Studia Universitatis Moldaviae. Stiinte umanistice

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Authors: Ion CHEPTENE

The relations between Moldavia and Poland during the reigns of Petru Rareș (1527-1538, 1541-1546) represent a period of political tension, deeply marked by territorial issues, as well as by the “negative” evolution of the international political framework in the South-East Europe. The respective article comes to present the Polish historians’ appreciations of the personality of Petru Rareș and the contemporary trends in the analysis of his political activity. Polish historians have been interested in Petru Rareș since the 19th century and in the context of the publication of new articles in the Polish historiographical environment, we intend to analyse the opinions and appreciations of the Moldovan voievod’s activity and personality in recent publications. Their reflection will contribute to the valorification of the achievements of the Polish historical environment, which is concerned with the relations between Moldova and Poland in the 16th century.

23-31

Authors: Alexandru MOLCOSEAN

This approach reflects the way in which the Soviet authorities from the Moldovan SSAR contributed (initially) to the economic support of the peasant households on the left bank of the Dniester. The purpose of those actions was to fami¬liarise the peasants with the advantages of working together. The propagation of the communist doctrine in the agrarian field was achieved through the Land Section – an institution that was meant to make the link between the agrarian policy promoted by the authorities and the rural environment. The basis of the study is the shorthand recording of the first Con¬gress of Councils which took place between 19th–23rd of April, 1925. The whole article presents the initial phase of the process of transforming peasant households into public households. The lower chronological limit of the present stu¬dy is the year 1924 because, from that year, the decisions taken in the MASSR would be taken independently of Ukrai¬ne.

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Authors: Maria BUŢCU

The elections won by the Communists (16 November 1946) had direct impact on all aspects of the political, economic, social, cultural, and spiritual life of Romania, given that, at the end of 1947, the constitutional monarchy is replaced by the communist regime. The Church was one of the hardest hit institutions. The irreconcilable contradiction between the atheist state and the Christian doctrine undoubtedly placed the Church outside the legal framework, condemning all Christians, regardless of denomination, to persecution that was similar to those from the beginning of the Christian era. The church decided to avoid the conflict with the state and was focused on cooperation, this action was justified in official speeches as a sacrifice in the name of the whole society. This state of affairs caused adverse reactions from some priests, who openly disagreed with any “collaboration” between these two institutions. An example in this sense is the manifesto of the Bessarabian monk Mina Dobzeu to the representatives of the Romanian Orthodox Church, by which he urged the Orthodox clergy not to mix religious teaching with the state policy, as each institution has its responsibilities and missions on earth. The first manifesto, “Adevărul”, appears in February 1948, being multiplied into 7 copies and stuck to several fences in the village of Brădiceşti. The second, written in 13 copies, appears after more than 10 years, in May 1959, and is sent to the Orthodox hierarchs and to the leadership of the Theological Institute in Bucharest. The Bessarabian hieromonk Mina Dobzeu’s strong consistent disagreement with the policy of the atheist state, urging clerics not to submit to the regime and not to cooperate with state authorities is impressive, given that it was the subject of multiple criminal investigations by the Security. Mina Dobzeu's example is one that reflects, on an individual scale, the conflict between the Church and the power, being relevant for understanding the harsh conditions that the Church had to face. The mission of historians is to emphasise aspects and to avoid generalisations, given that the people of the Church, as well as the whole society, had different reactions that must be analysed in connection to the conjuncture conditioned by the events that took place in the country.

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Authors: Victoria BARCARU

In the history of linguistics, the second half of the 20th century was marked by reflections on human language and human knowledge. In this context, the meaning of the word is assessed within a network of paradigmatic relationships, structured in glottic or extraglottic microsystems. This article contains a synthesis of dissensions of opinions regarding the semantic field. The proposed objective requires the revelation of some aspects from adjacent fields, focused on the application of interdisciplinary methods. From this perspective, modern linguistics indicates multiple confluences with both psychology and sociology, as well as with computer science or mathematics. Even if there are various controversies and difficulties in approaching this dilemma, the semantic field conclusively demonstrates the famous postulate on language as a “system of systems”, in which all constituent elements complement each other.

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Authors: Liviu CHISCOP

The idea of Providence is, in fact, the title of a subchapter from chapter 3 of our doctoral thesis entitled The indelible background-form consonance in the poetic creation of Nicolae Dabija, coordinated by Assoc. Professor Victoria Fonari. The first part of the mentioned subchapter had been dedicated, by us, to Dabija’s poems inspired by mythology, knowing that this is also a component of religion. But, if about the presence of the myth in Nicolae Dabija's lyrics, some important studies (Ana Bantoș, Victoria Fonari, Nina Corcinschi) had already been published in specialized periodicals in Bessarabia, regarding his poems with a Christian religious message, after 1990 which is, in fact, the topic of this article  we have no knowledge that there is any critical comment...

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Authors: Tony ONGUENE METE

This reflection focuses on the ability of the Cameroonian college student to select the lexis appropriate to their communicative aim. We are questioning about the role of a polysemic and generic verb such as to take in this process of lexicalization of processes. For that purpose, we group an oral corpus in a plurilinguistic environment, our informants being exposed to an input of 230 to 300 indigenous languages. On the other hand, they only value French. Despite this priority given to French, which is their target language, we note that take is not always orthonymic. Middle school students expand its meaning and reinforce its “object manipulation” verb traits beyond its domain of reference. Take competes in this way with precise, specific verbs, the selection of which could be correct or orthonymic. We come to such conclusions after analysing the immediate context of instantiation of to take to which the situational and pragmatic context is added. All this allows us to make hypotheses about the meaning attributed by young people and to speculate on the process designed to identify orthonyms and non-orthonyms.