The Department of Foreign Studies and Silvia Manoliu Association for Anglophone Studies are holding their Third Symposium on English Language Teaching and Learning On April 8th, 2017 Presenters: 1. ANA-ALINA ICHIM (Teacher Trainer, Neamt County School Inspectorate) CLIL methodology in…
Winter School “Let s Get Ready for PET!” (6.02.2017-10.02.2017)
The Faculty of Letters and Communication Sciences and Silvia Manoliu Association for Anglophone Studies are holding their Winter School “Let s Get Ready for PET!” (6.02.2017-10.02.2017). This Winter School is a five-day program, open to any middle school student who…
English As a Jar of Knowledge, 5.09.2016 – 9.09.2016
Under the auspices of Stefan cel Mare University of Suceava and Suceava County School Inspectorate, The Department of Foreign Studies, Silvia Manoliu Association for Anglophone Studies, and Scoala Gimnaziala Dimitrie Pacurariu, Scheia, are holding their Autumn School “English as a Jar of Knowledge” (5.09.2016 – 9.09.2016). The “English…
TEACHER DEVELOPMENT DAY on November 28th, 2015
TEACHER DEVELOPMENT DAY on November 28th, 2015 Teachers are invited to participate in our first weekend seminar entitled Are You Really Talking to Me? Transactional Analysis and Effective Communication Trainers: Lecturer Valentina CURELARIU (PhD) Lecturer Dan-Nicolae POPESCU (PhD) Venue USV,…
Messages, Sages and Ages, Vol. 3, No. 2, (2016)
Editor: Onoriu Colacel
(IR)REVERENTLY TELLING THE OTHERNESS THROUGH PARATEXTUAL NARRATIVE
An inherent component of relocation narratives is the description of the protagonists’ process of building up their intercultural competence – whose range will vary from one expatriate narrator to another. Closely connected to all the four types of cultural intelligence…
SUPERSTITIONS BETWEEN USEFULNESS AND STRIFE
The present paper investigates one of the forms of expression and manifestation belonging to popular religiosity, the superstitions, practices through which people get into disagreement with their self and with the ideology advanced by institutions whose declared mission is to…
VISUAL COMMUNICATION – THE TEXT-IMAGE RELATIONSHIPS IN GUNTER GRASS’ NOVEL ‘DER BUTT’
We are living in an age of visual communication, where the image has taken over the first place as primary message carrier. The concept of “visual communication” has been often discussed not only in literary science but also in text…
BETWEEN THE NORMATIVE AND THE PERFORMATIVE: SEX, PARODY, AND OTHER (IN)TRACTABLE ISSUES IN GEOFFREY CHAUCER’S MILLER S TALE
The article explores how Geoffrey Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales discusses human sexuality as a major thematic concern in both its normative and its performative dimension, and sex, an (in)tractable issue throughout the Middle Ages, as a core motif that helps the…
FIVE STORIES ON LOVE AND TECHNOLOGY
This paper analyses Florina Ilis’s novel ‘Cinci nori colorati pe cerul de rasarit’ while including it in the wider context of posthumanities. Since the writer is also the author of a theoretical study on cyberpunk fiction, I thought it adequate…
TEACHING THE NATION: LITERATURE AND HISTORY IN TEACHING ENGLISH
Teaching English as a foreign language is rooted in the national interest of English-speaking countries that promote their own culture throughout the world. To some extent, ‘culture’ is a byword for what has come to be known as the modern…
THE LANGUAGE OF ROMANIAN POLITICS: REIFYING THE OTHER
The dominant ideology of a society seems to possess the means to infiltrate an individual’s conscience with relative ease. From the perspective of the functions of language, we intend to investigate those fundamental characteristics of the ideological discourse that reify…
Messages, Sages and Ages, Vol. 2, No. 1, (2015)
Editor: Onoriu Colacel
EDIBLES AND OTHER OFFERINGS TO READERS: THE POLITICS OF GENDER AND FOOD IN NARRATIVE FICTION
From the perspective of an apparently absent author, the rhetorical commonplaces of womanhood and nourishment are mentioned in the novels of Margaret Atwood, The Edible Woman (1969), and of Jillian Medoff, Hunger Point (2002). Although traditionally relegated to contextualizing devices,…