Universitatea Danubius din Galați

A New Journal under the Umbrella of Danubius Academic Publishing House

: 04 November 2021

Danubius Academic Publishing House brings to your attention the issuing of a new journal: New Trends in Psychology. This academic review will publish studies and research endeavors centered on topics pertaining to general psychology, cognitive psychology, creativity, work and organizational psychology, child psychology, educational psychology, human development, speech therapy, psychopathology and psychotherapy.

The journal addresses undergraduates and master communities enrolled in “Psychology”, faculty and professionals interested in their own personal development, but also ones from other related study fields like sociology, social work, special psycho-pedagogy or medical school.

The review will be useful especially for students and specialists preoccupied with the theory and practice of the modern methods in applying psychology.

Only articles written in English will be accepted.

The journal will be issued twice a year, in February and October, under the print ISSN: 2668-0696, being indexed in PROQUEST data base.

The review can be found at the following link: https://dj.univ-danubius.ro/index.php/NTP/index.

Danubius University Deans Kicked Off Their Terms!

: 28 October 2021

The single conference talk Umfelder and interpretation. A Coserian perspective

: 22 October 2021

The Center for Hermeneutics “Symbols and Texts” (CHeST) of “Danubius” University of Galati, in partnership with The Central University Library “Mihai Eminescu” of Iasi, organizes on Tuesday, the 26^th of October 2021, at 17.00, the single conference talk Umfelder and interpretation. A Coserian perspective, delivered on-line, in English, by Professor Klaas Willems, Ph.D., from University of Ghent (Belgium).

In this talk professor Klaas Willems discusses Eugenio Coseriu’s theory of “Umfelder” (Sp. “entornos”) as presented in “Determinación y entorno. Dos problemas de una lingüistica del hablar” (1955-1956) and later briefly resumed in his Textlinguistik (2007 [1980]). Coseriu distinguishes four "Umfelder" (situation, region, context and universe of discourse), which K.W. will apply to a particular text (a political cartoon) in order to gauge the applicability and usefulness of Coseriu’s framework. In a second part of his talk, K.W. puts forth the question in what sense Coseriu’s framework is different and complementary to other approaches of discourses and texts such as D. Hymes’ SPEAKING model and the Neo-Gricean theory of Conversational Implicatures. He concludes that Coseriu’s framework provides us with an 'embarrassment of riches' in terms of concepts and distinctions that are key when trying to reconstruct the settings of a particular text in order to account for its “Sinn” (Sp. "sentido") from a hermeneutic perspective.

Klaas Willems (b. 1965) is a professor of General linguistics at Ghent University. His research interests include semantics, the syntax-semantics interface, case theory, the theory and philosophy of language, and the history of the language sciences. His publications include five books and some 80 articles and book chapters. He is co-editor of Historiographia Linguistica (Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins).