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"On" or "in" Internet?

"În" sau "pe" Internet?

Author(s): Rodica Zafiu / Language(s): Romanian / Issue: 38/2001

Rodica Zafiu makes a statistic analysis in order to determine the frequency of use for two prepositions: "on" and "in" with the word "Internet". According to the results of a quick investigation made with the help of web browsers on some web-sites, Romanians seem to prefer the use of preposition "on " while the use of preposition" in" is better preferred by French web-navigators. Italians users prefer, according to the same statistics the preposition "on" while in English the use of the two prepositions is more balanced.

Romania and European elections, between indifference and hopes – May 2014

România și alegerile europarlamentare: între indiferenţă și speranţe – mai 2014

Author(s): Adrian-Cosmin Canae / Language(s): Romanian / Issue: 179/3/2014

Keywords: European elections 2014; Romania; results; European Union; vote; legislative aspects

European elections in Romania in 2014 is the third European experience after November 25, 2007, and is also the eighth cycle of free direct democratic European elections for the European Parliament which started in 1979. In Romania, the significance of the 2014 elections was related to the accentuation of national capacity at European level and the objective of presidential elections in November 2014, because the final results of the European elections participation and support of certain parties by the Romanian citizens wished to be used as a reference point for political scores in presidential elections.

Socioeconomic Status and Psychological Factors in Patients with Essential Hypertension

Socioeconomic Status and Psychological Factors in Patients with Essential Hypertension

Author(s): Doina-Clementina Cojocaru,Lucia Corina Dima-Cozma,Florin Mitu,Andreea Szalontay / Language(s): English / Issue: 44/2014

Keywords: systemic hypertension; socioeconomic status; psychological factors; anxiety; smoking; depression.

Systemic hypertension is a common disease in the population and is one of the most important risk factors whose prevalence reaches 28% in U.S.A, 44% in Europe, so that in 2025, it is estimated that hypertensive persons will reach 1.56 billion worldwide. In our country, the overall prevalence was 44.92%, mainly higher in males (50.17%) than females (41.11%). We conducted an assessment of social and psychological factors in association with medical and biological routine quantification in a group of 80 hypertensives newly diagnosed, compared with a control group. Questionnaires were for studying the marital status, education level, quantifying the number of working hours per day, the level of physical training and professional socio-familial stress, smoking, alcohol consumption, after which patients were tested to assess the psychometric anxiety and depression using the Hamilton Rating Scale for depression and the Hamilton Anxiety Rating Scale. The results may support an increased risk of hypertension in individuals who are undergoing to social and family stress, working over 10 hours/day and who record mild or moderate levels of anxiety and depression at evaluation tests. These data support the implementation of complex programs to decrease the risk of hypertension by working professionals in the medical, social and psychological fields of expertise.

Letters form Rickety Envelopes

Scrisori din roase plicuri

Author(s): Ştefana Velisar Teodoreanu / Language(s): Romanian / Issue: 20/2001

Correspondence between Lily Teodoreanu (pen name - Ştefana Velisar) and Pia Pillat-Fărcăşanu (sellected letters between 1967 and 1975).

U.S. Foreign Policy in Southeast Asia Under the Obama Administration: Explaining U.S. Return to Asia and its Strategic Implications .

U.S. Foreign Policy in Southeast Asia Under the Obama Administration: Explaining U.S. Return to Asia and its Strategic Implications .

Author(s): Tony Tai-Ting Liu,Hung Ming-Te / Language(s): English / Issue: 5/2012

Keywords: U.S. Foreign Policy; Southeast Asia; Benign Neglect; Smart Power; China.

Since 9/11, Southeast Asia began to attract U.S. attention and became the U.S. second front against terrorism. Under the influence of neo-conservativism, the Bush administration changed Washington’s “benign neglect” strategy against Southeast Asia and slowly led the U.S. back to the region. Under the Obama administration, the Washington has placed its emphasis on “complete return to Southeast Asia” and adopted a smart power strategy that applies both the carrot and the stick at the same time. The Obama administration seeks to balance China’s growing regional influence, advance U.S. status in East Asia and respond to issues such as global terrorism, financial crisis and climate change. This article seeks to address U.S. policy changes in Southeast Asia and identify important factors that affect policy transformation. The authors examine the policy differences and transitions between the Bush and Obama administration.

