Issues

Scientific Bulletin of the Politehnica University of Timişoara

Transactions on Modern Languages

Vol. 25, Issue 1, 2026

CONTENTS

Linguistics and Communication
Cosmin-Constantin BĂIAȘ, Caius LUMINOSU, Sorin SUCIU	The rhetoric of complementarity of humanities disciplines in technical universities	7
Diana Christine ZELTER, Ioana Gabriela NAN	Leadership discourse, context and storytelling – a theoretical approach	18
Georgiana Silvia LEOTESCU	Media Representations of AI – News Coverage and its Contribution to the Communicative Construction of Emerging Technologies	29
Iuliu RAȚIU	The Key to Success—Rebranding Communist Goods between Nostalgia and Cultural Identity	48
Translation Studies
Liana MUTHU	Human Translator’s Future in the Digital Age	60
Zoltan KOVACS, Daniel DEJICA	Machine Translation, Post-Editing, and Quality Assessment in English–Romanian Medical Translation: Insights from Professional Practice	69
Andreea-Maria SĂRMAȘIU	The new era of translation: co-evolution of human and machine translation. The integration of artificial intelligence (AI) in the pre-translation phase of economic news	84
Laura IONICA	Acquisition and interpretation of terminology in a highly digitalised learning environment	93
Khalid Rokan MANSOOR, Daniel DEJICA	Translating Grammatical Gender in English–Arabic Literary Contexts: A Mixed-Methods Study of Student Performance	104
Irina-Ana DROBOT	Using Chat GPT to Translate Song Lyrics	115
Sorin CIUTACU	How Wide Asunder? Diachronic Translation and Linguistic Distance	122
Izabella MALI, Daniel DEJICA	Teaching Website Localization in the Romanian Context: An Empirical Study of Linguistic, Cultural, and Technological Competences	130
Iasmina VELIMIROVICI, Simona ȘIMON	Exploring Students’ Views on Note-Taking during Interpreting Tasks	145
Foreign Language Pedagogy
Maja ĆUK, Valentina BUDINČIĆ	Project-based English Language Learning through Digital Content and Games	156
Bettina ENE	Reconceptualizing Business English Pedagogy through LifeComp: Collaboration and Critical Thinking as Core Competences	170
Mirela COSTELEANU	Balancing General English and English for Specific Purposes in ESP Classes	183
Ada BABOI	Authentic Tasks and Professional Genres in Technical ESP: a Task-Based Curriculum for Business Information Systems Students	193
Hassiba CHAIBI, Asma SALMI	Les représentations caricaturales de l’introduction de l’anglais dans les écoles primaires algériennes	207
Maria-Dana GROSSECK	Das rumänische Sprachvorbereitungsprogramm für ausländische Staatsbürger: Zwischen Sprachkunst und interkultureller Herausforderung	221
Andreja RETELJ	Konstruktion von Lehreridentität im Schulpraktikum angehender DaF-Lehrkräfte	227
Andrea Susanne STANCU	Kompetenzen im Fokus. Landeskundeunterricht an rumänischen Hochschulen im Wandel	242
Anca DEJICA-CARȚIȘ	Aspekte der Sprache. Besonderheiten der Präfixverben.	252
Reviews
Ana-Maria Dascălu-Romițan	Soul (Vol. I) and Perspectives (Vol. II). Confessions of Young Doctors: A Therapeutic Journal: (Coordinator), Simona Olaru-Poșiar	262
Daniel Dejica	Introduction to English Morphology / Uvod u morfologiju engleskog jezika, Valentina Budinčić	265
Information for Authors		269

