Publisher: Scientia Kiadó

Acta Universitatis Sapientiae, Philologica

Acta Universitatis Sapientiae, Philologica

Frequency: irregular and other / Country: Romania

Acta Universitatis Sapientiae Philologica publishes original, previously unpublished articles in the wide field of philological studies and it is published in 1 volume, 2 issues a year. In general, the first issue contains research results in the fields of literary and socio-cultural studies. The second issue includes papers within the domains of theoretical and applied linguistics, and occasionally, ethnographic and pedagogical studies

Acta Universitatis Sapientiae, Film and Media Studies

Acta Universitatis Sapientiae, Film and Media Studies

Frequency: 2 issues / Country: Romania

Acta Universitatis Sapientiae, series Film & Media Studies publishes only original, previously unpublished articles in English in various fields of Film and Media Studies. All papers are peer reviewed. The series is published in 1-2 volumes annually.

Acta Universitatis Sapientiae, Legal Studies

Acta Universitatis Sapientiae, Legal Studies

Frequency: 2 issues / Country: Romania

Acta Universitatis Sapientiae, Legal Studies publishes studies, research notes and commentaries, book and conference reviews in the field of legal sciences.

Acta Universitatis Sapientiae, Social Analysis

Acta Universitatis Sapientiae, Social Analysis

Frequency: 1 issues / Country: Romania

Acta Universitatis Sapientiae, Social Analysis is a peer-reviewed journal Social Analysis intends to publish original studies focused towards the analysis of various social phenomena and processes taking place in East-Central Europe. The journal seeks to provide a stance for comparative perspectives and multiple methodologies in the approaching of these themes. All submitted manuscripts are reviewed by two anonymous referees.

This is an open access journal which means that all content is freely available without charge to the user or his/her institution. Users are allowed to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of the articles in this journal without asking prior permission from the publisher or the author. This is in accordance with the BOAI definition of open access. The journal has CC BY-NC licensing.

Acta Universitatis Sapientiae, Communicatio

Acta Universitatis Sapientiae, Communicatio

Frequency: 1 issues / Country: Romania

Acta Universitatis Sapientiae Communicatio is a peer-reviewed scientific journal published yearly. It aimes at publishing theoretical and empirical research in communication studies, with a focus on information society issues. The journal is interested in all the variety of academic traditions in the field, and promotes dialogue between them. Communicatio invites academic researchers and other professionals of communication and media to disseminate new and original works. It publishes genuine, previously unpublished research: surveys, case studies, reports and reviews, on both applied and theoretical aspects of communication issues.

Past, Present, and Future of Szeklerland’s Social Assistance System

Szociális ellátás a Székelyföldön - múlt, jelen, jövőkép

Author(s): Zoltán Elekes / Language(s): Hungarian

Keywords: Szeklerland region; social system; social assistance network; social services;

The subject of the book is one of the basic components of the social system, the social assistance network. Using both quantitative and qualitative methods, I described the past, present, and future of Romanian social services and benefits, focusing on the Szeklerland area. I showed that for the acceptable functioning of modern, secularized, and urbanized societies the existence of an efficient social assistance system is an absolute necessity, even if this sector usually receives less attention and consequently less social recognition than other sectors such as health or education. Reviewing the history of social assistance, I show that different forms of such activities have been constantly present in the society starting from the ancient times and including the role of Christianity and traditional rural communities. In my research, I performed a close analysis of the social services system in Romania and the Szeklerland region, comparing data at the national, regional, and county level but also using data from Hungary’s social services system. The results of the research indicate a highly non-uniform development and distribution of social services at the national level and point out the role of non-governmental organizations and church-related organizations in services development. Relying on these data, an overdevelopment of the social services system in Szeklerland becomes visible as compared to other regions in Romania. Despite this advantage, the main problems remain the same at the national and regional (Szeklerland’s) level: underdevelopment of the community-based social services network and lack of a coherent development based on social policies and strategies for the social assistance system.

