| Name | Surname | Institutional Affiliation | Email | Title of Paper / Poster Presentation | Abstract (about 50 words) | Session |
| Elena | Pinyaeva | Financial University under the Government of the Russina Federation | el.pinyaeva@yandex.ru | Gendered Identities, Liminal Spaces and Gueer Love Triangles in J.Winterson's fictions | The paper examines J.Winterson's The Passion (1987) and The Daylight Gate (2012) in the light of R.Jackson's theory of the fantastic, as narratives that establish oppositional relationships with the real to collapse the rigid distinction between the heteronormative and "the other". The conclusion argues that winterson deploys the fantastic as a space of resistance, to textualise fluid gender identities and different forms of sexuality. the methodology is based on L.Irigaray's feminist ideas, J.Butler's theory of gender as a performative act, J.Kristeva's concepts of identities in process and abject beings; post-structuralism. | S1 |
| Monika | Kosa | Babes-Bolyai University | kosamonika@yahoo.com | Herself, Himself: Constructions of Selfhood in Alice Munro’s Selected Stories | Starting from the premise that Munro’s fiction encompasses larger than life issues and that gender and identity are ever-changing concepts, the present paper aims to explore the complex articulation of gendered identities in Alice Munro’s collected stories. Focusing on particular tales from the collection, I will attempt to examine representations of identity that problematize the borderline between self and otherness. | S1 |
| Diana | Cotoc | Babeș-Bolyai University | diana.cotrau@gmail.com | Glocalisation in the New Media: humour in interpersonal communication taxing extreme local forecast alerts against global import | It has been remarked by specialists and laymen alike that weather disasters have been preferentially constructed as media events for the past couple of decades. As such they constitute spectacles inviting participatory culture (Jannis Androutsopoulos), id est the consumer public, Social Media employers included, to react affectively to extreme weather texts in ways that can be culture specific. That is, although weather events media coverage are conservative in terms of gender, class and race, as well as eliciting in a controlled manner a range of emotions (Leyda and Negra), there are ways in which local audiences bypass the limitations intended and react, given the affordances of the New Media, empowering them as prosumers (consumers and producers of media).
This paper intends to explore how humourous multimodal posts in social networks sites by a hyperconnected local audience, place in a less-than-preferred perspective local forecast alerts against the hegemonic backdrop of the geopolitical regions of the world which traditionally register a high incidence of natural disasters. The corpus will contain a selection of multimodal contributions posted and distributed by digi-participants on various social network sites.
| S4 |
| Alexandra | Cotoc | Babeș-Bolyai University | alexandra.cotoc@gmail.com | Glocalisation in the New Media: humour in interpersonal communication taxing extreme local forecast alerts against global import | It has been remarked by specialists and laymen alike that weather disasters have been preferentially constructed as media events for the past couple of decades. As such they constitute spectacles inviting participatory culture (Jannis Androutsopoulos), id est the consumer public, Social Media employers included, to react affectively to extreme weather texts in ways that can be culture specific. That is, although weather events media coverage are conservative in terms of gender, class and race, as well as eliciting in a controlled manner a range of emotions (Leyda and Negra), there are ways in which local audiences bypass the limitations intended and react, given the affordances of the New Media, empowering them as prosumers (consumers and producers of media).
This paper intends to explore how humourous multimodal posts in social networks sites by a hyperconnected local audience, place in a less-than-preferred perspective local forecast alerts against the hegemonic backdrop of the geopolitical regions of the world which traditionally register a high incidence of natural disasters. The corpus will contain a selection of multimodal contributions posted and distributed by digi-participants on various social network sites.
| S4 |
| Diana | Cotrău | Babeș-Bolyai University | diana.cotrau@gmail.com | Glocalisation in the New Media: Humour in interpersonal communication taxing extreme local forecast alerts against the global import | It has been remarked by specialists and laymen alike that weather disasters have been preferentially constructed as media events for the past couple of decades. As such, they constitute spectacles inviting participatory culture (Jannis Androutsopoulos), id est the consumer public, Social Media employers included, will react affectively to extreme weather texts in ways that are culture specific. That is, although weather events media coverage is conservative in terms of gender, class and race, and elicits a controlled range of emotions (Leyda and Negra), local audiences may bypass the limitations intended and react, given the affordances of the New Media, in ways reflecting their capacity of prosumers (consumers and producers of media).
This paper intends to explore how humourous multimodal posts in social networks sites by a hyperconnected local audience, place in a less-than-preferred perspective local forecast alerts against the hegemonic backdrop of the geopolitical regions of the world which traditionally register a high incidence of natural disasters. The corpus will contain a selection of multimodal contributions posted and disseminated by digi-participants on various social network sites.
| S4 |
| Alexandra | Cotoc | Babeș-Bolyai University | alexandra.cotoc@gmail.com | Glocalisation in the New Media: Humour in interpersonal communication taxing extreme local forecast alerts against the global import |
It has been remarked by specialists and laymen alike that weather disasters have been preferentially constructed as media events for the past couple of decades. As such, they constitute spectacles inviting participatory culture (Jannis Androutsopoulos), id est the consumer public, Social Media employers included, will react affectively to extreme weather texts in ways that are culture specific. That is, although weather events media coverage is conservative in terms of gender, class and race, and elicits a controlled range of emotions (Leyda and Negra), local audiences may bypass the limitations intended and react, given the affordances of the New Media, in ways reflecting their capacity of prosumers (consumers and producers of media).
This paper intends to explore how humourous multimodal posts in social networks sites by a hyperconnected local audience, place in a less-than-preferred perspective local forecast alerts against the hegemonic backdrop of the geopolitical regions of the world which traditionally register a high incidence of natural disasters. The corpus will contain a selection of multimodal contributions posted and disseminated by digi-participants on various social network sites.
| S4 |
| Amelia | Precup | Universitatea Babeș-Bolyai | amelia.nan@gmail.com | Pleas for Respectability: Eighteenth-century Women Writers Theorizing on the Novel | The emergence and the development of the modern novel used to be viewed as a masculine affair. However, over the past few decades, researchers and scholars have started to re-evaluate and acknowledge the importance of women’s literary and theoretical work to the rise and evolution of the genre. This paper adds to these revisionist efforts by contributing to the ongoing discussion on the theoretical legacy left by some of the most notable British women writers of the long eighteenth century. The paper analyses several texts (prefaces, dedications, dialogues, essays, reviews) in which they expressed their perspectives on questions situated at the core of the eighteenth-century debates concerning the definition, generic parentage, aesthetic standards, moral purpose, and social impact of what was then seen as a newly emerging literary genre. The critical and theoretical perspectives advanced by these writers are approached as contributions to the novel’s status as a respectable literary genre and, implicitly, as self-legitimizing efforts. | S1 |
| Mathe | Nora | 1st year graduate student, Faculty of Letters, Babes-Bolyai University | mathenora@yahoo.com | “On the Morning after the Sixties” – The Essay and Joan Didion’s Experience as a Woman Writer in the California of the 1960’s | This paper focuses on the autobiographical and confessional details of Joan Didion’s second essay collection, The White Album (1979). We shall explore the connection between the essay as a literary genre and the topics discussed by Didion (e.g. feminism, music, politics, etc.). | S1 |
| Oana | Papuc | Faculty of Letters, Babeș-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca | oanacp112@gmail.com | Discontinuities in academic discourse. Connecting young multilingual speakers across boundaries | This presentation aims to uncover the preliminary findings of the data analysis performed up to present time related to the personalized use of ‘languaging practices’ (cf. Jørgensen), employed by multilingual speakers, rationally and actively utilizing all available codes comprising their linguistic baggage. Through the use of CA, the Matrix Language Frame, membership categorization theory and the Rational Choice model, the research points at the localized portraits of a micro-community of multilingual students, in the background of the CLIL framework and CEFR plurilingual markers.
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| CUTITARU | LAURA CARMEN | AL.I.CUZA UNIVERSITY , IASI | lauracarmencutitaru@gmail.com | WHY NEO-WHORFIAN DEVELOPMENTS DO NOT WORK | This paper begins by stating the tenets of what is traditionally known as the “Sapir-Whorf“ Hypothesis and brings up the new, interdisciplinary developments that have emerged since the ‘90s in most cognitive-oriented approaches in human sciences. Relying on evidence from cognitive linguistics and biology, it then tries to discredit one of the most fascinating and successful myths circulating nowadays, concerning the way in which language influences man’s perception of reality. | S3 |
| Imola-Ágnes | Farkas | UBB, Cluj-Napoca | farkas_imola_agnes@yahoo.com | On the Hungarian pseudo object egyet 'one.ACC' | The present talk intends to focus on the syntactic and semantic properties of the Hungarian pseudo-object egyet 'one.ACC'. Egyet 'one.ACC' will be considered a non-thematic and non-referential Accusative constituent, which acts as a situation delimiter and turns the event of the verb telic. We will also assume that it is base-generated in the canonical complement position in spite of the fact that it shares none of the properties of non-pseudo objects in Hungarian (passivization, contrastive topicalization, focalization, negation, A-bar movement, etc.) | S3 |
| Dragan | Ruxandra | University of Bucharest | ruxi.dragan@gmail.com | On the Acquisition of Prepositions in Child Romanian | The investigation of the conflicting properties of prepositions has led researchers to the hypothesis that they represent a hybrid category, which encompasses both semantically rich (lexical) prepositions and syntactic (functional) prepositions. This paper, which focuses on the order of acquisition of prepositions in early Child Romanian, will bring further evidence that supports the idea that there is a lexical-functional divide in the category of prepositions. The analysis will also offer additional support to the hypothesis that the acquisition path may also be influenced by the morphosyntactic complexity of prepositions. | S3 |
| Ferenc | ANDRÁS | University of Pannonia | andrasf2011@gmail.com | Expressing Third Space Identity | Language has been offered as the most significant aspect of individual
identity, it is a more typical representative of ethnicity and identity
than ancestry, religion or residence. By mixing codes intentionally in
their printed media, i.e. their community newspapers, bilinguals can
construct and reconstruct a separate third space identity which relies upon
the dissimilar cultural environment. The aim of this paper is to show that
linguistic landscape research can provide valuable insight into some
aspects of the linguistic situation of the Hungarian communities in
countries where English is the dominant language by analyzing the semiotic
landscapes via language contact manifestations found in the newspapers of
these communities.
