Studia Universitatis Moldaviae. Stiinte umanistice

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Authors: Victoria BARCARU

This article aims at the role of anthropocentric paradigm in the organization and processing of ontical information, leading modern linguistics towards new directions of research. Starting with the Saussure’s definition of communication from the perspective of the code-message relationship, modern linguistics has to pay increased attention to human psycho-neurological aspect and to coding / decoding the process of thinking, the mystery of which can only be depicted by researching the functioning of cerebral cortex.

12-19

Authors: Irina BREAHNĂ

Modern linguistic analysis has failed in its attempts to approach tense, namely by significantly limiting the semantic richness of verbal tenses. This state of affairs caused the return to classical grammatical theories, after several decades of domination of so-called modern linguistics, represented by structuralism and text linguistics. Tense descriptions in language have benefited substantially from this resurgence of interest in traditional grammars. The contribution of pragmatics, and the future of research in linguistics, is conceived in this framework as supplying linguistic descriptions with pragmatic analysis.

24-31

Authors: Raluca Miruna SOISUN

Current research examines the person’s identity “individual of the human species, considered human in the entirety of one’s physical and psychological characteristics, human being, man”, in regards to alterity. The word “person” is a gender neutralizer, due to the fact that the person is a woman “feminine gender mature person” or man “masculine gender mature person”. In real life, an individual possesses certain traits that, at certain time, serve as proof for one’s identity. During their existence, some data remain persistent, and others fluctuate or might change course. Extralinguistic reality has a certain organization, which, at the level of language, corresponds to a macrostructural organization (groups of concepts) and to a microstructural organization (semantic groups of words), that can be clarified through the means of lexicographic analysis, semic analysis and contextual analysis. A presentation of the terms that are used to define the person takes the following factors into consideration: age, kinship (family), sexual orientation, community rapport (ethnical, linguistic, denominational, local, zodiacal affiliation), occupation (profession) and civic implication. We analyse the denominative structure according to the first two factors. We shine a light on the denominations of a person according to their age and gender, following their childhood, teenagerhood, maturity, old age (lexical fields, de-no¬tative and connotative meanings), based on the research of colloquial speech and current media discourse. We reexamine the terminology of the direct and collateral natural (blood) kinship, as well as the one of social kinship. The terminology used for the members of the close family is almost in entirety inherited from Latin, suffers no changes of meaning and is constituted in binary gender pairs. For each concept, there is a prototypical lexeme and others that cir¬culate regionally, are archaic, or rare. We highlight the process of metaphorizing the terms, which led to their figurative meaning. We show, through examples in contexts, that this process is an ongoing one, proving the expresiveness resources of the Romanian language and the inventiveness of its speakers.

37-40

Authors: Viorica CONDRAT

Language educators’ role is to facilitate the process of language learning. They should design their education process so that it responds primarily to the real needs of their learners. Special attention should be paid to the development of soft skills in learners, so that they are able to think critically, communicate, collaborate, and engage in problem solving. The article presents an overview of the challenges faced in developing soft skills in learners taking into account the present COVID-19 context. The results seem to indicate that the onlinization of the education process contributes little to the development of learners’ soft-skills.

45-52

Authors: Angela GRĂDINARU

This article represents a study of proverbs in audiovisual translation. Proverbs play an important role in comedy movies in the process of communication between the characters. Even if French and Romanian have related characteristics that display a universal dimension (defined by linguists as universal phrasemes), the translation of paroemia remains a complex problem. The difficulties imposed by paroemia target the transfer of meaning and the expressive valences. The subtitle aims at helping the viewer to overcome the linguistic and cultural barriers. Therefore, the greatest difficulty is not posed by the words and the word combinations that do not have an appropriate equivalent, it rather regards the realities they refer to. The goal of audiovisual translation is to establish an equivalence between the source-language text and the target-language text (both should mean the same thing), having regard to a certain number of constraints. The process is complete if the purposefulness of the target-text coincides with that of the source-text, in other words, if the former has the same commu¬nicative function in an equivalent cultural context. Hence, this study will reveal the means of translation which is valid for identifying paremiological equivalents and which resides in applying different translation techniques, considering the formal, semantic, stylistic and functional peculiarities of the paremiological universe. The study is illustrated by different examples excerpted from French comedy movies subtitled in Romanian.

