DISCURSUL EUROPEAN: SINTAGME SI PARADIGME

The paper is an attempt to interpret some of the most frequently usedparadigms and syntagms belonging to the European discourse since Romania joined theEuropean Union against the background of cultural postmodernism. The process ofcommunication, that is of encoding and decoding messages, circumscribes, on the one hand,a type of two-way journey (from European authoritative institutions to a local individualand from the latter back to European heights) and, on the other hand, the awareness of adouble citizenship mentality (both Romanian and European).