The word parrhêsia appears for the first time in Greek literature and it is ordinarily translated by "free speech". For Michel Foucault, the term is central to its concerns over the last years of life, especially in courses at the Collège de France in 1983 and 1984, giving the concept of...

Ever demanding forces of globalisation have introduced new discourses into curriculum planning in the higher education. In order to sustain in the knowledge based economy and to deal with demand in job market, incorporation of competency based curriculum is emerging as a necessity in higher...

The purpose of this volume is to identify how the New Labor Party (in Britain) managed at least linguistically, to create its own political discourse known as the Third Path. The author discussed Tony Blair’s speech in terms of critical analysis of discourse, therefore focused on an analysis...

This thesis focuses on the December 1989 Revolution that ended the dictatorship of Nicolae Ceausescu in Romania. The research question explores the specificity and the consequences of the live coverage of the Revolution. In order to test, whether the television informed and mobilised people and,...

The social work profession has been undergoing a period of change and has been encouraged to prove the effectiveness of clinical interventions by scientific evidence. This study was therefore designed to describe the knowledge, attitudes and beliefs of a sample of Romanian social work...

Supervision is a dynamic process which includes changes, acquisitions which may have as a result the improving of work conditions, quality of services, the rise of efficiency, the satisfactions of the employees and the avoiding of professional exhaustion. In Romania, the rapid development of...

The suburbia emerges as an outcome of the city’s growth and is usually populated by many and various people and it became the novelists’ concern as far back as the Romanticism. Our study aims to highlight the characters’ typology as presented in the early Romanian novels, written between...

The article basically examines the division of the Romanian unitary state taking into account constitutional factors such as: unity and indivisibility. The founding legislative reforms complex of national and territorial unity of Romania is mentioned in a temporary sequence. The issue of the...

The paper hightlights the common themes in the interwar journalistic writings discourse of the French Extreme-Right representatives, characters of great intellectual mobility, but dominated by ethnic-spiritual cliches and prejudices, assumed by them ina deliberate manner. A very complex and also...

Received as a complex semiotic universe, the world of Mircea Eliade’s texts constitutes a continuous provocation not so much in the reading as, especially, in the rereading. Starting from the texts that have known transpositions into different semiotic codes, we have considered that, through...