Ouachita Baptist University General Catalog 1988-1989

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The Trinity Reporter, Winter 1993

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DINAMICS OF THE TEAM WORK IN THE SMALL AND MEDIUM ENTERPRISES AS FUNCTIONAL BASIS OF THEIR PERMANENT DEVELOPMENT

The teams represent a bridge between the individual inventiveness and the\ud collective creativity. The synergy is partnership among the participants who share a\ud common goal that can be achieved only by joint action of all actors.\ud Each system must learn in order to survive, to develop and to adapt to the new\ud challenges that are permanently coming. The management of changes arises as a necessity,\ud because it gives direction, reduces the impact of the change, minimizes the losses, sets\ud standards for improvement of the organizational goals, and enables coordination of the\ud effort.\ud Of course, the intensification of the teamwork, perhaps at most, contributes to the\ud revitalization of those parts of the organization that necessarily require change. The\ud teamwork represents a solid basis for shift and achieving effective and efficient change.\ud Therefore, the businesses in the Republic of Macedonia should learn to think and work\ud creatively, not at the level of individuals, but at the level of teams and at the whole\ud organization.\ud The paper represents an intersection of the scanned situation in terms of the type,\ud nature, functionality of teamwork among a number of businesses from the SME sector in\ud the Republic of Macedonia, compared with the results for the same variables obtained in\ud public sector organizations operating in their environment.\ud The research hypothesis is simple and says: “The exposure to changes in the private\ud enterprises generates increased need for productive team work which is different in scope,\ud nature and content from the team work in the public sector”.\ud Key words: development, small and medium enterprises, team work

Maritime expressions:a corpus based exploration of maritime metaphors

This study uses a purpose-built corpus to explore the linguistic legacy of Britain’s maritime history found in the form of hundreds of specialised ‘Maritime Expressions’ (MEs), such as TAKEN ABACK, ANCHOR and ALOOF, that permeate modern English. Selecting just those expressions commencing with ’A’, it analyses 61 MEs in detail and describes the processes by which these technical expressions, from a highly specialised occupational discourse community, have made their way into modern English. The Maritime Text Corpus (MTC) comprises 8.8 million words, encompassing a range of text types and registers, selected to provide a cross-section of ‘maritime’ writing. It is analysed using WordSmith analytical software (Scott, 2010), with the 100 million-word British National Corpus (BNC) as a reference corpus. Using the MTC, a list of keywords of specific salience within the maritime discourse has been compiled and, using frequency data, concordances and collocations, these MEs are described in detail and their use and form in the MTC and the BNC is compared. The study examines the transformation from ME to figurative use in the general discourse, in terms of form and metaphoricity. MEs are classified according to their metaphorical strength and their transference from maritime usage into new registers and domains such as those of business, politics, sports and reportage etc. A revised model of metaphoricity is developed and a new category of figurative expression, the ‘resonator’, is proposed. Additionally, developing the work of Lakov and Johnson, Kovesces and others on Conceptual Metaphor Theory (CMT), a number of Maritime Conceptual Metaphors are identified and their cultural significance is discussed