Analele Universității "Dunărea de Jos" din Galați. Fascicula XXIV, Lexic comun / lexic specializat

Tradition and (almost) Innovation in the ”New Explanatory Dictionary of the Romanian Language”

Cristian MOROIANU — Tue, 22 Jul 2025 08:47:55 +0300

Our paper is dedicated to the memory of the late professor and scholar Stelian Dumistrăcel, a personality characterized by generosity, wise tolerance, attachment to his own language and a lot of linguistic common sense. The Explanatory Dictionary of the Romanian Language is the lexicographic work best
known and most consulted by the Romanian public since its publication until today. The next edition of the dictionary should not be an exhaustive work (that would be impossible), but should reflect - wisely and decently - the language use, its structure and development prospects. Thus, it needs to remain (or become) a dictionary for people who want to be well informed and educated, for true language lovers who want to better understand and support the Romanian language.

RECENT PAGES IN LITERARY GEOGRAPHY:

Elena PRUS — Tue, 22 Jul 2025 08:53:14 +0300

Defining Ukrainian identity as a European one has become the stake of the
political and military struggle between Russia and Ukraine. Disregarding the
Ukrainian nation in general and its European vector produced a rift between related
peoples. Manipulation of identity, control over the past, the way of managing
memory have become current themes of Ukrainian writers. Our paper is an analysis
of an emerging geoliterary area of great interest that demonstrates the force of
national cohesion to change once established regional borders, to instrumentalize
and give a new meaning to memory, to take history out of parentheses, to draw
projections and present solutions for the future.

PRAYER AND SILENCE – LINGUISTIC EXPRESSION AND TEXTUAL CONSTRUCTION IN TRAIAN DORZ ‘ S POEMS

Florina Maria BĂCILĂ — Tue, 22 Jul 2025 09:08:25 +0300

The current paper aims at taking into consideration some aspects regarding some linguistic expression and textual design of Traian Dorz's poetry, in direct connection with two key-concepts which define the life and the work of this Romanian mystic poet: the prayer and silence. In fact, the author's creation
represents, undoubtedly, the fruit of some spiritual experiences that have marked his existential path decisively, and the relation between Man and God (earthly speaking, but also from the perspective of eternity) remains a constant topic of such a work dedicated to the amazing feeling of His unique love, in connection with which everything is situated, not once, on the coordinates of being wordless. It is
about a special type of "expressing", which offers the opportunity to live in an authentic spiritual discipline (in prayer also, as a special way to communicate with Divinity and to ascend towards the mystic knowledge path), it being a substitute (and suppressing) any other form of confession through ordinary words.

AND OFF WE GO! THE NOUN CORABIE ‘CARAVEL’ AND ITS LEXICAL FAMILY IN OLD ROMANIAN

Adrian CHIRCU — Tue, 22 Jul 2025 09:49:07 +0300

In our study, we propose to investigate the ways in which Teodor Corbea, a Transylvanian scholar of the late 17th and early 18th centuries, equates in Romanian the Latin words for certain boats and related objects or activities r with the word corabie ‘caravel’ and its derivatives in his dictionary, Dictiones latinae cum valahica interpretatione, In addition to the wealth of encyclopaedic information, it also contains and highlights its importance for the ancient Romanian culture and medieval lexicography. The dictionary helps us understand the solutions the scholar resorted to in order to better translate the previously specified words. The language analysis of is essentially lexical, which does not exclude other interpretative perspectives (grammatical, for example). To support our investigative approach, we initially made an inventory of the occurrences of the noun, which was specified in the title and its derivatives that appear in the columns of the dictionary. Subsequently, we interpreted them with the aim of illustrating specific structural and lexical-semantic features, and highlighting the lexical richness of the Romanian
language, despite the fact that Romanian maritime terminology was in its early dawn.

