A new number of “Acta Universitatis Danubius. Œconomica” journal was recently issued. As always, the review presents the readers with up-to-date scientific papers based on thorough research in the economic field as also in related fields of interest like management, marketing or commerce.    

 “Acta Universitatis Danubius. Œconomica” publishes studies combining theoretical approaches with practical cases, giving well documented answers to a wide range of economic aspects.   

Among the articles in the current number, one can find: “Economic and Financial Impact of the Covid-19 Pandemic on the Insurance Market in Albania, Serbia and Northern Macedonia”, „COVID-Vaccination and Performance in Five Global Stock Market Indexes” or “South African Job Creation, a Myth or Reality? The Role of Economic Injections as a Solution to the Employment Issues”.

The journal benefits from an editorial board of experts both from Romania and from abroad. At the same time, it respects the editing standards of scientific reviews, an issuing frequency of six numbers per year and also takes into consideration the international editorial conventions.  

The review is included in several international data bases (CEEOL, EBSCO Publishing, EconPapers, RePec, IDEAS, DOAJ, Cabell's, PROQUEST) and can be accessed at the following link: https://dj.univ-danubius.ro/index.php/AUDOE.

Assoc. Senior Lecturer Petra Alina Marinescu, Ph.D.

PR&MEDIA Consultant

Danubius Academic Publishing House brings to your attention the issuing of a new journal: New Trends in Psychology. This academic review will publish studies and research endeavors centered on topics pertaining to general psychology, cognitive psychology, creativity, work and organizational psychology, child psychology, educational psychology, human development, speech therapy, psychopathology and psychotherapy.     

The journal addresses undergraduates and master communities enrolled in “Psychology”, faculty and professionals interested in their own personal development, but also ones from other related study fields like sociology, social work, special psycho-pedagogy or medical school.

The review will be useful especially for students and specialists preoccupied with the theory and practice of the modern methods in applying psychology.  

Only articles written in English will be accepted.

The journal will be issued twice a year, in February and October, under the print ISSN: 2668-0696, being indexed in PROQUEST data base.

The review can be found at the following link: https://dj.univ-danubius.ro/index.php/NTP/index.

The Center for Hermeneutics “Symbols and Texts” (CHeST) of “Danubius” University of Galati, in partnership with The Central University Library “Mihai Eminescu” of Iasi, organizes on Tuesday, the 26^th of October 2021, at 17.00, the single conference talk Umfelder and interpretation. A Coserian perspective, delivered on-line, in English, by Professor Klaas Willems, Ph.D., from University of Ghent (Belgium).

In this talk professor Klaas Willems discusses Eugenio Coseriu’s theory of “Umfelder” (Sp. “entornos”) as presented in “Determinación y entorno. Dos problemas de una lingüistica del hablar” (1955-1956) and later briefly resumed in his Textlinguistik (2007 [1980]). Coseriu distinguishes four "Umfelder" (situation, region, context and universe of discourse), which K.W. will apply to a particular text (a political cartoon) in order to gauge the applicability and usefulness of Coseriu’s framework. In a second part of his talk, K.W. puts forth the question in what sense Coseriu’s framework is different and complementary to other approaches of discourses and texts such as D. Hymes’ SPEAKING model and the Neo-Gricean theory of Conversational Implicatures. He concludes that Coseriu’s framework provides us with an 'embarrassment of riches' in terms of concepts and distinctions that are key when trying to reconstruct the settings of a particular text in order to account for its “Sinn” (Sp. "sentido") from a hermeneutic perspective.

Klaas Willems (b. 1965) is a professor of General linguistics at Ghent University. His research interests include semantics, the syntax-semantics interface, case theory, the theory and philosophy of language, and the history of the language sciences. His publications include five books and some 80 articles and book chapters. He is co-editor of Historiographia Linguistica (Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins).