CALL FOR PAPERS - 2nd ROASS CONFERENCE

2nd CALL FOR PAPERS
Dear Colleagues,

We are honoured to invite you to participate in
the 2nd Romanian Association of Semiotic Studies (ROASS)
INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE
TRANSMODERNITY:
MANAGING GLOBAL COMMUNICATION
which will be held in Bacău & Slănic-Moldova - ROMANIA
23-25 October 2008


ORGANIZERS
ROMANIAN ASSOCIATION OF SEMIOTIC STUDIES (ROASS)
FACULTY OF LETTERS- UNIVERSITY OF BACAU
SOUTHEAST EUROPEAN CENTER FOR SEMIOTIC STUDIES
NEW BULGARIAN UNIVERSITY
HUNGARIAN ASSOCIATION FOR SEMIOTIC STUDIES
PHILOLOGICAL SCHOOL OF HIGHER EDUCATION IN WROCłAW - POLAND

UNDER THE AUSPICES OF IASS
(INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF SEMIOTIC STUDIES)
The time for a great change of paradigm – the shift from postmodernity to transmodernity – has already come.
Setting out from existing transformations, diversities (experienced as difference), varieties (perceived as absence of sameness, of routine and monotony), alterities (through a continuous transgressing of borders), transmodernity foregrounds the new phenomenon of the “network world”. The increased cultural complexity of the global(izing/ized) world, which seems to be the raison d’être for “trans-”prefixed domains of action has turned into fertile ground for cross-breeding between several areas of research, such as management, communication studies, marketing and semiotics.
How can transborder exchanges come to terms with processes within borders, how do international power relations influence structures mapped within frontiers, how can differences, varieties etc. be decoded and understood, how can communication be conducted in a “networld” where everything is produced and interpreted at a global level? How can the “relational dynamism” of this new (transcultural) “netocracy” be communicated and controlled? What is its new rhetoric like?
These are just few questions to be debated upon during the 2nd ROASS international conference “Transmodernity: Managing Global Communication”.
The papers can be defended in English, French, or Romanian.

Doina Cmeciu
Traian D. Stănciulescu

2nd ROASS CONFERENCE PROGRAMME

THURSDAY, 23 OCTOBER

16.00 – 17.45
REGISTRATION

18.00
Official opening (Room I)
PhD Prof. Eng. Valentin NEDEFF
Rector of the Univ. of Bacău, Romania

PhD Prof. Traian D. STĂNCIULESCU – ROASS President, “Al.I.Cuza” Univ. of Iaşi

PhD Prof. Doina CMECIU – ROASS Secretary-General, Univ. of Bacău

18.30 – 19.15
PLENARY SESSION (Room I)

Vilmos VOIGT – Eotvos Lorand Univ, Budapest, HUNGARY
Semiotica Transylvaniae Perennis

19.30
WELCOMING DINNER
FRIDAY, 24 OCTOBER

7.30 – 8.45
Breakfast (Restaurant)

9.00 – 9.45
Plenary Session (Room I)
Solomon MARCUS - Romanian Academy, Bucharest, ROMANIA
Signs of God

9.45 – 10.00
Coffee break

10.00-12.00
SESSIONS
Multiculturality (R. I)
Semiotics – (un)managing terminology and methods (R. II)
Challenging identities in a global world (R. III)
Bacău: the living memory of a Moldavian topos – in Romanian (R.IV)
12.00-12.15
Coffee break

12.15-13.00
Plenary Session (Room I)
Alexandru BOBOC – Romanian Academy, Bucharest, ROMANIA
Language and Time
(With Reference to Social Behaviour and Communication
)
(in Romanian)

13.00-14.30
Lunch (Restaurant)

14.30-15.00
Book display

15.00-15.40
Plenary Session (Room I)
John DEELY - University of St. Thomas, Houston, USA
Semiotics and Academe: At the Heart of the Problem of Knowledge
16.00-16.40
Plenary Session (Room I)
Mariana NEŢ – Romanian Academy, Bucharest, Romania
Iconicities, Ideologies

16.40-17.00
Coffee break

17.00-19.00
SESSIONS
Challenging identities in a global world (R I)
Creative transdialogue: visual arts, music literature (R.II)
Mass-media: the disharmonizing impact power? (R.III)

19.00-19.30
General Assembly of ROASS Members

19.30
Dinner (Restaurant)
FRIDAY, 24 OCTOBER
10.00 – 12.00
MULTICULTURALITY
Room I, Chairperson: Doina CMECIU – Univ. of Bacău, ROMANIA

Massimo LEONE – Univ. of Turin, ITALY
Cultures of Invisibility: the Semiotics of the Veil in Ancient Judaism

Farouk Y. SEIF – Antioch Univ. Seattle, Seattle, Washington, USA
Reconstructing Cultural Identity in a Globalizing World

