TEME DE LICENTA LIMBA I LITERATURA ENGLEZA 2012-2013

LIMBA ENGLEZ

Prof. univ. dr. Ilinca Crainiceanu

1. Temporal and aspectual properties of the English past tenses. Methods of teaching them. 2. Temporal and aspectual properties of the present tense in English and Romanian. Methods of teaching them. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. Modal values of CAN and MAY a contrastive study. Methods of teaching them. Means of expressing futurity in English. Methods of teaching them. Semantic and syntactic distinctions between countable and uncountable nouns. Classes of temporal adverbs and their temporal specification. Theories of speech acts. Pragmatic deixies in English and Romanian. The Cooperative Principle and Grices conversational maxims.

10. Effects of the exploitation of Grices conversational maxims.

Lect. univ. dr. Denisa Drguin

Domains of Competence: A. The Syntax of the Simple / Complex Sentence B. Teaching English as a Foreign Language C. Discourse Analysis List of Topic Proposals: 1. Subcategorization of Adjectives in English and Romanian a contrastive analysis 2. Degrees of Transitivity in English and Romanian 3. The Adverbial of Purpose in English and Romanian a contrastive analysis 4. Verbal Idiomatic Expressions across Different Languages (two languages) 5. The Predicative in English and Romanian a contrastive analysis

6. The Romanian vs. the English Predicative Adjunct 7. Relational verbs in English and Romanian a contrastive analysis 8. A Contrastive Analysis of the Adverbial of Purpose 9. Adverbials in Focus: Adverbial Clauses in Cleft Constructions 10. A Model of Course-design for Teaching the Communicative Use of English 11. Advertising Texts in English Language Classrooms 12. Drama in Teaching English as a Second Language 13. Linguistic Devices of Laying Emphasis in Medical Discourse 14. The Use of Passive in Scientific Medical Discourse 15. Translating Medical Discourse 16. A Genre Approach to Political Discourse 17. War Metaphor in Business Discourse 18. Spoken Medical Discourse - the language of doctor-patient 19. Euphemism a matter of choice or necessity in Political Discourse 20. Politeness Phenomena in Medical/Political Discourse

Lect. univ. dr. Filip Bacalu

1. Media/News Discourse. A Phonetic and Phonological Approach to War Interviews. 2. Language Acquisition in Child Discourse. A Phonetic and Phonological Approach 3. Psycho-socio-linguistics of Child Discourse. A Syntactic Approach. 4. Familial Discourse and Aging (with focus on suprasegmental phonology). 5. Language Acquisition innate or acquired? 6. Teaching preschoolers by Means of Phonetics 7. Listening Techniques and International Exams 8. Intonation the Alpha Factor in Communication 9. Communication from A to Z Is Linguistics Really Necessary? 10. Neuro-linguistics and Language Acquisition.

Lect.univ. drd. Oana Buzea

1. Modals expressing Obligation and Necessity 2. Epistemic Modality in English - A Methodological Approach 3. The Category of Number with Nouns in English and Romanian 4. The Article A Morpho- Semantic and Contrastive Approach 5. Values of the Simple Present and Present Perfect with Teaching Implications 6. Sequence of Tenses with Teaching Implications in English and Romanian 7. Word-Order Peculiarities in the Simple Sentence 8. Modalities of Expressing Futurity in English 9. Probability and Possibility in English 10. The Article as the Main Central Determiner in English Noun Phrases 11. English and Romanian idioms in translation. 12. English morphology on gradability of adjectives and adverbs. 13. English morphology on pronominal functions. 14. Synonymy and dimensions of meaning. 15. The nominal category of gender in English and Romanian.

Lect. univ. drd. Ana Maria Birtalan

Pragmatics and Discourse Analysis 1. Means of expressing politeness in different social contexts 2. Discourse markers- a sociolinguistic investigation of their functions in conversations 3. Intonation in conversation-structure and meaning 4. Requests in professional discourse- a cross-cultural study of Romanian and British business writing. 5. Advertising and Society a short analysis of the persuasive discourse in advertising

6. A discourse approach of conflict talk in 20th century drama. 7. The categories of person and social deixis in English 8. Grammatical cohesion in English discourse 9. The effect of context on language 10. The mechanism of Implicature and Indirectness in English English Methodology 11. Effective techniques of improving students vocabulary knowledge 12. Teaching applications of word-formation rules: compounding. 13. Focus on Intonation- approaches to teaching intonation in English 14. Effective techniques in teaching English pronunciation 15.Explorining stress in English- approaches to teaching stress in English

