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POPULAR EXPRESSIONS AND SLUM VOCABULARY. COLLOQUIALISM IN THE PRESS LANGUAGE.

POPULAR EXPRESSIONS AND SLUM VOCABULARY. COLLOQUIALISM IN THE PRESS LANGUAGE.

Author(s): Carmen Neamţu / Language(s): English / Issue: 1/2013

Keywords: journalism; communication; vocabulary; language

A long time from now on the dominant style of the Romanian press will be a Latin one, with a waste of raciness, with ironies and stings, with a playful spirit and colorful expressions. These are features of our culture of existing and communicating: we could, at any time, sacrifice any BBC-like rule for the sake of a pun. The journalist embraces this style, which refers to the live registers of the spoken language even in writing, as opposed to the style before the year 1989, when you could talk about immobility in narrations, about a wooden language in the style of communication in general, not only the press’s style. Slum expressions win in the press discourse, the rudeness of the language attracts the audience of OTV-like programs and many others. In a desire to write in a very interesting way for the avid for sensation public, journalists make abuse of inverted comas and colorful expressions.

Declaration regarding the escalating social and political situation in Moldova after the parliamentary elections of April 5, 2009

Declaration regarding the escalating social and political situation in Moldova after the parliamentary elections of April 5, 2009

Author(s): Author Not Specified / Language(s): English / Issue: 04/2008

Bookish Refinements/ Heavy Books

Rafinări livresti/ Cărti grele

Author(s): Claudiu T. Arieşan,Anemone Popescu / Language(s): Romanian / Issue: 11/2012

Târgu Ocna and Caransebeş – Episodes of Rezistance against Communist Regime. The Case of Nicolae Itul

TÂRGU OCNA ŞI CARANSEBEŞ EPISOADE ALE REZISTENŢEI DEŢINUŢILOR ÎN FAŢA PRESIUNII REGIMULUI REPRESIV. APORTUL LUI NICOLAE ITUL

Author(s): Dragoş Ursu / Language(s): Romanian / Issue: XIII/2013

Keywords: prison, memory, life story, resistance, communism

Based on personal experience of a Romanian Gulag survivor, Nicolae Itul, this study attempts to highlight the ways in which the prisoners had answered against oppression in nursing penitentiary and prison Târgu Ocna and Caransebeş. Nicholas Itul, considered "top of detainees" by the Securitate, had a significant role confronting oppressive forces. Giving to others physical and moral support, showing an anticommunist attitude are features that characterize both biographical speech and prison experience.

Around the Bloc: Dagestani Rebels Target Police, Moldova Joins the Chemical Castration Crowd

Around the Bloc: Dagestani Rebels Target Police, Moldova Joins the Chemical Castration Crowd

Author(s): Ky Krauthamer ,Ioana Caloianu,Stephen Underwood,Joshua Boissevain / Language(s): English / Issue: 03/12/2012

Keywords: Syarhey Kavalenka; belarus; hunger strike; opposition; protest; ukraine; gazprom; energy; deal; gas; dagestan; north caucasus; suicide bombings; women; Irina Prokhorova; Mikhail Prokhorov; russia; elections; campaign; moldova; castration; pedophiles

Plus, a Belarusian Christian activist’s long hunger strike and a new power to reckon with in Russian opposition circles. Around the Bloc is TOL's daily digest of the important, the trivial, the tragic, the weird, and the sober from its coverage region.

From Ion Antonescu to the „Saints of the Prison”. Extremist symbols in the public space

De la Ion Antonescu la „Sfinții închisorilor”. Embleme extremiste pe spațiul public

Author(s): Alexandru Florian / Language(s): / Issue: 184/2/2015

Keywords: Holocaust; Legionary Movement; fascism

Memory in the public space is represented by symbols and messages with a powerful ideological and historical meaning. Freedom of expression frames a space of competitive memories. The memories of the Second World War or of the Holocaust can be classified as „god” or „bad” according to the degree to which they rewrite the totalitarian and criminal nature of a political life which too often is characterized as „contradictory”.

