Scientific Bulletin of the Politehnica University of Timişoara Transactions on Modern Languages
When teaching effective vocabulary, there are some steps to be taken in consideration. Talking ab... more When teaching effective vocabulary, there are some steps to be taken in consideration. Talking about ways of acquiring knowledge, information can be stored in two ways: linguistic and nonlinguistic. Nonlinguistic representations are known as having very high impact on student achievement. They can be identified as graphic organizers, pictures, physical models, mental images, and kinesthetic activity. Besides analyzing nonlinguistic representations and observing the advantages they offer, along with the drawbacks, the paper offers some ideas on how to make use of certain digital tools to increase the above metioned aspect.
Scientific Bulletin of the Politehnica University of Timişoara Transactions on Modern Languages
L’interprétation consécutive, l’un des deux volets essentiels de l’interprétation, comprend, en p... more L’interprétation consécutive, l’un des deux volets essentiels de l’interprétation, comprend, en plus des éléments obligatoires pour la formation, la prise de notes. Ils existent des théories pour et contre celle-ci. Dans cet article je me propose de démontrer l’importance capitale de la bonne maîtrise des symboles et l’importance de la prise des notes. Cela répose sur la théorie des principes de base de la prise de notes complétée avec beaucoup de pratique. L’ouvrage présent a aussi un sous-chapitre pratique, explicatif, pour comprendre la lecture des notes.
Professional Communication and Translation Studies
Among the many things an interpreter should learn in order to perform simultaneous or consecutive... more Among the many things an interpreter should learn in order to perform simultaneous or consecutive interpretation, memory is an important element that needs training. In the present paper, my aim is to discuss some techniques of improving one’s memory, the characteristics of short and long term memory, and the way in which they influence the interpreter’s performances.
Professional Communication and Translation Studies
The translation of various types of texts is not a challenge anymore nowadays since the market of... more The translation of various types of texts is not a challenge anymore nowadays since the market offers several types of machine translation. But how reliable is it compared to human translation? In the present article we focus on a business article issued by a Romanian financial newspaper and we translate it into English with the help of Google translate, SDL Free Translator and Microsoft Bing. Then we analyze the differences provided by these three tools and observe the advantages and drawbacks of machine translation compared to human translation.
Professional Communication and Translation Studies
Notre communication se propose d’offrir un aperçu de la traduction des termes du domaine éducatio... more Notre communication se propose d’offrir un aperçu de la traduction des termes du domaine éducationnel de roumain en français. Les termes présentés dans cet article ont constitué le corpus d’un dictionnaire multilingue (traduction des termes de roumain en anglais, français et allemand). Le dictionnaire est destiné spécialement aux chercheurs, professeurs et étudiants intéressés par ce domaine. J’ai été responsable avec la traduction des termes en français. Quand on traduit un document, le traducteur est confronté avec plusieurs obstacles qui relèvent des systèmes linguistiques ou sémantiques. Dans l’ouvrage présent, l’auteur traite les problèmes et stratégies de traduction pour les situations où on observe des termes qui n’ont pas d’équivalents dus aux différences des systèmes éducationnels roumain et français, des anglicismes ou bien des abréviations.
Professional Communication and Translation Studies
Cet article présente une méthodologie d’analyse textuelle et propose l’illustration de cette méth... more Cet article présente une méthodologie d’analyse textuelle et propose l’illustration de cette méthode par une analyse discursive du discours d’une entreprise. Pour commencer, nous allons faire une brève incursion dans l’analyse de l’argumentation, pour nous arrêter, ensuite sur des aspects textuels, énonciatifs et argumentatifs du texte. La grille de lecture de référence repose sur certains indicateurs qu’on va analyser : les indices énonciatifs, référentiels et organisationnels, les verbes, les arguments ou les modalisateurs du texte.
The present article aims at presenting some aspects of the textlinguistic and functionalist appro... more The present article aims at presenting some aspects of the textlinguistic and functionalist approaches to translation and, at observing how the functionalist approach can be used in practice on a business text excerpt, placing an emphasis on the pragmatic equivalence and the features of the ST that have to be rendered accurately so as to create the same functionality of the TT as in the ST.
This paper about Winterson and the totalizing body aims to deal with the ungendered as well as ge... more This paper about Winterson and the totalizing body aims to deal with the ungendered as well as gendered body from the perspective of her novel Written on the Body which appeared in 1992. The novel is a story of love and loss, but Winterson has managed to create that rare thing- an original novel about love. The storyteller of the book falls in love with Louise who is married to a cancer specialist called Elgin. Interestingly enough, Winterson never reveals the gender of the storyteller and we are left to work out for ourselves whether the story deals with a heterosexual or homosexual relationship. Louise leaves Elgin and moves in with the storyteller, who is unaware of the fact that the beloved is seriously ill. The story is told mainly through flashbacks and transformed into a love poem where the loved one’s leukaemic body is described in every detail with words, which are both wonderful and terrifying at the same time. It is a tragic tale that Winterson gives us in Written on the ...
