CENTER FOR COMPARATIVE AND COGNITIVE LINGUISTICS
WELCOME!
The research Center for Comparative and Cognitive Linguistics (Foreign Languages and Literatures, University of Bucharest) carries out research activities in the field of comparative linguistics, prioritizing the Romance and Germanic areas from a linguistic and/or sociolinguistic perspective. The main research directions are functional syntax, cognitive semantics, lexicology and terminology (specialized languages), with applications to second language teaching or translation.
CURRENT EVENTS
International congress TRADIÇÃO E INOVAÇÃO NA CULTURA PORTUGUESA. 50 ANOS DE ESTUDOS LUSÓFONOS NA ROMÉNIA, organized by the Department of Romance, Classical and Modern Greek Languages and Literatures in collaboration with Instituto Camões, I.P., with the support of Cátedra Fernando Pessoa (University of Bucharest) and Alumni FLLS (ALSUB), 27th and 28th of September 2024, https://lls.unibuc.ro/2023/ticp2024/.
CELINE (Cercul de Lingvistică Neurocognitivă – ‘Neurocognitive Linguistics Circle’) is a monthly seminar that brings together scholars, professors and students to discuss language from a neurocognitive perspective.
Neurocognitive Linguistics, also known as Relational Network Theory, was proposed by the American linguist Sydney M. Lamb. It is a model of the way in which linguistic information is organised in the individual brain, as a relational network.
In a broad sense, however, any approach to the study of language which is interested in its biological aspects, with a focus on neural connections involved in language production and understanding, can be considered Neurocognitive.
OUR NEXT SEMINAR:
MARCH 2025 Language and Reality – Q&A Session with Sydney M. Lamb
Invited speaker: Prof. Sydney M. LAMB
Agnes Cullen Arnold Professor Emeritus of Linguistics and Cognitive Science, Rice University, Houston, TX, USA
31 March 2025, 6 PM (EET)
Zoom Link
ARCHIVE
FEBRUARY 2025 Large Language Models – What They Do Well and What They (Still) Don’t
Invited speakers: Ana RADU, Mirela MITRESCU, Tiberiu BOLBA
Mind the Brain – MA Program in Cognitive Science
JANUARY 2025 Limbaj, muzică, neurologie și inteligență artificială; o perspectivă polifonică
Invited speaker: Prof. Eng. PhD Ștefan TRĂUȘAN-MATU
Faculty of Automatic Control and Computer Science, Polytechnic University of Bucharest & the Institute for Artificial Intelligence of the Romanian Academy
DECEMBER 2024 Emoțiile induse de poezie: rolul imageriei mentale
Invited speaker: PhD candidate Simina PIȚUR
Applied Cognitive Psychology Doctoral School, „Babeș-Bolyai” University of Cluj-Napoca
NOVEMBER 2024 Achiziția limbii în cadrul populației cu Tulburare de Spectru Autist
Invited speaker: Assoc. Prof. PhD Anca SEVCENCO
Faculty of Foreign Languages and Literatures, University of Bucharest
OCTOBER 2024 Cognitivismul sau Ce ne învață cuvintele despre mintea noastră
Invited speaker: Assoc. Prof. PhD Simona GEORGESCU
Faculty of Foreign Languages and Literatures, University of Bucharest
JUNE 2024 Limba ca obiect natural. O incursiune în conceptele și istoria Gramaticii Generative
Invited speaker: Assoc. Prof. PhD Alexandru NICOLAE
Faculty of Letters, University of Bucharest
APRIL 2024 Ce ne spun neuroștiințele despre limbaj?
Invited speaker: Lect. PhD Claudiu PAPASTERI
Faculty of Psychology and Education Sciences, University of Bucharest
MARCH 2024 Ce studiem atunci când studiem limbajul?
Invited speaker: Assoc. prof. PhD Mihai ENĂCHESCU
Faculty of Foreign Languages and Literatures, University of Bucharest
CONFERENCES AND CONGRESSES
Institutional partner to the international congress TRADIÇÃO E INOVAÇÃO NA CULTURA PORTUGUESA. 50 ANOS DE ESTUDOS LUSÓFONOS NA ROMÉNIA, organized by the Department of Romance, Classical and Modern Greek Languages and Literatures in collaboration with Instituto Camões, I.P., with the support of Cátedra Fernando Pessoa (University of Bucharest) and Alumni FLLS (ALSUB), 27th and 28th of September 2024, https://lls.unibuc.ro/2023/ticp2024/.
Institutional partner to the international congress La traduzione nei regimi totalitari. Aspetti linguistici, letterari e storici (22nd – 23rd of September 2023) organized by the Department of Romance, Classical and Modern Greek Languages and Literatures (University of Bucharest, School of Foreign Languages and Literatures), sponsored by the Italian Embassy in Bucharest, in partnership with the Istituto Italiano di Cultura and the Academia di Romania in Roma.
The international congress FROM WORDS TO COMPLEX SENTENCES: BEYOND CONVENTIONAL MEANING. A ROMANCE PERSPECTIVE , in collaboration with Centro Camões and ICUB (University of Bucharest), with the support of Alumni FLLS (ALSUB), University of Bucharest, 28th and 29th of April 2023, https://lls.unibuc.ro/2022/international-congress-wtoc-2023/.