Editorial matter
Business or Professional? A Context-Based Approach on Discourse and Communication - Diana ZELTER, Iuliu RAȚIU, Timea TOCALACHIS	pag. 7
Analysis and Evaluation of Toulmin’s Model of Practical Argumentation - Cosmin-Constantin BĂIAȘ	pag. 17
Hashtag Apartheid? Digital Discourse, Post-Apartheid Literature, and the Mission of Historical Reconciliation - Bogdan ANDREI	pag. 27
Legal Rhetoric in American Political Speeches: A Qualitative Analysis of Persuasion, Governance, and Constitutional Discourse - Maria-Magdalena LĂPĂDAT	pag. 38
Respectful Communication: Towards an Ethics of Academic Mobility - Sorin SUCIU	pag. 54
Linguistic Characteristics of Educational Marketing Discourse - Irana CIOBANU, Daniel DEJICA	pag. 62
Haruki Murakami as Cultural Mediator - After Dark - Andrea PUTNOKY	pag. 73
The Weight of Faith: Religious Symbols and Rituals as Tools of Oppression in Adichie’s Purple Hibiscus - Edit FAZAKAS	pag. 87
Mise en discours du patrimoine culturel. L’exemple du riad - Andra-Teodora PORUMB, Adina SĂCARA-ONIȚA	pag. 95
Plaidoyer pour la création d'un dictionnaire des mots roumains se terminant en -etă - Simona CONSTANTINOVICI	pag. 109
La trame argumentative au service de l’émotion - Hassiba CHAIBI	pag. 121
Helene, Milton, DANA: Klimadesinformation – eine Diskursanalyse - Ștefana CIORTEA-NEAMȚIU	pag. 133
Cultură și civilizație vs. Landeskunde. Zwei Bezeichnungen eines Faches im Vergleich - Andrea Susanne STANCU	pag. 143
Nonverbale Kommunikation - Adina SĂCARA-ONIȚA, Andra-Teodora PORUMB	pag. 153
Reflective Voices in Specialized Translation: A TAP-Based Study of Student Strategies and AI Evaluation - Daniel DEJICA, Patricia GRIGORAȘ	pag. 165
Facing Legal English – A Dichronic Perspective from the Common Law Terminology to EU Legal English - Andra-Simona DIACONU	pag. 172
How the New Dictionary Entries Reflect the Anxieties of Our Time - Laura IONICA	pag. 184
The Strategic Integration of Anglicisms in Romanian Intelligence Discourse - Iulia PARA	pag. 192
Bridging the Language Gap in Psychology: Challenges in Developing an English-Romanian Dictionary - Ramona BRAN, Andreea PELE	pag. 208
Medical Terminology from the History Perspective - Mihai Robert RUSU	pag. 216
Le choix des textes en classe de traduction générale - Mirela-Cristina POP	pag. 226
Réécriture et fidélité : les enjeux de la retraduction littéraire. Une approche critique des versions roumaines de À la recherche du temps perdu - Luciana PENTELIUC-COTOŞMAN	pag. 235
Repérage et traduction des éléments culturels propres au numérique - Mirela-Cristina POP	pag. 253
Die Dominanz der Anglizismen beim Übersetzen und Dolmetschen. Empirische Untersuchung für Deutsch und Rumänisch - Anca DEJICA-CARȚIȘ, Simona ȘIMON	pag. 265
Project-based learning in foreign language teaching and assessment: the story of a journey - Corina Georgeta BARNA	pag. 281
Developing L2 academic listening: the role of digital technologies - Alice PECONI	pag. 288
Science Fiction for Teaching English to Military Students - Iren BOYARKINA	pag. 306
Teaching in the Digital Era. Enhancing Technical Vocabulary and Grammar in Engineering - Oana GĂIANU-LUCA	pag. 317
Enhancing Communication Skills in Engineering: A Case Study in ESP - Luminița TODEA	pag. 329
'Self-actualization' and Language Learning: Podcasts as Engaging Teaching Materials - Valentina BUDINČIĆ, Maja ĆUK	pag. 341
English for Medical Purposes: Evolution, Pedagogy, and Future Directions - Florentin CRAINEANU, Daniel DEJICA	pag. 353
Milestones and Competences in Teaching Romanian as a Second Language - Laviniu Costinel LĂPĂDAT	pag. 368
Accuracy vs. fluency in ESP Classes - Mirela COSTELEANU	pag. 378
Using Online Social Media to Understand Culture - Irina-Ana DROBOT	pag. 385
A Multilingual Dictionary of Translation and Interpreting: English - German – Romanian: Simona Șimon, Marcela Alina Fărcașiu, Anca Dejica-Carțiș, Daniel Dejica - Karla LUPȘAN	pag. 394

