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1. The validity of the classical analysis of organizations rests on the way in which Taylor and Fayol demonstrated that horizontal communication does not exist (is not a factor in performance) in industrial companies. Yes or no ? Explain.

2. According to systems theory, the needs of an organization are fully met when it reaches equilibrium. Yes or no? explain

3. According to the functionalist approach, when individuals assume roles they do so with the intention of contributing to the stability of the organization. Yes or no ? Explain.

4. Is traditional content analysis more: 1) a tool, 2) a theory or 3) a function? Explain.

5. Over the years, traditional content analysis has been refined by taking into account two additional factors. Name them.

6. As practiced today, content analysis is limited to examining the attributes of text. Yes or no? Explain.

7. The researcher Charles Sanders Pierce would: 1) agree, 2) tend to agree or 3) totally disagree with the following statement: the transmission of meaning depends on the existence of a language. Explain.

8. Linguistic anthropologists Worf and Sapir would agree with the following statement: language reflects the objective reality of things. Yes or no? Explain.

9. When for a message we seek the "right word", in order to evoke as faithfully as possible a phenomenon or a lived experience, do we operate on the paradigmatic axis or the syntagmatic axis? Justify your answer.

10. From a semiological point of view, explain why the advertising image is always accompanied by a caption (a text).