Wilde’s French Salomé by Emily Eells

“…He uses the French language as if it were a system of signs divorced from their semantic meaning, creating as pure a musical notation as verbal language can allow. …”
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Le Paris d’Hemingway : une question de style by Clara Mallier

“…The author’s idiosyncratic syntax tends to blur the semantic frontiers between juxtaposed words, and his use of repetition enhances the musicality of sentences, which constitutes the city as an object of experience rather than of mere significance. …”
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What is TEI Conformance, and Why Should You Care? by Lou Burnard

“…After discussing the range of information such documentation entails, I explore the notion of conformance proposed by the TEI Guidelines, suggesting that this must operate at both a technical syntactic level, and a less easily verifiable semantic level. One of the more noticeable features of the Guidelines is their desire to have (as the French say) both the butter and the money for the butter; I will suggest that this polymorphous multiplicity is an essential component of the system, and has been a key factor in determining the TEI’s continued relevance.…”
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L'emploi hypothétique de AND dans Everyman et en moyen-anglais by Fabienne Toupin

“…The driving force behind the process would have been a metonymical semantic shift from the temporal senses of the conjunction in the late twelfth or in the early thirteenth century. …”
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Burger Time ou les Tentations de saint Antoine, or Not Wanting to Say Anything About Mauro Lanza, Gustave Flaubert and Peter Pepper by Andrea Valle

“…Finally, the third layer proposed an integrated semiotic interpretation by taking into account the previous layers and a textual document, in order to highlight the most relevant semantic “isotopies”.…”
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De ĐURFAN à NEED : histoire d’une disparition by Céline Roméro

“…Our hypothesis is that ĐURFAN / ĐURFEN indeed disappeared but that the verb NEED (which replaced them) has the same syntactic and semantic characteristics as ĐURFAN, as well as the lexical characteristics it already possessed in Old and Middle English.…”
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Comment attirer le gibier ? Pratique du jeûne et récitation de chants magiques dans les activités cynégétiques wampis (jivaro) by Paul Codjia

“…To be effective, the manipulative intent must remain hidden from the game, which is why anen are subvocalized. By a pragmatic and semantic analysis of these magical songs, this article aims to reveal the ritual and linguistic devices which allow the hunter to establish the desired relationship with the prey.…”
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An Evaluation of English-to-Yoruba Translations of some Concepts by Selected Radio News Bulletins by Samson Adeyeye Dare, Francis Yede

“…The renderings of the concepts in Yorùbá are compared with their original versions in English, revealing translation weaknesses such as semantic narrowing, expansion, wordiness, and sometimes even unwitting distortions. …”
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Sentiment Analysis of International and Foreign Chinese-Language Texts with Multilevel Features by Minxia Zhu

“…This paper selects three features: dictionary-based sentiment value feature, expression feature, and improved semantic feature. A text sentiment classification model is formed by fusing multiple features. …”
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Folk Religion in Discourse and Practice by James Alexander Kapaló

“…Firstly, I explore the discursive nature of the construction of ‘folk religion’ as a category of analysis and how its semantic loading functions to ‘pick up’ distinctive practices from the religious field. …”
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La violence par partenaire intime : enjeux traductologiques et politiques des catégorisations de la violence by Samantha Saïdi

“…Questioning gender prejudices conveyed in French translations or re-uses of categorizations produced by two American feminist sociologists, Johnson (2006) and Renzetti (1992), the article proposes a linguistic and semantic explanation. This study confirms that their translations or reuses carry traces of gender prejudices that we can often attribute to those who translate if not to the authors. …”
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Connective-Lex: A Web-Based Multilingual Lexical Resource for Connectives by Manfred Stede, Tatjana Scheffler, Amália Mendes

“…We discuss the definition and demarcation of the class of connectives that should be included in such a resource, and present the syntactic, semantic/pragmatic, and lexicographic information we collected. …”
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The Role of the English It-Cleft and the French C’est-Cleft in Research Discourse by Charlotte Bourgoin

“…The study also shows that clefts can help authors increase semantic continuity, reinforce the structure of articles and increase discursive coherence. …”
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Where have all the bishops gone? by J. E. Wehrmeyer

“…Therefore the translation equivalent also needs to be a term with equivalent semantic content. …”
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Genre Realized in Theme: The Case of News Reports and Commentaries by Julia Lavid, Jorge Arús, Lara Moratón

“…The analysis focused on the following thematic features: (1) the experiential elements selected as Thematic Heads; (2) the semantic nature of the nominal elements realizing these Heads and their internal structure; (3) the textual and interpersonal thematic choices as part of a multiple theme. …”
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La grammaire en première personne (I) by Pierre Cotte

“…This paper considers extending the distinction to the semantic study of grammar and is the first of a series on the subject of grammar in a first-person perspective. …”
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Aristotle and the Problem of Universal Accessibility in Leisure by Lianchong Deng

“…There are broadly two approaches to fix this problem: (a) distinguishing leisure of two sorts, and (b) expanding the semantic scope of contemplation. Nevertheless, they both come with certain limitations. …”
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Translating Merwin: Navigating Nature, Place, and the Apo Koinou by Helmbrecht Breinig

“…The paper emphasizes the need for retaining the semantic and philosophical openness of Merwin’s poetry but also the importance of following the various thematic focuses and formal features of his later works, notably in The Shadow of Sirius. …”
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Procédures référentielles indexicales, relations rhétoriques et structuration du discours by Francis Cornish

“…It even serves to implement the rhetorical relation connecting two units satisfying the semantic and pragmatic conditions which justify the application to them of the relation at issue.…”
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Reconstructing rhetorical strategies from the text of Galatians - syntax-based discourse analysis as a monitoring device by G. J. Swart

“…Using Galatians as sample text, the author compares three different approaches: analysis presupposing a rhetorical scheme (as proposed by Hans Dieter Betz), the reconstruction of a rhetorical strategy from the text itself (as advocated by Francois  Tolmie), and the so-called semantic (though ultimately syntactic) discourse analysis of Galatians published by a group of South African New Testament scholars. …”
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