Editorial matter
Interrogativity: Problematological Model and Applied Technique - Cosmin-Constantin BĂIAȘ	pag. 5
Analysis of the Effect of Intercultural Communication on the Quality of Internal Audit: A Literature Review - Karima BOUZIANE, Abdelmounim BOUZIANE	pag. 15
Deepfake and Media Ethics - Sorin SUCIU	pag. 24
Exploring Linguistic Strategies in Romanian Clickbait Headlines: Communication Tactics in Online Media - Marcela Alina FĂRCAȘIU, Vasile GHERHEȘ	pag. 31
Mental Translation, a Cognitive Process in Communicative Language Teaching and Learning - Adriana TOMA	pag. 43
Linguistic Convergence: Medical Terms and Poetry in Translation - Oana GĂIANU-LUCA	pag. 51
Les principaux défis en interprétation simultanée - Andrea KRISTON	pag. 60
Was sollte man Studierenden beibringen, um Übersetzungsschwierigkeiten in technischen Texten im Deutschen zu überwinden - Maria-Dana GROSSECK	pag. 70
Student Engagement in ESP Classes - Mirela COSTELEANU	pag. 76
Addressing the Challenges of Generative AI in English Language Teaching - Ramona BRAN, Gabriela GROSSECK	pag. 82
Plurality of Voices and Cultural Diversity in the Modern Educational Setting - Laura IONICA	pag. 94
E-learning as a Modern Tool in the Shifting Landscape of Language Teaching - Laviniu Costinel LĂPĂDAT, Maria-Magdalena LĂPĂDAT	pag. 101
Development of written communication skills through creative writing - level A1 - Maria SIMINA-SUCIU	pag. 115
Der Einsatz digitaler Medien beim Lehr-/Lernprozess im Hochschulbereich - Andrea Susanne STANCU	pag. 123
Gheltofan, Daniela. 2021. Mic dicționar de cuvinte- realia rusești și corespondențele lor lexico-frazeologice românești - Simona ȘIMON	pag. 135
Sărmașiu, Andreea Maria. 2024. Investigating the Translatability of Legal Texts - Daniel DEJICA	pag. 138

Editorial matter
Georgiana Silvia LEOTESCU - Communicating Meaning across High- and Low- Context Cultures – a Comparative Analysis	pag. 5
*Simona CONSTANTINOVICI - Sommelier d'eau. Quelques considérations sur le lexique des nouveaux métiers*	pag. 14
Veronica CÂMPIAN, Sabrina SCHULLER - Das Bild der Sinti und Roma Minderheit aus Rumänien im öffentlich-rechtlichen Rundfunk in Deutschland	pag. 26
Anca DEJICA-CARȚIȘ - Aspekte der Sprache. Besonderheiten des deutschen Nomens.	pag. 41
Claudia TULCAN - Die Sprache in Herta Müllers Collagen	pag. 50
Denisa UNGUREAN, Loredana PUNGĂ - Challenges of Setting up a Legal Translation Quality Assessment System	pag. 65
Cristina VARGA - Classification of Automatic Subtitling Tools. A Proposal	pag. 79
Raluca GHENȚULESCU - T(y)ranslators – Agents of Authority and Censorship in Translation	pag. 95
Mihai Robert RUSU - Medical translation and terminology issues	pag. 106
Mirela-Cristina POP - La traduction spécialisée dans la littérature et dans les pages web professionnelles de traduction de langue française	pag. 111
Laura IONICA - Digital literacy and information dissemination in ESP classes	pag. 120
Mirela COSTELEANU - The Use of Sarcasm in ESP Classes	pag. 126
Irina-Ana DROBOT - Digital Culture and Using Social Media Posts in Foreign Language Learning	pag. 133
Laviniu Costinel LĂPĂDAT, Maria-Magdalena LĂPĂDAT - The Importance of Motivation in Foreign Language Learning	pag. 142
Felix NICOLAU - The Epistemological Value of Histories of Translation	pag. 153