Lect.univ. drd. Adina Tudosescu

1. Syntactic sources of ambiguity with English Compound and Complex Sentences. 2. Non-assertive environments in English. Structural, semantic and pragmatic aspects. 3. Clausal modification in English and Romanian (another language). A contrastive approach. 4. Patterns involving Raising in English and Romanian. A contrastive approach. 5. Clausal Subjects in English and Romanian (another language). A contrastive approach. 6. Clausal Objects in English. Typological and structural specificities. 7. Prediction of errors in English language teaching to Romanian learners. A case study on Negation. 8. Semantic, pragmatic and stylistic implications of Coordination. A cross-linguistic perspective. 9. The overt or undercurrent involvement of componential analysis in translation workshops and translation common practice. A case study on a corpus of Verbs of movement (or another corpus). 10. The transleme between translation theory and practice. A case study on a corpus of English

texts and their Romanian translations. 11. Reduction Rules in English and Romanian. A contrastive approach. 12. English Complement Clauses functioning Attributively. Typological and structural characteristics. 13. Independent relativisation in a cross-linguistic perspective. Various grammatical approaches to linguistic equivalents. 14. Markedness of terms in paradigmatic and syntagmatic sense relations. 15. Hierarchy and interpretation. A brief insight into the hyponymic meronymic discriminations in English. 16. A contrastive approach to the oppositeness of meaning systems of English and Romanian (another language). 17. Teaching English to Romanian learners. A case study on Adverbial Clauses. 18. Contrasting Gender in English and Romanian. An applied (teaching) perspective. 19. Relative Clause antecedents and their determiners in English. Typological, formal and semantic features. 20. Field theory, symbolic logic and designator intension disruptions. N.B.: Tematica se poate modifica / suplimenta n urma propunerilor din partea studenilor.

LITERATURA ENGLEZ Conf.univ. dr. George Volceanov

1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. Representations of Nature in the 18th Century Pre-romantic Poetry. Portraying Women in English Poetry: from Chaucer to Byron William Wordsworth: Applying the Definition of Poetry to His Own Poems. S.T. Coleridge: The Colourful World of the Poet. John Keats: The Supreme Artist of Sensitivity. A Parallel between Shakespeares Chronicle Plays Edward III and King John. Shakespeares Three Versions of Hamlet: A Comparative Study. The Function of Comic Names in Shakespeares Comedies.

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A parallel between Shakespeare and Fletchers The Two Noble Kinsmen and Shakespeares earlier plays.

10. The Treatment of Love in John Donnes Poetry. 11. Sermo sublimis (high style) and / versus sermo humilis (low style) in Shakespeares The Tempest. 12. Shakespeares Dirty Language in Troilus and Cressida and Timon of Athens. 13. Fathers and Daughters in Shakespeares Plays. 14. Shakespearean Echoes in the Twentieth Century American Poetry. 15. Shakespearean Echoes in the Twentieth Century British Drama.

Conf.univ.dr.Liviu Andreescu
1. Modernist views of poetry and the poetic art 2. Postwar neo-romantic poets from Dylan Thomas to Sylvia Plath 3. Sylvia Plaths poetry of self-effacement and self-regeneration 4. Politics and poetry: WB Yeats and WH Auden 5. Irish politics and British poetry: WB Yeats and Seamus Heaney 6. The Harlem Renaissance and black conscience: Langston Hughes 7. The poet as skeptic: Philip Larkin 8. Poetry as a system of ethics: Adrienne Rich 9. Poetic bards: Allen Ginsberg and Walt Whitman 10. The Beat Generation (with a special focus on Allen Ginsberg) As well as anything on: 11. Any of the poets discussed in class (see the textbook Thematic Introduction to Twentieth-century British and American Poetry for a list of authors) 12. American poetry before 1900 (especially on Poe, Whitman, Lowell, Dickinson) 13. American poetry around 1900 (especially on Hart Crane, Carl Sandburg, Robert Frost) 14. Any other American topic of interest to you

Conf. univ. dr. Ramona Mihil

1. Narrative strategies in the Eighteenth Century British Novel. 2. Features of a Bildungsroman. 3. Types of narrators in 19th century British and American fiction. 4. Narrative techniques in 19th century British and American fiction. 5. Identify the Victorian Age: historical and cultural landmarks. 6. Victorian fiction, between (psychological) Romance and Realism. 7. Victorian versus Gothic symbols.

8. Allegory and myth in dealing with secular and legendary past. 9. European and American identities. The importance of circumstances innineteenth century novel. 10. Social, cultural, and political background. Womens roles in 19th century. 11. The narrative construction of the female body in 19th century British, American and Romanian fiction. 12. Modelling factors in analyzing characters. 13. The Feminine Tradition in British, American and Romanian fiction. 14. Symbolic settings in the 18th and 19th century British and American fiction. 15. The Victorian novel contextualized by the social and moral command democratized forms of publication.

