Oliviu Felecan
Biographic Data
| ID | 4048091 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Oliviu Felecan |
| GIVEN NAMES | Oliviu |
| FAMILY NAME | Felecan |
| SIGNATURE | FELECAN O |
| AFFILIATIONS | Technical University of Cluj-Napoca |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0078-4437 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 11 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Czechs and Slovaks in Romania. Socio-onomastic aspects
During the interwar period, the Czech and Slovak minorities in Romania exceeded 50,000 people. However, over time, their numbers have steadily decreased, and according to the latest census (2021), there are fewer than 12,000 individuals, most of them living in the western part of the country. The origins of these communities date back to the period of the Habsburg Empire (1823–1862), when through the migratio colonorum policy, the population from…
Different languages, different landscapes? Exploring linguistic differences in landscape conceptualizations
The goal of the research was to assess whether landscape conceptualization systematically differed across European languages in the context of the linguistic relativity debate. We examined the generalizability of previous findings and evaluated the limits of used methodologies, drawing on a large and diverse sample of 14 languages across 5 linguistic families in Eastern Europe (Slavic, Baltic, Uralic, Romance, Hellenic). Participants were asked t…
Romanian-Ukrainian Anthroponymic Contact on the Interstate Border along the Tisza River
The area between Romania and Ukraine has been the site of frequent language contact for many centuries. This contact has impacted the onomastic store of both nations. This study analyzes anthroponyms (family and first names) in the border area between Ukraine and Romania, along the Tisza River. This study investigates the frequency and etymological origin of family names in the Ukrainian/Romanian communities on both sides of the Tisza. It explore…
Romanian first names in America
This article deals with a topic which has not been researched extensively. It refers to first names of children born over the last decades in North America and aims to show how Romanian immigrants chose for their children various types of first names: traditional, international, adapted to the language used across the Atlantic, or specific to the adoptive country. A simple, four-question survey was drawn up and applied to 56 Romanians who have se…
Names and Naming
Feminine names in current Romanian hodonymy
This study aims to map the gender politics of contemporary Romanian street naming. Hodonyms mirror mentalities and the ideas prevailing in a society. Urban microtoponimy is an androcentric one, as public life has belonged, throughout history, almost exclusively to men. Women emerged from the private and domestic spheres only in the nineteenth century, and this justifies, in a way, the much smaller number of street names that are claimed by female…
The Romanian Orthodox Church and higher education
This study is likely to cause certain controversies, as it deals with problems of the way in which academic rights and freedom of expression are interpreted in the twenty-first century in a state of the European Union in which the Romanian Orthodox Church is trying to impose certain restrictions based on abuse of authority and dominant power. The continuous intrusion of the Romanian Orthodox Church in universities may be construed as a constant a…
Biserica Ortodoxă Română și învățămîntul universitar
Prezentul studiu este susceptibil de a stîrni anumite controverse, deoarece tratează probleme ale felului în care sînt înțelese libertăți academice, libertăți de exprimare într-o țară a Uniunii Europene, în secolul XXI, în care Biserica Ortodoxă Română (BOR) încearcă să impună anumite restricții, bazate pe abuzul de autoritate, de putere dominantă. Ingerința BOR în mediul universitar, într-o formă continuată, poate fi interpretată ca un atac susț…
Oikonymic Transformations in Romania in the Second Half of the Twentieth Century
The end of World War II caused numerous changes in the urban toponymy of Central and Eastern Europe. For instance, Brașov, one of the most important Romanian cities, bore the name Orașul Stalin (“Stalin city”) for 10 years. It was an homage paid to the Soviet leader, whose name could be identified in another 13 oikonyms in the Eastern bloc, behind the Iron Curtain: Stalingrad — Volgograd (USSR), Stalin — Varna (Bulgaria), Stalinstadt — Eisenhütte…
Straturi etimologice reflectate în hidronimia româneasca
Lucrarea de fata isia propune sa ilustreze pe baza materialului hidronimic contactele lingvistice pe care românii le-au avut cu diversele populatii, începând din cele mai vechi timpuri si pâna în prezent. Înfatisarea si elementele constitutive ale hidronimelor dovedesc existenta mai multor niveluri: autohton (traco-dac), mostenit din latina, slav, de alte origini, creatii interne. În comparatie cu situatia din celelalte limbi romanice – franceza,…
Unconventional Anthroponyms
Unconventional Anthroponyms: Formation Patterns and Discursive Function continues a series of collective volumes comprising studies on onomastics, edited by Oliviu Felecan with Cambridge Scholars Publishing. Previous titles in this series include Name and Naming: Synchronic and Diachronic Perspectives (2012) and Onomastics in Contemporary Public Space (2013, co-edited with Alina Bughesiu). In contemporary naming practice, one can distinguish two …
Onomastics in Contemporary Public Space
Onomastics in Contemporary Public Space aims at analysing names and name-giving from an intercultural perspective, within the context of contemporary public space. As was the case of Name and Naming: Synchronic and Diachronic Perspectives (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2012), the geographical areas investigated in the studies included in this volume are very diverse, referring not only to European cultural space, but also to American, Asian, Afr…