Lorenzo MAGNANI – Univ. of Pavia, ITALY & Sun Yat-sen Univ., Guangzhou (Canton), CHINA The Mediating Effect of Material Cultures as Human Hybridization

Maheshvari NAIDU – Univ. of KwaZulu-Natal, SOUTH AFRICA
(Re)Constructing Identity in Global Culture: (Re)Inscribing the Zulu Female Body in Tourism Consumption

Christian TĂMAŞ – IBC Cambridge, UK
L’islam occidental: le défi de l’ethnicité

Doina CMECIU – Univ. of Bacău, ROMANIA
Towards a Semiotics of Cultural Needs
FRIDAY, 24 OCTOBER
10.00 – 12.00

SEMIOTICS – (UN)MANAGING TERMINOLOGY AND METHODS
Room II, Chairperson: Traian D. STĂNCIULESCU – “Al.I.Cuza” Univ. of Iaşi & National Institute of Inventics, ROMANIA

Zdzisław WĄSIK – Adam Mickiewicz Univ. in Poznan & Philological School of Higher Education in Wroclaw, POLAND
Exploring the Semiotic Universals of Language in the Domain of Human Communication

Abraham SOLOMONICK – Ph.D. in Applied Linguistics, ISRAEL
The Language of Science in the Light of Semiotics

Anita KASABOVA – New Bulgarian Univ., Sofia, BULGARIA
The Deictic Field: Bühler’s Contribution to Communication Theory

Viorel GULICIUC – “Ştefan cel Mare” Univ., Suceava, ROMANIA
Non-generic Universality and Abductive Semiotics

George CEAUŞU - “Al.I.Cuza” Univ., Iaşi, ROMANIA
The Semiotics of Human Intelligence

Traian D. STĂNCIULESCU – “Al.I.Cuza” Univ. of Iaşi & National Institute of Inventics, ROMANIA
“The Transmodern Turn”: a Plea for a Semiotics of Light
FRIDAY, 24 OCTOBER
10.00 – 12.00

CHALLENGING IDENTITIES IN A GLOBAL WORLD
Room III, Chairperson: Kristian BANKOV – New Bulgarian Univ., Sofia, BULGARIA

Maria POPOVA - New Bulgarian University, Sofia, BULGARIA
The Intercultural Dialogue in Associative Experiments

Kristian BANKOV – New Bulgarian Univ., Sofia, BULGARIA
Global Communication and the New Consumer Culture

Piotr P. CHRUSZCZEWSKI – Univ. of Wroclaw & Philological School of Higher Education, POLAND
“Let me bid you farewell …” or Public Discourse on Private Matters

IGA RAAFIE – Kyambogo Univ, UGANDA
Transmondernity of Semotics in African Contexts. Relational Dynamics of African Communication Giants

Lorenza POPESCU – Romanian Academy Library, Bucharest, ROMANIA
Fashion as Expression and Effect of Globalization

Camelia-Mihaela CMECIU & Ana-Maria FERENŢ – Univ of Bacău, ROMANIA
When the Bird Flu Strikes the Corporate Identity: A Semiotic Approach to Corporate Crisis Management

FRIDAY, 24 OCTOBER
10.00 – 12.00

BACĂU: THE LIVING MEMORY OF A MOLDAVIAN TOPOS
(in Romanian)
Room IV, Chairperson: Ioan DĂNILĂ – Univ. of Bacău, ROMANIA


Ioan DĂNILĂ – Univ. of Bacău, ROMANIA
Bacău: Living Cultural Memory – a Possible Signifying Interpretation

Ecaterina CREŢU – Univ. of Bacău, ROMANIA
Signifiants et signifiés des combinaisons lexicales contenant le verbe a fi (être) en roumain

Luminiţa DRUGĂ – Univ. of Bacău, ROMANIA
Dès le caravansérail au mall. Une perspective diachronique sur les espace sociopetes

Ana-Maria BOSTAN – MA, Univ. of Bacău, ROMANIA
Postcards - a Means of Promoting Bacău through Time(s)

Monica PĂTRUŢ – Univ. of Bacău, ROMANIA
The Image of the City of Bacău on the Internet

Florinela FLORIA & Ana-Maria FERENŢ – Univ. of Bacău, ROMANIA
La ville de Bacău et ses universités dans les médias locaux

FRIDAY, 24 OCTOBER
16.00 – 18.00

CHALLENGING IDENTITIES IN A GLOBAL WORLD
Room I, Chairperson: Aurel CODOBAN – “Babeş-Bolyai” Univ., Cluj-Napoca, ROMANIA

Emilia GULICIUC – “Ştefan cel Mare” Univ., Suceava, ROMANIA
Identité, modernisme, postmodernisme et transmodernisme

Victoria FONARI - Moldova State Univ., THE REPUBLIC OF MOLDAVIA
National Culture and Globalization

