
On 24 October 2024, we were invited to take part in the Alternative Education Week at Onisifor Ghibu Theoretical High School in Sibiu. The Alternative Education Week is a yearly nationwide initiative designed to help students develop their creativity and their socio-emotional abilities. The workshops were conducted with two groups of 9th-graders. By solving media…

The research carried out within CORECON is based on a large database that consists of hundreds of news articles and social media entries in Romanian, Polish and English. These constitute a corpus (plural: corpora): a large set of linguistic data (e.g., collected from news outlets and social media) that can be processed with the use…

This blogpost promotes two recent book reviews that were commissioned from CORECON members Katarzyna Molek-Kozakowska and Ecaterina Ilis by the academic journal “Power of Judgement” (Władza Sądzenia). This open-access indexed academic journal published by University of Lodz, Poland, self-describes as a venue answering to the need for regular and effective exchange of reflections in the…

On 27 September 2024, Lucian Blaga University of Sibiu hosted the annual event “Noaptea Cercetătorilor” (Researchers’ Night) as part of the European Researchers’ Night, a pan-European event meant, among other things, to bring research and researchers closer to the public and to show how research affects our daily lives. We explored the social responsibility future…

The identification and analysis of collocations – statistically significant bonds and frequent pairings of words in a corpus or sample – can be used to obtain insight into conceptual relationships and terminological associations. Some of the salient collocations can be quite novel or ideologically charged, which can allow us to notice patterns that would be…

On 18-20 September 2024 University of Opole hosted the 29th Conference of the International Association of Intercultural Communication Studies. The conference gathered over a hundred onsite and online participants from across the globe. It was designed to provide a venue for discussing interdisciplinary research related to the conference theme: “Intercultural Encounters: Global perspectives – local…