University "Vasile Alecsandri"of Bacau
Faculty of Letters
In proposing an interpretation of money and language as overlapping sign systems, we have in view the metaphorical language of finance/commerce that permeates Dickens’s novels. The two novels that we consider as representative for the way... more
Considering that the interpretation of proper names as verbal signs in terms of John Lyons’s “triangle of signification” (1968) is open to criticism, the first part of this paper brings to attention an improved model of the semiotic... more
In positioning the literary work in a complex web of intertextual relations, we practically achieve the contextualization of this type of cultural product. If the text represents a network of references to other texts that condition its... more
In the light of theories from different fields of linguistics (etymology, lexicology, cognitive linguistics and semantics), as well as from rhetoric and stylistics, similes can be approached either as phrasemes (with literal or... more
Similes represent “containers of culturally received knowledge” (Veale, Hao and Li, 2008) and a part of the linguistic currency of a culture. However revealing about the stereotypical projections of concepts they may be, some similes... more
The main purpose throughout our study is that of establishing to what extent the values attributed to the Green Man turn it from a complex sign-name into an extremely potent cultural sign. The concept of “sign-name” (Cmeciu, 2001) has... more
Considering that conventionalized similes “allow little or no variation in form, encapsulate stereotyped aspects of experience and can be culture-specific” (Baker, 1992:63), we face several problems in the interpretation and translation... more
The survey of the concepts of name and naming reflects the fact that they are the object of study of several interrelated disciplines. My approach enables setting a solid basis for the use of the basic categories of these domains in the... more
This course aims at providing the conceptual framework that students may use in describing and explaining syntactic categories, relations, functions and roles, with particular focus on the constituents and patterns of English simple... more
The structure of this book consists of five chapters, gradually revealing the implications of conceiving narrative as a construction built upon acts of naming. The stages in the metaphorical building of narrative identity are indicated by... more
This book is meant to cover the most important aspects of English similes, treated as multi-faceted comparison patterns. I chose the form of a dictionary in order to smoothly glide from phrasemes to tropes in studying similes, as the... more
The commercialization of culture largely contributes to the degeneration of Western cultural values. On the one hand, consumerism, viewed as “the myth that the individual will be gratified and integrated by consuming”, has become “an... more
Our inquiry into the prevailing signifying values (metaphorical, metonymic and ironic) of additional and substitute names for “celebrities”/”public figures” is meant to indicate their enforcement as social codes, used to communicate... more
Construcţiile verbale şi nominale care reflectă stările, sentimentele şi atitudinile asociate condiţiei/ statutului/ calităţii de român (cetăţean român, etnic român) comportă o dinamică remarcabilă şi o evoluţie pe care o putem analiza,... more