Mariana TÎRNĂUCEANU

ACADEMIC POSITION
  • Senior Lecturer
  • Tutor of 1st year MA students

EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND
  • BA in Philology (1992-1997), University of Bacau, Faculty of Letters and Sciences, Romanian language and literature - English language and literature 
  • PhD in Philology (2000-2007), “Alexandru Ioan Cuza” University from Iasi, Romania; doctoral advisor: Professor Maria Carpov

EMPLOYMENT HISTORY
Teaching positions
  • 2008 to the present - Senior lecturer, “Vasile Alecsandri” University of Bacau, Faculty of Letters, Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures, Romania
  • 1998-2007 – assistant lecturer; teaching assistant, University of Bacau, Faculty of Letters, Romania

TEACHING ACTIVITY
Academic disciplines currently taught
  • Bachelor’s degree courses: Text and image; English writing techniques; Scientific English (Mathematics, Informatics, KMS, Biology)
  • Master’s degree courses: Argumentative practices; Semantics; Discursive practices in media communication

Didactic materials
  • Text şi imagine, note de curs, Bacau, Ed. Alma Mater, 2007
  • Notes on Argumentative Practices, Bacau, Ed. Alma Mater, 2013, ISBN 978-606-527-321- 4
  • Introduction to Semantics, Bacau, Ed. Alma Mater, 2013, ISBN 978-606-527-322-1

ERASMUS teaching staff mobilities
  • University of Bordeaux 3, France (2009)
 RESEARCH ACTIVITY
Research interests/fields of research
  • Argumentation Theory
  • Semantics, Semiotics
  • Media Communication
  • Visual Arts
  • Cultural Studies

Publications
Books
  • Syntagmatic and Paradigmatic Relations in Current English (A Concise Guide to Grammar and Lexicology), Bacău, "Egal”, 2014, 978-606-564-093-1
  • Termeni şi Expresii-Cheie în Româna Curentă (Mic îndrumar), Bacău, "Egal”, 2014, 978-606-564-092-4
  • Practical English in Contexts (A Thematic Companion to Arts and Education) – Bilingual Edition, Bacău, "Egal”, 2014, 978-606-564-094-8
  • Lumea cărţii ilustrate – o perspectivă semiotică, Iaşi, Pim, 2007, ISBN 978-973-716-688- 3
Selected articles/papers 
  • Ideas and Feelings in Modern Works of Art, in Individual and Specific Signs. Paradigms of Identity in Managing Social Representations - Proceedings of The International Conference, Bacău, Alma Mater Publishing House, 2008, ISBN 978-973-1833-62-0, pp. 695-701
  • Fashion, Arts and Wearers in vol. 'Otherness and Identity. Journeys Back to the Self' of Interstudia, No. 2, Bacău, Alma Mater Publishing House, 2008, ISSN 2065-3204, pp. 18-27
  • Misleading Means of Expression in the Argumentative Literary Text, in vol. Interstudia, No. 3, 'Language, Discourse, Society', Bacău, Ed. Alma Mater, 2009, pp. 208-213
  • On Painting, Conventions and Games; Approaches to (Post-)Modern Romanian Art Works, in vol. Interstudia (indexed CEEOL) No. 5, 'Le Discours sub specie ludi', Bacău, Ed. Alma Mater, 2009, pp. 274-280
  • „Resonances ...”, in 'Studii şi Cercetări Ştiinţifice – Series Philology', vol. 'Plurilingvism şi Interculturalitate', No. 24, Bacău, Alma Mater Publishing House, 2010, 1224-841 X, pp. 31-40
  • Receiving, Analysing and Interpreting the Post-Modern Artistic Discourse, în vol. Interstudia (indexed CEEOL), No. 6, 'Cultural Spaces and Identities in (Inter)Action', Bacău, Ed. Alma Mater, 2010, pp. 300-308
  • Media Discourse and Its Role in Culture Dissemination and Official Language Usage, in vol. Interstudia (indexed CEEOL), No. 9, 'Cultural diversity through language and communication', Bacău, Ed. Alma Mater, 2011, pp. 187-193
  • The Text-Image Interface in Illustrated Books, in vol. Perspectives on Interaction (Editor Elena Bonta), Cambridge Scholars Publishing, UK, 2013, ISBN (10): 1-4438-4465-9, ISBN (13): 978-1-4438-4465-9
  • Borderline Instances of Argumentation in Eristic Dialogue, in „Studii şi cercetări ştiinţifice” (Series Philology) (indexed Fabula, Linguist list, Scipio, KVK, WorldCat), No. 33, Bacău, Ed. Alma Mater, 2015, pp. 81-86
  • Media Fallacious Reasoning in the Political Discourse of Crisis, în vol. Interstudia (indexed CEEOL, Fabula, Index Copernicus), No. 18, ‘Image, imaginary, representation’, Bacău, Ed. Alma Mater, 2015, pp. 180-190

EDITORIAL ACTIVITY
Edited journals
  • Co-editor of issues of RoBrit Student Journal. English Semestrial Review of the Romanian Students from The Faculty of Letters, Editura “Alma Mater”, Bacău

TUTORING ACTIVITY
  • Scientific advisor of diploma theses for the bachelor's degree (since 2008);
  • Scientific advisor of master's dissertations (since 2009);
  • Advisor of methodological-scientific papers for obtaining the didactic degree I 

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS
  • Research centres and groups
    • Member of Interstud Research Centre
    • Member of Logos Research Group
  • National associations
    • founding member of ROASS (Romanian Association of Semiotic Studies);
    • member of RSEAS (Romanian Society for English and American Studies);
    • member of the Society of Philological Studies in Romania (2007) 
  • International associations
    • member of ESSE (European Society for the Study of English)

CONTACT

  • E-mail: tirnauceanu.mariana@ub.ro
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