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Abstract

Non-governmental organisations set different goals than for-profit corporations. However, they need to be advertised in order to keep working. One of the basic means NGOs use in order to attract volunteers and donators is their website. Although the English language is considered as the of the internet it seems to be inadequate when a global audience is aimed at. NGOs seem to have realized the need to communicate with potential donators or volunteers in their native language and have started providing localized versions of their websites. In this paper we are going to examine the persuasive discourse adopted by NGOs in their English, French and Greek website versions. According to Aristotle (, 1356a) (2002) the three persuasive techniques used to change the audience’s beliefs are (a) which appeals to the audience’s emotions, (b) , which establishes the good “character” and credibility of the author and (c) which uses logic and evidence to convince the audience. Our aim is to examine both the use and the multisemiotic realization of the above mentioned techniques in different cultural contexts. For the needs of our analysis we will adopt methodological tools from the field of social semiotics ( (Barthes 2007) and (Kress and Van Leeuwen 19962002). Translational theories such as Skopos theory (Reiss and Vermeer 1984Nord 1997) will provide the theoretical framework for the study of the adaptation techniques and strategies adopted when the Greek audience is addressed.

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Culture and persuasive discourse in localized NGO websites
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Keyword(s): localization and culture; NGO website localization; operative function transfer; persuasive discourse multimodal analysis; semiotic approaches to translation

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