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Authors: Maria PRUTEANU

The means of enriching the medical terminology, especially derivation, have been the objective of this research. The role of the preposition and postposition elements (prefixes and prefixoids, suffixes and suffixoids) used to form the terms inserted in the work has been elucidated from the perspective of their etymology, productivity and frequency in medical language. Knowingt of the meaning of prefixes, suffixes and terminological elements facilitates the use of medical terms not only in medicine, but also in everyday use.

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Authors: Oxana CREANGA

Cohesion, one of the main standards of textuality advanced by Robert de Beaugrande and Wolfgang U. Dressler, is treated in the present article as a constitutive principle of textual organization. The study aims at identifying the role of cohesive categories, i.e. reference, substitution, ellipsis, junction, and lexical cohesion to the thematic organization and logical structuring of literary narratives. Analyzing the actual manifestation of lexical and grammatical cohesion elements in specific narrative contexts, the article seeks to identify the cohesive devices that enhance or preclude the logical, coherent concatenation of a given literary text with a view to evaluating their impact on the general understanding and interpre¬tation of the narrative.

83-89

Authors: Victoria FONARI

The purpose of this research is to capitalize on the poetic creation of Nicolae Dabija from the perspective of mythical images and notorious personalities from ancient culture. Poems from different volumes are selected, revealing a respect for the ancient Hellenic culture, such as: The Orphic symbol, the poet Homer, Odysseus, Nausicaa, Eurydice, etc. The connection of the mysterious with the real world is a component of poetry in order to create an atmosphere of reverie. This article includes arguments of complicity of the lyrical self in discovering, living the wonder. The understanding of the macrocosmos is done in cinematic detail. In Nicolae Dabija's poetry we illustrate how the contemporary poet is capitalized, reported to the images of Homerus and Orphaeus – the ancient culture, thus contributing to an opening towards universality from a unique vision. The mastery of the word is measured in the tendency to see the beautiful, to plead for life and to have the strength to stop time through a flash photography, by means of the poetic text.

95-101

Authors: Dorina ROTARI

Beyond the seemingly eclectic amalgam of elements circumscribed to postmodernism (real, mythical, bookish, auto¬bio¬graphical, etc.), Andrei Ţurcanu's poetry shines a light on the the image of a creator animated by interrogative challenges to both eternal being and incorporalization. Andrei Ţurcanu's poems’ use of an ontological meditation on the temptation to overcome an existential rupture by converting it to an unquestioned absolute creates a sui-generis relation to the initia¬tory rites of “learning from death” in Eminescu’s An Ode (in Classical Meter). Ţurcanu's poems also reconfigure the core elements of An Ode in order to reach the existential dimension at its heart. This reinterpretation of Eminescu's tragic scenario uses various recombinations of myths, academic interpretations, and real-life experiences to ontologically suggest an adventure of the soul reinventing itself. Andrei Țurcanu’s works can thus by seen as a response to An Ode, one that subtly strives to “complete” Eminescu’s poem by applying a modern lens to the symbolic visions of the original text.

109-115

Authors: Ион ЕРЕМИЯ

As a result of archaeological research were discovered 2 monuments attributed to the Noua culture, 3 monuments attributed to the Tripolije culture, 5 monuments attributed to the Getic culture and 7 attributed to the Cherneahov culture. These materials to some extent complete the "Archaeological Map of the Moldovan SSR", published between 1973-1976 and bring some interesting aspects to the attention of researchers.