Vasile SPIRIDON – Univ. of Bacău, ROMANIA
„L’Esprit critique dans la culture roumaine“ – entre la modernisation et l’européanisation

Ruslan ŞEVCENCO – The Academy of Sciences, THE REPUBLIC OF MOLDAVIA
The Evolution of the Local Political System and Globalization

Doina CMECIU – Univ. of Bacău, ROMANIAMirela ARSITH – “Danubius” Univ., Galaţi, ROMANIA
(Un)managing Communication through Stereotyping

Aurel CODOBAN – “Babeş-Bolyai” Univ., Cluj-Napoca, ROMANIA
Communicational Virtuality of Alterity

Florinela FLORIA – Univ. of Bacău, ROMANIA
L'Autre. Propos pour une sociosémiotique
FRIDAY, 24 OCTOBER
16.00 – 18.00

CREATIVE TRANSDIALOGUE: VISUAL ARTS, MUSIC, LITERATURE

Room II, Chairperson: Pavel PUŞCAŞ - Music Academy Cluj-Napoca, ROMANIA

Jörg ZELLER – Aalborg Univ., DENMARK
The Logic of Visual Communication

Kinga GÁSPÁR - Pazmany Peter Catholic Univ., Budapest, HUNGARY
The Game of Codes in Amateur Theater

Pavel PUŞCAŞ - Music Academy Cluj-Napoca, ROMANIA
Hypostasis and Hyperstasis of Musical Text

Mariana TÎRNĂUCEANU – Univ. of Bacău, ROMANIA
Form and Expression in the Contemporary Romanian Pictorial Art; Directions of Communication
Maziar ETEMADI - Aalborg Univ., DENMARK
The Concept of the Symbol in I. Kant's "Critique of Judgement"

Aritia POENARU – National Institute of Inventics, ROMANIA
A Transmodern Approach to the “(Re)Sacred Architecture”

FRIDAY, 24 OCTOBER
16.00 – 18.00

MASS-MEDIA: THE DISHARMONIZING IMPACT POWER?
Room III, Chairperson: Rodica MARIAN – “Babeş-Bolyai” Univ., Cluj-Napoca, ROMANIA

Bianca BALABAN – “George Bacovia” Univ., Bacău, ROMANIA
TV – The Universal Means of Re/De-Constructing the 21st Century Human Being

Gabriela BIRIS – Univ. of Craiova, ROMANIA
Blogs – A Semiotic Approach

Marinela BURADA – “Transilvania” Univ. of Braşov, ROMANIA
A Critical Approach to Online Dictionaries – Problems and Solutions

Rodica MARIAN – “Babeş-Bolyai” Univ., Cluj-Napoca, ROMANIA
Perspectives of Applied Semiotics: the Status of an Online Dictionary

Gabriel MARDARE – Univ. of Bacău, ROMANIA
ID & IT ou l’émergence de l’identitronique

Borislav GUEORGUIEV – New Bulgarian Univ., Sofia, BULGARIA
Social Networking in Internet

Sorin PÂRVU - “Al.I.Cuza” Univ., Iaşi, ROMANIA
Communicating through Dictionaries
SATURDAY, 25 OCTOBER

7.30 – 8.45
Breakfast (Restaurant)

9.00 – 9.45
Plenary Session (Room I)
Lorenzo MAGNANI – Univ. of Pavia, ITALY
& Sun Yat-sen Univ., Guangzhou (Canton), CHINA
Semiotic Brains and Artificial Minds.
How Brains Make up Material Cognitive Systems

9.45 – 10.00
Coffee Break

10.30 – 12.00
Workshop: a plea for a cultural charter (Telecomunicaţii Hall)

10.00 – 12.00
SESSIONS
Semiotics – (un)managing terminology and methods (R.I)
Creative transdialogue: visual arts, music, literature (R. II)

12.00-13.00
Book display

12.00-13.00
Poster presentation:
Ø “Signs of Light”: from Archetypes to (Nano)technology - Traian D. STĂNCIULESCU & Aritia POENARU, “Al.I.Cuza” Univ. of Iaşi & National Institute of Inventics, ROMANIA
Ø Europe Direct Relay (Bacău)

13.00-14.30
Lunch (Restaurant)

15.00-15.45
Plenary Session (Room I)
José Maria PAZ GAGO (General Secretary IASS - AIS) - Université de Coruña, Espagne
Pour une nouvelle sémiotique de la mode. Culture, Mode, Art

16.00-18.00
SESSIONS
Multilingualism (R. I)
Semiotics – (un)managing terminology and methods (R. II)
Challenging identities in a global world (R. III)
Bacău: the living memory of a Moldavian topos (R. IV)

18.00-18.20
Closing ceremony

19.30
Farewell dinner (Restaurant)

SATURDAY, 25 OCTOBER
10.00 – 12.00

SEMIOTICS – (UN)MANAGING
TERMINOLOGY AND METHODS
Room I, Chairperson: Traian D. STĂNCIULESCU
“Al.I.Cuza” Univ. of Iaşi & National Institute of Inventics, ROMANIA

Ivan KASABOV – New Bulgarian Univ., Sofia, BULGARIA
Cognitive Semiotics or Cogitative Language?

