Abstract Education by morals means, mainly, making students love truth, justice and honesty in a world where lie, injustice and dishonesty exist at the same time. Generally, in order to achieve this goal a range of recommendations or, sometimes, commandments is used such as, for example, the Decalogue. In this paper we present an alternative […]

Resumé Le champs axiologique des dernières décennies intègrent une variable inédite de plus en plus évoquée, il s’agit du succès (ou de la réussite), invoqué inévitablement à côté d’échec corrélé (ou la non-réussite). Si le succès est souhaité, cherché, construit, même revendiqué, l’échec répudié se recommande à l’unisson, il faut être éliminé méthodiquement des actions, […]

Résumé Une modalité de discuter un système terminologique est l’étymologie. Notre étude a en vue l’analyse de l’étymologie de la terminologie alimentaire roumaine par rapport aux facteurs temporels, spatiaux et sociaux. Ces facteurs représentent, dans la vision d’Eugène Coserio, les générateurs de variation diachronique, diatopique et diastratique. Les diverses formes de la manifestation de ces […]

Abstract In a project of forming teenagers for the understanding of the economic communication we have tried to highlight the patterns for defining the heroes promoted in educative films. Our survey focused on two groups of high-school pupils (from Iaşi and Târgu-Frumos) who gave ratings to the two characters and had to choose between the […]

Abstract The present paper intends to present the structure and the functions of the Romanian traditional educational system as well as the identity and roles of its teachers. Covering a large range of subjects of study and using a multitude of strategies in teaching, the task of the archaic Romanian school is very important in […]

Abstract The purpose of this paper is to demonstrate why argumentation is one of the main functions of oral communication and to discuss the most important argumentative strategies: cooperation, interrogation, polemic negation, rejection and metaphor. Key words: argumentation, communication, argumentative strategies SCS_11_2007_18

Abstract There has been much debate in the last few years upon the relation between sign and text, meaning and sense/ significance, literal meaning and implicit meaning, etc. In this paper I try to express my opinion – based, of course, on what has already been said so far – with respect to the necessity […]

Abstract Nowadays, the field of politics has gradually attracted the public’s interest and not only. Because there is a lot to say about politics, about the way in which it manifests, or about what it communicates, many specialists have tried to explore it.The choice of such a theme is motivated by the desire to approach […]

Abstract Considering every tradition as a complex of rituals grouped under a central aim, around which all the other component rites are gravitating, we propose to present the ritual beating as a specific means of education in the Romanian village. One of the most archaic and universal custom, the beating ritual is known in a […]

Abstract This saying, frequently encountered in many languages, was a pretext offered by surveyors in order to generate exemplary narrations. Three groups of students in Communication (B. A. 2nd year and M. A. 1st year), confronted with this “proof”, highlighted several aspects of the Romanian economic speech: a) the tendency to avoid the difficulties of a […]