Search

The aim of this paper is to approach the Romanian culinary terminology by assuming the gains from the space of nowadays' linguistics, in an attempt to respond to the challenge formulated by Eugenio Coseriu regarding the study of language as a creative activity that justifies linguistics as a science of culture. Food knowledge discourses are an extremely important source of documentation for explaining the mechanisms of linguistic creation. The way Romanian terms and expressions related to pies are formed and function is a relevant example to illustrate the relationship between the act of naming and its path to figurativeness. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Din bucătăria țăranului român, by Mihai Lupescu, represents not only a work of ethnographic interest, but also one of linguistic interest. In the spirit of Frédéric Damé’s work, Încercare de terminologie poporană română, published in 1898, Mihai Lupescu aspires to depict the way the peasant prepares food, but also to record the terminology of rural life regarding food. The author marks the specific and regional names of the places where the food is prepared, of the installations, tools and materials needed and provides glosses of terminological series for the peasant’s food and drink, in specific contexts. All this proves Mihai Lupescu’s intuition regarding the importance of variation of popular terminology. The collected linguistic material, the glosses of words and, especially, the organization of food knowledge represent an extremely important source of documentation for understanding the deep relationship between words and things. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Our approach focuses on the study of a few words and idioms of Romanian language which have as the basis some images of the popular theater of Eastern origin that were once played at fairs in the territory of Romania. To stage, to play a role represent a behavior subject to social ethics, regardless of a certain culture. These facts are often located under the sign of pretense, invention, cunning, for the feint of mystification. But the specific element of terms and expressions of Romanian language based on the image of popular theater is their relationship with the Eastern culture, hypostasis absolute of ethnic and religious otherness. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]