Bulletin of the Transilvania University of Brasov. Series IV: Philology and Cultural Studies

https://webbut.unitbv.ro/index.php/Series_IV/issue/feed Bulletin of the Transilvania University of Brasov. Series IV: Philology and Cultural Studies 2024-09-16T05:57:55+00:00 Rodica Ilie, PhD, Prof. editor.but@unitbv.ro Open Journal Systems <h2>General Infomation</h2> The Bulletin of the Transilvania University of Brasov. Series IV: Philology and Cultural Studies is an academic journal, specialized in publishing scientific papers in the fields of Language, Literary, and Cultural Studies. The authors are both Romanian and foreign scholars who have made a contribution in these fields. The journal uses academic standards – MLA style of reference, double-blind peer-review, and language reviews. The journal has both a printed and electronic full version, also offering an online archive of abstracts. The main language of the journal is English but since 2009, a series of articles written in French and German have also been accepted. All abstracts and keywords are written in English. <h2> </h2> <h2>Aim</h2> The journal aims to offer an efficient framework of analysis as well as of communication between Romanian and international research in the field of Humanities. It also sets a series of high academic standards (by the peer-reviewing process, specialized scientific committee, English language abstracts, and articles), supporting the connections between Romanian research in the field of Linguistics, Literature, Cultural Studies, and the international mainstream academic publishing. The journal is <a href="http://www.cncs-nrc.ro/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/categorii.Reviste.Site_.CNCS_.2020.pdf">Category B</a> according to the Romanian National Research Council evaluation and is currently indexed in three international databases: <a href="https://www.ebscohost.com/titleLists/a9h-journals.htm">EBSCO</a>, <a href="http://www.ceeol.com/search/journal-detail?id=442">CEEOL</a>, and <a href="https://www.worldcat.org/title/bulletin-of-the-transilvania-university-of-brasov-series-iv-philology-cultural-studies/oclc/997425764?referer=di&ht=edition">WorldCat</a>. <a href="http://webbut.unitbv.ro/index.php/Series_IV/about" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Read more</a> Old Site Use this <a title="Series_IV" href="http://webbut2.unitbv.ro/Bulletin/Series%20IV/Series%20IV.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">LINK </a>to access the content of the old Bulletin of the Transilvania University of Brasov. Series IV: Philology and Cultural Studies journal site! https://webbut.unitbv.ro/index.php/Series_IV/article/view/7983 Aspect, tense, modal force, and the effects of event variables in Romanian “a accepta + că / să” 2024-07-15T08:40:39+00:00 Csongor Hegedus csongor.hegedus@gmail.com

In this paper, I analyse the predicate a accepta “to accept” followed and sometimes preceded (in previous events) by either the realis type conjunction că “that” or by the irrealis să “SJV marker”. I try to answer questions like: (1) what are the boundaries between the two main modal forces, thus what happens when they appear simultaneously (or individually), (2) how these conjunctions might change the aspectual verification, donating, sharing or keeping (in terms of Roberts 2019), in CCs (Complex Clauses) with event variables (Davidson 1967), (3) how the Vendlerian (1967) classification might affect the general perception of the mentioned predicate when it is combined with other dependent / non-dependent events. The aim of the paper is to check the temporal, aspectual, and modal boundaries in the mentioned construction, so it is based on syntactical and cognitive notions. The analysis includes the relative compatibility of că “that” with [I’ and w’] – which is usually associated with non-finite forms, and the accomplishment compatibility of să “SJV marker” – which is more prominent with CCs involving că “that” (with perfective events). The polarity-based negation is also part of the paper (in the examined structure), leading to negation as operator vs. stance-taking. The temporal and aspectual gaps are also key points of the paper.

2024-07-15T00:00:00+00:00 Copyright (c) 2024 Bulletin of the Transilvania University of Brasov. Series IV: Philology and Cultural Studies https://webbut.unitbv.ro/index.php/Series_IV/article/view/8114 Childhood Homes in Lidia Vianu’s Novel Kaleidoscope 2024-09-16T05:20:38+00:00 Valentina-Monica Barba valentina-monica.barba@s.unibuc.ro

About “Kaleidoscope”, Lidia Vianu said that “what happens there is my life, everyone's life, it is the communism and post-communism of an intellectual who has been studying English” (TVR Cultural, Jurnal cultural 2023). Several narrations in the novel focus around two houses in Bucharest where the author spent her childhood. During the 1950s, the scarcity of homes and the running of an intensive housing policy led to the nationalisation of the largest houses in Bucharest. Previous owners had to live in smaller quarters in their own houses and had to share the habitable space with tenants who paid rent to the state (Mihail and Voinea, 22–26). The narratives related to the author’s childhood homes issue from the author’s recollections and relate the years before the author’s coming of age alongside descriptions of places, environments, people, and moments in Bucharest under the communist regime.