Lect. univ. dr. Ecaterina Patrascu

1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. The theatre of the absurd in Samuel Beckett Views of tragedy in Arthur Miller Realism and expressionism in Tenneessee Williams plays Alienation and reconciliation in Eugene ONeill Harold Pinter from silence to obsession The concept of entropy in Thomas Pynchons The Crying of Lot 49 Voices of reality and imagination in Salman Rushdies Midnights Children Knowledge, imagination and power in William Shakespeares The Tempest The play of masks in William Shakespeares Hamlet The construction of characters in William Shakespeares As You Like It and The

Twelfth Night 11. Act 12. 13. 14. 15. Julian Barnes A History of the World in 10 Chapters Postmodernism at Work The discourse of ideology in John Updikes Terrorist James Joyces Dubliners Modernism at Work Storytelling Reality in Salman Rushdies The Enchantress of Florence Salman Rushdies Satanic Verses Offending Prejudices: Literature as a Political

Lect. univ. dr. Florin Ptea 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. Narrative techniques in Joseph Conrad's novels. A psychoanalytical approach to D.H. Lawrence's novels. Time and duration in Virginia Woolf's novels. An intertextual interpretation of Gene Wolfe's Book of the New Sun. Archetypes in Michael Moorcock's Elric sequence. Narrative techniques in William Faulkner's novels. An anthropological approach to J.R.R. Tolkien's novels. Entropy and paranoia in Thomas Pynchon's novels. The precession of simulacra in Julian Barnes's novels.

10. A sociological approach to China Miville's novels. 11. Postmodernist traits in Kurt Vonnegut's novels. 12. Postmodernism and posthumanism in cyberpunk fiction. 13. Narratorial discourse and characterization in William Golding's novels. 14. Paths to dystopia: a comparative analysis of Aldous Huxley's Brave New World and George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-four 15. Deconstructing the past: postmodernist techniques and the Victorian heritage in steampunk fiction

Lect. univ. dr. Cristina Crian

1. Robinson Crusoe as a paradigm of colonial relations 2. Laurence Sternes challenge of mimetic conventions in Tristram Shandy 3. H. Fieldings Tom Jones as picaresque narrative 4. The importance of social ethics in Jane Austens Emma 6. Victorian fiction, a blend of Romance and Realism 7. Dickenss characterization techniques (plots, characters, narrative techniques, point

of view) in Great Expectations. 8. The significance of Fate in Hardys nov els 9. The impact of rural nature on Hardys characters 10. The Mythic/archetypal/cosmic dimension of Hardys realism/vision 11. The Victorian feminine paradigm in George Eliot/ Hardys novels 12. The utilitarian vs. humanitarian ethos in George Eliots novels 13. Coincidence and accident in the Victorian novel 14. The narrrators in E.Brontes Wuthering Heights 16. The multiple levels of significance suggested by the letter A in Hawthornes The Scarlet Letter. The allegorical vs. symbolical vision 17. Fiction as psychological and moral insight on a Puritan/Calvinist background in Hawthornes/Melvilles fiction 18. The motif of the voyage/initiation journey in Moby Dick 19. The shifting point of view /The multiple perspective device in H.Jamess The Portrait of a Lady 20. Moby Dick and The Scarlet Letter are generally called American romances. Define their main features. 21. Types of character.The aristocratic character in H. Jamess The Portrait of a Lady

Lect. univ. dr. Irina Dubsk

1. Patterns of Initiation in Moby Dick 2. Moby Dick as the American epos. 3. Color Symbolism in The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne 4. Imagery and Significance in the Religious Sonnets of Dylan Thomas 5. John Donne and The Metaphysical Tradition in English Poetry 6. Emily Dickinsons Symbolic Vocabulary 7. Typology and Early American Literature 8. Color Symbolism in Moby Dick 9. H.D. The True Imagist 10. Captain Ahab The Melvillean Tragic Hero 11. Perspective as a Key-factor in the Shaping of Experience in Herman Melvilles Moby

Dick 12. Herman Melvilles Redburn as Bildungsroman

Lect. univ. drd. SCHWAB ANAMARIA

1. Slaughterhouse Five - a comparative approach between the novel and the film. 2. Coming-of-age in Goldings Lord of the Flies 3. Foucaults idea of power in Lord of the Flies 4. The modern individuals relationship to nature and space - a comparison between Defoes Robinson Crusoe and The Lord of the Flies 5. The modern selfs relationship to nature and space - a comparison between Defoes Robinson Crusoe and Conrads Heart of Darkness 6. The Jungian archetype of the terrible mother in D. H. Lawrences Sons and Lovers 7. A comparative approach between D. H. Lawrences Sons and Lovers and Joyces A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man two modern novels of the coming-ofage. 8. Culture and nature in D. H. Lawrences Sons and Lovers. 9. Slaughterhouse Five and the end of American Innocence 10. Postmodern irony and detachment in Thomas Pynchons V 11. The dismemberment of the modern world in Alan Ginsbergs poetry 12. London in Virginia Woolfs Mrs Dalloway 13. Postmodern space and time in Pynchons The Crying of Lot 45 14. Nietzsches Uebermensch and Conrads Heart of Darkness 15. Pynchons The Crying of Lot 45 and Derridas Deconstruction