Interstudia n°6: Espaces culturels et identités en (inter)action/Cultural spaces and identities in (inter)action

Interstudia No. 6

Alma Mater, 2010.

EAN13 : 20653204.

ESPACES CULTURELS ET IDENTITES EN (INTER)ACTION - CULTURAL SPACES AND IDENTITIES IN (INTER)ACTION

Foreword

The papers included in this volume represent the scientific work of scholars coming from different horizons of reflection: Letters / Philology, History, Psychology and Sociology, Communication Sciences, Economic Sciences. The general topic “Cultural Spaces and Identities in (Inter)Action” suggests a confrontation which has at its core the constant implications of the innovative ideas in literature, linguistics, arts, history, philosophy, communication sciences, all envisaged in the process of identitary reconstruction. 

Contents

PARADIGMS OF IDENTITY. PRAXI-THEORETICAL PERSPECTIVES 13

Anna Cisło & Piotr Czajka 
On the sense of identity between Rorty's neopragmatism and Von Glasersfeld's radical constructivism

Paul van den Hoven
The intriguing iconic sign

Dagmara Jodłowska 
Values and valuing of individual life in journalistic discourse pertaining to the European Union (on the basis of selected articles from the British press 2007–2008)

Maciej Kielar 
Values and valuation as discursive markers of national identity

Alexandru Lucinescu 
The term “good” and the revival of virtue ethics

Ana-Maria Venţa 
Online advertising and the Romanian medium

Erik Vogt 
"Weak" subjectivities: identity formation in the age of globalized communication

Zdzisław Wąsik 
Constructivist epistemology and the semiotic nature of identity formation

PARADIGMS OF IDENTITY. LITERARY APPROACHES

Cãtãlina Bãlinişteanu 
The city versus the small town (In the land of cockaigne vs. The small town by Heinrich Mann)

Ioana Boghian 
(Mis)educating through the Victorian school

Elena Ciobanu 
‘A little more than kin and less than kind': word-ghosts and ghost-words in Hamlet

Mariana Crăciun 
Aspects of the interior exile in Alice Voinescu's journal

Mihaela Culea
Eighteenth-century ideology and the roots of public opinion in England

Victoria Fonari 
The myth and the psychoanalytical perspective on the conceptualization of the value in Arcadie Suceveanu's work


Alexandra Marina Gheorghe 
Constantin Găvănescul　and　Kunitake Kume: in search of self and other in a foreign land – a comparison between their travel diaries

Melania Elena Iliuţă 
Identity construction in Al. Dima's opinion

Adrian Jicu 
Parody, demitization and intertextuality in Petru Cimpoeşu's novel Christina domestica şi vânătorii de suflete (Domestic Christine and the soul hunters)

Lidia Mihaela Necula (Bezman) 
David Lodge and the fiction of truth or textualizing consciousness through fiction

Ioan Sava 
Conrad and (post)colonial theory

Andreia Irina Suciu 
Jimmy Porter between active rhetoric and inactive life

LINGUISTIC AND CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY

Gabriela Andrioai 
Food idioms in relation to metaphor

Elena Bonta
Building identities in casual conversations – a pragmatic approach

Elena Croitoru
Proverbs: terminology and possible interpretations

Raluca Galiţa 
Negotiation as ritual

Simona Mazilu 
The abortion debate as a contest of incommensurable moralities

Daniela Muraru 
International mediation as an argumentative activity type

Ioan – Lucian Popa 
Romanian bilingual military dictionaries: a brief history and a project

Roxana-Iuliana Popescu 
Towards a logical de-construction of grammar

Lucia Tudor 
Language in action: slang

TRADITION AND INNOVATION

Nazlı Baykal 
Gentrification as a result of globalization

Mihaela Hriban (Buzatu) 
English influences in the present-day Romanian

Nadia Nicoleta Morăraşu 
Linguistic properties of English human-related conventional similes

Teresa Siek-Piskozub & Ariadna Strugielska 
Metaphors as signs: between cognitive attitudes and cognitive standpoints

Mariana Tîrnăuceanu 
Receiving, analysing and interpreting the post-modern artistic discourse

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