Editorial matter
Annamaria KILYENI, Daniel DEJICA, Simona ȘIMON, Marcela FĂRCAȘIU - Designing Skill Cards for New Professions: Easy-to-read Facilitators and Validators	pag. 5
Georgiana Silvia LEOTESCU - Language and its Role in Bridging International Communication	pag. 16
Marcela-Alina FĂRCAȘIU, Vasile GHERHEȘ, Mariana CERNICOVA-BUCA - Communicative Aspects of Public Health Campaigns: A Content Analysis of the Pro-vaccination Campaign in Romania during the COVID-19 Pandemic	pag. 23
Laura IONICĂ - War Terminology and its Psychological Impact	pag. 45
Loredana PUNGĂ, Marius GOLEA - The Complexity of Metaphor Translation. A Case Study	pag. 54
Maria Cristina MIUȚESCU - Input and Output as Reflected in Postgraduate Translation-Oriented Training. An ESP-Centred Approach	pag. 69
Mihai Robert RUSU - Operative Interfaces of English for Medical Purposes. Linguistic and Translational Perspectives	pag. 81
Claudia Elena STOIAN - Analysing the source text: A first step for a successful translation	pag. 89
Anca Monica STANCIU - L’apport de la Technologie dans la Traduction Juridique	pag. 103
Mirela COSTELEANU - The Role of Listening in ESP Classes	pag. 117
Mohamed Ramadhan HASHIM - Teaching Grammar in Iraqi Secondary Schools by Using the Communicative Approach	pag. 124
Marija STEVKOVSKA - Managing Hybrid Learning with Large Groups during the COVID-19 Pandemic	pag. 138
Ludmila BRANIȘTE - Educational Quizz Platforms for Romanian as a Foreign Language: A Case Study of Kahoot	pag. 150
Andreea PELE, Ramona BRAN - Testing Memes as a Teaching Tool	pag. 159
Anca DEJICA-CARȚIȘ- Interkulturelle Kommunikation im DaF-Unterricht	pag. 166
*Andrea Susanne STANCU - Themenauswahl und Lernziele im Fach Cultură și civilizație germană* an rumänischen Hochschulen**	pag. 173
Simona ȘIMON - Book Review: FĂRCAŞIU MARCELA ALINA. 2015. Language in the Courtroom: A Comparative Study of American and Romanian Criminal Trials	pag. 181
*Maria Cristina MIUȚESCU - Book review: MERILĂ, ISABELA (ed). 2020. Romanian Contributions to English for Specific Purposes.*	pag. 185
Veronica CÂMPIAN - Book review: DEJICA-CARȚIȘ, ANCA. 2020. Deutsch für den Beruf. Lehr-und Arbeitsbuch für Studierende der Studienrichtung: Komunikation und PR.	pag. 188

