EDUCATION IN AND THROUGH SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH
Abstract: Considering that, when performing scientifc research, any young investigator may enrich the knowledge in the field of his specialization, the role of the educatonist is that of opening new perspectives and of efficiently implementing the rules of a team work, of stimulating the desire to know more, the imagination and the
initiative, in parallels with a strict observance of the ethical regulations characteristic to scientific research.
One may therefore appreciate that education in and trhough research involves both working effectively together the young ones and one’s personal example on the observance of the regulations and working conditions of the team, on opening new perspectives for a pluri- and inter-disciplinary training of the young ones, expected to become high-levelled professionals.
CONSTANTS OF POLITICAL COMMUNICATIONS: THE RHETORICAL FORM OF THE POLITICAL SPEECH, POLITICAL ADVERTISING AND THE ELEMENTS OF PRE-TESTING POLITICAL ADVERTISING
Abstract: The study provides a general image upon both political communication and the rhetorical-type elements characterizing this type of communication. An evaluation of the manner in which the techniques of political communication demonstrate their efficiency by means of markers of rhetorical-argumentative type – i.e., form and context – viewed as pre-testing elements, is also provided.
Keywords: electoral strategies, political advertising, political communication, pre-testing methods, propaganda, slogan
CONTRIBUTION OF FEMINISM TO THE EVOLUTION OF DELIBERATIVE DEMOCRACY CONCEPT
Abstract: Two types of feminist approaches bring their contribution in the debate on deliberative democracy. The first type, which highlights women’s greater capacity to provide care, change and expands the deliberation by providing images and models of practice from the experience of women. In this view, women’s socialization and role in childrearing, among other causes, makes them especially concerned to transform “I” into “we” and to seek solutions to conflict that accommodate diverse and often suppressed desires. In our society women are usually brought up to identify their own good with that of others, especially their children and husbands. More than men, women build their identities through relationships with friends. Feminist critiques of deliberative democracy have focused on the abstraction, impartiality and rationality of mainstream accounts of deliberation. Feminist writers propose this capacity for broader self-definition as a model for democratic politics.
Keywords: deliberation, democratic system, feminism, gender relations, political theory.
CROSSING BORDERS: JOURNEY INTO OTHERNESS
Abstract: Transgression concepts such as ‘hybridity’, ‘alterity’, ‘diaspora’, ‘creolization’, transculturalization’ and ‘syncretism’ have to an increasing extent become key concepts in various attempts at escaping the problems of suppression and exclusion involved in notions of purity, be it the purity of race or culture. The purpose of this paper is to focus on the concepts of transgression and to try to develop conceptual spaces within which it is possible to grasp and to study cultural identity without resorting to cultural essentialism. The paper explores the concept of hybridity, besides a critique of assumptions (those of purity, of marginality and identity). This paper also focuses on cultural creativity – innovation and authenticity, ownership of cultural forms, and of technological modes of cultural mix. From an analytical perspective, the paper emphasizes the complexities of the power in transgressions as well as in constructions of essentialist identities. We need to move beyond the limitations of both identity politics and the critique of essentialism without losing sight of the commitment to social, historical and cultural critique. Focusing on the concept of hybridity, I argue that we should not only be concerned with what is hybridity, but also how are the notions of and distinctions between transgression and purity applied, by whom, to what ends and articulated with which other elements. Turning the concepts of transgression into analytical, rather than descriptive, they will open up new fields of study and new possibilities for critique.
Keywords: hybridity, identity, marginality
STYLISTIC STRATEGIES OF IRONY GROUNDED IN MIXED REGISTERS OF COMMUNICATION IN DAVID LODGE’S SMALL WORLD
Abstract: Critics have agreed that irony is the unifying key of David Lodge’s Small World. As the result of a contradiction between what is expected, according to human mentality, habits within a socio-linguistic context, and the sudden denial of it by certain inadequate linguistic or social manifestation, irony is a way of expressing the author’s belief that the reader will laugh at the absurdities of life, either social, or emotional, at common places and platitudes. Considering the linguistic aspects of style as common instruments of irony, the article focuses on the stylistic strategies of rendering it in the campus novel: paraphrases, paradoxes, clichés with revised structures, barbarisms, hyperboles, allusions, litotes, repetitions etc. The investigation will demonstrate that the ironic value is derived mainly from the blending or the abrupt shifts in registers of communication, employed in the literary text to illustrate clashes of conceptions and visions of life, whether plainly academic or simply hinting at it.
Keywords: activation of meaning, antiphrasis, barbarism, colloquial register, communicative transparency, connotative reading, cultural analogies, formal register, humorous sources, incongruous semantic associations, informal register, intralingual equivalences, ironic communication, ironic value, irony, misreading of meaning, paraphrase, polysemantism, process of decoding, register-shifting, revised cliché, stylistic analysis, stylistic sources, stylistic strategies.
NON-VERBAL COMMUNICATION IN D. H. LAWRENCE’S WOMEN IN LOVE
Abstract: Our present paper analyzes instances of non-verbal communication, which bear the distinct mark of expressionism, on the language of D.H. Lawrence’s Women in Love. This artistic “channel” is mainly expressed by means of a “language of the unconscious” that is best illustrated within “symbolic rituals.” It is through Lawrence’s use of original lexical and stylistic devices that he proves a great master of the language. Our selection of such devices belonging to five representative chapters in the novel - Water-Party, Rabbit, Mooney, Gladiatorial and Excurse - includes the effect of rhythmic rhetoric and repetitive images mostly. These are built up by means of the accumulation of repetitions and symmetric phrases that give the scenes a hypnotic, almost irrationally driven power. The latter depends on an expressionist use of language capable of producing a strong emotive response to the reader. Within an apparently realist form, D.H. Lawrence builds up symbolic “worlds” appropriate to his characters, who feel so much at ease that they spontaneously express their most contradictory modes of consciousness by means of body language, dance, physical contact, etc. This is done by Lawrence’s employing a clash of contradictory “languages” in the book (expressionist, symbolic and metaphorical) that poetically suggest non-verbal communicative relations between characters.
Keywords: allotropic states, art speech, emotive response, eurhythmics, expressionist elements, expressionist rituals, kinetic imagery, mystical rite, non-tactile awareness, nonverbal communication, physical ritual, symbolic rituals, symbolic worlds.
EUGEN IONESCU IN CONVERSATION WITH GOD: A LOVE WITH TROUBLE!
Abstract: The issue of belief in the case of Eugen Ionescu draws on the same common source of universal spirituality, yet it is inextricably related to his existential conception, to be retrieved now, in the absence of the knowledgeable subject, from the imprints left in his writing. What is sure, however, is that one cannot imagine a birth certificate of belief, as an issue of the Ionescian ego, although the author has never proclaimed his allegiance to Christianism, by making use of the external forms of belief, but sooner by internalizing this belief through images and Christian symbols.
DESTINATION: MULTILINGUALISM THE PROJECT JAN H. MYSJKIN
Abstract: On the whole, Flemish-Dutch poetic production between 1 January 2009 and 1 September 2010 (the odd relic of a jury member) was an overwhelmingly monolingual undertaking. Apart from Buurtkinderen (Kids of the Neighborhood) by Arjen Duinker, an exceptional book in all respects, the motto of poetry in the Netherlands and Flanders seems to be: Bilingualism Only Here and There.
PROCESS BEFORE EVERYTHING
Abstract: Dear colleagues, I’ll talk about the translation of a poetic form which looks as free as a verse can possibly be, but which is at least as binding, if not more, as metrical and rhymed verse.
A MODEL OF HISTORIOGRAPHIC RECONCILIATION: THE RECEPTION SPEECH OF IOAN LUPAS AT THE ROMANIAN ACADEMY
Abstract: Are really books and speeches capable of unleashing revolutions, of defining the roots of the mutations induced in the conscience of the readers and public? This is rather a rhetoric exercise, once Roger Chartier has already demonstrated, in quite a convincing manner, that the answer to it is an affirmative one.
ARS AMICITIAE AND THE CRISIS OF COMMUNICATION. FREEDOM, LOVE, DEMOCRACY – AN INTERVIEW WITH DOREL VISAN
Abstract: The cultural programs and projects carried out at “Apollonia” University are trying to restore the praxiology of value, enriching Iasi holidays, by an original formula, with the presence of special pilgrims dedicated to the ideas of cultural identity and of moral focus on a society chronically drifted from its own self, still far from reaching any other means of individualization in the “European concert of nations” as one of the prophets of the “Community Europeanization”, Victor Hugo, announced this era in which we are living.