Şerban FOTEA – “Al.I.Cuza” University of Iaşi, ROMANIA
Semiosis, a Phenomenon of Resonance

Amalia ANDRONIC – Univ. of Bacău, ROMANIA
Beyond the Deadlocks of Communication: Optimizing Semiological Strategies

Nayden YOTOV – New Bulgarian Univ., Sofia, BULGARIA
The Modern Communication. Images with Messages
Ioana FARCAŞ – “Babeş-Bolyai” Univ., Cluj-Napoca, ROMANIA
“Talking Hands”: Particularities of Sign Language from the Perspective of Cognitive Iconicity

Traian D. STĂNCIULESCU & George D. STĂNCIULESCU – “Al.I.Cuza” Univ. of Iaşi & National Institute of Inventics, ROMANIA
The Hierarchies of Light: A Transmodern Approach to the Body-Soul-Spirit Complex

SATURDAY, 25 OCTOBER
10.00 – 12.00

CREATIVE TRANSDIALOGUE: VISUAL ARTS, MUSIC, LITERATURE
Room II, Chairperson: Emilia PARPALA – Univ. of Craiova, ROMANIA


Nadia MORĂRAŞU – University of Bacău, ROMANIA
Intertextual and Ekphrastic Relations Between Verbal and Pictorial Signs in Margaret Atwood’s Cat's Eye

Mihaela CULEA & Andreia SUCIU – Univ. of Bacău, ROMANIA
Public Networking: from Coffee Houses to Universities

Emilia PARPALA – Univ. of Craiova, ROMANIA
Rethinking Interculturality: Orhan Pamuk’s My Name Is Red

Ioana BOGHIAN – Univ. of Bacău, ROMANIA
The Garden as Intermediary Space in Ch. Brontë’s Villette

Radu DUMITRU – Bacău County Hospital, Bacău, ROMANIA
The Interface between Image and Text in Photo-Haiku and its Semiotic Valences

Ioan SAVA – Univ. of Bacău, ROMANIA
Teenage Colloquial Speech in The Catcher in the Rye
SATURDAY, 25 OCTOBER
16.00 – 18.00

MULTILINGUALISM
Room I, Chairperson: Liviu DRUGUŞ – “George Bacovia” Univ., Bacău, ROMANIA

András Sebestyén SZŐLLŐSY – Budapest Univ. of Technology and Economics, HUNGARY Managing Multilingualism

Petronela SAVIN – Univ. of Bacău, ROMANIA
Pour une approche ethnolinguistique de la phraséologie

Mariana-Alexandra DINULESCU – Univ. of Bacău, ROMANIA
Translation and Globalization

Nicoleta BOTEZ & Liviu DRUGUŞ – “George Bacovia” Univ., Bacău, ROMANIA
Managing the English for Business Syllabus through Semiotic Strategies

Gabriela ANDRIOAI – Univ. of Bacău, ROMANIA
Conceptual Metaphors Based on Food Idioms

Mihaela BUZATU – Univ. of Bacău, ROMANIA
The Morphological Framing and the Meanings of the Anglicisms in the Romanian Literary Language

Ioana BOGHIAN – Univ of Bacău, ROMANIA
The Discourse of Transition in Victorian Culture

Mihaela VASILOAIA – “George Bacovia” Univ., Bacău, ROMANIA
Linguistic Features of the Language of Advertising
SATURDAY, 25 OCTOBER
16.00 – 18.00

SEMIOTICS – (UN)MANAGING TERMINOLOGY AND METHODS
Room II, Chairperson: Mirela ARSITH – “Danubius” Univ., Galaţi, ROMANIA


Charalampos MAGOULAS – National School of Public Health, GREECE
L’homme de Protagoras dans la Condition Transmoderne

Antonio Ştefan SANDU – “Al.I.Cuza” Univ. of Iaşi, ROMANIA
Quantum Metaphysic – New Dimensions of Metaphysics in a Transmodern Philosophy

Magulu FAISWAL - Kyambogo Univ., Kampala, UGANDA
Development of Semiotics in the African Context

Mirela ARSITH – “Danubius“ Univ., Galaţi, ROMANIA
Horizons of a Semiotics of Silence

Cristina CÎRTIŢĂ-BUZOIANU – University of Bacău, ROMANIA
De l’ « Homo Communicans » à l’ « Homo Politicus ».Pour une définition de l’homme

Liviu DRUGUŞ & Nicoleta BOTEZ – “George Bacovia” Univ., Bacău, ROMANIA
Sign, Semiosis and Symbols for Success in Management