Postcolonial Identities. British-South-Asian Novelists

Postcolonial Identities. British-South-Asian Novelists

Author(s): Roxana-Elisabeta Marinescu / Language(s): English / Issue: 2/2007

Keywords: postcolonial literature; multiculturalism; hybridisation; the Other; Centre; Britishness; globalisation

This article analyses the mixed national identity of some British writers of South-Asian origin and their difficult, yet intellectually stimulating, position of being simultaneously insiders and outsiders to both British and South-Asian literatures. This hybrid identity can potentially lead to a controversial attitude towards the Empire and its postcolonial influences; and indeed in today's globalised and multicultural society, this group of authors claim their right to centrality in a multitude of ways. At the same time, the British literary scene acclaims and celebrates their work, and positions them to the forefront of British culture. In this article I look into these difficult relationships and suggest that it is their very complexity that challenges and interests the readers.

Ethnopolitical Entrepreneurship and the Political Role of Saxonness without Saxons in Sibiu

Ethnopolitical Entrepreneurship and the Political Role of Saxonness without Saxons in Sibiu

Author(s): Monica Stroe / Language(s): English / Issue: 02/2011

Keywords: ethnicity; reference group; ethnopolitical entrepreneurship

The paper discusses the symbolic capital of Saxonness in the Romanian and Transylvanian public sphere and its uses as a political and cultural resource. I am examining the historical representations of Saxonness and the local, national and European context in which they are activated and re-signified, acquiring contemporary meanings. I focus on the mechanisms behind the political support of Klaus Johannis, representative of The German Democratic Forum in Romania, the Saxon mayor of the city of Sibiu (Transylvania), currently serving his third four-year long mandate. My analysis will attempt to capture the relation between his noteworthy success as elected local representative and the apparently contradictory local demographic evolution: a Saxon minority whose numbers dropped severely in the last decades, reaching a lower limit of under 2% of the total local population. The study explores some of the possible mechanisms that lie at the foundation of the contemporary political capital of Saxonness in Sibiu, by focusing on the salience of ethnicity in elections media discourse and in the collective imagery as reflected in the Ethnobarometer, supported by historical arguments of the “myth of the Saxon”.

SCYTHIA MINOR AND CONSEQUENCES OF THE BREAKUP OF THE DANUBIAN LIMES

SCYTHIA MINOR AND CONSEQUENCES OF THE BREAKUP OF THE DANUBIAN LIMES

Author(s): Marius-Florin Lascu / Language(s): English / Issue: 1+2/2016

Keywords: limes: empire; cities; invasion; Avars; Slavs

The process of dissolution and abandonment of limes Scythe occurred gradually from the western area of the Eastern Roman Empire (from Singidunum) to the east (Danube Delta and the Black Sea), at the end of the reign of Justin II (582) and ended in early years of the reign of Heraclius. Unraveling defense system has not led, but everywhere, and the disappearance of settlements and communities of the limitanei. Life in some settlements from the limes was maintained for a certain period, during the VII century.

Were Mihai Sadoveanu Alive, What Do You Think the Topic of His Next Novel Would Be?

Dacă Mihai Sadoveanu ar mai trăi, care credeți că ar fi subiectul viitorului său roman?

Author(s): Author Not Specified / Language(s): Romanian / Issue: 04/2017

Had Romanian Not Existed, What language Would You Have Liked to Write In?

Dacă n-ar fi existat limba română, în ce limbă v-ar fi plăcut să scrieți?

Author(s): Author Not Specified / Language(s): Romanian / Issue: 07/2016

What Is the Perfect Book Beginning?

Care este începutul perfect de carte?

Author(s): Author Not Specified / Language(s): Romanian / Issue: 07/2017

Which Movie Would You Have Liked to Star In?

În ce film v-ar fi plăcut să jucați rolul principal?