Teaching aid for acquiring basic theoretical and practical knowledge of geographic information systems using ArcGIS software

Geoinformatikai segédanyag alpszintű elméleti és gyakorlati ismeretek elsajátításához ArcGIS szoftverkörnyezetben

Author(s): Szilárd Poszet,Zoltán Imecs / Language(s): Hungarian

Keywords: teaching of geoinformatics; ArcGIS system;

The nature of theoretical and practical materials supporting the teaching of geoinformatics varies widely, from step-by-step descriptive explanations to aids provided by various video sharers. When compiling the present materials we have mainly sought to enable students to deepen their knowledge and improve their understanding by solving specific tasks while gradually grasping the various functions of the program. It provides a starting point for those who have developed an intrest in this world of rapidly evolving, ever- changing and practically adaptable discipline, in order to move to a higher level in applying the programmes. The notes support the practical studies of the students in basic education, supporting the topics of the lectures by providing theoretical material in addition to the practical foundations. Primarily, we have kept in mind that the content of the notes should follow a logical way of thinking. It begins with the simplest basic functions (so that those who have not worked using similar programs yet can get used to it as well), and then, while solving increasingly complex tasks, students will be able to perform simpler analyzes by the end of the course. In the first chapter, students will be introduced to the most basic concepts, the toolbar of the ArcGIS system and the options for configuring the signal system of map objects.In the second chapter, while carrying out various tasks, we learn about the processing of data of the World and Romania and the ways of editing maps. Of course, a geoinformatics practical material like this cannot be finalized. It is an ongoingly expanding and constantly changing discipline depending on the needs and the level of interest.

Under the Spell of Dance. Conversations with Dance Artist Erzsébet Nagy Szállassy

A tánc bűvöletében. Beszélgetőkönyv Szállassy Nagy Erzsébet táncművésszel

Author(s): Adrienne Laskay / Language(s): Hungarian

Keywords: dance artist; conversation; Erzsebet Szálassy Nagy; the foundations of ballet; the composition of a performance, choreography;

This volume is the result of conversations the author has had with dance artist Erzsébet Szálassy Nagy, giving an insight into the artist’s private life, shedding a light onto her family background (her father is the author of the workers’ life István Nagy, her mother is the sister of Béla Józsa, who died in martyrdom whilst incarcerated for his anti-war activities during World War II.), bringing into focus her career as an artist, her preparations for it, and her involuntary change of career, which luckily happened in her retirement years only. Moreover, the book provides a peek into topics related to the art of dancing, which are more or less hidden from the everyday audience. These are specialized topics that touch on the foundations of ballet, emphasize the role of music in the construction of movements, stress the importance of physical and psychological factors, illuminate the role of the choreographer in the composition of a performance, and point out the importance of the artistic methods of expression in the dramatic construction of ballet. Photos of her performances provide colour to the book, as well as recensions and reviews in the Appendix, complemented by the chronological listing of the artist’s roles in her repertoire.

“Everything for Transylvania!” The History of the Transylvanian Party between 1940 and 1944

„MINDENT ERDÉLYÉRT!” AZ ERDÉLYI PÁRT TÖRTÉNETE 1940 ÉS 1944 KÖZÖTT

Author(s): János Kristóf Murádin / Language(s): Hungarian

Keywords: inter-war Transylvania; Second Vienna Arbitration;

The book entitled “Everything for Transylvania!” The History of the Transylvanian Party between 1940 and 1944 offers a detailed presentation of the history of the dominant political organization of the Hungarians in Northern Transylvania, reannexed by Hungary after the Second Vienna Arbitration. After the introduction and the methodological part, the volume presents the Transylvanian Party in eight chapters. The first chapter offers a comprehensive image of the Hungarian political life in the inter-war Transylvania, while the following chapter analyses the Second Vienna Arbitration and its consequences, with special attention to the invitation of Transylvanian deputies to the Parliament. The third chapter discusses the foundation of the Transylvanian Party, presents its leadership and the development of the local branches, and analyses the composition of the membership, together with the ways of financial sustainment. After that, the next chapter is about the ideology of the Party, also covering a presentation of its programme. The fifth chapter is dedicated to the parliamentary work. Through analysing the discourses, the party’s cultural, economic, foreign and minority politics are presented. The next chapter is a synthesis of the activity of the Party as an organization for the safeguarding of public interest. Its symbols and publications are presented here, as well as the mass events and some minor events organized by the Party and the institutionalized relations with its members. For the presentation of the political background of the Transylvanian Party, it is essential to describe the attempts made by mother land parties after 1940 to penetrate into Northern Transylvania, which is the topic of the seventh chapter. The last chapter of the book describes the political changes after the German occupation in March 1944 and its effects on the Party. This final part presents the abolition of the Party from the perspective of general political and military events. The volume ends with the chronology of the Party’s history, the list of the political leaders and several short biographies of the leading politicians of the Transylvanian Party, incorporated by annexes. The list of images and tables are included in appendices, followed by bibliography. During his research work, the author used archival sources, collections of documents, publications of the Transylvanian Party, special books and studies, memoirs and articles from the contemporary press.