CONTENTS

CONTENTS

Author(s): Eugen Străuţiu / Language(s): / Issue: 2/2015

Keywords: CONTENTS

CONTENTS

Romania in the 1st Person, Perspectives in the 3rd Person or On the Romanian (Auto)Biographic Discourse and its Polish Echoes

România la persoana întâi, perspective la persoana a treia sau Despre discursul (auto)biografic românesc şi ecourile lui poloneze

Author(s): Emilia Ivancu / Language(s): Romanian / Issue: 1/2015

Keywords: (auto-)biographical texts; Romanian language as second language (L2), specialised reader; Poznan; literature; humanist education

The present article aims at analysing the relations between the Romanian (auto-)biographical texts (diaries, memoirs, (auto-)biographical fictions, ego-fictions, etc.) and the specialised Polish readers, more exactly the students in the MA programme of the Romanian Philology, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan, Poland (4th and 5th years). This study is the result of a series of lectures and seminars held under the title ’Romanian(Auto-)Biographical Discourse’ which I introduced in the curriculum in Poznan, Poland, for the MA programme. As a result of this series of lectures and seminars, the following were to be remarked: almost all MA theses approached one or more (auto-)biographical titles, the relation between the specialised readers (here the students) and the texts became a personal and personalised one, leading to an emphasised identification of the reader(s) with the author(s), the narrator(s) or the characters in the books; reading one book for the course led to more books read on the same topic; the number of translations proposed by the specialised readers to the Polish publishing house increased, all of them tacking the domain of (auto-)biography, some of the students being developing translators, the level of the Romanian language spoken and written improved to a very high extent, the publication of a volume of essays written by the MA students as a result of the course, some of the books analysed being: Mihail Sebastian’s Diary, Emil Cioran’s Notebooks, Valeriu Anania’s Memoirs, The Diary of Happiness by N. Steinhardt, etc. The volume of essays is being published at present. As a consequence, we aim for this study to investigate the relation between text and reader and the possible motives and motivations for which the study of (auto-)biographical texts can lead to extremely beneficial results for the students of Romanian language as second language (L2) both from a didactic point of view and from the point of view of education in a humanistic sense

Paul Iancu (1941-2017)

Paul Iancu (1941-2017)

Author(s): Marcel LUTIC / Language(s): Romanian / Issue: 17/2017

Reconstructing the Image of the Old Altar Screen of the Orthodox Church in Maierii Sibiului

Reconstructing the Image of the Old Altar Screen of the Orthodox Church in Maierii Sibiului

Author(s): Ioan Ovidiu Abrudan / Language(s): English / Issue: 1/2017

Keywords: iconostasis;Orthodox church;photograph; murals;repainting;

La nécropole gétique de Coslogeni - Grădiştea Coslogeni (Dép. de Călăraşi)

Necropola getică de la Coslogeni - Grădiştea Coslogeni (jud. Călăraşi)

Author(s): Valeriu Sîrbu / Language(s): English,Romanian / Issue: 1/2017

Keywords: nécropole; Gètes; rituels funéraires; les IVe-IIIe av. J.-C.;

On y a identifié 18 structures, dont 15 seulement avaient des ossements humains, provenant d’au moins 16 individus, dont 14 incinérés et 2 inhumés. Dans tous les cas, les enfants étaient inhumés, tandis que les adolescents et les adultes étaient incinérés, mais nous ne saurions étendre cette affirmation pour tous les défunts incinérés de la nécropole, qui n’ont pas été analysés du point de vue anthropologique.Pour sept cas, les ossements se trouvaient dans l’urne, et dans six autrescas, déposés directement dans la fosse; dans T1, les ossements étaient autant dans l’urne que dans la fosse, et dans T3, il y avait deux individus, l’un inhumé (enfant) et l’autre incinéré (adolescent). Bien que dans trois structures on n’ait pas identifié d’ossements humains mais seulement des vases céramiques, nous sommes d’avis que ce sont des cénotaphes, car, par la forme, les dimensions et le mobilier, elles sont identiques aux fosses à ossements humains. Selon les types de vases, en particulier ceux grecs, la nécropole se date aux IVe-IIIe av. J.-C.Les tombes de cette nécropole sont importantes par les problèmes provoqués par la présence des tombes de crémation ou des cénotaphes avec de grandes fosses, rectangulaires ou ovales, caractéristiques aux tombes d’inhumation.

