Course aims:

knowing, understanding and a correct using the basic rules of Romanian language;
appropriation the fundamental norms of the Romanian language to eliminate errors of oral and written expression;
enrolling in a unitary and coherent structure the main theory regarding the Romanian language.

Course Entry Requirements:

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Course contents:

Phonetics and phonology: Romanian language sounds. Letter. Alphabet. Phonological system: vowel and the consonant subsystem; semivocalele. Diphthongs and triphthong. Syllable. Parting words into syllables. Phonetical. The emphasis and avoidance of hiatus. Spelling and Orthoepic: Basics. Current principles. Signs and spelling rules. Punctuation marks. Capitalization, writing compound words, writing and pronouncing nouns. Lexicon and semantics: vocabulary - grammar construction material. Word as a lexical unit. Meaning of words. Synonyms. Antonyms. Homonyms. Paronyms. Semantic relations: monosemantism vs polysemantism. The mechanism of semantic changes (tropes). Paradigmatic and syntagmatic relations in vocabulary. Lexical field. The origin of words. External means of enriching the vocabulary. The loan. Internal means of enriching the vocabulary. Morphological change values. Composing. Derivation: with suffixes, prefixes, parasynthetic. Morphematic structure of the word. Lexical family.

Teaching methods:

Lecture, conversation, exemplification, applications

Learning outcomes:

Primary data assimilation from the history of the discipline. Proper use of the words in different situations of communication. Writing correct text after dictation. Correcting wrong forms in a given text. Proper use and conscious language facts. Learning the fundamental norms of Romanian language to eliminate errors of oral and written expression. Correct mastery of specialized terms. Perception the relationship of interdisciplinarity: rhetoric / stylistic / literary theory (rhetorical figures / style figures; the art of the discourse).

Learning outcomes verification and assessment criteria:

Written paper – 50 %. Dictation – 50%.

Recommended reading:

AVRAM, Mioara, Ortografia pentru toţi, Editura Academiei, Bucureşti, 1990,
BEJAN, Dumitru, Gramatica limbii române. Compendiu, Editura Echinox, Cluj, 1995,
BELDESCU, G., Ortografia actuală a limbii române, Editura Ştiinţifică şi Enciclopedică, Bucureşti, 1984,
BIDU-VRÂNCEANU, Angela, Narcisa FORĂSCU, Modele de structurare semantică. Cu aplicare la limba română, Editura Facla, Timişoara, 1984,
Idem, Cuvinte şi Sensuri, Editura Ştiinţifică şi Enciclopedică, Bucureşti, 1988,