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