THE ROMANIAN ORTHODOX PRIEST FROM BANAT FOR THE NATIONAL IDEALS OF UNITY

ACTIVITATEA NAȚIONALĂ A CLERICILOR DIN BANATUL DE SUD, ÎN PREAJMA MARII UNIRI

Author(s): Daniel-Aron Alic / Language(s): Romanian / Issue: 01-03/2018

Keywords: The Romanian Orthodox Church from Banat; Great Union; World War II; Miron Cristea; clergy

The Romanian Orthodox Church from Banat, faithful to the Orthodox principles and commandments, has always been an institution in service of her flock. Thus, because the Romanians from this region desired to be united with the Romanians from all other provinces, the Church, through its ministers, supported this desideratum. After the World War II, when the moment for this unification came, the bishops, the deans and the entire clergy from Banat were, alongside all political representatives of the people, the first fighters for the national ideals of unity.

The Funeral Feast in Moldavia. Historical and Ethnological Testimonies

Ospăţul funerar în Moldova. Mărturii istorice şi etnologice

Author(s): Lucian-Valeriu Lefter / Language(s): Romanian / Issue: 10/2010

The sacred dimension of the funeral feast is defining, as at the basis of all such feasts there lies the idea that in the afterlife the deceased shall continue its existence just like in the world of the living and consequently it needs all the elements it needed when alive. The funeral feasts, referred to in Romanian by the word praznice (of Slavic origin) mediate thus the transcendentalization of all goods offered by family members to be used by the deceased.The first mention in a Romanian document of the temporal cycle of the funeral feasts dates back to the 15th century, in a document issued by Stephen the Great. All later documents, such as the lists of funeral expenses, confirm the cycle thereof, carried out both with the occasion of the funeral, and thereafter, at three, nine, 20 and 40 days since the decease. There follows, usually the half year commemorative feasts, but the three-month and the nine-month feasts were also found. Yearly feasts were also carried out each year during the first seven years following the decease, when the remains of the body were exhumed. All these customs have survived unchanged until now in the Romanian villages of Moldavia. Generally, with any occasion that might come up, especially a celebrative one, the ancestors were to receive their part on the other world, where they eat and drink as they used to do on earth. The mental universe of the archaic world has been preserved in the Romanian traditional village and persisted in the Romanian society until full modernity, and nowadays it can still be identified in the rural universe, where the memory and the connection with the ancestors is still alive.

DANUBIUS journal, at its 50-th anniversary

Revista DANUBIUS la jumătate de secol (1967-2017)

Author(s): Dragoş-Cristian Căldăraru / Language(s): Romanian / Issue: 1/2017

The ruling coalitions in the Republic of Moldova after the “Twitter Revolution” - the policy of integration or desintegration?

The ruling coalitions in the Republic of Moldova after the “Twitter Revolution” – the policy of integration or desintegration?

Author(s): Małgorzata Sikora-Gaca / Language(s): English / Issue: 3/2018

Keywords: Moldova; pro-European coalition; corruption; puarliamentary elections in the Repblic of Moldova in 2018

In 2009, the Republic of Moldova created an alternative to the communist leadership. In 2013, the Alliance for European Integration was replaced by the Alliance for Pro-European Governance, which secured two issues: the signing of the Association Agreement between the Republic of Moldova and the European Union, and the interests of local oligarchs. After the parliamentary elections in 2014, as an alternative to the increasingly powerful Igor Dodon’s Party of Socialists, another coalition, the Political Alliance for European Moldova was created and ‘sealed’ by embezzling $ 1 billion from Moldovan banks (12.5% of GDP). The coalition formed in January 2015, was replaced by the re-launched Alliance for European Integration, and then by another coalition without a definite name in January 2016. This extremely expanded political activity is a backdrop for the façade of democracy and the subsequent parliamentary elections scheduled for 2018. The pro-European coalitions in the Republic of Moldova discredited themselves in front of the society as strongly as their predecessors (the communists), causing a state of general disintegration

The Atlantide Papers. The Ethnographic Archive of the Villages under the Lake of Bicaz

Documentele Atlantidei. Arhiva etnografică a satelor dispărute sub lacul Bicaz

Author(s): Vasile MUNTEANU / Language(s): Romanian / Issue: 4/2004

Keywords: The Atlantide Papers; The Ethnographic Archive; the Villages under the Lake of Bicaz; the rural civilization lost under waters;

The paper points out the discovery of the ethnographic archive of the villages which once existed on the spot which is nowadays occupied by the Lake of BicazAs a result of long years of field research which involved famous names of the Romanian ethnography, only two volumes have been edited about the project, and they do not take into account important fields of traditional civilization.The described documentary corpus includes interesting materials about the rural civilization lost under waters, as well as a rich correspondence as for the preparation of the research and the political and ideological tension directed on the specialists in charge of the preparation of the texts meant for publication.

