THE CHAIR OF FOREIGN LANGUAGES

DEPARTMENT OF TEACHER TRAINING

“GHEORGHE ASACHI” TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF
IAȘI
in collaboration with
LINGUATEK CENTRE FOR COMMUNICATION AND
APPLIED LANGUAGES

PROGRAMME
OF THE 1st INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE
ON

DISCOURSE AND COMMUNICATIVE

INTERACTION

DISCI 2016

IAȘI, 27-28 MAY 2016

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Scientific Committee:
Phillip BOZOV, Technical University of Sofia, Sofia, Bulgaria
Ioana CREŢU, “Grigore T. Popa” University of Medicine and
Pharmacy, Iaşi, Romania
Rodica DIMITRIU, “Alexandru Ioan Cuza” University, Iaşi, Romania
Lina DUBIKALTYTĖ RAUGALIENĖ, “Gedeminas” Technical University,
Vilnius, Lithuania
Felicia DUMAS, “Alexandru Ioan Cuza” University, Iaşi, Romania
Nicoleta-Mariana IFTIMIE, “Gheorghe Asachi” Technical University,
Iaşi, Romania
Mohammad Amin MOZAHEB, Imam Sadiq [P.B.U.H.] University
Tehran, Islamic Republic of Iran
Olivia-Cristina RUSU, “Gheorghe Asachi” Technical University, Iaşi,
Romania
Nicolas SAMSON, “Gheorghe Asachi” Technical University, Iaşi,
Romania

Organizing Committee:
Nicoleta-Mariana Iftimie, “Gheorghe Asachi” Technical University,
Iaşi, Romania
Olivia-Cristina Rusu, “Gheorghe Asachi” Technical University, Iaşi,
Romania

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DISCOURSE AND COMMUNICATIVE

INTERACTION

PROGRAMME

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PAPER SESSIONS
1st Day

27 May 2016

9:00-10:00 Welcoming the participants

Venue: Building CH (tower), 3rd floor

Opening Ceremony (10:00-11:00)

Welcoming Address:
Prof. dr. eng. Irina LUNGU, Vice-Rector of “Gheorghe
Asachi” University of Iași
Prof. dr. eng. Neculai SEGHEDIN, Vice-Rector of
“Gheorghe Asachi” University of Iași
Assoc. prof. dr. Gabriel ASANDULUI, Director of the
Department of Teacher Training
Assoc.prof. dr. Nicoleta-Mariana IFTIMIE, Coordinator
of the Chair of Foreign Languages
Lecturer dr. Olivia-Cristina RUSU
Plenary Session (11:00- 11:30)
Keynote Speaker
Odette BLUMENFELD (Professor Emeritus, Romania),
Gender and Dramatic Discourse

11:30-12:00 Coffee break

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PARALLEL SESSION 1 (12:00-14:30)

Investigating Literary Discourse
Building CH (tower), 3rd floor
Moderators: Nicoleta-Mariana Iftimie (Romania)
Doina-Mihaela Popa (Romania)

1. Nicoleta-Mariana IFTIMIE (Romania) “In Fair

Verona, Where We Lay Our Scene”: The
Interplay of Dramatic and Cinematic Discourse
2. Elena – Carmen LARCO, Dariusz KASPRZYK
(Romania), Depiction of the Countryside in the
Novels of Władysław Reymont’s "Chłopi" and
Liviu Rebranu’s "Ion" and "Răscoala" as
Examples of Literary Discourse
3. Beatrice Diana BURCEA (Romania) Speech Acts
in Postmodern Poetic Texts
4. Nicoleta-Mariana IFTIMIE (Romania) Dramatic
Discourse as a Blueprint for Production
5. Ștefan IONESCU-AMBROSIE (Romania)
Cynicism, Sincerity and Self-Help in David
Foster Wallace’s “Infinite Jest”
6. Florina NĂSTASE (Romania) The Failure of
Speech Acts in David Mamet’s “Oleanna”

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7. Doina Mihaela POPA (Romania) Figures du

discours: la description
8. Olivia-Cristina RUSU (Romania) Discours de la
mémoire maternelle dans l’œuvre de Jean
Rouaud

14:30-15:30 Lunch Break

PARALLEL SESSION 2 (12:00-14:30)

Building CH (tower), 5th floor

Discourse and the Translator

Foreign Language Discourse

Moderators: Olivia Rusu (Romania)

Lucia Tudor (Romania)

1. Paul BLEWCHAMP (Taiwan) Aspects of English

and Chinese Discourse
2. Evagrina DÎRŢU (Romania) “But Can We Do It
without Grammar?” Possible Answers in
Foreign Languages Classes
3. Anca GAVRIL (Romania) Idiolecte et figement
4. Iulia MACARIA (Romania) La traduction
publicitaire - une « belle infidèle»
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5. Elena Violeta TĂNASE (Romania) Extratextual

Elements and Intertextual References in the
Subtitling of Humour
6. Svetlana TIMINA (Taiwan) A Study of
Taiwanese Students' EFL Learning Experience
at the Pre-College Level
7. Lucia-Alexandra TUDOR (Romania) The
Translator’s Voice as the Focal Point of the
Narratology – Translation Studies Intersection
8. Marina VRACIU (Romania) Poets and
Translators: Theory and Practice in a Poem by
Joseph Brodsky
9. Elena Laura VULPOIU (Spain) Discourse,
Translator, Censorship
10. Elena YAKOVLEVA (Taiwan) Story Reading
Class in Bilingual Kindergarten

