Luminita Rosca

This study examines the discursive practices of media "transition" from Romania 80's and early 90's in order to identify a pattern of the ideological discourse of transition. The pragmatic analysis is in line with recent studies that discuss media discourses in post-communist countries or "in transition" which led to new approaches and nuances of classical theories of the public sphere which we consider very important in the context of contemporary Romanian social discourse. The analysis of how to make the transition from "wooden language" to "informative discourse" of the Romanian media discourse focuses on intentionality describe in text linguistic as discursive component able to realize thematic choices, media discourse and attitude of media instances during the media process production. We also consider intentionality because it introduces in the discourse the component of journalist personality, with all that this may include: att...

This paper proposes an analysis pattern of the existence forms of the public sphere in the totalitarian pe riod from Romania. The analysis took into consideration essential reference in shaping the notion of public sphere: public communication and mass communication, public authority and the public exercise of reason. The scope of the research is to offer scientific significance to an array of testimonies from that period, regarding the situation of the individual and the society in the late years of Romanian national communism. The motivation of this research appeared after having observed and researched an impressive number of memoirs. From a subjective point of view, I think that the abundance of testimonies is not enough to thoroughly comprehend the phenomena. Only an analytic model can provide consistency to the subjective pluralism which is found in autobiographies, journals, literary manifestos and oral testimonies.

The present study aims to emphasize the extent to which modern management principles are known and applied in the Romanian public institutions. We also aim to identify a system of values that set a pattern of the organizational culture in the system of public institutions. The investigation technique we used is the questionnaire and the method we chose is the sociological survey. According to the standards of research methodology and in order to obtain accurate results, we have pre-tested the research tools in conditions similar to those of the study itself. In this respect, the present study will test the validity of the questionnaire on a group of 41 subjects, master’s students in a specialized program at the University of Bucharest, with the purpose of undertaking the sociological survey. The pilot study conclusions will allow the methodological framework of the sociological survey to refine and adapt the models of international analysis to the actual Romanian context.