CP – Number 22 (2017)

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CP, Number 22

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No. 22 (2017)  Editorial

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The aim of the present paper is to analyse the way in which different Romanian phraseological expressions are perceived by learners of Romanian as a foreign language. Learning Romanian during preparatory seminars is quite a challenge to foreign students who intend to study at a university in Romania, as long as they need first to get acquainted with the Romanian alphabet and with the basic vocabulary, and then improve their language knowledge with structures specific to different types of speech. At the same time, they have to learn how to read a text written in Romanian, to get familiar with new lexemes and to be able to discuss on different topics chosen in accordance with the specific texts that they are studying. In following all these steps, students are liable to master the language in such a way as to give their own judgement on any text, starting from their own ideas.

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Romanian phraseological units, specialised and common vocabulary, target language, source language, culture-specific terms.

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CP201722V00S01A0001 [0004642]

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CP, Number 22

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No. 22 (2017)  Editorial

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The Romanian heritage is very rich in traditions, rituals and superstitions associated with kitchen utensils and tools, as well as with the preparation of various foods and dishes, most of them unknown to a large segment of the population nowadays. The process of preparing a certain dish is a ritual in itself, with clearly established rules and steps. The aim of our paper is to reveal the ritualistic values of some Romanian kitchen tools and utensils as a statement of the vast national intangible heritage. Our broader aim is to promote, at an international level, aspects of Romanian cultural life from the visible and invisible Romanian cultural heritage. The research methodology combines methods of cultural and ethnographic studies: literature review and field survey.

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cultural heritage, kitchen, cultural practices, kitchen tools, food preparation.

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CP201722V00S01A0002 [0004644]

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CP, Number 22

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No. 22 (2017)  Editorial

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In our paper, we explore several aspects offered by language autobiographical accounts. The data were collected through what we called “Name linguistic autobiography”, an instrument that helped us explore the perceptions of 24 Romanian students regarding their experience with languages and their context of use while developing their linguistic heritage. Our analysis, drawing on a combination of linguistic analysis and Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis (IPA) as theoretical support, established the topics and sub-topics that were encoded by language users in name acrostics. Among them, we identified awareness of own resources, potential, strengths and weaknesses of own success and failure; effective language learning techniques; the social dimensions of language and identity shaping and re-shaping through language learning and use. The analysis also revealed the fact that emotional expression played an important part in the students’ disclosure of self. Their attitudes and feelings while involved in various experiences with language were displayed freely. We concluded that the Name linguistic autobiography, despite some limitations, may offer a basic image of the subjects’ language experience and development of linguistic heritage, but it needs to be followed by a more thorough analysis to validate the results and to offer more insights into the use of language autobiographies as pedagogical and educational devices. This is why future research will have in view in-depth interviews and written language autobiographical narratives.

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autobiographic account, identity, name acrostic, IPA, disclosure of self.

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CP201722V00S01A0003 [0004645]

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CP, Number 22

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No. 22 (2017)  Editorial

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Two hundred years since her death Jane Austen’s literary legacy keeps provoking the interest, curiosity and fantasy of both readers and experts. The more time has passed since 1817, the more new aspects seem to be found in her novels, the more references to the state of the society in her novels seem to be surfacing. In this paper we wanted to have a detailed look at Austen’s last completed and most serious novel, Persuasion, as this particular novel seems to reflect most the changes in the society she was familiar with. This novel is the only one which reflects the decline of the old aristocracy and its impact on individuals as well as on the society in a broader sense. We tried to provide arguments which could help refute the opinions of many who claim that Austen was detached from what was going on in the world she lived in. To support our claim we compared certain aspects found in Persuasion with parallel motives in some of her other novels, more particularly Pride and Prejudice and Emma. One relatively new topic is dealt with in Persuasion as well as in Emma and that is the topic of gender issues at which we tried to have a closer look too. We tried to point out the paradoxes inherent to most of the characters and the way these paradoxes influence their conduct and behaviour, as well as Austen’s objectivity in treating her characters.

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Jane Austen, society, class, aristocracy, gender, prejudice, persuasion.

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CP201722V00S01A0004 [0004646]

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CP, Number 22

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No. 22 (2017)  Editorial

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Our paper focuses on the problem of authenticity as a fundamental element in the definition of cultural heritage. From a cultural semiotic point of view, food is considered as a language, as a system of meaning in the processes of cultural communication. On the one hand, including food practices in the category of intangible cultural heritage implies their designation as authentic, as representative of the community. On the other hand, the search for authenticity is an explicit objective of ethno-anthropological research, a qualitative research whose results can be influenced by the perishability of the relational, dialogical nature of the intangible heritage. There is an important economic aim for the tourism area, trying to recover the local specificities and the tradition. Modern culinary discourse (advertising, media, and menus in restaurants) is sometimes subject to a constructivist logic of authenticity. In relation to food practices considered as a system of meaning in the process of cultural communication, this cultural semiotics of the intangible cultural heritage discovers and researches the authentic identity while preserving the relation of otherness.

