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Table of Contents Vol:4 Issue 2/2014

UNDER THE SIGN OF THE STRANGER
Irina ROTARU

THE DOCUMENTARY FILM AND THE NEW MEDIA
Alexandru BOHANȚOV

CULTURAL STEREOTYPES IN THE PRESS FROM THE REPUBLIC OF MOLDOVA: NATIONAL REALITIES AND EUROPEAN DESIRABILITY
Valentina ENACHI

SOUND AND IMAGE-COMMUNICATION BY TEXT IN AUDIO-VISUAL MASS-MEDIA OF ROMANIA
Eva NAGY

THE LATIN CULTURAL ORIGIN OF THE ROMANIANS. SOME CONSIDERATIONS
Dana GALANTON

THE HUMAN ACTION FROM EFFICIENCY TO FAILURE. A CULTURAL APPROACH
Georgel RUSU

CHANGING PLACES IN A GLOBALIZED WORLD – INTERCULTURAL ISSUES
Elena CIORTESCU

THE INTEGRATION OF ROMANIAN CULTURE IN EUROPE AND THE NATIONAL IDENTITY PROBLEM
Mariana FLAIȘER

TRANSCENDENCE AS A UNIVERSAL PARADIGM
Solomon MARCUS

EUROPA MAGAZINE, NOVI SAD, AND ITS INTERCULTURALITY
Pavel GĂTĂIANȚU

OPERA AND OPERETTA. SIMILARITIES AND CONTRASTS.
Florența Nicoleta MARINESCU

UNDER THE SIGN OF THE STRANGER

Irina ROTARU    << Back to contents

Abstract: The paper aims at discussing some hypostases of the stranger encountered in the history of philosophy. The concept of the stranger we outline is not the one defined as such as a result of cultural differences; we are more interested in cases of characters who decline their identity in order to introduce to the audience new ideas, new ways of understanding the world. By means of our analysis we intend to draw attention on how different the freedom of speech is perceived at different times, given the differences of how fond people are of perpetuating traditional ways of understanding. Our main focus will be Plato’s Sophist, a dialogue where we encounter an Eleatic Stranger.
Keywords: Plato, Sophist, stranger, freedom of speech.

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THE DOCUMENTARY FILM AND THE NEW MEDIA

Alexandru BOHANȚOV    << Back to contents

Abstract: For quite a long time, classifications of television documentary productions started from the similarities and differences between the documentary and the TV documentary film. The real "transfiguration" of the nonfiction film was manifested in the era of digital revolution. Hybridization of postmodern television communication and of the interactivity concept, promoted by the new media, has gained ground and led to new structures of audiovisual type. Numerous researchers show that the quality of information is losing ground in favour of the visual impact. At the same time, the documentary film has to observe and obey the new rules, adapted for surviving on a media market increasingly subservient to facile entertainment productions.
Keywords: documentary film, traditional classification, audiovisual hybridization phenomenon, new media, webdocumentary

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CULTURAL STEREOTYPES IN THE PRESS FROM THE REPUBLIC OF MOLDOVA: NATIONAL REALITIES AND EUROPEAN DESIRABILITY

Valentina ENACHI    << Back to contents

Abstract: The aim of this paper is to analyze the ethnic and cultural stereotypes used in Moldova mass media regarding the Russian and European Union. The paper generalizes and classifies the problems and difficulties connected with nowadays interethnic and intercultural communication in Moldova Republic.
Keywords: East European, Mass media, Interethnic Communications.

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SOUND AND IMAGE-COMMUNICATION BY TEXT IN AUDIO-VISUAL MASS-MEDIA OF ROMANIA

Eva NAGY    << Back to contents

Abstract: This paper focuses on the language of communication, first, presenting some introductory notions, then, discussing the changes occurring in the domain of communication, the consequences determined by the structure of society, the stages in the communication research from “ the society of information to the culture of information“.
Keywords: text communication, audio visual mass-media, image –word, communicator, receptor

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THE LATIN CULTURAL ORIGIN OF THE ROMANIANS. SOME CONSIDERATIONS

Dana GALANTON    << Back to contents

Abstract: The Latin cultural origin and the statehood are defining elements of “the East Roman researchers”. Among these traits the idiorrhythmics of monastic life and architecture of the XIV century are to be found.
Keywords: Latin, Roman origin, cenobitism, idiorrhythmics, classicism.

