Răzvan Săftoiu
List of John Benjamins publications in which Răzvan Săftoiu is involved.
Journal
ISSN 2210-4119 | E‑ISSN 2210‑4127
Book series
Dialogic Dimensions of the Digital
Edited by Răzvan Săftoiu
Special issue of Language and Dialogue 16:1 (2026) v, 177 pp.
(Inter)Cultural Dialogues
Edited by Răzvan Săftoiu
Special issue of Language and Dialogue 13:3 (2023) v, 174 pp.
Integrating dialogue
Edited by Răzvan Săftoiu and Adrian Pablé
Special issue of Language and Dialogue 8:1 (2018) v, 179 pp.
Constructing and Negotiating Identity in Dialogue
Edited by Răzvan Săftoiu
Special issue of Language and Dialogue 5:1 (2015) v, 193 pp.
Persuasive Games in Political and Professional Dialogue
Edited by Răzvan Săftoiu, Maria-Ionela Neagu and Stanca Măda
Persuasive Games in Political and Professional Dialogue is about the rediscovery of humans as proficient users of language in the sense that – while involved in a dialogue – they listen, observe, discuss, reason, evaluate and conclude; in other words, speakers are no longer interested in defeating… read more[Dialogue Studies, 26] 2015. xiv, 275 pp.
Professional Communication across Languages and Cultures
Edited by Stanca Măda and Răzvan Săftoiu
Professional Communication across Languages and Cultures aims at developing an integrative linguistic perspective on talk at work. Professional communication allows multi- and interdisciplinary explorations on how workplace relationships and mechanisms are influenced by the use of certain… read more[Dialogue Studies, 17] 2012. vi, 284 pp.
2026 Dialogue in digital spaces Dialogic Dimensions of the Digital, Săftoiu, Răzvan (ed.), pp. 1–7 | Introduction
2026 Beyond the recipe: An exploration of user engagement in an online culinary community Dialogic Dimensions of the Digital, Săftoiu, Răzvan (ed.), pp. 100–121 | Article
This study investigates user participation in an online cooking community based on 265 comments about a recipe by Jamila, a popular food blogger, chosen for her significant influence in the Romanian culinary blogosphere. 73.6% (n = 195) are positive, whereas 26.4% (n = 70) are negative. While… read more
2023 Exploring dialogue and culture (Inter)Cultural Dialogues, Săftoiu, Răzvan (ed.), pp. 301–308 | Review article
2023 Review of Ephratt (2022): Silence as Language. Verbal Silence as a Means of Expression Language and Dialogue 13:1, pp. 139–145 | Review
2023 Ethnic humour in cartoons: A dialogic perspective (Inter)Cultural Dialogues, Săftoiu, Răzvan (ed.), pp. 407–426 | Article
Cartoons are designed as a response to a social event and aim to create a humorous effect in the audience through their multimodal discourse. The interpretation requires contextual and cultural information which has to be shared by the cartoonist and the audience. Our research focuses on the… read more
2019 The Dialogic Turn in Language Study: A review of The Routledge Handbook of Language and Dialogue (edited by Edda Weigand 2017) and From Pragmatics to Dialogue (edited by Edda Weigand and Istvan Kecskes 2018) Language and Dialogue 9:3, pp. 471–483 | Review article
Over the past hundred years, linguistic schools have put forward and adopted either divergent or convergent positions regarding what language consists of. In this paper, I shall examine the dialogic turn in language study (i.e. language use is dialogic use, any action is dialogically directed… read more
2018 Adriana Bolívar. 2018. Political Discourse as Dialogue. A Latin American Perspective Language and Dialogue 8:3, pp. 483–489 | Review
2018 The persuasive use of pronouns in action games of election campaigns Integrating dialogue, Săftoiu, Răzvan and Adrian Pablé (eds.), pp. 21–42 | Article
Action games of election campaigns are one of the best venues for politicians to team up with specialists in communication studies in order to build, review, construct or deconstruct their own or their opponent’s image with the purpose of persuading the electorate to vote for a certain political… read more
2015 Split voices in political discourse Language and Dialogue 5:3, pp. 430–448 | Article
In this paper, I consider dialogue in Parliament as central, because it is the dialogic instances that bring to the fore the multivocality of political discourse, and I will show there are “other voices [speaking] through the speaking voice” (Ionescu-Ruxăndoiu 2012, 152). I also start from the… read more
2015 Preface Constructing and Negotiating Identity in Dialogue, Săftoiu, Răzvan (ed.), pp. 1–5 | Article
2015 Introduction: Persuasive action games or the power of words in dialogic interaction Persuasive Games in Political and Professional Dialogue, Săftoiu, Răzvan, Maria-Ionela Neagu and Stanca Măda (eds.), pp. vii–xiv | Article
2014 “Now there is a real effort to make sure people are adhering to orders they are supposed to be adhering to.”: Attitude construction through war journalism Language and Dialogue 4:2, pp. 194–212 | Article
It is widely regarded that war journalism is centred on the dichotomy good/evil, with “good” being (almost always) on the author’s side, who promotes a type of discourse that readers should adhere to. In this paper, we put forward an examination of events in various conflict areas (Afghanistan,… read more
2014 Review of Cap (2013): Proximization. The Pragmatics of Symbolic Distance Crossing Language and Dialogue 4:3, pp. 497–499 | Review
2013 Review of Kissine (2013): From Utterances to Speech Acts Language and Dialogue 3:3, pp. 495–503 | Review
2013 The discursive practice of addressing in the Romanian Parliament The Pragmatics of Political Discourse: Explorations across cultures, Fetzer, Anita (ed.), pp. 47–65 | Article
In the parliamentary environment, the discursive practice of addressing is subject to socio-cultural constraints. On the one hand, one may identify the social significance of the institution where MPs work; on the other hand, the MPs of a country share a set of cultural expectations, which are… read more
2012 Introduction: Understanding the dynamics of dialogue at work Professional Communication across Languages and Cultures, Măda, Stanca and Răzvan Săftoiu (eds.), pp. 1–18 | Article
2012 Review of Dumitrescu (2011): Aspects of Spanish Pragmatics Language and Dialogue 2:2, pp. 306–312 | Review
2012 An exercise in the theory of conversational resources Language and Dialogue 2:2, pp. 244–261 | Article
In this paper, I will discuss and analyse two main resources for interaction in the context of bed and breakfast interactions: spatial and weather. Starting from the premise that guests in a bed and breakfast are from another geographical area, common background is first established by means of a… read more
2012 Small talk – a work of frame Professional Communication across Languages and Cultures, Măda, Stanca and Răzvan Săftoiu (eds.), pp. 213–236 | Article
The academic interest for social relationships and the way they are organized in dialogues can be traced back to the beginning of the 20th century, once Malinowski (1923) first suggested that human share “phatic communion”. The British anthropologist focused his studies on local tribes from Oceania… read more