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Romanian Sign Language (LSR) interpretation is underrepresented in Romanian research, significantly affecting the accessibility of TV and online commercials destined for deaf people. This paper investigates the theoretical aspects of the relationship between Romanian advertising and the deaf community, highlighting the shortcomings of providing accessible advertising content. In both television and online environments, Romania faces challenges compared to other European countries when it comes to including sign language interpretation in advertisements. The absence of an adequate regulatory framework and mandatory legislation for advertising agencies limits the integration of deaf people in the media environment. This research analyzes these issues, contributing to a deeper understanding of the impact on the deaf community and the need to improve information accessibility in Romania. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Wittgenstein's idea "the limits of my language mean the limits of my world" inspires us to ask ourselves if the means of communication and the code intervene in the construction of our world. This is the premise from which we started to develop this paper, considering that a formal system and formalization (a term used in an extended sense) not only have the role of solving specific problems but also radically modify the epistemic universe - "epistema", (from the perspective of the object and the subject) in which manifests. It is emphasized the idea of formalization is used broadly. This required a definition of the term, developed in the paper's first part. After, we underline the importance of writing, analyzing Plato's myth of Theuth. To support our point of view, we refer to some examples of the "epistema" metamorphosis that have as their cause the changes of a formal system, in this case, writing. The example from this article is Hangeul writing. In the framework of the paper, we analyze four directions of the epistema change: communicational, axiological, aesthetic, and socialpolitical, pointing out how these changes occurred within the Korean writing system. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In the present paper, we aim to analyze several aspects linked to the content of the legal provisions, communication of law and theories about the truth. As social beings, our lives take place in groups and we rely on others and on society to achieve our individual purposes. In order to function properly, the society must be guided by a set of rules that are known and understood by all its the members. In the process of enactment and application of the law, a language is used to transmit the information. The language doesn't include all the intellectual input and the entire idea of the legislator, but there is no other way to communicate the rule. And, without communication, the law cannot be known, understood and obeyed. We present in the paper important arguments regarding the communication of the norms, the lack of precision of any language, and the necessity that the law to reflect reality. Law is the necessary frame for a quality life in society. Through a proper legal system, we are able to achieve our personal goals, search for happiness, keep our health, raise our children and so on. We also referred in the paper to the philosophical theories regarding the truth, as we consider that they are important for a good establishment of the law. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Due to the presence of the Romanian term drum (path, road, way, trip) in numerous expressions, the aim of this paper is to look back on the semiotic patterns of this lexeme. This paper presents an overview beginning with the concept of the road and its configuration in folkloric understanding, and then includes basic segments of taking a path, undergoing seminal journeys, and their constant repetition through ritual. The paper then looks at the ways in which cultural products conserve a certain vision and perception of the mystical nature of the journey and the dimensions and goals of undertaking it, all of which confirms or challenges existing theoretical views. It is concluded that forms, frames, representations, and acts that stem from archaic ways of thinking have preserved their function, importance, and influence over people's basic actions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

What politics means is an open question, but there is no doubt that politics is meaningful. Politics and language are inseparable. Political discourse is a discourse of influence aimed at influencing the audience to mobilize to act, to think, to consider etc. It is obvious that the linguistic reality grafted onto the political one, highlights the essential role of language, its field of manifestation, while the political outcomes are those based on which the selection operates both from terminology point of view and from that of discursive strategies of course. These ideas support the hypothesis that the language, discursive strategy and political strategy are interdependent. This article offers some theoretical perspectives on the study of language and politics, and provides an essential introduction to political discourse analysis. The paper will explore some responses to the seemingly naive question "What is Political Discourse Analysis?". Instead of being normative, in the sense of wanting to prescribe what political discourse analysis should be, it rather aims to be programmatic in another, more analytical way, and try to provide some answers to the question what could be an adequate way of ‘doing' political discourse analysis. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper argues that absence ain be found in Iustin Panta's poetry at different levels. One of them would be the language level, the simple objects forming a universe in which their inherent meaning is absent. Another one is the one in which the essence is replaced by a false value in an era in which the appearances matter more. The self is continuously trying to reach the past which, besides imagination, is the only form of having contact with the person he loves. Because of this, the present and the past mingle and the self cannot make the difference between them anymore, the absence being identified also to a psychologic level this way. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In the current state of the Romanian language, the slang refined as an inventory of terms predisposed for encrypting communicated realities, but also as structural organization. The phenomenon is driven by technological kinetics, by assuming many terms borrowed as consumer units in the expression of certain social groups, by the emotional involvement of slangers in the new lexical constructions. The platform on which the current slang is stored represents the colloquial language, where we notice, on one hand, a spiritual predisposition for the slang creativity and, on the other hand, a specialization of terms for the role of units generating slang, becoming kind attractors and hence the slang clusters bases. In this paper, we propose not to follow the path of slang terms, but only to analyze the stylistic elements identified in a corpus of selected texts, especially in the online version of communication. In this regard, we appreciate anticipatory that the analyzed structures evade the linguistic norms, developing random generally adding directly to the need for picturesque and the encryption intention of messages by the speaker. Also, related to the current language, slangs are functional valves through which unlimited, unusual combinations of terms enter, which, in relation to the host language, are overbidding stylistic elements. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Orphic myth of creating and maintaining the reality through the word isn't merely a legend. Daily we face with verbal representations which are interpreted differently depending on the power with which these are pronounced. The word "power" comprises here a variety of processes, strategies, methods of obtaining and preserving the power. The present paper attempts to present a linguistic analysis from Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) point of view, of some concrete manifestations of politico-diplomatic language's power. This paper approaches the method of analysis of argumentation in discourse, which apply pragmatic and rhetoric elements aiming at examining the way under which interact a locator and his receiver, exercising a reciprocal influence on each other through their discourse and verbal representation. The paper, finally hopes to offer a glimpse into the use of pragmatic modalities which influence the discursive relation between interlocutors. It emphasize on the analysis of politico-diplomatic discourse's evolution from modal point of view. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Perinatal stroke is defined as a vascular cerebral injury that takes place before the age of 28 days, and it usually includes the in utero periode. The vascular lesion can, however, happen even in infancy, due to various causes. Stroke has a lower incidence at infant age, but a higher rate of recognition due to the more obvious clinical manifestations. The incidence of stroke reaches 1/3000 children, with long-term consequences on motility, predisposition to epileptic seizures, communication skills and learning ability. Pediatric stroke implies large costs in order to rehabilitate and reintegrate the child socially. This paper aims to analize the evolution of language at a distant point in time, after the occurrence of the injury, with cases from our clinical experience. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this paper I have analyzed the concept of the performative language in speech acts as proposed by J. Austin. In his linguistic studies, Austin devoted considerable attention to the power of words in his famous book translated into Romanian "How to do things with words". The translation of "words" by "vorbe" and not "cuvinte" can refer to the power of action verbs. To speak represents an act. The language issue, can be the subject of several types of questions put out through history. Reflections on the philosophy of language have created a productive area of interest for both philosophers and researchers of linguistics and communication. Austin has dealt with the lingeringly study of performatives. Apparently constatative and performative distinction was very clear, but after a detailed analysis of the difference became elusive. Performative language was completed by locutionary, illocutionary and perlocutionary speech acts. Austin's concentration on language and his various functioning aroused strong controversy. Some philosophers believe that its approach is justified, while others do not pay interest on its classifications considering them like a mixture of words. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The unprecedented global technical and economic progress where the United States of America holds supremacy, imposed, in the process of globalization, the necessity of accepting a single language English as means of communication. As a result of the contact with the English language, Romanian current vocabulary has been undergoing, for more than two decades, significant transformations due to the massive borrowing of English words, some meant to fill lexical gaps particularly in the field of economics. These loanwords of English origin did not bring any change upon the grammar structure of the Romanian language but, nevertheless, they cannot be disregarded or overlooked. The present paper brings into discussion the issue of the importance English loanwords had upon the Romanian business vocabulary. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The cultural phenomenon of Latinity was the subject of the Conference "Re-construing the Latinity" which took place in Sibiu and carried out to highlight many topics about the central concept, but also the so-called "Peripheral Latinities". During the conferences the main idea was that Latin spirit is not only the language as a vehicle of communication, it is also the link through which countries will prove the membership in this large community. The topics in the panels have included heterogeneous areas like: literature and language, theology, cultural studies, theater, communication and media, history, politics, economics, and medicine. The papers presented in panels reflected the increased interest for the manifestation of the Latin spirit in multiple axes of research. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]