SATURDAY, 25 OCTOBER
16.00 – 18.00

CHALLENGING IDENTITIES IN A GLOBAL WORLD
Room III, Chairperson: Monica PĂTRUŢ – Univ. of Bacău, ROMANIA

Daniela ROVENŢA-FRUMUŞANI – Univ. of Bucharest, ROMANIA
Le discours médiatique en perspective socio-discursive

Sebastian NĂSTUŢĂ – “Petre Andrei” Univ. of Iaşi, ROMANIA
The Semiotics of Electoral Communications

Monica PĂTRUŢ – Univ. of Bacău, ROMANIA
Stavarache versus Sechelariu – a Political Virtual “Duel”

Roxana-Ema DREVE – “Babeş-Bolyai” University, Cluj, ROMANIA
Göran Tunström, L’Oratorio de Noël. À la croisée des arts

Liviu DRUGUŞ & Bianca BALABAN – “George Bacovia” Univ., Bacău, ROMANIA
Managing Collaborativeness through Semiotic Strategies

Valeria-Alina MIRON – “Babeş-Bolyai” University, Cluj-Napoca, ROMANIA
The Political Discourse through Pragmatic Lens

Daniel GHERASIM & Adrian GHERASIM – “George Bacovia” University, Bacău, ROMANIA Signs and Significations of Innovation. Policies Concerning the New Products of S.C. URSUS S.A.

Mikolaj SOBOCINSKI - Casimir the Great University, Bydgoszcz, POLAND
Towards the Definition of Metropolitan Discourse and Metropolis in Respect of Urban Semiotics
SATURDAY, 25 OCTOBER
16.00 – 18.00

BACĂU: THE LIVING MEMORY OF A MOLDAVIAN TOPOS
(in Romanian)
Room IV, Chairperson: Ioan DĂNILĂ – Univ. of Bacău, ROMANIA


Ecaterina CREŢU – Univ. of Bacău, ROMANIA
Nicu Enea – personnalité artistique de Bacău

Luminiţa DRUGĂ – Univ. of Bacău, ROMANIA
Trésors culturels du Bacău

Mihaela BUZATU, Luminiţa DRUGĂ, Petronela SAVIN – Univ. of Bacău, ROMANIA
Des éléments d’onomastique dans la région du Bacău

Camelia CMECIU & Monica PĂTRUŢ – Univ. of Bacău, ROMANIA
Vasile Alecsandri’s Political Discourse – an Ideological Bridge through Time(s)

Ioan DĂNILĂ – Univ. of Bacău, ROMANIA
Popular, regional, dialectal in the specific language of the Moldavian Chango population

2nd ROASS CONFERENCE - PARTICIPANTS

Sorana ADAM – Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Cluj-Napoca, ROMANIA
Subjectivity/Objectivity in the Photographic Image of the Press


Gabriela ANDRIOAI – University of Bacău, ROMANIA
Conceptual Metaphors Based on Food Idioms

Amalia ANDRONIC – University of Bacău, ROMANIA
Beyond the Deadlocks of Communication: Optimizing Semiological Strategies

Mirela ARSITH – Danubius University, Galaţi, ROMANIA
Horizons of a Semiotics of Silence

Bianca BALABAN – George Bacovia University, Bacău, ROMANIA
TV – The Universal Means of Re/De-Constructing the 21st Century Human Being

Kristian BANKOV – New Bulgarian University, Sofia, BULGARIA
Global Communication and the New Consumer Culture

Gabriela BIRIS – University of Craiova, ROMANIA
Blogs – A Semiotic Approach

Alexandru BOBOC – Romanian Academy, Bucharest, ROMANIA
Language and Time in Social Behaviour and Communication

Ioana BOGHIAN – University of Bacău, ROMANIA
The Garden as Intermediary Space in Ch. Brontë’s Villette
The Discourse of Transition in Victorian Culture

Nicoleta BOTEZ & Liviu DRUGUŞ – George Bacovia University, Bacău, ROMANIA
Managing the English for Business Syllabus through Semiotic Strategies

Marinela BURADA – Transilvania University of Braşov, ROMANIA
A Critical Approach to Online Dictionaries – Problems and Solutions

Mihaela BUZATU - University of Bacău, ROMANIA

The Morphological Framing and the Meanings of the Anglicisms in the Romanian Literary Language

Mihaela BUZATU, Luminiţa DRUGĂ, Petronela SAVIN - University of Bacău, ROMANIA
Des éléments d’onomastique dans la région du Bacău

George CEAUŞU - Al.I.Cuza University, Iaşi, ROMANIA

The Semiotics of Human Intelligence

Cristina CÎRTIŢĂ-BUZOIANU – University of Bacău, ROMANIA
De l’ « Homo Communicans » à l’ « Homo Politicus ».
Pour une définition de l’homme

