Information and Persuasion

Persuasion matters. Maria-Ionela Neagu and Sky Marsen - I. PERSUASION: FROM STRUCTURE TO DISCOURSE - Les verbes persuasifs en roumain. Domni a Tomescu and Monica Busuioc - L'embrayage temporel au niveau de la séquence textuelle et son rôle argumentatif/persuasif. Diana Costea - Approximation as a means of persuasion in Romanian written press. Silvia Krieb Stoian - Consumption and myth in advertising. Loredana Stoica - Classroom code-switching: between information and persuasion. Ioana Jieanu - Conceptualizing emotions: fear, love, anger, and the Holocaust. Maria-Ionela Neagu - Dramaturgies de la persuasion dans le théâtre français des XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles. Ioana Galleron - Sandra Cisneros and Jhumpa Lahiri in dialogue on culture. Anca Dobrinescu - II. IDEOLOGY: BETWEEN INFORMATION AND PERSUASION/MANIPULATION - Manipulated memory: censuring the Romanian Holocaust under Ceausescu and its aftermath. Arleen Ionescu - Communist propaganda: representing the Communist activist in the novels published during Ceau escu's dictatorship. Mihaela-Claudia Trifan - Anne Frank - un symbole du trauma produit par la guerre. Diana Rînciog - Early empowerment and discursive agency: teenage users on the Internet. Raluca Petre - Revealing words in psychotherapy. Anca Spiridon - Manipulating written media consumers. Alexandra Codau

Domnita Tomescu is Professor at the Philology Department, Faculty of Letters and Sciences, Petroleum-Gas University of Ploiesti. She is also a doctoral coordinator at Ovidius University of Constanta, and a researcher at "Iorgu Iordan-Al. Rosetti" Institute of Linguistics, Bucharest. Her major research and teaching interests focus upon Romanian Linguistics. Her publications include conference papers on the morpho-syntactic analysis of grammatical patterns exhibited by the Romanian language, as well as monographs and dictionaries published in collaboration with other reputed researchers.



Maria-Ionela Neagu is Associate Professor at the Philology Department of Petroleum-Gas University of Ploiesti and a committed researcher whose major fields of study range from English Linguistics, Critical Discourse Analysis, Argumentation Theory and Cognitive Semantics to Applied Linguistics and ELT Methodology. She has published widely in reputed academic journals and volumes of national and international conferences.