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This study is part of a larger research on the relation between the potential users of multilingual dictionaries and the manner in which these dictionaries are conceived in order to be used in given usage contexts. The study aims, on the one hand, at indicating the design elements of a sample of Romanian multilingual dictionaries and, on the other hand, in assessing the degree in which the design of their content is adjusted according to the profile of the potential users targeted by the authors. The corpus consists of a sample of Romanian multilingual dictionaries, published in classic form in the period 1990-2010 and is based on the editorial information provided by the authors in the introductory sections of these works. Our analysis takes into account aspects such as: the selection of component languages, the choice and organization of the glossaries of words and/or terms, the scientific lexicographic features provided by the scientific apparatus. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Known by his readers especially through his poetical work, for seven years, Eminescu had an intensive journalistic activity, signing in publications as "Familia" ('The Family'), "Federațiunea" ('The Federation') "Curierul de Iași" ('The Iasi Courier'), "Timpul" ('The Time'), "România liberă" ('Free Romania') and "Fântâna Blanduziei" ('Blanduzia's Fountain'). We suggest in our communication an outline of the journalist Eminescu's portrait as it appears in the notes made by the ones who knew him directly, on one hand, and on the other hand, as it is revealed by the articles that the poet published in the media of that time. Considered as a Cinderella of Eminescu's creation, the journalistic work keeps on remaining a domain tangentially approached or, most frequently, neglected by Eminescu's exegetes, considering that its' publishing would have put a shadow upon the poet's image. Insufficiently known by the public and partially studied by the exegetes, Eminescu's journalistic writing reflects the image of a man strongly attached to the events of the nineteenth century, of a deep connoisseur regarding the issues that troubled the Romanian society in a world in which just a few things were as supposed to be. Even if some of the articles can disappoint through their acid tone and the pathos that overpass the lines of an objective speech, Eminescu's journalistic work overwhelms by the vast thematic approached, by the variety of expression means and by the encyclopaedic perspectives that it reveals. Everything draws the journalist's attention, from the internal to the external political events, from demographical studies to economical analysis, from the historical facts to civilisation and culture aspects, from mathematical problems to philosophical interrogations. Journalist's virulent verb, his political spirit, his accuracy and erudition place Eminescu among the representative voices for the Romanian journalistic creation from the second half of the nineteenth century. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Our article advances a semiotic approach to Eminescu's journalistic activity, by assuming at the methodological level the hexadic model of situational analysis, developed by the logician Petru Ioan. The choice for a semiotic analysis of Eminescu's journalism - as a product of a historical and determined epoch, but also as a reflection of the journalist belief/vision on the realities of his time, is motivated, on one hand, by the methodological potential of semiotics that favors the interrelation of all parameters of communication situation and, on the other hand, by the necessity to correlate Eminescu's journalistic language to the specificity of the time that generated it. As a fact of signification/ resignification and communication through signs, Eminescu's journalistic activity is suitable to a situational analysis to the extent that involves a set of relationships between the journalist and the articles' receivers, is generated by a particular socio-historical context, uses particular techniques of signification and follows certain finalities. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Starting with the Greek polis we notice an extraordinary preeminence of the language over the other instruments of the power. Language becomes the political instrument by excellence, the key of any authority in the state, the means of dominating the other. This power of the language (of which the Greek made a deity Peitho, the persuasion power) reminds of the power of the words and of the formulas in certain religious rituals. The word is no longer in this case a ritualistic word, an incantatory formula, but a place for debate, for discussion, for argumentation. We basically witness a desacralisation of the word meant, on the politics field, to win, to mould, to incite, to subdue. The word is expressed now in the discourse, it is moulded according to the necessities of the antithetic demonstration, being subdued to the oratorical art. Between politics and logos there is a relationship of reciprocity, the political art being essentially an art of the language, and the language in its turn gets a conscience of its own self, of the rules, of its efficiency through the political function. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Contrastive focus highlights a certain element/constituent of the statement, which can occur in some specific communication situations that require the exclusion of some possible referential alternatives in the same context. In this paper we research the prosodic means of emphasizing the adjectival extension of the subjects in the statement with SVO structure - SEVO and SVOE. Our approach is based on a comparative analysis of the same statements uttered with "neutral" intonation (broad focus) and with contrastive focus on the adjective. The corpus was selected from the archives of The Multimedia Atlas of Romania (AMPRom) and represents the literary language spoken in six points of the atlas. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]