The Great Union Novel

Romanul Unirii

Author(s): Cornel Ungureanu / Language(s): Romanian / Issue: 12/2018

A national scientific first: The “Stejarul” Research Station of Pângărați

Știința aplicată în universitate: Stațiunea de Cercetări „Stejarul” – Pângărați

Author(s): Ionuţ Nistor / Language(s): Romanian / Issue: 07/2016

Keywords: Stejarul Station; University of Iași; applied research; bathyscaphe; Petru Jitariu;

The analysis of how the Station of Pângărați has developed over the years, at the intersection of the history of science and the history of academia, could be more than a topic of local interest. Being established and functioning in a period when the political priority was to highlight research that was immediately applicable to economy and to stimulate technical academic specialisations, the “Stejarul” Station fitted an organisational pattern that the communist regime multiplied at the national scale. Considering some sequential approaches in the Romanian historiography and the complexity of the theme, we would rather aim at reconstructing an institutional biography, anchored in a national context and including aspects related to organization and functionality, to structure and composition of the personnel and to a brief assessment of some research initiatives, in relation to the national and the international knowledge in the field. The 1948 “Reform of Education” had significant outcomes in the activity of “Alexandru Ioan Cuza” University of Iași as well. With the beginning of the 1950s, the heads of the institution drew “plans of scientific work”, whose fulfilment was carefully watched. The teaching staff had to direct their attention to issues “of interest for the development of the national economy” and to constructing a “new socialist culture”. The “relationship between theory and practice”, the approach of complex topics and of “large-scale issues” were indicated as strategic directions in the development of science. Starting from these lines, drawn by the central leadership of the party at the beginning of 1956, the University of Iași decided to create a station of biological research, meant to function within the framework of the institution of higher education. The station worked as part of the University until 1974, when it was transferred to the Centre of Biological Researches of Iași, which was affiliated to the Romanian Academy. In that period, the most important research project was to achieve the first underwater laboratory in Romania, aiming to investigate the aquatic life in the reservoirs on Bistrița Valley. The institutional history of this department of the University in Iași was related to the political decision-making process. Its establishment occurred in a context when technical and applicative fields were highlighted by the communist regime, in the detriment of the humanities. It was the result of connecting science and economic production, of relating higher education institutions to the imposed plans of strategic development. Its abolishing resulted from the decision of the central leadership of the party to merge the research units and to take them out from the universities’ umbrella. On the other hand, the “Stejarul” station fulfilled multiple functions, guaranteed an area for experiences and practice for the university teaching staff and students, and played major roles in the development of science and of innovating researches at the national level.

„A JOB FOR THE WAY OF VICTORIA” author Aculin TĂNASE-LEVITZKI

„UN JOBEN PE CALEA VICTORIEI” autor Aculin TĂNASE-LEVITZKI

Author(s): I. Gabriel Năstase / Language(s): Romanian / Issue: 39/2019

The New Testament of the ”Anania” Bible version in the context of the Romanian biblical tradition: translation problems

Noul Testament din Biblia „Anania” în contextul tradiției biblice românești: probleme de traducere

Author(s): Toma Traian Gania / Language(s): Romanian / Issue: 1/2022

Keywords: Bartolomeu Anania; translation; diorthosis; sources; Bible;

This paper aims to reflect on Metropolitan Valeriu Anania’s 1993 translation of the New Testament in comparison with the other older Romanian biblical text versions, from the New Testament Version from Bălgrad (1648) up to the current synodical edition of the Bible (2008), focusing on translation issues. We suspect that the “Anania” version is not just a ‟diorthosis” or a ‟revised form”, as mentioned above. Therefore, we prefer to look more deeply at the “Anania” Bible version. Afterwards, his version is contextualized in the Romanian biblical tradition view in order to emphasize the need for a new biblical text form for our actual times. This paper aims to show the recognition of this edition, its translation principles, and methods. Furthermore, by exemplification, translation issues are exposed, in comparison with the ancient Greek original and other Romanian Bible variants, leaving the reader to analyze the “Anania” version objectively.