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authenticity, food practices, intangible cultural heritage, identity, alterity.

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CP201722V00S01A0005 [0004647]

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CP, Number 22

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No. 22 (2017)  Editorial

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This paper presents the processing methodology of the collected information within the project The Digitization of the Cultural Food Heritage. The Region of Bacău – eCULTFOOD (PN-III-P2-2.1-BG-2016-0390). The project aims to create an online platform as an ethno-linguistic and audiovisual Atlas reflecting the cultural heritage of Bacău County. This platform is based on the representative corpus of audio-visual documents related to the traditional cultural food heritage, consisting of surveys involving especially the older generation from the rural county of Bacău, Romania. However, as the processing of information is a preliminary step in the project, the most important methodological aspects related to the editing of the documents resulting from the investigations are required to be presented to the interested public.

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corpus, cultural food heritage, processing methodology.

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CP201722V00S01A0006 [0004648]

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CP, Number 22

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No. 22 (2017)  Editorial

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The Caribbean era was historically marked by suffering: colonization, the attempt to eradicate autochthonous populations, the enslavement of Africans, followed by the importation of indentured workers from India an Asia, left indelible traces. They also gave way to cultural cross-breeding, perceptible in cooking, which is born in the fields, but mostly in the orchards and vegetable gardens, the means of survival of the family – the higglers selling their extra crops on markets. The mountainous landscape of Jamaica favoured maroon slaves, and resistance for the Tainos who were able to endure, where settlers thought they had decimated them. The economic exile toward the city severely struck the countryside, creating a double culture. However the link of food kept them attached to the mother-earth, cultivated the satisfaction of the senses, and the cohesion of the family, through generations. Lorna Goodison’s work is saturated by the presence of food and its hedonist, sensuous reading can be done through: 1) a cultural way of cooking according to social class, opposing the subalterns to the gentrified class ; the stingy, selfish cooks and those with a sense of solidarity; 2) a motherly way of cooking calling for childhood savours and underlining a gendered fracture 3) a ritual cooking for love, celebration and death, and eventually 4) an oral pleasure which identifies the fruit of innocence of the original garden to poetry, the supreme pleasure that can be transmitted by the nourishing mother.

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hero, anti-hero, debunking, iconic, contemporary culture.

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CP201722V00S01A0007 [0004649]

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CP, Number 22

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No. 22 (2017)  Editorial

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The dramatic art to go beyond the sheer aim of art for art’s sake in the realm of literature has been concerned with the revelation of the condition of the time and the era of the playwright. In this article, Henrik Ibsen’s work An Enemy of the People has been closely analyzed from the perspective of theme and character development to show his tact in pinpointing the social dilemmas and problems of his time. It tries to show how the protagonist’s status as the realistic hero turns out to be a mere villain of the society and the time. At a macro level, Ibsen’s overwhelming characterization can be taken as a good indicator of the different demanding social domination of pre-modern age idiosyncrasies.

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villain, realistic, Enemy of the People, drama.

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CP201722V00S01A0008 [0004650]

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CP, Number 22

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No. 22 (2017)  Editorial

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The figure of the traditional hero of old legends and epics has always fascinated writers and researchers, readers and viewers due to the connotations of grandeur, magnanimity and honour. Shifting tastes and realities have determined transformations regarding the features associated with heroes, or regarding perceptions of them and of the very set of values they embody, with the figure of the equally attractive anti-hero thus reflecting the mind-set and the spirit of the time engendering him/her. This paper explores the changes in the nature of and perceptions on the iconic figure of the hero, his trajectory to anti-heroism and his metamorphosis into the new hero of the day in contemporary culture. After some preliminary remarks on heroes and heroism, the paper offers some chronological examples of anti-heroes in literature and culture and also discusses their features. The third section discusses the emergence of the new (anti)heroes of contemporary culture by stressing the historical and social context that led to this alteration. The last section brings to the forefront typologies of contemporary iconic (anti)heroes and discusses some examples of such ‘new heroes’ belonging to the royal circles, people in the world of arts and show business, politics and sports.

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hero, anti-hero, debunking, iconic, contemporary culture.

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CP201722V00S01A0009 [0004651]

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