| S5 |
| Éva | FORINTOS | University of Pannonia | forintos@almos.uni-pannon.hu | Expressing Third Space Identity | Language has been offered as the most significant aspect of individual
identity, it is a more typical representative of ethnicity and identity
than ancestry, religion or residence. By mixing codes intentionally in
their printed media, i.e. their community newspapers, bilinguals can
construct and reconstruct a separate third space identity which relies upon
the dissimilar cultural environment. The aim of this paper is to show that
linguistic landscape research can provide valuable insight into some
aspects of the linguistic situation of the Hungarian communities in
countries where English is the dominant language by analyzing the semiotic
landscapes via language contact manifestations found in the newspapers of
these communities.
| S5 |
| Mihaela | Vasile (Epifan) | "Ovidius" University of Constanta | elyia19@yahoo.com | PORTRAYAL OF NATIVE AMERICAN WOMEN’S IDENTITY IN LINDA HOGAN’S MEMOIR | Native American women struggle to reassert their strong sense of self by portraying the components of Native American identity in their works and deconstructing the misconceptions related to Native Americans. Linda Hogan’s memoir, The Woman Who Watches Over the World (2001) stands as an evidence of Native American women’s powerful self that is deeply rooted in tribal traditions and perspectives, as she herself states: “[The Chickasaw reservation] world was my foundation […]. It became my life, my identity as a woman” (Hogan 21). | S1 |
| Borbála | Nemes | Babeș-Bolyai University | nemesborbala@hotmail.com | On the lack of plural marking in Hungarian numeral+noun constructions | This paper aims to address the problematic aspect of the Hungarian nominal system, whereby nouns combining with numerals obligatorily lack plural marking. It will be argued that this pattern cannot be the result of Hungarian being a classifier language, nor can it be accounted for by the fact that Hungarian nouns are under-specified for number. Conversely, we will provide support for the analysis proposed in Scontras (2014) and further developed in Martí (2017), according to which the selection of the singular and plural values is subject to parametric variation among languages, in the sense that while in some languages counting is sensitive to atoms, in others it is sensitive to minimal parts, giving rise to different number marking patterns in numeral + noun constructions. | S3 |
| Ioana | Stoicescu | University of Bucharest | iodu2004@yahoo.co.uk | Accessibility levels in the interpretation of subject pronominals in subjunctive complements | The present study investigates whether the interpretative mechanisms for referential expressions proposed by Accessibility Theory (Ariel 1990) are used by speakers of Romanian. It explores the interpretation of subject pronominals (pro, el, acesta) embedded in subjunctive complements by Romanian-speaking typically-developing (pre)school children and adults. The predictions of Accessibility Theory are confirmed for adult Romanian, while, in child Romanian, there is evidence of a developmental path in which general interpretative mechanisms are acquired first, while the specific accessibility degrees of referential expressions undergo piecemeal development. | S3 |
| Lacatus | Elena | University of Bucharest | lacatus.elena03@gmail.com | Romanian Aspectual Verbs: Control or Raising? | In many studies, aspectual verbs have been argued to evince both properties of control and raising verbs. Other studies, however, argue that aspectual verbs behave uniformly as raising verbs. In this talk I investigate aspectual verbs in Romanian, with a view to identifying whether they behave uniformly as raising verbs or whether they have hybrid control/raising behaviour. | S3 |
| Adriana | Todea | Babes-Bolyai University | atodea@yahoo.com | Marginal Effects of Romanian DOM Triggers | This paper investigates adult grammaticality judgments on correlations between definiteness, specificity, animacy, discourse prominence and DOM constructions in Romanian. The focus is on marginal, rather than productive constructions, and on whether their degree of acceptability may or may not correlate with a hierarchical and/ or cumulative effect of DOM triggers in Romanian. | S3 |
| Maria Aurelia | Cotfas | University of Bucharest | maura_cotfas@yahoo.com | Accessibility levels in the interpretation of subject pronominals in subjunctive complements | The present study investigates whether the interpretative mechanisms for referential expressions proposed by Accessibility Theory (Ariel 1990) are used by speakers of Romanian. It explores the interpretation of subject pronominals (pro, el, acesta) embedded in subjunctive complements by Romanian-speaking typically-developing (pre)school children and adults. The predictions of Accessibility Theory are confirmed for adult Romanian, while, in child Romanian, there is evidence of a developmental path in which general interpretative mechanisms are acquired first, while the specific accessibility degrees of referential expressions undergo piecemeal development. | |