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Onomastics in Contemporary Public Space
Onomastics in Contemporary Public Space aims at analysing names and name-giving from an intercultural perspective, within the context of contemporary public space. As was the case of Name and Naming: Synchronic and Diachronic Perspectives (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2012), the geographical areas investigated in the studies included in this volume are very diverse, referring not only to European cultural space, but also to American, Asian, Afr…
Unconventional Anthroponyms
Unconventional Anthroponyms: Formation Patterns and Discursive Function continues a series of collective volumes comprising studies on onomastics, edited by Oliviu Felecan with Cambridge Scholars Publishing. Previous titles in this series include Name and Naming: Synchronic and Diachronic Perspectives (2012) and Onomastics in Contemporary Public Space (2013, co-edited with Alina Bughesiu). In contemporary naming practice, one can distinguish two …
Straturi etimologice reflectate în hidronimia româneasca
Lucrarea de fata isia propune sa ilustreze pe baza materialului hidronimic contactele lingvistice pe care românii le-au avut cu diversele populatii, începând din cele mai vechi timpuri si pâna în prezent. Înfatisarea si elementele constitutive ale hidronimelor dovedesc existenta mai multor niveluri: autohton (traco-dac), mostenit din latina, slav, de alte origini, creatii interne. În comparatie cu situatia din celelalte limbi romanice – franceza,…
Oikonymic Transformations in Romania in the Second Half of the Twentieth Century
The end of World War II caused numerous changes in the urban toponymy of Central and Eastern Europe. For instance, Brașov, one of the most important Romanian cities, bore the name Orașul Stalin (“Stalin city”) for 10 years. It was an homage paid to the Soviet leader, whose name could be identified in another 13 oikonyms in the Eastern bloc, behind the Iron Curtain: Stalingrad — Volgograd (USSR), Stalin — Varna (Bulgaria), Stalinstadt — Eisenhütte…
The Romanian Orthodox Church and higher education
This study is likely to cause certain controversies, as it deals with problems of the way in which academic rights and freedom of expression are interpreted in the twenty-first century in a state of the European Union in which the Romanian Orthodox Church is trying to impose certain restrictions based on abuse of authority and dominant power. The continuous intrusion of the Romanian Orthodox Church in universities may be construed as a constant a…
Biserica Ortodoxă Română și învățămîntul universitar
Prezentul studiu este susceptibil de a stîrni anumite controverse, deoarece tratează probleme ale felului în care sînt înțelese libertăți academice, libertăți de exprimare într-o țară a Uniunii Europene, în secolul XXI, în care Biserica Ortodoxă Română (BOR) încearcă să impună anumite restricții, bazate pe abuzul de autoritate, de putere dominantă. Ingerința BOR în mediul universitar, într-o formă continuată, poate fi interpretată ca un atac susț…
Names and Naming
Feminine names in current Romanian hodonymy
This study aims to map the gender politics of contemporary Romanian street naming. Hodonyms mirror mentalities and the ideas prevailing in a society. Urban microtoponimy is an androcentric one, as public life has belonged, throughout history, almost exclusively to men. Women emerged from the private and domestic spheres only in the nineteenth century, and this justifies, in a way, the much smaller number of street names that are claimed by female…
Romanian-Ukrainian Anthroponymic Contact on the Interstate Border along the Tisza River
The area between Romania and Ukraine has been the site of frequent language contact for many centuries. This contact has impacted the onomastic store of both nations. This study analyzes anthroponyms (family and first names) in the border area between Ukraine and Romania, along the Tisza River. This study investigates the frequency and etymological origin of family names in the Ukrainian/Romanian communities on both sides of the Tisza. It explore…
Romanian first names in America
This article deals with a topic which has not been researched extensively. It refers to first names of children born over the last decades in North America and aims to show how Romanian immigrants chose for their children various types of first names: traditional, international, adapted to the language used across the Atlantic, or specific to the adoptive country. A simple, four-question survey was drawn up and applied to 56 Romanians who have se…
Czechs and Slovaks in Romania. Socio-onomastic aspects
During the interwar period, the Czech and Slovak minorities in Romania exceeded 50,000 people. However, over time, their numbers have steadily decreased, and according to the latest census (2021), there are fewer than 12,000 individuals, most of them living in the western part of the country. The origins of these communities date back to the period of the Habsburg Empire (1823–1862), when through the migratio colonorum policy, the population from…
Different languages, different landscapes? Exploring linguistic differences in landscape conceptualizations
The goal of the research was to assess whether landscape conceptualization systematically differed across European languages in the context of the linguistic relativity debate. We examined the generalizability of previous findings and evaluated the limits of used methodologies, drawing on a large and diverse sample of 14 languages across 5 linguistic families in Eastern Europe (Slavic, Baltic, Uralic, Romance, Hellenic). Participants were asked t…
Political science (9 works) · Law (7 works) · Names, Identity, and Discrimination Research (7 works) · History (6 works) · Linguistics (6 works) · Romanian (6 works) · Linguistics, Language Diversity, and Identity (5 works) · Philosophy (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Archaeology (3 works)