NARRATIVE – LYRICS TEXTUAL STRUCTURES IN IONEL TEODOREANU’ S WRITINGS

Claudia-Cristina DOLEA-PANAITE — Tue, 22 Jul 2025 09:54:40 +0300

The main objective of this article is to identify the narrative-lyrical textual structures in Ionel Teodoreanu’s writings in order to give an insight of the extent and variety of the manifestations and implementations of narrative elements in Ionel Teodoreanu's texts. Our objective was to identify and describe as many
manifestations as possible of the use of narrative-lyrical structures and techniques in his writings in order to obtain data that lead to generalization and theorization about the adaptation of narratological concepts and methods used in the narrative lyrical analysis. We make use of the review of specialized literature of literary criticism, as well as the narrative-lyrical textual analysis in the novel „La Medeleni”.
Our conclusions reveal a large corpus that needs to be analyzed, summarizing the narrative-lyrical structures identified in Ionel Teodoreanu’s writings, the concepts and representations from the scenes of the novel „La Medeleni”.

The ROLE OF THE STYLISTIC ELEMENTS IN CONDOTIERA BY C.V. GHEORGHIU

Mirela DRĂGOI — Tue, 22 Jul 2025 10:00:29 +0300

The literary work created by Constantin Virgil Gheorghiu during his Parisian exile places the spiritual values of the Romanian people at the forefront, and promotes the idea that the 20th century is establishing the ethics of the “new man”. The novel La Condottiera (Plon, 1967) denounces totalitarianism and all the ideological mechanisms founded in Romania after August 23rd 1944, and turns into
a profound meditation on the drama of the “citizen” annihilated by Soviet terror. The fundamental aim of our study is to identify the stylistic marks that enrich this novelistic text. We will analyze the recurrence of one or more stylistic devices employed in the narrative discourse and/or in the characterization of characters, and highlight the importance of the stylistic facts identified and their function. We will also look at the role of the mechanisms that operate analogies, restrictions, enlargements and substitutions in this text (through comparison, epithet, metaphor, metonymy, synecdoche, symbol, personification etc.). Decoding the message that the bookish universe of La Condottiera conveys through these elements, can bring out a new reading, a new interpretation, an inventory of unexpected meanings of the
novel in question.

LITERARY ASPECTS REFLECTED IN THE „FREE ROMANIA” JOURNAL (1976)

Nicoleta IFRIM, Elena IANCU — Tue, 22 Jul 2025 10:06:15 +0300

„România liberă” (Daily paper of the National Council of the Socialist Unity Front), 1976, Year XXXIV lists, among other things, the various interventions of renowned cultural personalities. Thus, the position they had in relation to the communist regime is highlighted, as well as the attempts, the efforts made to support creation, literary art.

ICONOGRAPHIE, ESTHETIQUE ET GENRE :

Mara IVAN-MOHOR, Ioana MOHOR-IVAN — Tue, 22 Jul 2025 10:13:51 +0300

Given the prolonged span of Salome’s depictions in various artistic media
(from literature to visual and performative arts) which arches from medieval to
present-day renditions, it is safe to assume that this figure has retained its potency
as an enticing cultural icon which lends itself to being constructed, deconstructed or
reconstructed in keeping with the particular contexts which shape artistic vision(s).
The present paper analyses visual renditions of the Galilean princess from Giotto di
Bondoni’s “The Feast of Herod” to Luba Lukova’s “Salome” against verbal textual
records provided by the Gospels of Matthew and Mark, Wilde’s “Salome” and Carol
Ann Duffy’s poem of the same title by placing them at the intersection of iconographic, aesthetic and gendered interpretations of the myth in order to prove
that their layered and every so often differing or opposing meanings are both
inherent to the nature of the visual text and work as a means to impose, destabilise
or empower cultural roles ascribed to femininity.

