Lavinia Suciu
Lavinia Suciu is a reader in the Department of Communication and Foreign Languages at Politehnica University Timişoara, Romania. She teaches the following courses: Introduction to the Theories of Communication, Oral and Written Communication, Contemporary Romanian Language, Text Analysis and Production, Pragmatics and Discourse Analysis. She holds a bachelor’s and doctoral degree from the West University of Timişoara. Her Ph.D. thesis is entitled \The Institutional Discourse: Structure and Specific Functions”. It analyzes institutional communication on the basis of an original and interdisciplinary analytical model which has elements of discourse analysis, pragmatic linguistics, sociology, and psychology. Her constant interest in the interdisciplinary research of communication and in the analysis of the organization’s communication is reflected in the published and communicated scientific research papers, in the teaching materials and in the books.