Studia Universitatis Moldaviae. Stiinte umanistice

9-14

Authors: Constantin-Tufan STAN

Using linguistic tools, contextualizing the information and relating it to historiographical realities, the study aims to capture the evolutionary process of the spelling of a place name, Lugoj, from medieval Banat. The settlement, located in an area of cultural and linguistic interference, has gone through several historical stages, over the centuries, preserving ethnonymic meanings of Romanian origin. A whole host of linguists and historians have formulated hypotheses regarding the etymology of the toponym. Theories regarding a possible Geto-Dacian substratum of the etymon, a Latinist theory, the hypothesis of a supposed derivation from a Slavic radical and a theory that appeals to the Hungarian origin of the etymon were expressed. In the present study, I have taken the argument of the linguist Simion Dănilă, which records the appellation logoj (i), the plural of logoz Banat doublet for rogoz, from the old Slavic rogozǔ, herbaceous plant (carex riparia), which can be found in swampy areas and wet places, used to weave mats and to cover houses in rural areas.

20-28

Authors: Ion Valer XENOFONTOV

Based on the specialized literature and archival documents, it is presented the communication mechanism in the process of Stalinization in higher education in the field of medicine in Soviet Moldova. The phobia generated by the fierce policy of the Soviet leader produced an obedient correspondence between the dictator and the Soviet intellectual environment. The reasons for drafting these letters were the anniversary events in the history of the USSR, those with universal content, but they also focused on moments from Stalin's private biography. In the case of the State Institute of Medicine in Chisinau, institution founded in 1945, there was another peculiarity that emerged from the ”biography” of this institution located on the periphery of the Soviet state.

34-39

Authors: Angela SOLTAN, Ludmila ZBANȚ

Based on a qualitative review of the literature, we analyse the relevance of the coach or mentor role attributed to the teacher involved in the language acquisition process in a culturally diverse environment. We emphasise the importance of accommodating otherness in activities aimed at learning the standard language and other languages considered necessary within a state. The starting point in constructing the theoretical arguments in our investigation builds on the idea that as language (speech) undergoes changes in space and in time, linguistic ideologies and attitudes change, and so do the ways of teaching language as a system. Consequently, the process of acquiring a cognitive structure such as human language is to be viewed in all its complexity, as we view the psychological and physiological development of human beings. As the education systems moved closer to the masses, language acquisition processes have increasingly found themselves at the centre of transdisciplinary studies. This approach was initially driven by the importance of standard language acquisition in the context of socially determined linguistic diversity, with a gradual extension to other languages included in language acquisition policies. Research over the last two decades has revealed two key problems for which solutions are being sought in the design and implementation of language acquisition policies. The first concerns the social side of language acquisition, formulated as the problem of equitable access to learning the standardised language code (national or official language). The second issue, which has been widely discussed, especially in the last two decades, is the appropria¬teness of delimiting the standardised code and separating it from other variants (sociolects, dialects) and from other linguistic codes (e.g. foreign languages), traditionally considered rivals. In the process of language acquisition, the line of demarcation of otherness is revealed at the level of differences between the standard language studied and/or in which a person studies in the education system and the languages or linguistic varieties brought by learners from the milieu of their first socialisation.

46-51

Authors: Eugenia MINCU, Dorina MACOVEI, Natalia ROTARI, Cristina NEGRU

Updating and interpreting the corpus of Latin phrases offer new research openings. This article proposes new perspectives on Latin phrases: ontological perspective (concepts: res, rei “thing”; ens, entis “existing, existence”; verum „truth”), deontological perspective (concepts: bonum “good”; pulchrum “beautiful”), gnoseological perspective (concepts: res, rei “thing”; cognosco, ere “to know”), terminological perspective, etc. The frequent use of Latin phrases (various fields of activity, its popularization, etc.) demonstrates the vitality of the Latin language, which is considered an example of scientific, personal and professional training. Reused and remodelled conceptually, Latin aphorisms and expressions are likely to form and put into operation terminology (medical, legal terminology, etc.). The phenomena of terminologization, reterminologization and the popularization of Latin formulas are elucidated; concept changes; changes at formal level, etc.

58-64

Authors: Ana FERAFONTOV

The comic is a common phenomenon in the pamphlet and, along with other ways of expression, helps to shape the pamphlet tone, betraying the mocking attitude of the sender and his predisposition to aggression. When done through comics, attacking the pamphlet object can be more effective and even more dangerous. The comic is an effective tool of ridicule, but also has a moralizing function, the pamphleteer trying to reach the consciousness of those targeted, to provoke a change in their behavior. Thus, the ultimate goal of the comic would not be entertainment, but the unmasking of bad writings and the discovery of morality. The pamphlet contains various forms of the comic – from simple innocent allusions to aggressive attacks. Predominantly, in the pamphlet there are four types of comics: satire, irony, sarcasm and grotesque.

71-75

Authors: Liviu CHISCOP

Being for more than 130 years at the center of the national aesthetic canon, Eminescu’s versatile creation has been a difficult stepping stone for researchers in the modern era, before which not everyone has kept their lucidity and discernment. A projection of his inner biography, Eminescu’s work – both in verse and prose – , exuberant with its winged lyricism, offers a literary material with an obvious autobiographical charge, which reflects the authentic image of the writer's per¬so¬nality. Based on these considerations, we propose that, in this article, we recall some of the biographical and bibliographical data of the literary beginnings of Mihai Eminescu, especially in his capacity as author of some creations through which he paved the way for unknown prosaic species, up to him, in Romanian literature. Being a prose of ideas and having, as a central point, the drama of the superior man, Eminescu’s prose represents the most adequate way to verify and deeply understand the Eminescu ego. Doubling and sometimes anticipating the issue of his lyric poetry, Eminescu’s prosaic creation opens up unknown horizons in Romanian prose, while situating itself, through the spiritual debate, on the highest level of European romantic literature.