DISCOURS FEATURES IN THE NOVEL ”DIMINEAȚĂ PIERDUTĂ”, BY GABRIELA ADAMEȘTEANU

Mariana MOGOȘ — Tue, 22 Jul 2025 10:19:09 +0300

The choice of the topic analyzed in our paper is motivated by the
"generosity" that Gabriela Adameșteanu's novel shows, which is considered by most
critics her "monumental" work. Starting from the aspects that investigate the
registers of communication, we felt it necessary to bring into discussion the
pragmatic discursive mechanisms, accommodating the theoretical references to
some examples of text, as much as the size of the work allows us. Indeed, we
addressed the concept of ”discursive space" and the discursive operations (or
communicative functions) that can be carried out within them, supporting them also
with examples of verbal acts emitted by different speakers, but bringing them in the foreground especially Vica Delcă and Ivona, since they are the conversational engine
of the novel. They recount, evoke and give free rein to the flow of involuntary
memory, commenting, appreciating, characterizing the present, but at the same time
reviving people, places, moments and experiences from a past lived or reconfigured
from memories, documents, diaries, objects or simply 'drawn' by their own
imagination. Because theoretical conventions deprive narrative discourse of the
support of trope-like resources, we have also considered the use of figures of speech
in conversation and the particular status of the expressive in speech acts.

A DIACHRONIC TOPONYMIC STUDY:

Marius-Octavian MUNTEANU — Tue, 22 Jul 2025 10:24:43 +0300

This toponymic study aims to highlight, on the one hand, the different linguistic values of odonyms (street names) and, on the other hand, the motivation of street names from a broad social, historical, and economic perspective. Starting from the postulate that language is first and foremost a social institution, closely following the manifestations and developments of the community, having an eminently pragmatic role of communication and social cohesion, our toponymic study aims to examine the onomastic avatars of a street in the city of Galati that has had a particular historical destiny, a destiny reflected in the process of naming it - J.Boyle Street, currently an "extension" of Portului Street from the intersection with
Navelor Street the former headquarters of the Fish Research Institute. Another concern of our diachronic study is the symbolic value of these odonyms in the context of the creation of a coherent urban ethos, in full connection with socio historical realities, and of a specific spiritual identity

AROMANIAN – A LANGUAGE OR A DIALECT?

Cătălin NEGOIȚĂ — Tue, 22 Jul 2025 10:39:23 +0300

The 90s of the last century marked the reopening of the ‘Aromanian file’,
which seemed to have exhausted its resources and polemics. Considered part of the
Romanian people, Latinized Greeks or descendants of the Macedonians of
Alexander the Great, the Aromanians continue to look for answers to questions
concerning their national being itself. After the fall of the communist regimes, the
surprise came from Romania, where a ‘neo-Aromanian’ group demanded the
recognition of the Aromanians as a national minority, claiming that they are not
part of the Romanian people, and the tongue spoken by them is not a dialect, but a
language. Although, in obvious numerical inferiority, the neo-Aromanians
managed to stir up polemics with the devotees of the traditional theory, including
with the fellows from the Macedo-Romanian Cultural Society. This carousel of
statements, has also included civic activists, academics, journalists, researchers and
politicians, making a compromise become impossible.

ETHOS, ETHICS AND AESTHETICS IN ADRIAN PĂUNESCU‘ S POEMS (I)

George PANȚICĂ — Tue, 22 Jul 2025 10:44:11 +0300

The poetic speech of Adrian Păunescu, a social "luminary of poetry" from
the period of the totalitarian regime, knows multiple contrasting perspectives
depending on his degree of political involvement, from the adulation of the
totalitarian regime and pact with it, to the revolt against the system and censorship
of the poet, which influences the aesthetics of his work. The present work aims at
identifying the center of tension in Adrian Păunescu's poetry by analyzing the
patriotism of his work before and after the communist regime. The premises of the
present paper highlight the social pressure and the political and historical context,
based on the ethical claim of the creation and the identification with the victim status
of the poet. The work highlights the changes suffered by Adrian Păunescu's
patriotism depending on the era, but also the conjunctural changes of the poetic
discourse. The poet, who was constantly politically engaged, appealed to the
nation's history and used patriotism to benefit from the opportunities of the
totalitarian regime.

