This volume presents a collection of papers from the 1st edition of the International
Conference for Young Philological Researchers on New Methodological Directions
and Perspectives in Literary and Linguistic Studies, held at “Lucian Blaga” University
of Sibiu, Romania, in May 2020.



In thirteen selected papers, authors have tackled Otherness in terms of Representations
of the Other; Grammars of Otherness; Otherness in Literature; Discourses on
Self/Other; Voices, Arts and Metaphors of Self and Other; Sameness and Otherness;
Otherness in Education; (In)(di)visibility and Translatability of Otherness, etc. The
volume spans a variety of fields, from linguistics, cultural theory, and philosophy to
literature, psychology, and art, and each is concerned with not only otherness but
also with representation.