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THE HUMAN ACTION FROM EFFICIENCY TO FAILURE. A CULTURAL APPROACH

Georgel RUSU    << Back to contents

Abstract: From a generic point of view the human action includes the intentions of the human being that generated it. The obtained results may be identical or resembling in different places of the world. The ways to get to the final results are often different and bear, without doubt, the stamp of the culture of the people who contribute to their being achieved. The specific management and the traditional characteristics are evident in the “product” (object, service, art, science etc). More than that, we have to point out the real contribution brought about by communication. Communication, language, put their stamp not only upon the purpose of the human activity, but also on the speed by which it can be achieved, on the efficiency of the work and especially on preserving the cultural originality and the ethnicity under discussion. Therefore, to obtain the desired efficiency in the framework of globalization, which should involve us all, to avoid actions harmful like non kinetic operations, in order not to compromise the existence as a nation, it is necessary to reevaluate whatever contributes to the social management which is responsible for the future.
Keywords: contribution of communication to human action, one’s own culture stamp on the results of the action, anarchy of the white collars, failure to achieve the social objectives, non kinetic actions upon nation

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CHANGING PLACES IN A GLOBALIZED WORLD – INTERCULTURAL ISSUES

Elena CIORTESCU    << Back to contents

Abstract: Intercultural awareness has become a crucial element in professional communication in general and business negotiation, in particular. From this perspective, although a study on David Lodge’s Changing Places could be perceived as hardly anything more but a return to the past (the book was written in 1975), it may also be seen as an insight into the intercultural issues related to the academic world and beyond. Apparently obsolete, the novel opens a gate to a world in which individuals are constantly exposed to the need of “changing places”. Nowadays, either private or public sector actors, we are all, to a certain extent, faced with the possibility of dealing with a different culture. For these reasons, a look into Lodge’s novel could be both a pleasant and useful initiative especially for the young reader who will, undoubtedly, enjoy the experience. The aim of this paper is to explore the tips in David Lodge’s above mentioned novel as well as the extent to which they can be used in today’s globalized world in order to achieve successful intercultural communication, primarily addressing those interested in the process of intercultural exchanges.
Keywords: communication, cultural metaphors, culture, intercultural exchange.

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THE INTEGRATION OF ROMANIAN CULTURE IN EUROPE AND THE NATIONAL IDENTITY PROBLEM

Mariana FLAIȘER    << Back to contents

Abstract: Literary men, linguists, philosophers of the culture, historians have sought over time the core of Romanian culture originality, speaking of its ‘personality’ or ‘national character’ and finding the root of the ‘Romanian stylistic matrix’ in the soul of the Romanian people, in the beauty, originality and balance of the Romanian language. These coordinates have defined us and they are still defining us in the world. In the current context of globalization, where the computerization resulted in new approaches to the communicative act, the literary language, in general, and scientific language, in particular, suffer strong neological pressures, whose consequences we also find in the big picture of the Romanian culture. We are not denying that the advantages of neologisation, especially in the structure of the Romanian scientific language and neither the fact that the current policy of the translations in English of the Romanian writings represent a way to make ourselves known in the world. But the exaggerations in the current Romanian scientific journalism by giving up to the Romanian language threatens the cultural identity of the nation, identity that is firstly supported through language.
Keywords: identity, neologisms, journalism, scientific language

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TRANSCENDENCE AS A UNIVERSAL PARADIGM

Solomon MARCUS    << Back to contents

Abstract: The idea of transcendence is approached and discussed from a large variety of perspectives. Beginning from its etymological explanation, the concept of transcendence, as it is employed and understood in philosophy, music, theatrical art and - especially - mathematics, is thoroughly and most subtly analyzed. Starting from quite common, easy-to-understand examples, an abstract demonstration - involving essential philosophical notions - is brilliantly developed.
Keywords: mathematics, transcendence, music, philosophy, human aspiration

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EUROPA MAGAZINE, NOVI SAD, AND ITS INTERCULTURALITY

Pavel GĂTĂIANȚU    << Back to contents

Abstract: Europa, a magazine of science and art in transition, published in Novi Sad by the Europa Foundation, an organisation with a status of nongovernmental organisation, was first issued in 2008. The initiative belonged to the writer Pavel Gătăianțu and a group of Romanian supporters from Novi Sad and from Vojvodina in order to facilitate the cultural direction of Romanian intellectuals from Serbia to Europe.

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OPERA AND OPERETTA. SIMILARITIES AND CONTRASTS.

Florența Nicoleta MARINESCU    << Back to contents

Abstract:Lyrical theatre is an infinite resource of communication between the audience and the artists. Based on its musical and vocal primal instruments it has been reaching out to public of all social classes throughout history. This universal artistic language is expressed on stage through various representations expanding in different genres and subcategories, defined by their historic periods and ages. This communication is realized through the human voice; this wonderful and mysterious weapon of artistic creation cannot be tuned to the standards of physical playable instruments, but can surely be the vessel that brings the audience an emotional and powerful experience. This form of artistic performance is full of spiritual and timeless emotion. No doubt a great contribution to cultural life to many civilizations of the world, its message is direct and always straightforward aimed at audiences all around the globe.
Keywords: voice, theatre, communication, opera, operetta, performance, musical.

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