Author(s): Author Not Specified / Language(s): Romanian / Issue: 10/2017

Tales of an Improbable Reality and Its Consequences. Yoko Tawada’s The Emissary

Tales of an Improbable Reality and Its Consequences. Yoko Tawada’s The Emissary

Author(s): Monica Tamaș / Language(s): English / Issue: 24/2019

Keywords: Yoko Tawada; The Emissary; Fukushima power plant; nuclear power in literature; anti-nuclear power protests in Japan;

Despite the fact that most technological achievements of the 20th century were received as promises for a better future, the taming of the atom – one of the most extraordinary of them all– proved to have dire consequences for a great number of people. In March 2011 Japan experienced a threefold catastrophe: the Tōhoku earthquake and following tsunami and the meltdown of three reactors at Fukushima nuclear power plant. One month after the earthquake an unprecedented number of people took to the streets of Japan to protest against nuclear power. The writer Yoko Tawada is one of the voices that criticized Japan government’s nuclear politics that prioritized profit over the security of Japan’s people and nature. Her short novel The Emissary (translated by Margaret Mitsutani) imagines a worst case scenario: after an unspecified cataclysm Japan cuts off every connection to the rest of the world, old people seem unable to die while watching the frail young children in their care suffering every minute of their short lives. It is a tale of a generation fraught with guilt over its failure to leave the planet inhabitable for the generations to come.

Open door

Ușa deschisă

Author(s): Eugen Bunaru,Monica Stănilă / Language(s): Romanian / Issue: 9/2008

Keywords: poetry; contemporary literature;Romanian literature;

Poetry written by two young poets.

ROMANIA FIVE YEARS AFTER THE EUROPEAN UNION ACCESSION. EXPECTATIONS AND REALITIES

ROMANIA FIVE YEARS AFTER THE EUROPEAN UNION ACCESSION. EXPECTATIONS AND REALITIES

Author(s): Petre Duţu / Language(s): English / Issue: 44/2012

Keywords: accession; European Union; Romania; expectations; realities; European citizen; values; national interests;

Romania’s accession to the European Union was long prepared and awaited by the country’s population, political class and governors. Five years after the accession, a brief summing-up of the expectances’ fulfilment can emphasize the reality of its benefits for all Romanian citizens. The reality of Romania’s integration is essentially different from the population, political class and governors’ expectances over the benefits of the EU Member State quality. There is a significant deviation between the expectations and the reality of social, economic, political, demographic and environmental results of the Romania’s integration in the European Union.

Translating the (Meta)Language of Romanian Literary Criticism at the End of the Twentieth Century and the Beginning of the Twenty-First Century: Theoretical and Practical Aspects

Translating the (Meta)Language of Romanian Literary Criticism at the End of the Twentieth Century and the Beginning of the Twenty-First Century: Theoretical and Practical Aspects

Author(s): Ovidiu Matiu / Language(s): English / Issue: Suppl. 1/2019

Keywords: translation; terminology; harmonization; standardization; literary criticism;

This paper argues that the translation of Romanian literary criticism, as a field of its own, requires the development of terminological databanks meant to provide the terminological standard, not in the sense of a “standardized” glossary of terms, but in that of “harmonized” terminology, organized in community-specific technolects, as defined by the promoters of socioterminology and the sociocognitive theory. This argument is supported with evidence derived from the research results of a case study focused on several samples of Romanian literary criticism originally published in Romanian and subsequently translated into English in Romania in the late twentieth century and the early twenty-first century, before and in the wake of great social, political and cultural changes. The analysis of the research results shows that dynamic terminological “harmonization,” as opposed to mere “standardization,” is not only possible but also a sine qua nonrequirement, given its potential to trigger improvements in the quality as well as in the quantity of translations of Romanian literary criticism into the lingua francaof today’s world.

Trapped Outside the History House: Language, History, and Belonging in three Generations of (Post-)Colonial Subjects

Trapped Outside the History House: Language, History, and Belonging in three Generations of (Post-)Colonial Subjects

Author(s): Henriette-Juliane Seeliger / Language(s): English / Issue: 2/2018

Keywords: migrant narratives; gender; multiculturalism; colonial history; language;

Using the example of three generations of characters in Arundhati Roy’s The God of Small Things (2009), Monica Ali’s Brick Lane (2004), and Zadie Smith’s White Teeth (2000), this paper will explore the connections between the effects of British colonial rule and present-day migratory processes. Special attention will be given to the role of language and the concept of history, which is itself narratively constructed, for the processes of identity formation. The ambivalent position many colonial subjects found themselves in are passed on in all three novels to their children, who are the first to move to the country of the former colonizer in the hopes of establishing a stable sense of belonging there. While some struggle with outright rejection and some face the difficult choice between assimilation and embracing their roots, for others the move can also have a liberating effect. Regardless of how first generation immigrants confront these issues, the generational clashes between themselves and their children, which come as a result of the lack of a coherent, historically grown narrative of identity, can be traced back to the colonial generation of their grandparents. In all three novels, the disturbing effects of colonial rule continue to influence even second generation immigrants in the United Kingdom, who still have to negotiate their identities in relation to a colonial past.