The Basics of Freehand Drawing in Landscape Architecture

A szabadkézi rajzoktatás alapjai a tájépítészetben

Author(s): Andrea Căbuz / Language(s): Hungarian

Keywords: landscape architecture; compositional construction; three-dimensional space; freehand drawing;

This educational material was born from the idea of synthesising a material, which would be a visual support for students who are getting familiar with the profession of landscape architecture, focusing on aspects that are important in this regard. It is intended to serve as support material for art-based subjects in their first year of study. But it may also prove useful in the coming years in the development of other designs and projects. I took into account the fact that most students did not pursue studies in art. And those students who nevertheless have experience in artistic creation can also certainly benefit from the approaches and syntheses of the information presented. Basic art tools and techniques are introduced at the beginning. Following that, I present ways to illustrate different plants and trees with different tools in various styles. The theory of the compositional construction of an image is based on these, after which the possibilities of using colours are discussed.This is followed by the presentation of the rules for the construction of the three-dimensional space in perspective with means of drawing. In conclusion, the importance of sketching is discussed, as well as the application of all the presented information in landscape architecture drawing. All information provided herein serves as a basis for the students, besides which their own contribution in the actual elaboration of the drawings is also exceptionally important. The basis of creative work is how it is done, but the soul is what is presented. This can only be added by the individual artists. My goal is to provide students with the necessary tools to help them express themselves, show everything that lies within them, all their knowledge, creativity, and personality. As a motivation, the vast majority of the drawings in this manual were made by students from previous years during the courses I taught them in their first year of study.

Introduction to Political Science

Bevezetés a politikatudományba

Author(s): Miklós Bakk / Language(s): Hungarian

Keywords: politics; electoral systems; political regimes; political knowledge; ideologies; political communication; international relations; geopolitics;

This course book discusses political science as a discipline of a human activity because politics can be the subject of systematic and reliable knowledge, according to the norms of what is usually called „science.” However, because politics is a basic way of the existence of the human community, some philosophical points of view are included. The systematically presentation of the „political” reality are covered by the following chapters. The first chapter resumes some theories and viewpoints on defining politics as a large human activity. For a detailed treatment, the book adopted the approach according to the three dimensions: polity – politics – policy. The second main chapter treats the institutional side of the political life(polity): the emergence of the state, parties, electoral systems, and political regimes(including the question of the democracy).The third chapter presents views and settings on the nature of political knowledge, ideologies, and political communication, including the question of the public sphere and public opinion. The last chapter focuses on the international dimensions: theories about international relations and geopolitics. The subject of this course book, which serves for undergraduate students, is closed by a glossary.

Connections. Local Communities in a Globalizing World

Kötődések. Helyi közösségek egy globalizálódó világban

Author(s): / Language(s): Hungarian

Keywords: local Transylvanian communities; globalization; digitalization; small worlds;

The present volume comprises studies carried out within the Communities and Networks research project funded by the Institute of Research Programmes of Sapientia Foundation. Running in the period of 2019─2021, the project included numerous field researches, qualitative and quantitative analyses presented in conferences and workshops, in which the participants of the research project and the invited speakers offered various perspectives on local Transylvanian communities in the context of the changes and trends that define the era of globalization and digitalization. Each of the eight studies published in the volume approaches the topic of small worlds in a global context either as essays or as empirical studies. Local situations are either framed in a global explanatory context or correlated with good practices and international experiences, outlining scenarios for the future.

Egyetemi jegyzet és feladatgyűjtemény

Jogi és hivatalos nyelvi terminológia fordító szakos egyetemi hallgatók számára

Author(s): Krisztina Sárosi-Márdirosz / Language(s): Hungarian

Keywords: legal language; terminology; official language; EU administrative language;

The purpose of this course book is to present students the characteristics of professional language use and the terminological features of legal and official language. The theoretical framework of the course book presents the general characteristics of special languages and the background of terminology research related to special languages, and then it deals with the specificities of special languages and texts belonging to the fields to be discussed. In addition to the two main areas to be discussed (legal and official language), the course book also covers some of the most interesting specificities of the EU administrative language. One of the main objectives of the present work is to provide university students studying translation and interpreting with a brief insight into the theoretical background of languages for special purpose and terminology research and then to make them acquainted with the practical aspects of terminology in the fields covered that are relevant to translators. In line with this objective, the course book consists of two chapters: the theoretical background, which is divided into two further parts (general terminology knowledge and specific legal language knowledge), and the practical part, which consists of 20 worksheets that aim to help students to supplement their theoretical knowledge and to develop their terminological and technical language competencies and skills, because we consider this is of great importance in the context of translator training. The course book highlights the characteristics of the special languages that are discussed and aims to illustrate terminological and technical differentiation and diversity with examples and classifications. Besides highlighting the most important aspects of special languages it also presents the features of special language texts and their possibilities of analysis. In addition, it focuses on terminological nomenclatures as well. At the end of each chapter, students have the opportunity to check their theoretical knowledge by solving the block of questions. At the end of the book, there is a definition of the special terms used in the book that need to be explained. Most of the exercises include text-based terminological analysis tasks, but some of them are designed to help students develop their special vocabulary. All selected texts can be considered authentic texts, meaning that all texts have been elaborated by an expert in the relevant field and as such present a credible picture of the terminological difficulties encountered in the translation process and a good perspective for the development of special language skills.

