Course TI112 · Year I · Autumn 2024-2025

CONTEMPORARY ROMANIAN LANGUAGE. PHONETICS, LEXICOLOGY, SEMANTICS

Compulsory course in Translation and interpretation, taught by Coralia Maria Telea.

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Overview

Lecturer
Coralia Maria Telea
Seminar tutor
Coralia Maria Telea
Type of course
Compulsory
Language of instruction
Romanian
Erasmus language
English
Domain
Applied Modern Languages
Field of study
Translation and interpretation
Form of education
Full-time
Form of instruction
Class
Credit awarded by
Grade
Teaching methods
Lecture, conversation, exemplification, applications
Entry requirements
-

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 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.

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).

Assessment

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