Piotr P. CHRUSZCZEWSKI – University of Wroclaw & Philological School of Higher Education, POLAND
“Let me bid you farewell …” or Public Discourse on Private Matters

Camelia-Mihaela CMECIU & Ana-Maria FERENŢ – University of Bacău, ROMANIA
When the Bird Flu Strikes the Corporate Identity: A Semiotic Approach to Corporate Crisis Management

Camelia CMECIU & Monica PĂTRUŢ - University of Bacău, ROMANIA
Vasile Alecsandri’s Political Discourse - An Ideological Bridge through Time(s)

Doina CMECIU – University of Bacău, ROMANIA
Towards a Semiotics of Cultural Needs

Doina CMECIU - University of Bacău, ROMANIA
Mirela ARSITH - Danubius University, Galaţi, ROMANIA
(Un)managing Communication through Stereotyping

Aurel CODOBAN – Babeş Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, ROMANIA
Communicational Virtuality of Alterity

Monica CONDRUZ-BACESCU – Academy of Economic Studies, ROMANIA
The Loss of Identity in the Globalisation Age

David CORNBERG – Taipei, TAIWAN
Semiotics as a Pathway to Spiritual Science: from the Culture of Addiction to Absolute Freedom

Ecaterina CREŢU – University of Bacău, ROMANIA
Signifiants et signifiés des combinaisons lexicales contenant le verbe a fi (être) en roumain
Nicu Enea – personnalité artistique de Bacău

Mihaela CULEA & Andreia Suciu – University of Bacău, ROMANIA
Public Networking: from Coffee Houses to Universities

Ioan DĂNILĂ – University of Bacău, ROMANIA
Popular, Regional, Dialectal in the Specific Language
of the Moldavian Chango Population

John DEELY - University of St. Thomas, Houston, USA

Semiotics and Academe: At the Heart of the Problem of Knowledge

Mariana-Alexandra DINULESCU – University of Bacău, ROMANIA
Translation and Globalization

Roxana-Ema DREVE - Babeş-Bolyai University, Cluj, ROMANIA
Göran Tunström, L’Oratorio de Noël. À la croisée des arts

Liviu DRUGUŞ & Nicoleta BOTEZ – George Bacovia University, Bacău, ROMANIA
Sign, Semiosis and Symbols for Success in Management

Liviu DRUGUŞ & Bainca BALABAN – George Bacovia University, Bacău, ROMANIA
Managing Collaborativeness through Semiotic Strategies

Luminiţa DRUGĂ – University of Bacău, ROMANIA
Dès le caravansérail au mall. Une perspective diachronique sur les espace sociopetes

Trésors culturels du Bacău

Virginia Mihaela DUMITRESCU – Academy of Economic Studies, ROMANIA
Stranded within the Borders of Language

Radu DUMITRU – Bacau County Hospital, Bacău, ROMANIA
The Interface between Image and Text in Photo-Haiku and its Semiotic Valences

Maziar ETEMADI - Aalborg University, DENMARK

The Concept of the Symbol in I. Kant's "Critique of Judgement"

Magulu FAISWAL - Kyambogo University, Kampala, UGANDA

Development of Semiotics in African Context

Şerban FOTEA – Al.I.Cuza University of Iaşi, ROMANIA
Semiosis, a Phenomenon of Resonance

Ioana FARCAŞ – Babeş Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, ROMANIA
“Talking Hands”: Particularities of Sign Language from the Perspective of Cognitive Iconicity

Florinela FLORIA – University of Bacău, ROMANIA
L'Autre. Propos pour une sociosémiotique

Florinela FLORIA & Ana-Maria FERENŢ - University of Bacău, ROMANIA
La ville de Bacău et ses universités dans les médias locaux

Victoria FONARI - Moldova State University, THE REPUBLIC OF MOLDAVIA
National Culture and Globalization

Kinga Gáspár - Pazmany Peter Catholic University, Budapest, HUNGARY
The Game of Codes in Amateur Theater

Daniel GHERASIM & Adrian GHERASIM – George Bacovia University, Bacău, ROMANIA
Signs and Significations of Innovation. Policies Concerning the New Products of S.C. URSUS S.A.

Borislav GUEORGUIEV – New Bulgarian University, Sofia, BULGARIA
Social Networking in Internet

Viorel GULICIUC – Ştefan cel Mare University, Suceava, ROMANIA
Non-generic Universality and Abductive Semiotics

Emilia GULICIUC – Ştefan cel Mare University, Suceava, ROMANIA
Identité, modernisme, postmodernisme et transmodernisme

Vladimir IGNATOV – New Bulgarian University, Sofia, BULGARIA
Title - to be confirmed

Arleen IONESCU - University of Ploieşti, ROMANIA
Given Love

I.T. JAGODNISHVILI – Tbilisi State Technical University, GEORGIA
Disposition of a Reader as a Problem of Understanding a Text (Based on a Story by Ilia Chavchavadze “Otar’s Widow”).

