Studia Universitatis Moldaviae. Stiinte umanistice

3-8

Authors: Alexandru BEJENARU

The main subject of this article is focused on the problem of the degree of research in the Romanian historiography, de¬dicated to the history of the two major settlements from the Danube region during the 14th-15th centuries: Chilia and Licostomo. The active discussions among several generations of Romanian historians were especially focused on the problems of the Genoese period in the history of the two cities, the chronology of the political history of Chilia and Licostomo in the 14th-15th centuries and to the rivalry between Moldova and Wallachia for the control over Chilia.

14-22

Authors: Valeriu HARABARA

In the first decades of the 19th century, the involvement of the Greek population in the cultural life of Bessarabia is increasing. Through the activity of the Greek scholars, the educational and scientific potential is capitalised, including the promotion of Greek culture values and literature in the province. The factors that influenced this process were conditioned by the intellectual background of the Greek elite as well as by the knowledge of several languages. An important role was played by the political factor, that manifested through its protective position towards the Greek intellectuals who took refuge in Bessarabia after the failure of the movement led by Alexander Ypsilantis. The purpose of this policy was to create a positive image of the Russian Empire and strengthen its geopolitical interests in the Balkans.

44-56

Authors: Liliana ROTARU, Ion EREMIA

Russia's political and geostrategic interest in the Balkans and Russian expansionism in this direction produced a whole literature in the 19th century, especially ethnographic and statistical literature about the Slavic people from the south of the Danube, but also about the ethnic communities that co-existed with them. In this study, the authors set out to identify information and considerations of the Russians about the Romanians from the south of the Danube in the researches of the Russian Slavicists from the 19th century. For the most part, the first Russian Slavicists were representatives of the Slavic ethnic groups, originally from the Balkan area, who studied at Russian universities and/or were employed in the service of the Russian emperor. The fact that those researchers knew southern Slavic languages, but also for the investigation purpose, had determined a more a statistical and descriptive character of these researches, with few analytical interventions. In the works analysed in the text of the study, the Slavicists attested an important presence of Romanians in the south of the Danube. Romanians were identified with different names  rumuni, volhi, valahi, tintar, cuţovlahi etc., but all of them spoke the same language. Although the attested demographic share of Romanians in the Balkans was not very important, they were presented in all statistics made by the Slavicists as the 5th nation in the Balkans, after Bulgarians, Serbs, Greeks, Jews, Albanians or Turks. In this way, the interest of Russian researchers in a Christian-Orthodox nation increased. Although numerous, the Romanians in that region did not really matter. But due to the military and political interests of the Russian Empire in the Balkans, it was possible to preserve a very diverse and valuable information about the presence of Romanians south of the Danube.

61-71

Authors: Ion Valer XENOFONTOV

The study presents three components of the extracurricular activity of “Nicolae Testemitanu” State University of Medicine and Pharmacy of the Republic of Moldova: student life approached through the prism of public organisations, trade union activity and sports. It presents a component of the university daily life focused on cognitive, organisational, leisure, etc. dimensions of the main scientific and scientific-didactic centre in the medical and pharmaceutical field in the Republic of Moldova. The material is based on documents from the current archive of the higher education institution and the university newspaper and falls within the area of the history of the present time. It marks the proximity of the period in which we live, as witnesses or analysts of “our time”.

75-82

Authors: Victoria BARCARU, Emilia OGLINDĂ

The grammatical category of modality has been under controversial investigation for a long period of time. This fact suggests the need to elucidate certain conceptual aspects of the reported category, taking into account its topicality to describe the particularities and structure of different languages in general. The present article focuses on the functionality of modality as a semantic-pragmatic entity, taking into account, at the same time, some logical-philosophical implications of the approached problem. In an attempt to synthesize various views on the concept, we have analysed the real/unreal opposition in relation to the objective world, beyond a purely linguistic universality, thus becoming an expression of human empathy through the communicative act of linguistic identification.

88-92

Authors: Mihaela ENI

In this article, we aim to analyse the structure of academic discourse from the perspective of conversational interaction. Starting with the idea supported by linguists, according to which the statement is interpreted as the syntactic unit used to perform speech acts, and the speech being the sequence of statements that make it up, we will try to identify the speech acts based on an academic speech made at a scientific event and analyse them by establishing the types of adjacency pairs formed by speech acts and the structure of conversational interaction in the case of a dialogue.

99-104

Authors: Victoria FIODOROV

This article first attempts to point out the importance of using visual materials in EFL classrooms and the advantages of using them in EFL teaching, highlights new modern methods used in the practice of teaching English, namely teaching English through images. Having an interdisciplinary character, this study aims to promote interactive methods that require the mecha¬nis¬¬ms of thinking, intelligence, imagination and creativity. This method focuses on stimulating interest in the knowledge taught by capturing attention due to visual presentation, thus eliminating the risks of inattention because of routine and bore¬dom, the development of logical and creative thinking, stimulating imagination and training commu¬ni¬cative skills.

114-118

Authors: Eudochia SAHARNEANU, Sorin SCUTELNIC

Nowadays, due to the impact of information technologies, humanity has begun a movement of transcendence from cultural-axiological space and of the intercultural relations into other, far more extensive and harder to reach spheres. Under these circumstances, new identities are built, and the methodologies ensuing from interculturalism may be inefficient and incomplete to represent this new transcultural identity. Therefore, we need a new paradigm, which can propose different methodological research and which can explain the spiritual-value dimension.