Research centres and groups

INTERSTUD RESEARCH CENTRE

 THE INTERDISCIPLINARY CENTRE FOR STUDIES OF CONTEMPORARY DISCURSIVE FORMS (INTERSTUD) was founded in 2008. The centre aims to develop researches on discourse analysis from an interdisciplinary perspective.

Director: Associate Professor Simina Mastacan

Members: 22 members of the teaching staff from The Faculty of Letters and The Faculty of Sciences

Research directions

·    Study of the linguistic and cultural imaginary from the perspective of current discursive practices; 

· Study of the cultural and linguistic interferences - Romanian/ French/ English; 

·    Literary text analysis from the social conditioning perspective; 

·    Study of the interactional mechanisms and non-verbal practices; 

·    Social discourse analysis; 

·   Research on the specialised discourse; 

·   Study of the connections between communication and discursivity; 

·   Research on formal languages and computerised interpretation. 

Cultural Spaces Research Group

"Cultural Spaces" research group, founded in 2010, coordinated by Prof. Elena Bonta, has organized two editions of the International Conference “Cultural Spaces”. The topic for the first edition of this international conference was Identity within/beyond borders and it started from the idea that, nowadays, cultural spaces show the tendency of having flexible borders (be they linguistic, ethnical, political, historical, social, etc).
The second edition of the International Conference “Cultural Spaces” debated the topic of margin(ality) under the heading Margins, Marginalization and the Discourse of Marginality. It attempted to explore the definition of margins and marginalization, as well as the assumptions about the centre/margin power structure and interaction, as analysing the phenomenon of marginalization is not only a survey of a unit of society (the margin) but also an examination of the relationship and interaction between textual representation and claims to power. Interaction in/between cultural spaces is of a constant interest for the members of this research group. 
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Groupe de recherche "Espaces de la fiction"

The research group reunites researchers interested in francophone culture and civilisation. For 5 years (2008-2012), its members organised a very successful international colloquium whose proceedings were timely published.

Coordinator: Associate Professor Simina Mastacan

CETAL RESEARCH CENTRE 

THE CENTRE OF TEXTUAL EXPLORATIONS AND ACTION THROUGH LANGUAGE (CETAL) was established in 2009 at the Faculty of Letters of the University of Bacau.

The main domains of research are:

1) signification – knowledge, 2) social representations, which involve fundamental and applicative research in textual explorations, processes of communication and discourse practices, with particular focus on cultural discourse. 

Managerial board

Scientific director: Prof. Vasile Spiridon 

Executive director: Nadia-Nicoleta Morarasu

Financial director: Luminita Druga

Our members are interested in partnership with national and international actors along three directions:a. exploration the representation of adaption behaviors;b . semio-linguistic analysis of models related to these behaviors;c. promotion of local and regional culture through inter-university cooperation and entrepreneurship with economic and social actors.