Time and space are major themes in Winterson's novels. My goal in this paper is to focus on the w... more Time and space are major themes in Winterson's novels. My goal in this paper is to focus on the way these concepts are analysed from the perspective of two of her novels, The Passion and Written on the Body. Winterson succeeds in creating and conferring new values on these concepts in her novels, thus allowing them a different interpretation.
Scientific Bulletin of the Politehnica University of Timişoara Transactions on Modern Languages
The present article aims at presenting some aspects of the textlinguistic and functionalist appro... more The present article aims at presenting some aspects of the textlinguistic and functionalist approaches to translation and, at observing how the functionalist approach can be used in practice on a business text excerpt, placing an emphasis on the pragmatic equivalence and the features of the ST that have to be rendered accurately so as to create the same functionality of the TT as in the ST.
Professional Communication and Translation Studies
English language is spoken all over the world, and today, anglicisms represent a linguistic unit ... more English language is spoken all over the world, and today, anglicisms represent a linguistic unit from the point of view of the expression, meaning or grammatical construction in Romanian, as well as the spelling and pronunciation from British or American English. The present paper aims at studying Romanian language anglicisms and at establishing whether they are necessary or luxury loanwords. Nonetheless, the paper studies the presence of these terms in the sectors they appear most often, starting from various articles published in Capital newspaper.
The era of globalization has led to frequent communication among people with different linguistic... more The era of globalization has led to frequent communication among people with different linguistic and cultural backgrounds, carried out usually in English, the modern lingua franca. English has influenced the languages of the world, which have started to borrow words in order to keep up with progress and internationalization. Anglicisms are used in almost every field, education being one of them. This paper highlights the presence of Anglicisms in the field of education, and focuses on a multilingual dictionary of education, from which it gathers a corpus in three different languages: Romanian, German, and French. The study aims to identify the Anglicisms employed in the educational field in the three languages aforementioned, and to analyze them comparatively, pointing out the similarities and differences among the languages in question.
Scientific Bulletin of the Politehnica University of Timişoara Transactions on Modern Languages
When teaching effective vocabulary, there are some steps to be taken in consideration. Talking ab... more When teaching effective vocabulary, there are some steps to be taken in consideration. Talking about ways of acquiring knowledge, information can be stored in two ways: linguistic and nonlinguistic. Nonlinguistic representations are known as having very high impact on student achievement. They can be identified as graphic organizers, pictures, physical models, mental images, and kinesthetic activity. Besides analyzing nonlinguistic representations and observing the advantages they offer, along with the drawbacks, the paper offers some ideas on how to make use of certain digital tools to increase the above metioned aspect.
Scientific Bulletin of the Politehnica University of Timişoara Transactions on Modern Languages
L’interprétation consécutive, l’un des deux volets essentiels de l’interprétation, comprend, en p... more L’interprétation consécutive, l’un des deux volets essentiels de l’interprétation, comprend, en plus des éléments obligatoires pour la formation, la prise de notes. Ils existent des théories pour et contre celle-ci. Dans cet article je me propose de démontrer l’importance capitale de la bonne maîtrise des symboles et l’importance de la prise des notes. Cela répose sur la théorie des principes de base de la prise de notes complétée avec beaucoup de pratique. L’ouvrage présent a aussi un sous-chapitre pratique, explicatif, pour comprendre la lecture des notes.
Professional Communication and Translation Studies
Among the many things an interpreter should learn in order to perform simultaneous or consecutive... more Among the many things an interpreter should learn in order to perform simultaneous or consecutive interpretation, memory is an important element that needs training. In the present paper, my aim is to discuss some techniques of improving one’s memory, the characteristics of short and long term memory, and the way in which they influence the interpreter’s performances.
Professional Communication and Translation Studies
The translation of various types of texts is not a challenge anymore nowadays since the market of... more The translation of various types of texts is not a challenge anymore nowadays since the market offers several types of machine translation. But how reliable is it compared to human translation? In the present article we focus on a business article issued by a Romanian financial newspaper and we translate it into English with the help of Google translate, SDL Free Translator and Microsoft Bing. Then we analyze the differences provided by these three tools and observe the advantages and drawbacks of machine translation compared to human translation.