Semantic and Pragmatic Valences of the Romanian Fixed Comparative Constructions

Valenţe semantice şi pragmatice ale construcţiilor fixe comparative româneşti (1)

Author(s): Monica Geanina Coca / Language(s): Romanian / Issue: 2/2018

Keywords: comparison; fixed constructions; semantics; pragmatics; creativity;

The article presents a couple of pragmasemantic directions of the usage of the fixed comparative constructions containing names of plants, animals, birds and insects. The language facts in canonical form – i.e. structured around like as the phrase index – were analysed from more viewpoints: formally, as to their source fields, stilistically; our analysis was followed by an in-depth research of article titles where such structures occur with a modified structure.

THE ADAPTABILITY OF THEORY: POSTCOLONIALISM VS. POSTCOMMUNISM IN ROMANIAN LITERARY STUDIES

THE ADAPTABILITY OF THEORY: POSTCOLONIALISM VS. POSTCOMMUNISM IN ROMANIAN LITERARY STUDIES

Author(s): Dumitru Tucan / Language(s): English / Issue: 1/2015

Keywords: postcolonialism; postcommunism; travelling theory; adaptability of theories;

For the last two decades, the postcolonial theory has become one of the most dominant perspectives in the study of literature and culture in the Western Academia. Together with its increasingly more authoritarian voice, the postcolonial theory has also become able to influence peripheral scholar communities, including those coming from cultures with no direct link with the historical phenomenon of colonialisation. This influence seems to be of two distinct types. The first one is a mimetic one (i.e. unintermediated by local experiences) which has generated an imitative postcolonial discourse in local academia, mostly used by members of English language departments. The second one, which I can call particularizing (i.e. intermediated by local cultural experiences), has tried to adapt (to various degrees of intensity) the postcolonial perspective to local conditions. This second type of influence can be seen, for example, in the adaptation of the postcolonial theory to the analysis of the postcommunist cultural phenomena in Central and Eastern Europe. The same thing has happened in Romanian literary studies, although at a low degree of intensity. In this paper, I will try to analyze the impact of postcolonial theoretic speculation on the Romanian literary studies of the last two decades.

THE ORTHODOX DIASPORA: ANALYSIS, NUANCE AND REDEFINITION

THE ORTHODOX DIASPORA: ANALYSIS, NUANCE AND REDEFINITION

Author(s): Răzvan Brudiu,Alexandru Ciucurescu / Language(s): English / Issue: 15/2022

Keywords: Orthodox diaspora; mixed marriages; jurisdiction-territory; ethnophyletism; eikonomia, akribeia;

The reasons why a diaspora appears are similar throughout human history. People are ontologically the same, and the social, cultural, and religious context in which these great migrations take place is often similar. We can identify distinct elements and mutual lessons that help us to understand these events much better, to prevent them by noticing the causes in time, and to learn from these lessons of past and present history. The present study focuses, on the one hand, on the effects that the phenomenon of migration has had on the Orthodox diaspora, especially given the religious and social impact of life that today's Orthodox have among foreigners, being far from their national, religious and cultural center. The diaspora is essentially experiencing a revitalization of the faith in a foreign country and among people professing foreign beliefs. Thus, in the Church, all nationalist nostalgia should be overcome, because the Church is a foreshadowing of the Kingdom, where there is neither Greek nor Jew [...] because we are all one in Christ Jesus (Gal 3:28). Thus, wherever we live, we are always in the‟diaspora”, even within the boundaries drawn by our forerunners, in the land they inhabited. On the other hand, the present research also deals with the issue of mixed marriages. The issue urged the Orthodox to look beyond the canonical perspective of impediments to marriage and to focus on more urgent issues that require attention, namely the liturgical, pastoral and ecumenical aspects of mixed marriages. However, given the ethnic and cultural diversity in which the Orthodox Church carries out its mission in the world today, we should not be surprised that each Orthodox Church has applied and continues to apply the principles of canonical eikonomia and akribeia to mixed marriages in a non unitary manner.