”DIMINEȚILE PIERDUTE” OF GABRIELA ADAMEȘTEAN’S CHARACTERS

Ancuța Maria SMĂDU (PAVEL) — Tue, 22 Jul 2025 10:48:10 +0300

This article aims at analysing the protagonists of the novel The Lost
Mornings, one of the most important and recognized novels, despite being written
during the communist period. The characters have the ability to shape their own
world due to the intersection of the three periods that marked the Romanian space,
such as the interwar, communist and post-communist periods. Fragmentary, the text
not only superimposes variously coloured voices, but two different epochs, the
bourgeoisie represented by the intellectuals of the twentieth century and the world in full swing due to the establishment of socialism-communism. These changes will
be reflected at the level of the individual due to fragments of memory caused by the
malicious and nostalgic commentary of female presences. They are surviving, with
personal dramas, in an attempt to keep the family together despite their social status
and life skills. This work is aimed at audiences passionate about quality literature,
thanks to the gallery of characters who amaze through diversity and shock through
monstrosity. The characters cannot be associated with the author, even if,
apparently, there would be this connection. The uniqueness of Vica's character is
due to the style, language, behavior and vision, having something in common with
Caragiale's heroes. The author creates a contrast in the different way Vica speaks.
The narrative techniques associated with the inner monologue but the outer
discourse shed light on unique portraits or folders of existence of the characters.

Gh. CHIVU, Limbă şi cultură. Studii de istorie a limbii române literare, Editura Academiei Române, Bucureşti, 2019, 334 p.

Doina Marta BEJAN — Tue, 22 Jul 2025 10:51:11 +0300

Apariția în 2019, la Editura Academiei Române, a cărții semnate de Gh. Chivu, Limbă şi cultură.

Mihaela MANCAȘ, Stil și stilistică. Studii (2 volume), Editura Universității din București, 2022, ISBN 978-606-16-1327-4, 441 p.

Oana Magdalena CENAC — Tue, 22 Jul 2025 10:55:11 +0300

Cele două volume, intitulate Stil și stilistică. Studii, apărute în anul 2022, la Editura Universității din
București, în colecția Lingua, sunt rezultatul unui bilanț profesional de excepție al doamnei profesoare
Mihaela Mancaș, reunind o parte dintre studiile și articolele publicate în diverse reviste și
volume de-a lungul a peste jumătate de secol: „Am lăsat în carte studii care reflectă preocupările mele cele mai vechi: cronologic, primul datează din 1962; urmează articole publicate în anii ’70 și ’80, iar seria se încheie cu texte datate din ultimul deceniu al ultimului secol și al ultimului mileniu.” (p. 7)

Blanca CROITOR, Dinamica vocabularului limbii rom‚ne. Mic dicționar de cuvinte recent atestate, Editura Universității din București, 2022, ISBN978-606- 16-1335-9, 454 p.

Oana Magdalena CENAC — Tue, 22 Jul 2025 11:09:20 +0300

La Editura Universității din București, în Colecția Lingua, doamna profesoară Blanca Croitor publică volumul Dinamica vocabularului limbii române. Mic dicționar de cuvinte recent atestate,
în care include 1800 de cuvinte înregistrate în diverse registre și medii, dar care nu se regăsesc în
alte dicționare consultate de autoare, inclusiv în cele două lucrări publicate de curând: Inventar de cuvinte și sensuri noi atestate în mediul online (2020) și Sufixele în limba română actuală. Formații recente (2021).

Mircea CĂRTĂRESCU, Theodoros, Editura Humanitas, București, 2022, ISBN 978-973-50-7724-2, 632 p

Mihaela RUSU — Tue, 22 Jul 2025 11:15:59 +0300

Anul 1868, în Etiopia, marchează sf‚rșitul domniei regelui Theodoros II, odată cu pierderea
cetății Magdala în fața comandantului Majestății Sale, Regina Engliterrei. Tewodros II,
negusul care întrerupsese dinastia lui Solomon în Etiopia, se sinucisese în ziua capitulării
folosindu-se de pistoalele pe care le primise cândva chiar de la regina Victoria.