The team

  1. DR. ALICE-MAGDALENA BODOC – PROJECT LEADER
  2. DR. RĂZVAN GEORGIAN SĂFTOIU – MENTOR

Curriculum Vitae of the project leader

PERSONAL RECORDS

Name: BODOC
First name: Alice-Magdalena
Work address: Brașov, 500030, 25 Eroilor Bd., Faculty of Letters, Transilvania University
E-mail address: alice_bodoc@unitbv.ro
Date of birth: 30.09.1982
Ph.D. from year: 20.06.2017
Scientific title: Lecturer

BrainMap ID: U-1700-036P-6852

EDUCATION AND TRAINING

2017: PhD Diploma (Philology) (Title of the thesis: Situative Adjuncts in the Old Romanian Language. The Syntax-Semantics-Pragmatics Interface – the abstract of the PhD thesis can be found at http://www.unitbv.ro/doctorat/Sustineripublice/Sustineritezededoctorat2016.aspx), Transilvania University of Braşov, Supervisor: Prof. dr. Mihaela Gheorghe
January – March 2015: Visiting PhD Student (Faculty of Modern and Medieval Languages, University of Cambridge; Supervisor: Professor Adam Ledgeway)
2012 – 2014: Diploma of University Advanced Studies (Master’s Degree Diploma) (Romanian Language and Literature); Transilvania University of Braşov, Faculty of Letters
August 2008: Professional Certification Degree; Ovidius University of Constanţa
2002 – 2006: Bachelor’s Degree Diploma (Romanian Language and Literature – English Language and Literature); Ovidius University of Constanţa, Faculty of Letters

WORK EXPERIENCE

2019 – present-day: Lecturer; Romanian Morphology and Syntax (course and seminars); Romanian practical courses; Department of Theoretical and Applied Linguistics, Faculty of Letters, Transilvania University of Brașov
2014 – 2019: Teaching Associate/Assistant; Romanian practical courses and Romanian Syntax seminars; Faculty of Letters, Transilvania University of Brașov
January – March 2015: (Visiting) Teaching Assistant; Romanian Supervisions; Faculty of Modern and Medieval Languages, University of Cambridge
2007 – 2014: Teacher of Romanian Language and Literature; Teaching and examining activities V. Cristoforeanu Secondary School (Râmnicu Sărat, Buzău)

Defining elements of the outstanding scientific achievements of the project leader

  1. Articles

Bodoc Alice, Gheorghe Mihaela. 2018. “Middle constructions in Romanian”, ZEITSCHRIFT FÜR ROMANISCHE PHILOLOGIE, vol. 134, issue 4, p. 1154-1176. (https://doi.org/10.1515/zrp-2018-0073, Web of Science Core Collection, WOS: 000449923400008)
Gheorghe Mihaela, Bodoc Alice. 2017. „Principiul iconicității în structurile sintactice cu adjuncți temporali”, Studii și cercetări lingvistice, LXVIII, nr. 1, Bucureşti, p. 57–76 (ISSN 0039-405X)
Preda Bodoc Alice. 2016. “Temporal and spatial sentence connectives: evidence from Old Romanian”, ZEITSCHRIFT FÜR ROMANISCHE PHILOLOGIE, vol. 132, issue 2, pp. 557-591. (https://doi.org/10.1515/zrp-2016-0035, Web of Science Core Collection, WOS: 000377585600008).
Preda Bodoc Alice, Ardeleanu Gomoescu Monica. 2016. “The Grammaticalization and Pragmaticalization of the Romanian Indefinite Pro-Forms: A Corpus-Based Approach”. Círculo de Lingüística Aplicada a la Comunicación (clac) 65/2016, pp. 223-256. (http://dx.doi.org/10.5209/rev_CLAC.2016.v65.51987, Web of Science Core Collection, WOS: 000372191300008), IF: 0,263.
Gomoescu Monica, Bodoc Alice, Gheorghe Mihaela. 2016. “Romanian Mothers Discussion Boards: a Way of Constructing Discursive Identity”. Revue Roumaine de Linguistique, LXI, 3, p. 231-248, Bucureşti (Web of Science Core Collection, WOS: 000394926000002), IF: 0,189.

Books/ chapters (including monographs):
Bodoc Alice. 2018. Adjuncții situativi din limba română veche (Interfața sintaxă-semantică-pragmatică), Editura Universității din București. ISBN 978-606-16-0965-9.
Bodoc Alice. 2017. “The specificity of Old Romanian in the context of Romance languages. Morphosyntactic evidence”, in Elena Buja, Măda S., Arhire M. (eds.), (De/Re)Contextualisation. Structure, Use and Meaning, Braşov, Editura Universităţii Transilvania, p. 19-41. (ISBN 978-606-19-0908-7, Web of Science Core Collection, WOS: 000457656600003).

