Search results for "Modernes"
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Magnifying the ordinary: genre mixture and humour in the TV series 'Chuck'
2012
Chuck is an American television series about a "normal" guy who works at the Buy More. His life changes dramatically when he becomes the most important person for the USA intelligence. This gives rise to a conflict between civilian and spy life. The analysis involves a multimodal account (cf. Lorenzo-Dus 2009) of the aesthetics (Cardwell 2005) of the second season that illustrates how the series establishes a parallelism between Chuck's life as a spy and that of his colleagues at the Buy More. By combining elements from different genres (Altman 1988) it portrays a rather "different from what may be the expected-representation" (Kress and van Leeuwen 2001:10) of the routine at the workplace …
Digital storytelling for ESP in Higher Education.
2013
This paper explores a project related to digital storytelling carried out at the Universitat Politècnica de València, in Spain, with the students of an English for Specific Purposes course devoted to the development of oral and written English skills. Several activities were designed for the project: surveys, a WebQuest, an online discussion forum, a log, oral presentations and peer assessment activities. The overall results were very positive for both teachers and students.
Lexical classes and constructions: an analysis of the constructional realization of entity-specific change-of-state English verbs
2013
This study analyzes a so far neglected part of the constructional behavior of Levin's (1993) entity-specific change-of-state verbs. More specifically, we discuss the integration of verbs from this lexical class into the intransitive-resultative construction. We base our analysis on the Lexical Constructional Model or LCM (Ruiz de Mendoza and Mairal 2008, 2011; Mairal and Ruiz de Mendoza 2009; Ruiz de Mendoza 2013). It will be shown that the internal and external constraints postulated by the LCM constitute useful explanatory and analytical tools for the fusion processes between these verbs and the intransitive-resultative construction. We also propose a classification of these verbs on the …
Melun, Rue de la Courtille et Place Notre-Dame (Île-de-France, Seine-et-Marne) : rapport de diagnostic archéologique
2023
Developing a web-based system to create, deliver and assess language proficiency within the PAULEX Universitas Project
2011
This study aims to examine the feasibility of a number of technical solutions implemented in a web-based system designed for the creation and management of online language exams within PAULEX Universitas, a project for the development of an online platform to design, deliver and assess the foreign language exam within the Spanish national University Entrance Examination. The paper provides an overview of the context and a discussion of current changes in Spanish ministerial policies, followed by a description of the PAULEX testing platform and a discussion on the technological solutions adopted. Lastly, the paper reflects upon a quantitative analysis derived from a pilot experience conducte…
Premesse del relativismo al tempo della “Querelle”: le "belles" e "fidèles" di Mme Dacier
2001
«Jusqu’à nos désirs, jusqu’aux formes de notre plaisir»: feminism’s development in Les Temps modernes
2017
Les Temps Modernes has been a basic ground for the growth both of the second-wave feminism and of the third-wave one, and has skaken old roles also by questioning traditional longings, as some writings we can (re)read here show: several remarks by Simone de Beauvoir, an article by Colette Audry, an issue of the column Le Sexisme ordinaire.
'Apparently, women don't know how to operate doors': a corpus-based analysis of women stereotypes in the tv series 3rd Rock from the Sun
2017
This paper explores how women stereotypes are discursively evaluated in the TV sitcom 3 rd Rock from the Sun by paying attention to the societal, cultural and ideological values they convey. Following recent trends for the study of television series (Bednarek, 2010), the analysis is both qualitative and quantitative, adopting a Corpus- Assisted Discourse Analysis approach (Baker, 2006; Partington, 2004). The contextualised analysis of words that refer to women confirms that the sitcom writers of 3 rd Rock from the Sun purposefully resort to stereotyping as a verbal strategy to create humour while conveying negative attitudes towards women.
Sémiotique et anthropologie des modernes. Une histoire de comptes à rendre
2017
Dans son projet d’anthropologie, Bruno Latour insiste à plusieurs reprises sur le décalage entre les pratiques des Modernes et le compte rendu officiel qu’ils en donnent. Cela devrait permettre de donner un tout autre sens à notre présent, et de devenir ce que nous avons toujours été, sans le savoir. Nous n’avons jamais été modernes. Et je crois que, pour permettre à la sémiotique de faire face à son évolution, c’est sans doute une telle attitude qu’on pourrait adopter, en passant du compte rendu « majeur » à un point de vue adéquat. Nous partirons donc de l’histoire « majeure » des Modernes et nous verrons que cette histoire est étroitement liée à la constitution même de la sémiotique, qui…
Carbon storage in soils by ancient and modern wheat varieties
2022
Les émissions anthropiques de gaz à effet de serre sont le principal moteur du changement climatique. Le plan Climat, issu de la COP 21 tenue à Paris en 2015, vise à atteindre la neutralité carbone à l'horizon 2050. Pour atteindre cette neutralité carbone, les gaz à effet de serre doivent d'abord être stabilisés, puis fortement réduits au cours du siècle prochain. Dans cette dynamique, l'initiative « 4 pour 1000 » fixe comme objectif d'atteindre un taux de croissance annuel du stock de carbone dans les sols de 0,4% par an. Ce stockage additionnel devrait compenser les émissions de CO2 dans l'atmosphère liée aux activités humaines. Les sols agricoles sont identifiés comme un compartiment de …