Dr. Petronela Savin is a Lecturer at the Faculty of Letters, Vasile Alecsandri University of Bacau, Romania. Research areas: phraseology (stylistic and rhetorical issues in phraseology, cultural semiotic aspects of set phrases, phraseology of literary texts and individual authors, contrastive phraseology), lexicography, onomasiology, linguistic anthropology and terminology. Member of scientific and professional societies: Europhras – Europäische Gesellschaft für Phraseologie, International Association of Paremiology (AIP-IAP), International Association for Semiotic Studies (IASS-AIS), Romanian Society of Philological Sciences.