Photography basics

BAZELE FOTOGRAFIEI

Author(s): Mira Marincaș / Language(s): Romanian

Keywords: technical side of photography; image analysis; John Berger; Susan Sontag; analogue photography;

The handbook comprises two major parts: an introduction to the technical side of photography (with the simplest ways of understanding and seeking information for one’s personal technical development) and an in-depth part of critical perception, image analysis, and deep study of the fields of photography. The book set out to establish a guideline for individual study, but more importantly for a perpetual pendulum swinging between the duality a student of photography faces, in particular: technique versus content, making versus theorizing the image. Not all students will become photographers, most of them will follow other, more attractive lines of study offered by this department, such as directing and camera operator, and some will be theorists or historians of photography. As a basic course that covers both aspects, it was a stylistic challenge to make a readable transition to simplicity, equally including descriptive elements for recommended body attire while making a photograph and introductory notions of John Berger’s or Susan Sontag’s philosophy. Sometimes the footnotes, containing extensive biographical data regarding the artist’s life, are meant to shorten the time needed for contextualization; an artist’s work is largely and organically influenced by their personal life. Thus deeper understanding can exist if we perceive not only the work but also the person in the same interpretive frame. Analogue photography, a shift towards going back to the roots, is also present, as it is the basis of the photography course in the second year of study. Although presented only schematically, the techniques are meant to put what is important, the individual artistic expression, into a well-outlined framework. The recommended bibliography and filmography offer opportunities for individual immersion as well as an opening to new territories unexplored in this photography course – one that will be written by the next generation. The illustrations in the book are iconic references to the history of photography, joined by some photography exercises by university students. As an educator, I feel fulfilled promoting the students’ work and feel indebted to them for their interest and passion for photography. Without them, this handbook would be meaningless.

“It is quality, not quantity that is the cornerstone of intellectual power”

„NEM A MENNYISÉG, HANEM A MINŐSÉG A SZELLEMI ERŐNEK SARKALATA”

Author(s): / Language(s): Hungarian

Keywords: Rita Pletl; tribute; empirical research; pedagogy;

The book is a tribute to Rita Pletl’s decades-long teaching and research career, a modest summary of her significance to those with whom she has worked together, believing in the timelessness of intellectual accomplishments, exigence, moral strength, but also of culture and creativity in the classical sense. The texts that make up the volume are varied: they include essays, studies, memoir-like writings, summaries, articles presenting empirical research, and greetings from friends and family. Our volume is an homage and an expression of gratitude, the celebration of the invaluable, persistent work that has characterised Rita Pletl’s life and career.

Discourse, Culture and Representation

Diskurzus, kultúra, reprezentáció / Discurs, cultură şi reprezentare

Author(s): / Language(s): Romanian,Hungarian

Keywords: discourse; culture; representation; national trauma; transtextuality; topos; translation

This volume offers a selection of literary, linguistic, cinematographic and cultural studies in Hungarian and Romanian, grouped around broader themes.

Comparative Romanian–Hungarian Grammar. The Field of Phonetics

Gramatică comparată româno-maghiară. Domeniul fonetic

Author(s): Imola Katalin Nagy / Language(s): Romanian

Keywords: comparative grammar; phonetics; interference; pronunciation of diphthongs;

Our volume entitled Comparative Romanian–Hungarian Grammar. The Field of Phonetics aims to provide a comparative study of the phonetic structure of Romanian and Hungarian, to draw attention to the differences that underlie the interference phenomena, and to offer some methods and practices that can help to reduce interference phenomena. The differences between the two languages, the difficulties encountered by Hungarian speakers (pronunciation errors related to the Romanian phonemes ă and î/â and the interference of the Hungarian vowels ö and ü, the difficulties in pronouncing the final i, the pronunciation of diphthongs as hiatus, the transposition of the Hungarian consonants ty and gy), the stress of the first syllable under the influence of the mother tongue are all crucial phonological points, the theoretical and especially practical aspects of which are described in this volume. The guiding principle of the book is that the articulation base can only be developed through practice and many examples and that incorrect pronunciation can only be eliminated through constant practice and exposure to beautifully and correctly articulated Romanian texts. To this end, we have tried to help all those who are interested in a comparative approach to the phonetics of Romanian.

