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Usually omnipresent from trivial discussions to solemn harangues, phraseological units reflect the idiomatic and figurative facet of our language. Likewise, being part of the lexical repertoire, and of the cultural system in a broader sense, these lapidary constructions, a composed and more or less stabilized part of the lexicon, are, through their cohesion and their intergenerational transfer, explicit representatives of the “language and culture” binary. Part of the framework of Cognitive Semantics via the conceptual metaphor model developed by Lakoff & Johnson (1980), this work goes beyond the classic vision which did not envisage a link between the primary senses and idiomatic of the PU. Furthermore, our reflection aims to question the said conception in favor of multiple iconic (metaphorical and metonymic) and cultural motivations, ensuring a continuum from which the trajectory of meaning of the phraseological units is traced, from compositionality to idiomaticity.

The Expression of the Body in Une difficile fin de moi by Ahmed Zitouni ABSTRACT: The body writing is at the same time the essence and the matter, the substance and the form, the subject and the object, the heart and the reason of Zitouni’s emblematic novel: Une difficile fin de moi. The narrator unfolds his body through the speech of his memory, and the writing itself becomes living and mortified flesh by the very peculiar enunciative situation of a crumbling and disappearing man through his narrative, thus he sacrifices himself in order for his story to survive and his past to finally have a value. RÉSUMÉ : L’écriture du corps est à la fois l’essence et la matière, le fond et la forme, le sujet et l’objet, le cœur et la raison du roman emblématique de Zitouni : Une difficile fin de moi. Le narrateur déploie son corps à travers le discours de sa mémoire, et l’écriture elle-même devient vivante et meurtrie par la situation énonciative très particulière d’un homme qui s’effrite et disparaît au fil de la narration, et qui se sacrifie pour que son histoire survive et que son passé ait enfin de la valeur

Nowadays, making strategic decisions in a sensitive sector such as energy planning that usually requires allocating huge funds, time, and resources is a difficult task. For instance, prioritizing a set of Renewable Energy Sources (RES) is a complex multi-dimensional task that typically involves a range of conflicting criteria featuring different forms of evaluation data in an uncertain decision-making environment. This process is aligned with several sources that can be uncertain, including imprecise information, limited domain knowledge from decisionmakers, and failures to provide accurate judgments from experts. In this study, we propose to use the Evidential Reasoning (ER) approach to manage the expanding complexities and uncertainties in RES prioritization problem. The ER approach is employed as a multiple criteria framework to assess the appropriateness regarding the use of different renewable energy technologies. A case study is provided to illustrate the implementation process. Results show that using the ER approach when assessing the sustainability of different RES under uncertainty allows providing robust decisions, which brings out a more accurate, effective, and better-informed decision-making tool to conduct the evaluation process.