Crina LEON – Al.I.Cuza University of Iaşi, ROMANIA
Semiotic Analysis of Henrik Ibsen’s Ghosts, Act 3

Massimo LEONE – University of Turin, ITALY
Cultures of Invisibility: the Semiotics of the Veil in Ancient Judaism

Ivan KASABOV – New Bulgarian University, Sofia, BULGARIA
Cognitive Semiotics or Cogitative Language?

Anita KASABOVA – New Bulgarian University, BULGARIA
The Deictic Field: Bühler’s Contribution to Communication Theory

Solomon MARCUS - Romanian Academy, Bucharest, ROMANIA
Signs of God

Rodica MARIAN – Babeş Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, ROMANIA
Perspectives of Applied Semiotics: the Status of an Online Dictionary

Charalampos MAGOULAS – National School of Public Health, GREECE
L’homme de Protagoras dans la Condition Transmoderne

Gabriel MARDARE – University of Bacău, ROMANIA
ID & IT ou l’émergence de l’identitronique

Lorenzo MAGNANI – University of Pavia, Italy & Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou (Canton), CHINA
Semiotic Brains and Artificial MindsHow Brains Make up Material Cognitive Systems - The Mediating Effect of Material Cultures as Human Hybridization

Tamar MEBUKE – Tbilisi State Technical University, GEORGIA
Structure and System of Prose Genres

Laurant MILESI - University of Cardiff, UK
Semiology and Deconstruction: Sign versus Trace

Valeria-Alina MIRON - Babeş – Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, ROMANIA
The Political Discourse through Pragmatic Lens

Nadia MORĂRAŞU – University of Bacău, ROMANIA
Intertextual and Ekphrastic Relations Between Verbal And Pictorial Signs in Margaret Atwood’s Cat's Eye

Genoveva MUNTIANU – “Al.I.Cuza” University of Iaşi, ROMANIA
The Witchcraft Circle in Romanian Tradition – a Semiotic Interpretation

Maheshvari NAIDU – University of KwaZulu-Natal, SOUTH AFRICA
(Re)Constructing Identity in Global Culture: (Re)Inscribing the Zulu Female Body in Tourism Consumption

Sebastian NĂSTUŢĂ – “Al.I.Cuza” University of Iaşi, ROMANIA
The Semiotics of Electoral Communications

Mariana NEŢ – Romanian Academy, Bucharest, ROMANIA
Iconicities, Ideologies

Emilia PARPALA – University of Craiova, ROMANIA
Rethinking Interculturality: Orhan Pamuk’s My Name Is Red

Monica PĂTRUŢ – University of Bacău, ROMANIA
Stavarache versus Sechelariu – a Political Virtual “Duel”

The Image of the City of Bacău on the Internet

Sorin PARVU - Al. I. Cuza University, Iaşi, ROMANIA

Communicating through Dictionaries

JOSE MARIA PAZ GAGO - Universite de Coruna, ESPAGNE

Pour une noouvelle semiotique de la mode. Culture, Mode, Art

Aritia POENARU – National Institute of Inventics, ROMANIA
A Transmodern Approach to the “(Re)Sacred Architecture”

Lorenza POPESCU – Romanian Academy Library, Bucharest, ROMANIA
Fashion as Expression and Effect of Globalization

Maria POPOVA – New Bulgarian University, Sofia, BULGARIA
The Intercultural Dialogue in Associative Experiments

Pavel PUŞCAŞ - Music Academy Cluj-Napoca, ROMANIA
Hypostasis and Hyperstasis of Musical Text

IGA RAAFIE – Kyambogo University, UGANDA
Transmondernity of Semotics in African Contexts. Relational Dynamics of African Communication Giants

Daniela ROVENŢA-FRUMUŞANI – University of Bucharest, ROMANIA
Le discours médiatique en perspective socio-discursive

Ioan SAVA – University of Bacău, ROMANIA
Teenage Colloquial Speech in The Catcher in the Rye

Petronela SAVIN – University of Bacău, ROMANIA
Pour une approche ethnolinguistique de la phraséologie

Antonio Ştefan SANDU – Al.I.Cuza University of Iaşi, ROMANIA
Quantum Metaphysic – New Dimensions of Metaphysics in a Transmodern Philosophy

Farouk Y. SEIF – Antioch University Seattle, Seattle, Washington, USA
Reconstructing Cultural Identity in a Globalizing World

Mikolaj SOBOCINSKI - Casimir the Great University, Bydgoszcz, POLAND
Towards the Definition of Metropolitan Discourse and Metropolis in Respect of Urban Semiotics

Abraham SOLOMONICK – Ph.D. in Applied Linguistics, ISRAEL
The Language of Science in the Light of Semiotics

András Sebestyén SZŐLLŐSY – Budapest University of Technology and Economics, HUNGARY
Managing Multilingualism