131-140

Authors: Valeriu HARABARA

In the first decades after the annexation of Bessarabia to the Russian Empire, the Greek ethnic groups enjoyed a privileged status on this territory. The privileged ethnic status was confirmed by the "Regulation regarding the establishment of the provisional administration of Bessarabia in 1812" and the "Regulation of the administrative organization of Bessa¬rabia from April 29, 1818". The documents gave Bessarabia limited and provisional autonomy within the Empire and kept the privileges obtained by the Greeks in the previous period. The application of the “Regulations on Trade with Bessa¬rabia of February 17, 1825” and the “Guild Regulations of 1824” stimulated the presence of allogeneic elements, including the Greek one in the economic life of Bessarabia. The privileged status of the Greeks was also determined by the geo¬po¬litical interests of the Russian Empire in the South-Eastern Europe, by using the Greek community as a tool in promoting its policy in the Balkans.

153-160

Authors: Constantin BĂJENARU

The evolution of the events between 1939 and 1940 found Romania, at the European level, in a critical situation because of the fact that Germany was in a period of full territorial expansion to the detriment of the traditional allies of our country, Romania being forced to enter the German’s sphere of interest. In these circumstances, Romania was confronted rapidly with important territorial claims, on the one hand coming from the Soviet Russia, and on the other hand coming from Hungary and Bulgaria which were allies of the Nazi Germany. Considering the subject of our research, we will focus exclusively on the first territorial claim. Thereby, on 26th of June 1940, USSR gave an ultimatum to our country for the concession of Bessarabia and northern Bucovina, act which Romania was forced to accept, in the given situation it lacking an external support. As a consequence, twoo days later, on 28th of June the eviction of the Romanian population in these 2 provinces began. So began the ordeal of the Romanians from Bessarabia and Bucovina, which however found relief in the areas where they succeeded to provi¬sional¬ly settle. On the other hand, the Romanian State was constrained to take a series of measures necessary to the reorganization at the new locations of the evicted institutions, as well as for solving multiple social, economic, cultural, juridical and other various issues of the evicted population. A part of the refugees from Bessarabia were accommodated on the territory of the Făgăraș county, their number rising, according to our preliminary research, somewhere between 1.500 and 2.000 refugees. According to the title of the paper, we will focus our attention on some of the aspects raised by the issues of a highly important social phenomenon and here and there marked by dramatism, at the level of one of the Romanian administrative jurisdictions from that period.

175-184

Authors: Gheorghe FARAON

Starting with 1951 the Vad country lost its autonomy because of the new organization in to Soviet model, the village being a component of the new country Şercaia. We must outline that these changes and reorganizations have been made in a brutal manner without any historical basis, thereby the District of Făgăraş disappears, fact that wasn’t accomplished during the several hundred years of ruling of the Hungarians and Austrians.

201-212

Authors: Marcel REVENCO

The study attests that the Organization for Democracy and Economic Development GUAM presents itself as one of the integration models of the former Union Republics. Characteristic for the GUAM states is that they were all oriented towards European integration and promoted a policy aimed at minimizing dependence on Russia's energy resources and economy. The documents adopted over the years at the summits organized in different cities indicate that the participants examined a whole series of social-economic and commercial projects, such as the commercial-economic collaboration between the GUAM Member States, the elaboration of projects regarding the improvement of the transport, the test to move to alternative energy resources in Central Asia and reduce dependence on Russia, etc. Although the collaboration of the GUAM member states has not yet solved the most important economic problems that it faced, the return in 2017 to the Free Trade Agreement signed in 2002 would indicate a positive outlook for the states activity from GUAM, including for the Republic of Moldova.

228-235

Authors: Tatiana MĂRGĂRINT

The resocialization of the prisoners is a segment of the execution of the punishments that needs more attention. The joint effort of prisoners, prison staff, society, etc., can finally provide resocialized people who will easily reintegrate into the society. Employees must do everything possible to resocialize the persons in state custody and for this purpose they need quali¬fi¬cation and skill development. We understand the professionalism of the employees as an obligation to perform the service tasks with responsibility, fairness, competence, efficiency, etc. Important, for the resocialization of the prisoner, are main¬taining the links with the world beyond the prison walls: family, friends, NGOs, etc.