Centre for European and International Studies Research (CEISR)

Daniel_Ivanus

Mr Daniel Ivanus

PhD Student

School of Languages and Area Studies

Park Building
King Henry I Street
Portsmouth
PO1 2DZ

daniel.ivanus@port.ac.uk

Profile

My PhD research investigates the Construction of European Identity, focusing on the discursive legitimisation and representation in European Commission texts.  I believe that it is particularly important to understand how identity is constructed and represented in organisational texts and how the tension that exists between the formation of Europeanization versus nationalism and regionalism is reflected in the European Union public discourse.

The PhD research intends to adopt an interdisciplinary approach to researching European identity construction, combining theories from various areas of social sciences and humanities, as well as constructing a methodological approach that links sociolinguistics, discourse analysis and corpus analysis. The manifold relationships between language and identity, as well as between multilingual repertoires and plural identities, are all part of my PhD proposal.

Qualifications

  • BA Philology, University of Craiova, Romania
  • MA Applied Linguistics, University of Reading, U.K.

Discipline Areas

  • Discourse Analysis
  • European Language Policies

Journal Articles

  • Caracterul normativ al politicilor lingvistice europene actuale. Suprastatalitate si regim lingvistic in Europa. Volum Omagiu Aniversar Marius Sala, Seria Stiinte Filologice, Lingvistica, Craiova: Universitaria, 2007.
  • Political Jokes or how to survive a dictatorial regime, Annals of Univ. din Craiova, Series: Linguistics. Craiova: Universitaria, 2006.
  • Challenges in assessing intercultural competences in language education, Annals of the University of Craiova, Series: Philology, VI/2 Universitaria, 2005.
  • Mihai Eminescu – Mai am un singur dor, Syntactic and stylistic considerations. Analele Univ. din Craiova, Seria Stiinte Filologice, Lingvistica, Editura Universitaria, 2003.
  • Complementul circumstantial de cauza. Analele Univ. din Craiova, Seria Stiinte Filologice, Lingvistica, Editura Universitaria, 2002. 

Book Chapters

  • Developing and assessing intercultural communicative competence - A guide for language teachers and teacher educators (Book + CD-Rom), Council of Europe Publishing: Strasbourg. 2008. (co-author).
  • English for Economics, vol. I, II. Craiova: Sitech, 2000 (co-author).

Other Publications

  • Dissemination guide for participants, European Centre for Modern Languages, Graz, 2004

Grants and Scholarships

  • 2006 Ratiu Foundation Research Grant, London, U.K.
  • 2007 National Centre for Scholarships Abroad, Bucharest, Romania – study visit, Lancaster University, UK

Conference presentations

  • Old and new in post-communist Romanian language policy, 2007, Critical Discourse Analysis Conference, Aston University, Birmingham, U.K.
  • Intercultural competences – the challenges of assessment, 2005, British and American Studies XV, Timisoara, Romania.
  • The assessment of cultural competences, 2004, 4th International Conference in Language, Literature and Cultural Policies, Craiova, Romania.
  • Negatia in sintaxa, 2004, Limba, Cultura si Civilizatie, ed. a III-a, Craiova, Romania
  • English – the global language of communication, 2001, 3rd International Conference in Language, Literature and Cultural Policies, Craiova, Romania.