Vasile SPIRIDON – University of Bacău, ROMANIA
L’Esprit critique dans la culture roumaine“ – entre la modernisation et l’européanisation

Traian D. STĂNCIULESCU – Al.I.Cuza University of Iaşi & National Institute of Inventics, ROMANIA
“The Transmodern Turn”: a Plea for a Semiotics of Light

Traian D. STĂNCIULESCU & George D. STĂNCIULESCU – “Al.I.Cuza” University of Iaşi & National Institute of Inventics, ROMANIA
The Hierarchies of Light: A Transmodern Approach to the Body-Soul-Spirit Complex

Ruslan ŞEVCENCO – The Academy of Sciences, THE REPUBLIC OF MOLDAVIA
The Evolution of the Local Political System and Globalization

Christian TĂMAŞ – IBC Cambridge, UK
L’islam occidental: le défi de l’ethnicité

Mariana TÎRNĂUCEANU – University of Bacău, ROMANIA
Form and Expression in the Contemporary Romanian Pictorial Art; Directions of Communication

Mihaela VASILOAIA – George Bacovia University, Bacău, ROMANIA
Linguistic Features of the Language of Advertising

Vilmos VOIGT – Eotvos Lorand University, Budapest, HUNGARY
Semiotica Transylvaniae Perennis

Jörg ZELLER – Aalborg University, DENMARK
The Logic of Visual Communication

Naiden YOTOV – New Bulgarian University, BULGARIA
Title - to be confirmed

Zdzisław WĄSIK – Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan & Philological School of Higher Education in Wroclaw, POLAND
Exploring the Semiotic Universals of Language in the Domain of Human Communication

TRAINS - BUCHAREST - BACAU & BACAU - BUCHARESST

Trains


Bucharest Nord (DEPARTURE) - Bacău (ARRIVAL)

IC551 06.00 - 10.11

R751 11.03 - 15.34

R651 15.00 - 19.17

IC553 17.00 - 21.12

A1653 21.00 - 01.20

R753 23.50 - 04.11



Bacau (DEPARTURE) - Bucharest (ARRIVAL)

R 752 01.30 - 6.00

IC 558 04.11 - 08.35

IC 552 07.08 - 11.23

R 652 10.11 - 14.44

R 754 15.38 - 20.08

IC 554 18.42 - 23.07

GUIDELINES FOR PAPERS

2nd ROASS CONFERENCE

TRANSMODERNITY: MANAGING GLOBAL COMMUNICATION

GUIDELINES FOR PAPERS


SUBMISSION DEADLINE:
NOVEMBER, 1, 2008


to dmailto:dcmeciu@yahoo.com



Papers must be single-spaced, TNR, 12 and they should have from 8 to 10 pages (notes and references included).

They must include:
- an abstract of 10 lines and 5 keywords (in foreign languages if the paper is in Romanian);
- the author's biographical information (professional title, didactic position, institutional affiliation and email address);
- chapters and subchapters: 1. (the title of the chapter in bold), 1.1. (the title of the subchapter in italics), 1.2., 1.3. etc.;
- pictures saved as jpeg;
- endnotes (the same as the references + page(s));
- references

References may be cited in the text by giving the name of the author(s) and year of publication (in parentheses), e.g.: as mentioned by Morris (1971: 287-294) or (Morris 1971: 297).

All citations in the text must be listed fully in a Reference section at the end of the paper, by alphabetical order of authors, with complete bibliographical details. Journal and book titles must be given in full and italicized.

The Reference list should be presented as follows:

Barthes, Roland ([1965] 1970). Elements of Semiology. A. Lavers and C. Smith (trans.). Boston: Beacon Press.
Fisch, Max H. and Cope, Jackson I. (1952). Peirce at the Johns Hopkins University. In Studies in the Philosophy of Charles Sanders Peirce, Philip P. Wiener and Frederic H. Young (eds.), 277–311. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
Bouissac, Paul (1976b). The ‘Golden Legend’ of Semiotics. Semiotica 17 (4), Marcel Danesi (ed.), 371–382, Berlin, New York: Mouton de Gruyter.


The articles submitted will undergo four stages of peer-reviewing:
- the first stage. The articles are assessed by the technical editor in order to see whether the articles meet the GUIDELINES FOR PAPERS. If the articles do not meet this criterion, the authors are kindly asked to revise their manuscripts by NOVEMBER, 7.
- the second stage. The article will be peer-reviewed. The three reviewers will send to the editors the following assessment chart and the recommendations for the article reviewed:

- the third stage. The authors will be sent the above chart for their article and they will be notified by DECEMBER, 1 as follows:
The paper in its initial form has been accepted;
The paper will be accepted if the author will take into account the reviewers’ recommendations;
The paper will be accepted providing that all the assessment criteria are met;
The paper has been rejected.

- the fourth stage. The authors who were given recommendations should send their final article by DECEMBER, 10.