Curriculum Vitae of the mentor

Personal records

Name: SĂFTOIU
First name: RĂZVAN
Date of birth: 23.06.1978
Ph.D. from year: 2007
Scientific title: Professor
E-mail address: razvan.saftoiu@unitbv.ro
Institution name: Universitatea Transilvania, Brașov
Institution address: Bd. Eroilor, nr. 29, 500036, Brașov, Romania

BrainMap ID: U-1700-030D-8373

Information about degrees and diplomas

July 2014
Habilitation Certificate (Philology), University of Bucharest.

July – August 2012
Cambridge Certificate of English Language Teaching to Adults (CELTA), International House Budapest (Hungary).

August 2011
Diploma of Trainer, S.C. DOTIS Training S.R.L. Ploieşti.

June 2007
PhD Diploma (Philology), University of Bucharest.

August 2005 – June 2006
Research Assistant (Fulbright scholarship), State University of New York, Albany (USA).

October 2000 – June 2001
Diploma of University Advanced Studies (Master’s Degree Diploma) (Linguistics and Communication), University of Bucharest.

October 1996 – June 2000
Bachelor’s Degree Diploma (Romanian Language and Literature – English Language and Literature), Petroleum-Gas University of Ploieşti.

Information about professional experience and jobs

October 2012 – present day
As a Lecturer and, starting with October 2016, Professor at Transilvania University of Braşov, Faculty of Letters, Department of Theoretical and Applied Linguistics, I teach specialized courses and seminars for the Master’s and Bachelor’s degrees: Contemporary Romanian (Syntax and Morphology), Language Theory and Practice, Initiation in Research, Interpersonal Communication Strategies, Romanian as a Foreign Language. As Director of Transilvania University Press, I coordinate the activity and works to be achieved by 5 employees of the support structure, throughout the working stages. I also achieve the management of current activities and I assign tasks and responsibilities to the Publishing House members, in line with their professional training, with a view to ensuring the quality of the activities and services.

February 2001 – September 2012
As a Tutor (2001), Assistant (2003) and Lecturer (2007) at Petroleum-Gas University of Ploieşti, Faculty of Letters, Philology Department, I taught specialized courses and seminars for the Master’s and Bachelor’s degrees: Contemporary Romanian (Semantics and Pragmatics), Project writing, Interpersonal Communication Strategies.

Between February 2010 – September 2011, in the project Strategies for professional communication in English (SCOPE), financed by S.C. Spoting S.A. Ploieşti, I was a Lecturer and offered training sessions for the teaching staff that were going to teach at master’s level in English.

Between June 2006 – December 2008, in the project Limbajul politic românesc actual [Present-day Romanian political language] (CNCSIS 1094), I coordinated the preliminary activities to set up the „Center for research in Humanities” at the Philology Department, Faculty of Letters, Petroleum-Gas University of Ploieşti.

Between October – December 2001, in the project A Collaborative Examination of the Language and Images of Advertising, in collaboration with Clemson University, South Carolina (U.S.A.), I coordinated the student team at Petroleum-Gas University of Ploieşti and analysed the language of advertising in mass-media, in two cultural areas – Romanian and American.

The list with the most important scientific publications

 Books and chapters in books

  1. Săftoiu Răzvan. 2013. Politics through the Lens of Linguistic Analysis, Editura Universităţii Transilvania din Braşov. ISBN 978-606-19-0245-3.
  2. Săftoiu Răzvan. 2013. “The Discursive Practice of Addressing in the Romanian Parliament”, in The Pragmatics of Political Discourse: Explorations across Cultures, Anita Fetzer (ed.), 47-65. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
  3. Săftoiu Răzvan. 2012. “Small Talk – A Work of Frame”, in Professional Communication across Languages and Cultures, Măda Stanca, Săftoiu Răzvan (eds.), 213-235. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. (Web of Science Core Collection, WOS:000327027600010)

 Articles

  1. Săftoiu Răzvan. 2018. To speak or not to speak. Notes on silence as a dialogic speech act, “Revue Roumaine de linguistique”, 63 (1-2), 115-131. (Web of Science Core Collection, WOS:000447278000009), IF: 0,189.
  2. Săftoiu Răzvan. 2015. Split Voices in Political Discourse, “Language and Dialogue”, 5 (3), 430-448. (Web of Science Core Collection, WOS:000371709400005)
  3. Săftoiu Răzvan, Popescu Carmen. 2014. Humour as a branding strategy in political discourse, “Revista Signos”, 47 (85), 293-320. (Web of Science Core Collection, WOS:000348518400007), IF: 0,551.