Professional Communication and Translation Studies
Notre communication se propose d’offrir un aperçu de la traduction des termes du domaine éducatio... more Notre communication se propose d’offrir un aperçu de la traduction des termes du domaine éducationnel de roumain en français. Les termes présentés dans cet article ont constitué le corpus d’un dictionnaire multilingue (traduction des termes de roumain en anglais, français et allemand). Le dictionnaire est destiné spécialement aux chercheurs, professeurs et étudiants intéressés par ce domaine. J’ai été responsable avec la traduction des termes en français. Quand on traduit un document, le traducteur est confronté avec plusieurs obstacles qui relèvent des systèmes linguistiques ou sémantiques. Dans l’ouvrage présent, l’auteur traite les problèmes et stratégies de traduction pour les situations où on observe des termes qui n’ont pas d’équivalents dus aux différences des systèmes éducationnels roumain et français, des anglicismes ou bien des abréviations.
Professional Communication and Translation Studies
Cet article présente une méthodologie d’analyse textuelle et propose l’illustration de cette méth... more Cet article présente une méthodologie d’analyse textuelle et propose l’illustration de cette méthode par une analyse discursive du discours d’une entreprise. Pour commencer, nous allons faire une brève incursion dans l’analyse de l’argumentation, pour nous arrêter, ensuite sur des aspects textuels, énonciatifs et argumentatifs du texte. La grille de lecture de référence repose sur certains indicateurs qu’on va analyser : les indices énonciatifs, référentiels et organisationnels, les verbes, les arguments ou les modalisateurs du texte.
The present article aims at presenting some aspects of the textlinguistic and functionalist appro... more The present article aims at presenting some aspects of the textlinguistic and functionalist approaches to translation and, at observing how the functionalist approach can be used in practice on a business text excerpt, placing an emphasis on the pragmatic equivalence and the features of the ST that have to be rendered accurately so as to create the same functionality of the TT as in the ST.
This paper about Winterson and the totalizing body aims to deal with the ungendered as well as ge... more This paper about Winterson and the totalizing body aims to deal with the ungendered as well as gendered body from the perspective of her novel Written on the Body which appeared in 1992. The novel is a story of love and loss, but Winterson has managed to create that rare thing- an original novel about love. The storyteller of the book falls in love with Louise who is married to a cancer specialist called Elgin. Interestingly enough, Winterson never reveals the gender of the storyteller and we are left to work out for ourselves whether the story deals with a heterosexual or homosexual relationship. Louise leaves Elgin and moves in with the storyteller, who is unaware of the fact that the beloved is seriously ill. The story is told mainly through flashbacks and transformed into a love poem where the loved one’s leukaemic body is described in every detail with words, which are both wonderful and terrifying at the same time. It is a tragic tale that Winterson gives us in Written on the ...
Time and space are major themes in Winterson's novels. My goal in this paper is to focus on the w... more Time and space are major themes in Winterson's novels. My goal in this paper is to focus on the way these concepts are analysed from the perspective of two of her novels, The Passion and Written on the Body. Winterson succeeds in creating and conferring new values on these concepts in her novels, thus allowing them a different interpretation.
Scientific Bulletin of the Politehnica University of Timişoara Transactions on Modern Languages
The present article aims at presenting some aspects of the textlinguistic and functionalist appro... more The present article aims at presenting some aspects of the textlinguistic and functionalist approaches to translation and, at observing how the functionalist approach can be used in practice on a business text excerpt, placing an emphasis on the pragmatic equivalence and the features of the ST that have to be rendered accurately so as to create the same functionality of the TT as in the ST.
Professional Communication and Translation Studies
English language is spoken all over the world, and today, anglicisms represent a linguistic unit ... more English language is spoken all over the world, and today, anglicisms represent a linguistic unit from the point of view of the expression, meaning or grammatical construction in Romanian, as well as the spelling and pronunciation from British or American English. The present paper aims at studying Romanian language anglicisms and at establishing whether they are necessary or luxury loanwords. Nonetheless, the paper studies the presence of these terms in the sectors they appear most often, starting from various articles published in Capital newspaper.
The era of globalization has led to frequent communication among people with different linguistic... more The era of globalization has led to frequent communication among people with different linguistic and cultural backgrounds, carried out usually in English, the modern lingua franca. English has influenced the languages of the world, which have started to borrow words in order to keep up with progress and internationalization. Anglicisms are used in almost every field, education being one of them. This paper highlights the presence of Anglicisms in the field of education, and focuses on a multilingual dictionary of education, from which it gathers a corpus in three different languages: Romanian, German, and French. The study aims to identify the Anglicisms employed in the educational field in the three languages aforementioned, and to analyze them comparatively, pointing out the similarities and differences among the languages in question.
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