14:30-15:30 Lunch Break

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PARALLEL SESSION 3 (15:30-18:00)

Building CH (tower), 3rd floor
Discourse and Professional Communication

Moderators:
Maria-Ileana Carcea (Romania)
Elena Tiron (Romania)

1. Elena BONTA, Raluca GALIŢA (Romania) Self-

Referential Discourse as a Means of Fulfilling
Political and Social Ends
2. Cristian ANDRIESEI (Romania) On Expectancy
Theory. Insights from a Teaching Perspective
3. Haralambie ATHES (Romania) The Ecological
Discourse in Media Culture. A Cinematic Case-
Study
4. Oana BARGAN (MAXIM) (Romania) Text and
Discourse in the Realm of Legal Language
5. Maria-Ileana CARCEA (Romania) Types of
Discourse in Professional Communication
6. Vlad CHIRIAC, Marta CHIRIAC (Canada) Medical
Discourse in an Ambulance
7. Daniela Lucia ENE (Romania) Shaping New
Identities through Discourse in Narrative
Therapy

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8. Elena TIRON, Oana JITARU (Romania) La

communication éducationnelle. Les difficultés
de la communication éducationnelle des
étudiants du domaine technique dans la
préparation psychopédagogique

PARALLEL SESSION 4 (15:30-18:00)

Building CH (tower), 5th floor
Language as Discourse
Moderators: Eugenia Bogatu (Republic of Moldova)
Mohammad Amin Mozaheb (Iran)

1. Hashim AKBAROV (Azerbaidjan) Relative

Syntagmas in the Discourse of the Azerbaijani
and English Languages
2. Eugenia BOGATU (Republic of Moldova)
Pragmatism and Discursivity
3. Felicia CEAUȘU, George CEAUȘU (Romania)
Mental Representations between “Textuality”
and Discourse: Michael A. K. Halliday’s
Sociolinguistics
4. Nadina CEHAN (Romania) The Prescriptivist
Discourse

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5. Mohammad Amin MOZAHEB, Mostafa

SHAHIDITABAR, Abbas MONFARED (Iran)
A Critical Discourse Analytic Study of Iranian
and Asian Universities' Webpages
6. Sabina-Nicoleta ROTENȘTEIN (Romania) The
Modification of Proper Names in Discourse
7. Mustafa YIĞITOĞLU, Zana YALÇINKAYA
(Turkey) An Analysis of Sexist Proverbs and
Idioms in Turkish

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2nd Day
PARALLEL SESSION 5 (9:00-11:30)
Building CH (tower), 3rd floor
Discourse and Professional Communication
Moderators: Yael Shwartz (Israel)
Mariana Mantu (Romania)

1. Monica FRUNZĂ (Romania) Hétérogénéité

énonciative dans le discours publicitaire
2. Marius-Adrian HAZAPARU (Romania) Diacronic
perspectives on Journalistic Discourse.
Particularities of the Romanian Media
3. Oana JITARU (Romania) The Role of Assertive
Communication in the Civic Education of Young
People
4. Mariana MANTU (Romania) The Cinematic
Discourse. A Psychoanalytic Approach
5. Alexandru NEAGU (France) « Vos mètres
carrés n’ont jamais eu autant de valeur » Une
incursion dans le discours publicitaire des
promoteurs immobiliers français
6. Yael SHWARTZ, Emil EIDIN (Israel) Can Science
Teachers Effectively Support Discourse
Regarding Socio-Scientific Issues?

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7. Tudor STANCIU, Alina Cătălina JICMON

Communication Tools in Adult Education
Policies
11:30-12:00 Coffee Break

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PARALLEL SESSION 6 (9:00-11:30)

Building CH (tower), 5th floor
DISCOURSE AND (INTER)ACTION
INTERCULTURAL COMMUNICATION

Moderators: Jan Sjiolin (Sweden)

Tudor Stanciu (Romania)

1. Irina BÎCU, Adrian BODEA, Alex DROB, Veronica

FANA, Dmitrii MAGALIUC, Iuliana MIHAI, Daniel
VENIȘ (Romania) Communication Issues and
the Perspectives of the Students from the
North-East Region of Romania on the
Immigrants’ Waves in the European Union
2. George CEAUȘU (Romania) Logical and
Psychological Effects in Narrative or Descriptive
Discourse
3. Horia-Costin CHIRIAC (Romania) The Discourse
as a Form of Communicative Interaction: the
Role of Argumentative Structure
4. Angelica HOBJILĂ (Romania) Politesse
positive/négative et le jeu des personnes dans
l’interaction auteur(s) de manuels – élève(s)
5. Doina Mihaela POPA (Romania) Corporalité
et spatialité dans la communication
analogique
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6. Tudor STANCIU, Cătălin DÎRŢU (Romania) Child

Abuse and Communication Problems
7. Jan SJOLIN (Sweden), Tudor STANCIU
(Romania) Communication and Multinational
Cultural Influence: Business in Terms of a
Multinational Approach
8. Iuliana-Lăcrămioara TĂTĂRĂU, Dumitru Daniel
TINCU, Cătălina JICMON, Alexandru OJOG
(Romania), Krasniqi LIRIM Facilitating
Intercultural Communication and the
Integration of International Students. The
International Coffee Project – Strategy and
Implementation

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