IVAN DIANA - Story (of) Experiencing: Erasmus, Spaces for Cultural Exchange (pag. 47-49)

While the history and objectives of the most prestigious student mobility programme in Europe have been familiar to the academic community for quite some time, special attention is now being paid to the recently emerged genre of Erasmus writing, comprising texts that range from short and helpful guidelines meant for future Erasmus students to individual accounts of the time spent abroad. This paper aims to analyse such texts in an attempt to outline the most frequent reasons behind each candidate’s decision to take part in this programme, the challenges faced by participants as well as the cultural and emotional aspects of any such experience, and to ultimately define the concept of ‘Erasmus spirit’.



Costin – Valentin Oancea 

Costin – Valentin Oancea - Gender Exclusive Differences in Language Use (pag. 187-199)

We are surrounded in our everyday lives by powerful commonsense ideas about speech which tell us that men and women communicate and use language in different ways. Nowadays, a major topic in sociolinguistics is the connection between language and gender. Gender differences in language use are of two types: gender-exclusive and gender-preferential, although some sociolinguists claim that the former is a myth and there are no gender-exclusive differences between the speech of men and women. The aim of this paper is to prove that these differences exist and that they are specific to traditional societies. Phonological, morphological, syntactic and lexical differences will be discussed, it will be demonstrated that these gender differences really exist and that they are influenced by social factors.