Position

Lecturer in English at the Faculty of Foreign Languages and Literatures, University of Bucharest, Romania

Director of the MA Programme in Applied Linguistics and ELT Methodology, University of Bucharest.

Employment

1994 – up to the present : Assistant Lecturer, subsequently promoted to Lecturer in English at the Faculty of Foreign Languages and Literatures, University of Bucharest, Romania
1980 – 1994 : teacher of English and translator-interpreter at the Oil and Gas Research and Design Institute – Bucharest
1979 – 1980: teacher of French and English in Minastirea, Judet Ilfov.

Education

BA : University of Bucharest – Faculty of Foreign Languages and Literatures, Major specialisation: English; minor specialisation: French

Title of BA dissertation: Around the notion of textual macrostructure, written under the supervision of Professor Alexandra Cornilescu

Post-graduate courses:

1) "Theories of Gender and Culture" within the HESP Programme of the Central-European University - Budapest, July 1996
2) "ELT Methodology" organised by the British Council (Dr. Trevor James) - July - August 1996.
3) The courses of the LANCDOC programme for Romanian Academics organised by the University of Lancaster, UK, sponsored by the British Council. Successfully upgraded from MPhil to PhD in July 1999.

Title of doctoral dissertation: READING TEXTS FROM BRITISH MAGAZINES: ROMANIAN FEMALE STUDENTS’ SOCIAL SCHEMATA AND PERCEPTIONS OF MASCULINITY

Supervisors: dr. Jane Sunderland and dr. Elena Semino, University of Lancaster.

Thesis submitted in July 2002 and defended in August 2002 before the examination board consisting of Dr. Sara Mills, University of Sheffield Hallam and Dr. Caroline Clapham, University of Lancaster. The title of ‘Doctor of Philosophy in Linguistics’ was awarded in 2004.

Interests

Cognitive Linguistics
Pragmatics
Media Studies
Gender Studies and Feminist Philosophy
Social Psychology
Youth Cultures

Scholarships

Participation scholarship in the Regional Seminar on Gender and Culture organised by the Central European University – Budapest (1997-1998)

PhD tuition scholarship in the LANCDOC Programme for Romanian Academics organised by the University of Lancaster, UK

Publications

1) The Metaphor of the Female Self - paper presented at the RSEAS Conference Constanta (May 28 – June 1 1996) and published in the volume ‘British and American Studies’. The Third Bieial Conference of RSEAS. Ovidius University Press. Constanta 1999. ISBN 973-9289-55-X.
2) Representations of Self and Otherness – paper presented at the Conference " The Discourse of the Ethnic Self", Bucharest (June 1996) and published in "Cahiers de linguistique theorique et appliquee" - 1992, vol. XXXIX, pp. 49 - 61
3) "Voice and gaze as agencies in Pink Floyd’s - paper presented at the Aual Conference of the English Department, Bucharest, June 2- 4 1997 (in press)
4) Metaphors of the Divided Self” - Analele Universitatii Bucuresti - Seria Limbi Straine 1997 ISSN 1220-0263
4) Psychological barriers in Romania - PROSPER Newsletter no. 8 ,1997
5) Trainee Trainers Dealing with Disruptive Behaviour in Buletin Stiintific, Limbi Moderne, Seria A volumul XII/1998, Universitatea de Nord – Baia Mare, ISSN 1224-3205
6) The Metaphor of the Female Self” - paper presented at the RSEAS Constanta (May 29 - June 1 1996), published in the Collection ‘British and American Studies’ – The Third Bieial Conference of the RSEAS, Ovidius University Press, Constanta 1999.
7) Reading Teenage Magazines: Cultural Input and Schema Activation in BRITISH AND AMERICAN STUDIES, HESTIA 2/1999, Timisoara.
8) Pregnant self and lost identity in Ana Blandiana’s : a parody of the patriarchal pronatality discourse in communist Romania in Analele Universitatii Bucuresti XLVIII, 1999, ISSN 1220-0263
9) Grim reaper or courteous coachman? Cognitive schemata and poem comprehension: teaching Emily Dickinson’s in the Romanian context in Sunderland, Jane (ed.) (2000) LANCDOC WORKING PAPERS. EUROBIT Timisoara, ISBN 973-9441-89-0
10) Schema Activation and Background Knowledge: the ‘Crazy Diamond’ Experiment in BUCHAREST WORKING PAPERS IN LINGUISTICS Vol. I Nr.2, 1999.ISSN 1454-9328
11) Translating corporeality : recent discourses on the sociology of the body, paper presented at the Aual Conference of the English Department, in BUCHAREST WORKING PAPERS volume II (Discourse Analysis – Cognitive Semantics – Translation Studies), Number 2, 2000
12) Hegemonic and Alternative Masculinities in British Magazines for Young Women: Linguistic Strategies and Socio-cognitive Criteria Employed by Romanian Readers in BUCHAREST WORKING PAPERS, volume III (Discourse Analysis – Translation Studies), No 2, 2001.
13) Pregnant Self and Lost Identity in Ana Blandiana’s : An Ironical Echo of the Patriarchal Pro-Natality Discourse in Communist Romania in Litosseliti, L. & Sunderland, J.(eds): GENDER IDENTITY AND DISCOURSE ANALYSIS, John Benjamins, Amsterdam/Philadelphia, 2002.
14) British Women’s Magazines as Multi-modal Texts and Loci of Contradictory Messages Analele Universitatii Bucuresti - Seria Limbi Straine 2002 ISSN 1220-0263
15) ‘Girls just waa get fun’: secrecy as pretense in young women’s magazines’ in BUCHAREST WORKING PAPERS vol. VI, Nr.2-2004, pp. 106-114
16) When Moods and Seasons Blend; Mind Style in Sylvia Plath’s Spinster in BUCHAREST WORKING PAPERS vol. VII, No 2/2005, ISSN 1454-9328, pp. 27-36
17) Face Threats and Impoliteness Strategies in “The Devil Wears Prada” in BUCHAREST WORKING PAPERS vol.VIII, No.2/2006, ISSN 1454-9328, pp.28-36
18) Irony and hyperbole: implications and applications in Alboiu,G., Isac, D., Avram L., Avram A. (eds): Pitar Mos: A Building with a View. Papers in Honour of Alexandra Cornilescu, Universitatii din Bucuresti (2007), ISBN 978-973-737-312-0, pp. 587-605.
19) Reconceptualising corporeality: anti-essentialist definitions of gender, body and social performance in the volume Trasee conceptuale’ edited By Professor Mihaela Irimia, within the ODISEI project, forthcoming
20) FaceThreatening Acts and Deviation from Social Norms in ‘Married ... with Children’in Analele Universitatii Bucuresti 2007, forthcoming

Samples of Prof. Sorea's work:

Supervision

Supervised BA dissertations: over 25
Supervised MA dissertations: over 15

in areas of research such as: cognitive mappings in adverts, language and characterisation, irony, cognitive approaches to humour, blending in political cartoons, cognitive and pragmatic views on internet jokes, comparative approaches to the study of idioms, youth communities of practice, speech acts and metaphors of love in pop lyrics, compliments and apologies in women’s magazines, deixis and literary comprehension, stereotypes and text processing, translation studies.

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