Problems of Translations in the Case of the Language of Official Documents (The Case of Romanian–Hungarian Languages)

Hivatalos fordítások problematikája (a román–magyar nyelvpár viszonylatában)

Author(s): Krisztina Sárosi-Márdirosz / Language(s): Hungarian

Keywords: parallel corpus; comparable-monolingual corpus; corpus linguistics; translation studies; theory of translation; Hungarian language; Romanian language;

The thesis deals with two main corpora (a parallel corpus and a comparable monolingual corpus). Analysing these corpora, we tried to conduct a theoretical and a practical research at the same time. Using the methodology of corpus linguistics and thus of translation studies, we wanted to show the differences between translated and non-translated text. During the analysis, we tried to treat the translated texts as objects of research and not as secondary text products. The interpretation and re-texting of a discourse in the form of an equivalent discourse written in another language will be possible only if the translator analyses the linguistic signs according to the extra-linguistic aspects. To carryout a translation, the translator will need a minimal knowledge of both legal systems. Using the methods of comparative legal study is important not only to understand the procedures of the respective legal system but also to place the text correctly in the host culture. These methods helped us towards a better understanding of translational procedures and the elaboration of potential strategies for translation research. During the process of drawing up a comparative study, the translator gains thematic knowledge which will become active and useful only in the very moment of the translation. Regarding legal translations, the most difficult issue is the translation of legal realia. In the case of perform a translation from language A, which is Romanian, to language B, which is Hungarian, the problem is that the two juridical systems differ, so the names of different institutions will differ a lot as well. The theory of translation must deal with those subjective factors as well which appear during the act of communication among the writer of the original, the translator, and the reader of the final product (the translation).These subjective factors enter the process of translation and influence the text production. One mustn’t forget that the relation between the world and language is always a dual one: the personal experiences cannot be totally expressed, the basic units of language cannot be in total correspondence – still the act of communication is somehow possible. Even if the researchers are not able to draft a unified theory which would be valid for each unique act of translation, they can show which are the typical translational phenomena (the translationese) and what methods should be used to obtain texts which would be able to fulfill the same communicative and informative role among the final receivers. The elaboration of such methods could help towards the constitution of some general rules, which in time could be accepted as the laws of translation.

Shaping Humanities – Challenges of the 21st Century in Linguistics

Változó bölcsészettudomány – a 21. század nyelvi kihívásai

Author(s): / Language(s): English,Romanian,German,Hungarian

Keywords: intercultural mediation; digital revolution; linguistics;

This volume contains the selected presentations that were given at the conferences entitled Languages and Intercultural Mediation after the Digital Revolution – the Challenges of the 21st Century and Shaping Humanities: Innovation, Tradition, and Value Creation organized in 2019 and in 2022.The two events are the continuation of the conference series started in 2011 with the intention of creating a tradition, thus being the fifth and sixth editions of the series (TRANSL-LINGUISTICA V and VI).We consider that these two events are a watershed in the history of our conference series in all respects: the fifth edition took place in the year before the pandemic while the sixth in the year when the pandemic eased, the former thus enriched the series of traditional conferences, the latter took place online due to the restrictions that still were applied in some places around the world.

STUDIES IN HUMANITIES ON ZSUZSANNA AJTONY’S BIRTHDAY

TANULMÁNYOK A BÖLCSÉSZETTUDOMÁNYOK KÖRÉBŐL AJTONY ZSUZSANNA SZÜLETÉSNAPJÁRA

Author(s): / Language(s): English,Hungarian

Keywords: linguistics; imagology; literature; translation studies;

The volume greets Dr Zsuzsanna Ajtony, Associate Professor at the Department of Humanities of Sapientia Hungarian University of Transylvania. It is a tribute to her career as a secondary school teacher and later as a university staff member and researcher, whose guiding principle is: “I have been preoccupied with the combination of language teaching, literature, and the joy of reading ever since I started the teaching profession or since this profession ‘chose’ me.” The writings collected in this volume are related mainly to her fields of interest (language teaching, linguistics, imagology, literature, and translation studies), but they also provide insight into other related fields of the humanities (film studies, history, cultural history). On the occasion of the round anniversary, through the language and code system of scientific research, we wish her joyful and fruitful work in the future!