Petre Ramneantu 2, Room , Timisoara, Romania Email: pcts upt. Republicii nr. Sabin IONEL Redactor: Claudia MIHALI Printing date: Politehnica is the first university in the country which designed, built and ran a computer for research and solving real tasks from local and national economy, MECIPT.
Among other uses, MECIPT was tested in for computer-aided translations from English into Romanian. The topic of the 9th edition of Professional Communication and Translation Studies conference organized by the Department of Communication and Foreign Languages in March , Language and communication in the digital age is, therefore, following an established and prestigious tradition. This volume of proceedings continues what has already become a standard for the publications of the Department of Communication and Foreign Languages at Politehnica: linguistic diversity of the contributions, four major areas of interest professional communication, linguistics and communication, translation studies, foreign language pedagogy , and submission for indexation in major and relevant international databases.
The majority of the papers are published in English, but the volume also contains two papers written in French and two in German. The sections of the volume are balanced: the ten articles in the first section focus on Professional Communication, while the other twelve articles focus on linguistics and communication four , translation studies six , and foreign language pedagogy two.
As far as indexation is concerned, the first volume of PCTS 9, published in has already been indexed by CEEOL, Index Copernicus, EBSCO and is also available via Google Scholar and WorldCat. The quality of the conference and of the contributions, the peer-review procedure, and the international scientific board are some of the reasons for which we believe that this volume will follow an ascending trend, as well, and that it will contribute to the dissemination of knowledge and advancement of new theories and research findings in humanities and social sciences.
The Professional communication section contains articles dedicated mainly to media in the digital age: media and its responsibilities, media literacy, online media β specifically web-TV as a new occurrence. A second group of articles tackles theoretical. A third group deals with the influence of new channels of communication upon communicational practices, be it the case of Facebook, so lovingly embraced by the student population, the intranet as a powerful managerial tool or the attitudes of students towards online commercial messages.
