MINISTERUL EDUCAŢIEI AL REPUBLICII MOLDOVA
ACADEMIA DE ŞTIINŢE A MOLDOVEI
UNIVERSITATEA ACADEMIEI DE ŞTIINŢE A MOLDOVEI
FACULTATEA Ştiinţe umanistice
CATEDRA Limbi şi Literaturi
APROBAT
Senatul UnAŞM proces-verbal
nr. ___ din ___ _________2012
m. c. Maria DUCA _________
PROGRAMA
PENTRU EXAMENUL DE LICENŢĂ
la limba engleză
(proba de specialitate)
Domeniul general de studiu (codul şi denumirea) – 22 Ştiinţe umanistice
Domeniul de formare profesională – 222 Limbi şi Literaturi
Specialitatea – 222.1 Limba şi literatura română, limba engleză
Numărul total de credite de studiu – 180
Titlul obţinut – Licenţiat în ştiinţe umanistice
CHIŞINĂU, 2012
LEXICOLOGIA LIMBII ENGLEZE
The connection lexicology with phonology, grammar, stylistics, history of the language and
social linguistics. The importance phonological categories in the realization of various meanings
of lexemes. The prosody of enantiosemy. Lexical and grammatical meanings. Denotative and
connotative meanings. The stylistic classification of the vocabulary. Word–meaning and
semantic change. Types of meaning. Lexical morphemes. Morphological, phonetic, semantic
motivation of word-meaning. Causes, nature and results of semantic change. Means of Wordbuilding in English. Various types of forming words. Speak on affixation. Peculiarities of
abbreviations. Acronyms in Modern English. Peculiarities of Conversion and Blending.
Productivitive and non-productive means of word building. Classifications of Phraseological
Units in the English Language given by A.Smirnitsky and A.Koonin What is a phraseological
unit? Give examples. Deformation of phraseological units in Modern English. Sources of
borrowed words in English. Speak on the Romance word stock in the English language.
Borrowings from other languages of the world. Speak on etymological doublets. Assimilation of
borrowings. The British and the American English variants. Local dialects on British Isles and
the USA. Give examples.
CIVILIZAŢIA MARII BRITANII
1. The Geography of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland:
Geographic Position, Physical structure and relief; Oceans, Seas, Rivers and Lakes; Natural
Resources, Flora and Fauna;
2. Climate and Weather of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.
The average weather conditions throughout the year. The importance of the North Atlantic
Drift on the climate of the British Isles.
3. The colonial expansion of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.
The economic development of GB and the need of economic and territorial expansion.
The first important colonies of GB?
4. The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland at the End of the 19th and
the Beginning of the 20th Century. The territorial division of the world by the greatest
powers. What were the causes of the wars in the 19 th and 20 th centuries?
5. The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland during the Second World
War. What were the main causes of the Second World War? Describe the policy of the United
kingdom, the USA, Germany and the Soviet Union during the Second World War. The collapse
of the colonial system after the Second World War. The British Commonwealth of Nations.
6. The Political System and Administration of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and
Northern Ireland. The Constitutional monarchy of of Modern Great Britain and Norther
Ireland. The political system and the main political parties in GB at present.
SEMIOTICA TEXTULUI ENGLEZ
1. The object of semiotics. Give examples of prominent semioticians. What are the main
branches of semiotics? What is the object of philological semiotics?
2. The semiotic system of the language. Explain the meaning of the term ‘semiotics’. What do
we mean by semiotic system? What are the main terms used in the field of semiotics? Establish
the connection between semantics, pragmatics and syntactics;
3. Hermeneutics as the art of text interpretation. Explain the meaning of the term
‘hermeneutics’. Speak of an example of text interpretation in the Romanian literature classes.
4. Textual Semiotics. Characterize the semiotics of the seme and the text. Speak on the
semiotics of the signs and of the text. Describe the semiotic structure of the written and discourse
text;
5. The pragmatics of a literary text. Characterize the pragmatics of a literary text and interlingual translatability of texts using examples from your Romanian literature classes.
Describe the cross-cultural analysis of a text from the semiotic point of view; explain the notions
of text and discourse;
6. The functional structure of a text. Describe the linguistic and extra-linguistic factors in the
semiotic analysis of a text using examples from your Romanian literature classes; comment on
the meta-semiotic level of a text; what do we mean by the functional structure of a text; comment
on the fiction of a text; (use examples from your Romanian literature classes).
TEORIA ŞI PRACTICA TRADUCERII
1. Definition of Translation. Types of Translation. Define the term translation. A diachronic
overview of translation. Describe the process of translation. Identify the types of translation.
Determine and evaluate the theories of translation.
2. The Unit of Translation. The Levels of Translation. Define the unit of translation. Identify
the levels of translation. Illustrate the translation at morphemic, word and word combination
levels. Determine the factors of identifying the translation units.
3. Techniques of Translation. Classification of Direct and Indirect Translation Procedures.
Define the term technique of translation. Identify the direct translation techniques. Characterize
the transposition, modulation and explicitation. Evaluate the adaptation as a translation
procedure.
4. Context in Translation. Handling Context- bound Words and Context-free Words in
Translation. Identify the role of context in translation. Distinguish between context-bound
words and context-free words. Evaluate the difficulties in rendering context bound words.
5. The Notion of Realia. Classification of Realia Words. Techniques Used in Rendering
Realia into Romanian. Define the notion of realia words. Determine the types of realia words.
Identify and apply in translation the techniques of rendering realia. Suggest the adequate
techniques for rendering realia words.
6. Grammar Difficulties in Translation. Singularia and pluralia tantum nouns. Conditional and
temporal clauses. Subjunctive mood. Sequence of tenses. Word order.
GRAMATICA CONTRASTIVĂ
1. Method and methodology of contrastive study and research of the foreign language
grammar. The metalanguage of comparative grammar. The importance of the comparative
method of learning a foreign language. Comparison on the emic and etic levels.
2. Approaches to the comparative research of grammatical categories. The diachronic and
synchronic approaches. The categorical approach. Give examples.
3. The categorical (emic) and practical (etic) levels of contrastive research. Why should we
constantly check the emic level by practical research and analysis on the etic level? Speak on the
phenomenon of Hypergrammaticality or Hypercorrectness.
4. The importance of combining the diachronic and synchronic study of grammatical
categories. Analyze the terms „diachronic” and „synchronic”. The importance of the
diachronic and synchronic research of the categories of anteriority and aspect in English and
Romanian.
5. Grammatical, lexical, lexical grammatical and conceptual categories and categorial
forms. What are the main grammatical categories in English and Romanian? Analyze the
categorial forms of the category of mood in English and Romanian. Give examples of different
interpretations in various grammar books.
6. Polysemy, synonymy, homonymy, redundancy and transposition of verbal forms. Give
examples of homonymy of grammatical forms in constructions with ‚should’. What do we mean
by redundancy of grammatical forms in case of the category of anteriority? Speak on the stylistic
transposition of grammatical forms. Give examples of synonymous usage of some grammatical
forms in English and Romanian.