Editorial matter
Loredana-Marcela TRANCĂ - New Trends in the Communication of Social Workers during the COVID-19 Pandemic	pag. 5
Daniela GHELTOFAN - Fantastic Realia: Some Lexical Correspondences (Russian-Romanian)	pag. 16
Karina Bianca Ioana HAUER - Language approaches to the study of meteorology	pag. 29
Cristina VARGA - Online Automatic Subtitling Platforms and Machine Translation. An Analysis of Quality in AVT	pag. 37
Raul PAȘCALĂU, Daniel DEJICA - The Efficient Translation Flow, a Key to Successful Business	pag. 50
Irina-Ana DROBOT - Translating Literature Using Machine Translation: Is It Really Possible?	pag. 57
Liana Georgiana MOGA - Literary Translation and Rewriting – Challenges and Perspectives	pag. 65
Olivia CHIROBOCEA-TUDOR - Translation as a Vocabulary Teaching Aid in ESP	pag. 76
Elena-Laura VULPOIU - Audiovisual Translators and the Skills Needed for this Profession in Romania	pag. 88
Oana-Maria PUIU - A Translation-Oriented Approach to Person Deixis	pag. 100
Gyde HANSEN - Rumänische Diakritika und maschinelle Übersetzung Klein aber noch wichtig?	pag. 110
Anca DEJICA-CARȚIȘ - Das Übersetzen von wirtschaftlichen Fachbegriffen im internationalen Kontext	pag. 119
Valentina BUDINČIĆ - Teaching Advanced Business English Writing Skills in the Digital Environment	pag. 129
Iulia Cristina FRÎNCULESCU - Watching Exercises for Teaching the Terminology of Clinical Procedures in English for Medical Purposes Classes	pag. 138
Maria Cristina MIUȚESCU - The Impact of Interlingual Equivalence on Vocabulary Development. A Case Study on the Acquisition of Specialised (Technical) Lexis	pag. 148
Mihaela POPESCU - Le numérique dans l’enseignement/apprentissage du Français Langue Professionnelle	pag. 158
*Mihaela COZMA - Book Review: Imre, Attila. 2020. An Introduction to Translator Studies. Brașov: “Transilvania” University Publishing House.*	pag. 168
*Cosmin-Constantin BĂIAȘ - Book Review: Ciurel, Daniel. 2020. Cultura media. Perspective retorice. Bucureşti: Editura Tritonic*	pag. 172

Editorial matter
Mariana CERNICOVA-BUCĂ - Communication and linguistic competences for middle management: a content analysis of job advertisements	pag. 5
Cosmin-Constantin BĂIAȘ - The Problem of Evaluation in the Rhetorical Criticism	pag. 15
Daniela GHELTOFAN - Some Historical Realia in Russian and Romanian: Lexical and Phraseological Correspondences	pag. 23
Hassiba CHAIBI - L’humour dans les représentations caricaturales	pag. 33
Andreea Rodica RUTHNER - Interkulturelle Verhältnisse in Rumänien: Organisationen und Parteien der ethnischen Minderheiten	pag. 43
Daniel DEJICA - Understanding Technical and Scientific Translation: A Genre-based Approach	pag. 56
Marius GOLEA, Loredana PUNGĂ - Collocations as Manifestations of Sociolect and Idiolect in Religious Discourse. A Translation-Oriented Perspective	pag. 67
Mihaela COZMA - On the Usefulness of the Pragmatic Perspective in Translation: the case of the Speech Acts in the EU Legal Texts	pag. 75
Mirela-Cristina POP - Le concept de médiation en langues et en traduction	pag. 86
Mariana PITAR - Sur la cohésion interne des termes complexes. Quelques matrices de formation	pag. 92
Andrea KRISTON - La prise de notes - une approche pratique à l’interprétation consécutive	pag. 104
Lelia ACHOURI - Les représentations des étudiants algériens vis-à-vis la langue française	pag. 115
Simona ȘIMON - Book Review: Vîlceanu, Titela. 2017. Dynamic Interfaces of Translation, Pragmatics and Intercultural Communication	pag. 126
Marcela Alina FĂRCAȘIU - Book Review: Șimon, Simona, Claudia E. Stoian, Anca Dejica-Carțiș, Andrea Kriston. 2018. A Multilingual Dictionary of Education: English-German-French-Romanian	pag. 131
Alexandru ORAVIȚAN - Book Review: Jumanca, Romanița. 2018. Characteristics of the English and Romanian Legal Discourse. A Comparative Approach	pag. 135
Claudia E. STOIAN - Book Review: Gherheș, Vasile. 2018. Absolvenți, profesioniști, specialiști. Slalom printre experiențe	pag. 138

Editorial matter
Daniela GHELTOFAN - Some Considerations about Discursive Antonymy	pag. 5
Sofiana Iulia LINDEMANN, Sabina HOMANA - The Implicit Causality in Verbs	pag. 14
Ilina-Mihaela STĂNCULETE - From “Saying” to “Doing”. Conversational Maxims in Political Speeches	pag. 23
Lutfi ABBAS LUTFI - Post-Colonial Discourse: The Impact of Imperial Elements on J. M. Coetzee’s Waiting for the Barbarians	pag. 34
Alexandra Ștefania ȚIULESCU - Play vs. Screen: An Analysis of Shakespeare’s Language in Transmediation	pag. 46
Silvia-Maria CHIREAC, Anna Devis ARBONA - Preserving and saving Quichua language with software. The value of indigenous laboratory of Quichua-Spanish language in San Lucas (Ecuador)	pag. 54
Carmen ARDELEAN - Relevance of the Cultural Transfer in Translation: False-friends in Media Sources	pag. 62
Olenka Maria MĂNESCU - Touring the Translation of the Advertising Discourse	pag. 70
Đorđe BOŽOVIĆ, Borko KOVAČEVIĆ - The Emergence of Grammar and Meaning in Intertextual and Interlinguistic Practice	pag. 79
Verona-Elena CIOCIOI - Metaphor Translatability, Untranslatability and In-Betweens	pag. 90
Mariana PITAR - Les phraséologies dans la formation des traducteurs : types et traitement	pag. 100
Amira Rabah ASADI - The Difficulties of Teaching English through Literature in the Israeli EFL Classroom	pag. 112
Elena MEȘTEREAGĂ - Integrating the Social Context and Learning Ecologies of Digital Natives in EFL Teaching Approaches	pag. 124
Liliana-Luminița TODORESCU, Gabriel-Mugurel DRAGOMIR, Anca GRECULESCU - Learning by Teaching at University Politehnica of Timişoara – A Case Study	pag. 134
Ramona BRAN, Gabriela GROSSECK - Speaking about SPOC: Can a Small Private Online Course (SPOC) Be a Viable Solution for Teaching English	pag. 142
Iozefina ȘANDOR - The EFL Lesson Stages. Linguistically Connected?	pag. 157
Daniel DEJICA - Book review: Hamaoui, Najwa. 2019. MEDIATION LINGUISTIQUE: ENJEUX CULTURELS ET MEDIATIQUES A L’ERE DU NUMERIQUE.	pag. 168

Editorial matter
Diana OŢĂT, Titela VÎLCEANU - Leaner Corpora and Cross-Linguistic Applications	pag.5
Daniela GHELTOFAN, Loredana PUNGĂ-Colour-Based Phrases in Romanian, Russian and English	pag.19
Verónica ROMÁN, Leticia HERRERO, -An Overview of Research in Economic and Business translation in Spain	pag. 32
Mihaela COZMA-Translating Collocations in Political Speeches: A Norm-centred Approach	pag. 47
Khalid MANSOOR-Translation across the Difficulties of Equivalence Concept	pag. 55
Maţa ŢARAN ANDREICI-The Concept of Linguistic cultureme in Translation Studies	pag. 67
Valentina BUDINČIĆ-Some Reflections on Sports English and Serbian in The Global Socio-Linguistic Context	pag. 72
Amira RABAH ASADI-Teaching English through Literature as Part of the Israeli English Curriculum	pag. 80
Andreea PELE-Teaching Oral Expression: Challenges, Approaches and Exercises	pag. 89
Lelia ACHOURI, Abdelhalim TEBIB-L’apport du numérique ambiant dans l’apprentissage du FLE: Technologies d’apprentissage informel	pag. 94
Anca DEJICA-CARȚIȘ-Ansätze der deutschen Sprache für internationale Studenten	pag. 106
*Loredana PUNGĂ-Book review: Nicolau Felix. 2016. MORPHEUS: FROM WORDS TO IMAGES. INTERSEMIOTIC* TRANSLATIONS.**	pag. 115
*Marcela Alina FĂRCAȘIU-Book review: Dejica Daniel. 2013. DICȚIONAR ENGLEZ-ROMÂN, ROMÂN-ENGLEZ CU TERMENI ȘI EXPRESII UTILIZATE ÎN MEDIA DIGITALĂ.*	pag. 119

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