 27 consecutive months. We used two-stage least squares to solve potential endogeneity issues, and the results proved that distribution channel, hotel type and hotel size have an influence on the effect of advance booking on hotel rates. Critical managerial implications are discussed…

Siti Web Museali: Identità Perdute. Appunti per una “storia” del progetto web museale nei primi anni 2000

2021

This discussion tries to investigate the theme of the "web amnesia" in relation to the website project of cultural institutions. More precisely, the reflection is inspired by a "rereading" of a research experience gained within the University of Palermo through the drafting of a doctoral thesis entitled "The web for culture. From digital identity to the design of online services” which had as its objective the mapping of the websites of museums or cultural institutions in relation to quality criteria, operational indications, design guidelines and, in general, to all the issues of the sectoral scientific debate of the early 2000s. Today, thanks to this possible reinterpretation, this resear…

La migrazione nei discorsi online di alcuni partiti italiani

2017

Cosa scrivono online partiti e leader sul tema migrazione? Il contributo presenta una sintesi dei risultati di una ricerca esplorativa realizzata sui siti ufficiali di alcuni partiti italiani (Partito Democratico, Forza Italia, Lega Nord e Movimento 5 Stelle) e sulle pagine Facebook dei loro leader, mostrando le diverse modalità di costruzione della issue e le varie cornici interpretative utilizzate. What do political parties and leaders write online on migration? This paper present a summary of the results of an exploratory research carried out on the official sites of some Italian parties (Partito Democratico, Forza Italia, Lega Nord and Movimento 5 Stelle) and on their Facebook page of t…

Errors within web-based surveys: a comparison between two different tools for the analysis of tourist destinations websites quality

2011

Bilingual corporate websites - from translation to transcreation?

2013

Published version of an article in the journal: Journal of Specialised Translation. Also available from the publisher at: http://www.jostrans.org/issue20/art_rike.pdf Open Access As an increasing number of companies see the world as their marketplace, bilingual and/or multilingual websites are becoming increasingly common, and the demand for translations in this domain is growing. Corporate websites are multimodal, and verbal messages, images, layout and sometimes animations and sound interact to create the rhetoric on the site. With web texts being instantly available to readers anywhere, the translator’s role as a cultural mediator attains a special significance as the texts may be access…