The purpose of this article is the medical speech about what is known as ‘sexual abnormalities’. Under to dissociate the disease from the defect, in around 1900, doctors, while adopting an objectivist position, referring to homosexuals as a pure subject of study, feel the need to ‘give the patient t...

The historical challenge of this article is to measure the non-verbal dimension of the construction of bourgeoise identity through the example of the Le Couteulx family over a period from the 19th century to the beginning of the 19th century. The conversion of the material universe into identifiable...

This text is an introduction to a future book, dedicated to a renewed study of the Brazilian discourse. It takes stock of the Bazinian exegesis, identifies its limits and proposes some methodological avenues to answer an unprecedented question: how did Bazin become Bazin? Not: how did the famous Fre...

British discussions of French technical culture have often assumed, if not explicitly stated, contrasting ‘national styles’ : centralized, state-oriented, theoretically driven, and institutionally supported work in France ; dispersed, individualistic, empirically driven, school-shy practice in Brita...

The reference to pain, lack of counterpart to social aid and abuse of solidarity systems is repeated in the political, economic and social discourse of recent decades. We will draw on the 4th edition of the European Social Survey (2008) and the Perception des Inegalities et sentiments de justice (20...

There are no truths, only interpretations. Nietzsche From the triumph of the Cuban Revolution, a dialectically articulated national identity between hegemonic discourse and the cultural discourse of the Revolution began to be built. The new revolutionary national identity was shaped while addressing...

Patrick Charaudeau defines himself as a semiologist and a researcher in Discourse Analysis. It is as such that he intervenes here. As a matter of fact he defines, on a tone which is not polemical, what conditions are necessary for the interdisciplinarity to come true. Two linguists – Dominique Maing...

The environment and sustainable development have received unprecedented political and social attention during the five years Sarkozy: proactive statements, ambitious reforms, etc. However, the overall interpretation of reforms and policies should not be limited to an analysis of the proactive politi...

While heritage ownership has long been among scientific, erudite and largely institutional actors, new communication technologies allow for the expression and dissemination of a more diverse heritage discourse. On the basis of a case study, Aquitaine and its processing on the web, we therefore propo...

The construction of narratives takes place within specific contexts, including temporal, cultural, geographical, historical, ideological, and physical. The contextual creation of slave narratives and the processes of their construction and reconstruction resulted in a negotiation of power over the a...

International audience Sociotechnical approach followed in this paper evaluates the real marketing opportunities of Twitter. It starts from a discourse analysis "SoLoMo" (for Social, Local and Mobile), integrating social logic involved, analyzing the incentives of the device as well as the limitatio...

Outi Ylitapio-Mäntylä and Mari Mäkiranta discuss how to make sensitive interventions across cultural divides with a focus on the San people of Africa. In line with feminist practices, they outline how a caring ethos can protect the individual from some of the challenges customary within a neoliberal...

Photo by Tom Perkins, CC-BY 4.0 Who Writes About Whom? Contributors to this book, who come from countries across Europe and sometimes further afield, share a common interest in narrative research about people’s lives, thoughts and actions. Contributors have a common interest, too, in the education o...

Laura Mazzoli Smith considers widening participation in higher education in the light of Williams’ notion of resources of hope. Taking an autoethnographic approach, Laura demonstrates how her reading of Iris Murdoch as a young person facilitated her own entry into higher education. Through understan...

of Platon’s private poetic competition in Timeland-Critias in the margins of Panathenia, Timée has every chance of winning. Although formally inspired by traditional hymnic and genealogical poetry, its performance implements an entirely new concept of discursive mímesis, i.e. ‘updating’ in and throu...

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The article raises the issue of the role of titles in abstract art and the question of their status as verbal artefacts of their own reference, intertextual and literal meaning. By focusing on the series of images of the American artist Frank Stella, the author follows the changes in their reception...

Using a case study (Zhangjiajie), this article discusses the status accorded to outdoor theatrical shows in the remarkable mountainous landscapes of China. This type of performance has become very widespread in the country since 2004. In the form of a sound-and-light musical drama, it adopts a mythi...

This article proposes a possible way forward for a critical analysis of the dangers of education sloganisation policies. In order to achieve this objective, the article puts such policies into the context of the strategy devised by the radical neo-centrist hegemonic movement, which has engaged in su...

The objective of the thesis is to propose a data-processing model to represent, build and exploit textualstructures. The suggested model relies on a «type/token» form of text representation extended bysystems of lexical and contextual annotations. This model's establishment was carried out in the SA...

network computing is based in particular on the founding speech developed by J.C.R. Licklider in the 60s. Its texts are not strictly speaking technical (they contain very little jargon). What is their status, how can they be qualified? It could be thought that they are part of an imaginary (Flichy)...

This PhD thesis deals with gender and education, more specifically investigating schools and schoolteachers. This research examines primary schoolteachers’ representations of their female and male pupils. Data have been drawn from the teachers’ portraits of their pupils. With reference to two theore...

From possible insights into global dynamics and their contradictions, the studies promoted by the Nuestroamerican Association of Interdisciplinary Studies of Legal Critics have at their core the analysis of the state and law; they form part of critical studies of the critical right in the sense of c...