About this ebook
The book presents a characterisation of the Romanian cultural space in terms of various discourse practices, drawing on recent challenging theoretical proposals, and concluding with in-depth corpus-based analyses. The chapters focus on five main topics (the co-construction of discursive identities, discursive polyphony, textualisation of attitudes and emotions, conceptual metaphors, and grammaticalisation of context) explored in various discourse genres (political discourse, media discourse, professional discourse, face-to-face conversation, literature of memoires, and the usage of Romanian by non-natives). The theoretical framework utilised here is discourse analysis, defined in a broad sense (with regards to discourse patterns, pragmatic phenomena, conversation analysis, and rhetoric).
The volume, having both a theoretical and an applied dimension, will appeal to an international readership, including researchers interested in current developments of pragmatics and discourse analysis.
About the author
Gabriela Stoica is a Lecturer at the Department of Linguistics of the University of Bucharest, Romania, and Researcher at the “I. Iordan - Al. Rosetti” Institute of Linguistics of the Romanian Academy. Her fields of interest include historical semantics, discourse analysis, cultural linguistics, and Romanian as a foreign language.
Andra Vasilescu is Professor of Linguistics and Communication at the Department of Linguistics of the University of Bucharest, Romania, and Senior Researcher at the “Iorgu Iordan – Al. Rosetti” Institute of Linguistics of the Romanian Academy. Her teaching and research interests are pragmatics-syntax interface, discourse analysis, interpersonal and intercultural communication.
Jonathan Russell White is a Senior Lecturer and Associate Professor in the Department of English at Högskolan Dalarna, Sweden. His fields of interest include syntax, translation theory and practice, sociolinguistics, and pragmatics.
