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CLACSO´s presentation in Session: Diffusion des connaissances, anglicisation et libre accès : perspectives internationales. Colloque 3: Entre anglicisation de la recherche et libre accès : imaginer l’avenir des revues en sciences humaines et sociales Présidée par Vincent Larivière (Université de Montréal) - ACFAS, Canada – 89° Congres, 9-13 Mai 2022

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The paper focuses on press translation and its importance in today's globalized world and comprises a case study: the analysis of the way in which a statement pertaining to France's president Emmanuel Macron has been translated into the anglophone and Romanian press. Press translation is marked by at least two paradoxes: it is different from what is called "professional translation" and it is not based on a single source text. We inquire whether press translation exists as such: would it be more accurate to speak about adaptation and localization of the informative content for the target audience? The case study is represented by the various translations of the verb "emmerder" uttered by Emmanuel Macron during an interview in January 2022, when he expressed his desire to make life difficult to unvaccinated people. For any foreign audience, this declaration of the French president may be characterized as "soft news". We provide the definition of the verb "emmerder" as mentioned by the French dictionary and investigate the way in which this verb has been translated in the anglophone and Romanian press: from milder choices to stronger or even shocking translations. The paper also examines the objectivity of the press discourse when characterizing Macron's statement and analyzes the titles of several articles published in the anglophone and Romanian press, scaling them based on their objectivity/subjectivity. The manner in which political statements are translated is of maximal importance, as it has a major impact on the target audience. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The present paper offers insight into the causes of archaization of old lexemes and aims to emphasize the relevance of quantitative factors. Whereas such lexical items may be hold for iconic - considering their occurrence in older texts or folkloric lyrics - most of them have either ceased to be codified in contemporary dictionaries of the German language, or they are unheard of in the spoken language. The process and causes of archaization are thus being analyzed on a representative selection of such words. "Tandaradei", "allhier" or "Feinstlieb" are such words that in spite of their iconic role in literary texts are no longer used by the linguistic community. The processes that shaped their archaization are manifold, raging from singular causes - such as the semantic hypertrophy of "allhier" - to causes that are complexly linked to each other. The analyzed words exhibit an interesting link between their archaization and certain measurable traits, thus shedding a new light on underlying linguistic principles. The findings of my research suggest that such principles may be regarded as laws of archaization and that quantitative linguistics should be better integrated in the analytical instrumentarium of archaisms. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The present article sets itself the task of showing word formation patterns of new words in written youth language with their specific functions and providing reasons for the new ways of formation. In contrast to our natural way of dealing with the spoken language, when it comes to written texts, we are often suddenly afraid of making spelling or grammatical mistakes, or of not linking sentences correctly, but communication via the Internet, which is becoming more and more important, gives us a way to bridge this fear. It turns out that the language of young people is characterized above all by changes and abbreviations. In this way, new word formations have emerged that are used in written communication and are marked stylistically rather than referentially. The most important task of youth language is to concisely name things. Although it may not seem transparent enough for everyone, it still leaves room for play and creativity in using the language. It's about a specific lexis, about a certain way of forming words. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Learning the Romanian language by foreigners seems to be a challenge for teachers and students from several points of view: the objectives pursued, the diversity of traditional and digital educational resources, the applied methods, the differences between the literary and the spoken language, the duration of the courses, age, context, socio-cultural particularities and interests of the participants. Our goal is to successively present these aspects, theoretically and practically. For this, we will refer to case studies and examples from personal experience of teaching-learning the basics of the Romanian language to foreign students who come to our institution, Military Technical Academy „Ferdinand I", as part of international mobility exchanges. If in theory, the chaining of the notions of phonetics, vocabulary, morphology and syntax is done cursively, in practice there are syncopes and overcoming them is the real stake of the time-limited educational process. We will thus highlight the strengths and weaknesses that we have identified over time in the interaction between Romanian teachers and foreign scholars, starting from our own experience. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The current paper aims at presenting the current state of affairs in the teaching and learning of Romanian as a foreign language (RFL) both in Romania and abroad. It starts from a brief literature review, referring to aspects such as the institutional contexts where RFL classes are organized, types of classes and learners. Next, the paper presents the teaching of RFL in practice, as evident from the discussions occasioned by the Round table entitled "Teaching Romanian as a foreign language in Romania and abroad - challenges, solutions, best practices", organized as part of the International Conference "Synergies in Communication", Bucharest, October 2022. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