The international congress El isomorfismo de los saberes: proyecciones de la ciencia en la literatura de los siglos XX y XXI, Department of Romance Linguistics, Iberoromance Languages and Literatures, Italian, Classical Philology and Modern Greek (Foreign Languages and Literatures, University of Bucharest) and the Centre for Comparative and Cognitive Linguistics (University of Bucharest), in collaboration with Inscripciones literarias de la ciencia (ILICIA) and Coherencia del discurso (CoDis) (University of Salamanca, Spain), University of Bucharest, 10th and 11th of May 2019, literaturaysaberes2019.wordpress.com.
The international congres XVIII Col·loqui Internacional de Llengua i Literatura catalanes, Associació Internacional de Llengua i Literatura Catalanes in collaboration with Foreign Languages and Literatures (University of Bucharest) and the Centre for Comparative and Cognitive Linguistics, University of Bucharest, 2nd – 7th of July 2018, aillcbucarest18.weebly.com.
The international congress Fraseologia e paremiologia, roba da matti!, Associazione Italiana di Fraseologia e Paremiologia îin collaboration with Foreign Languages and Literatures (University of Bucharest) and the Centre for Comparative and Cognitive Linguistics, 27th – 29th of September, 2017, www.phrasis.it.
The international congress Mijloace lingvistice de exprimare a impreciziei în limbile romanice, Centre for Comparative and Cognitive Linguistics, Foreign Languages and Literatures, University of Bucharest, 22nd and 23rd of May, 2015, www.ilr2015.weebly.com.
The international congress Llengües i cultures en contacte: el català i l’Europa d’avui. Diàlegs culturals mitjançant traduccions literàries, Centre for Comparative and Cognitive Linguistics, Foreign Languages and Literatures, University of Bucharest, 17th and 18th of April, 2015, www.dctl2015.weebly.com.
PUBLICATIONS
Volumul de față reunește actele celei de-a XVIII-a ediții a prestigiosului Congres Internațional de Limbă și Literatură Catalană (București, iulie 2018), organizată de către Associació Internacional de Llengua i Literatura Catalanes în colaborare cu Universitatea din București. Structurat în patru secțiuni tematice –lingvistică, literatură, traductologie și didactica limbii–, cuprinde treizeci și cinci de contribuții semnate de profesori și cercetători din întreaga lume, cu vădită aplecare înspre studiul apropierilor, întâlnirilor sau asemănărilor la nivel lingvistic, literar și cultural între spațiul catalan și cel românesc. Această apariție editorială marchează, de bună seamă, un moment memorabil în istoria catalanisticii din România.
Aquest volum reuneix les actes de la divuitena edició del prestigiós Congrés Internacional de Llengua i Literatura Catalanes (Bucarest, juliol de 2018), organitzada per l’Associació Internacional de Llengua i Literatura Catalanes en col·laboració amb la Universitat de Bucarest. Estructurat en quatre àrees temàtiques –lingüística, literatura, traducció i didàctica de la llengua–, arreplega trenta-cinc contribucions, entre conferències magistrals, conferències plenàries i comunicacions de professors i investigadors de tot el món entorn l’estudi de la llengua i les lletres entre l’espai català i el romanès. La publicació d’aquest volum marca, certament, una fita cabdal en la història de la catalanística a Romania.
This volume brings together the proceedings of the eighteenth edition of the prestigious Congrés Internacional de Llengua i Literatura Catalanes (Bucharest, July 2018), organized by the Associació Internacional de Llengua i Literatura Catalanes in collaboration with the University of Bucharest. Structured in four thematic sections –linguistics, literature, translation studies and language teaching–, the thirty-five articles authored by professors and researchers from around explore Catalan and Romanian culture, language and literature from a contrastive approach. This collective volume represents a landmark of Catalan studies in Romania.
Balaș, Oana-Dana; Anamaria Gebăilă; Roxana Voicu (eds), Fraseologia e paremiologia: prospettive evolutive, pragmatica e concettualizzazione, Riga, Edizione Accademiche Italiane, 2019.
Angheluță, Mioara-Adelina; Oana-Dana Balaș; Maria-Sabina Draga Alexandru; Joan Llinàs Suau; Xavier Montoliu Pauli (eds), Traduccions i diàlegs culturals amb el català, București, Editura Universității din București, 2018, ISBN 978-606-16-0979-6.
Balaș, Oana-Dana; Adriana Ciama; Mihai Enăchescu; Anamaria Gebăilă; Roxana Voicu (eds), L’expression de l’imprécision dans les langues romanes, București, Editura Ars Docendi, 2017, ISBN 978-606-998-005-7.
MEMBERS
Director: associate professor Oana-Dana Balaș, PhD
Deputy director: associate professor Adriana Ciama, PhD
Secretary: associate professor Anamaria Gebăilă, PhD
CENTER FOR COMPARATIVE AND COGNITIVE LINGUISTICS
University of Bucharest, Foreign Languages and Literatures
Edgar Quinet St., 5 – 7, sector 1, 010017
E-mail: clcc@lls.unibuc.ro
Website: lls.unibuc.ro/clcc