For Epicurus the word is associated with the concept it expresses in an irrefutable, physiological way. His conviction concerning the existence of language presupposes two stages: the natural and original creation and its following elaboration. The factors that define the original creation of each language are based on the notion of place. As such, human nature physiologically created the language in relation to the passions and impressions that each place had to stimulate. The following human elaboration had the task of clarifying the most ambiguous concepts and the things that were invisible. From this axiomatic postulate, the paper proposes a presentation of the Epicurean theory on the creation of language, relying in particular on its conviction that the original nucleus in every language, which establishes the word-concept association, derives from place. Thus, the passions and impressions that each place imposes on language cannot be transferred through translation. This is mainly because they constitute an experience, which is the only basis that allows the irrefutable and physiological association between word and concept. The communion between two people who speak the same language occurs through the communion of an experience because this experience is common. In modern times and by following Epicurus, a question arises: can East and West speak the same "language"? Is it true that East and West do not have any experience in common? For Epicurus, knowledge is a common experience for all humans though language is not. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Without orthogonality and without visible axiality, in appearance the garden of Algiers of the Ottoman period does not follow any geometry, it presents itself on a sloping ground with grass, flowers and fruit trees following the logic of the cultivator who has respected the movement of the sun, the cultivation techniques and the irrigation system. It seems like a natural landscape whose vegetable, ornamental and medicinal plants, coexist by means of highly developed cultivation techniques. The absence of apparent geometry certainly gives a natural character to the garden and a great feeling of pleasure. However, it is on the basis of a circular and spiral geometry that a spatial hierarchy of the garden is ordered to give a spiritual and mystical meaning to the garden. Thus, it is from the forest towards the orchard, then towards the courtyard and finally towards the patio that the passage from nature to culture is felt. This garden, described as picturesque by historians, travelers and painters of the modern era, tells of the love of man for his creator, a relationship that the poets and painters of medieval and modern Islamic times have admirably represented. This paper contains a cross-reading of the medieval Islamic painting and of the architecture of the Ottoman Garden of Algiers, which represent depictions of the love of man towards his creator through the geometry of the spiral, a geometry that is both cultural and natural. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this article, we are going to approach the presence and the role of the media in the crises between the states, its well-calculated instrumentalization having geostrategic and political stakes of size, because the media machine supports and determines the way of managing the conflicts by the antagonists. It is worth noting that the presence of the media in interstate conflicts is not a new phenomenon. Yet, it has now eminently become a key player in the political scene where it possesses an influential power that is reflected in its ability to manipulate the public, shape its worldview and behavior, and determine its thinking. This situation increases the power of the media machine in the political field in which actors serve their own interests. The impact of the media could indeed influence and reorient a political process and even lead political forces to review their strategies, their means of action and their perceptions of reality; as for public opinion, which is always taken into account in the production of any media support, the influence of the media on its imagination has always been attested. To illustrate this important aspect of international relations, we will look at a case of conflict between Morocco and Algeria. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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We present the results of a research project on arithmetic-algebraic thinking that was carried out jointly by a team in Mexico and another in Quebec. The project deals with the concepts of variable and covariation between variables in the sixth grade at the elementary level and the first, second, and third years of secondary school--namely, children from 11 to 14 years old. We target secondary students (first year or K7) in this article. Our objective relates to the development of a gradual generalization in arithmetic-algebraic thinking in a socio-cultural approach to the learning of mathematics. We experimented with investigative situations using a paper-and-pencil approach and technology. We analyze the emergence, in this context, of a visual abstraction, the production of institutional and non-institutional representations, a sensitivity to contradiction, and, finally, the concepts of variable and of covariation between variables. [For the complete proceedings, see ED629884.]