Enseignement de la langue et de la littérature françaises médiévales en Ontario (Canada anglophone) : de l’utilité d’une troisième langue… morte by Corinne Denoyelle, Mario Longtin

“…In that context, Old French language and literature are often seen as strange topics to focus on, especially since the textbooks are rarely adapted to their level of French, not to mention their knowledge of the specific history of the French medieval period. …”
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Une collecte de complaintes criminelles en Occitanie by Xavier Vidal

“…This religion irrigates the history of the Occitan region. In comparison to the moralist spirit of the French, the Occitan language of everyday life appears to be more suitable to describe moments of transgression and drunkenness for example during carnivals and charivaris.…”
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Les systèmes graphiques de l’occitan by Hervé Lieutard

“…At all times in this history, the graphic choices made collectively or individually reflect the greater or lesser prestige that the Occitan language occupies in French society or the representations associated with it.…”
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Historiciser les langues en classe de français langue étrangère à travers des démarches de croisement de récits by Hara Papasαϊκα

“…The didactic approaches designed and presented in this article place the historicity of language comprehension and production at the heart of teaching/learning French as a Foreign Language. …”
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La poésie lyrique, un outil d’unification linguistique et politique by Anne-Marie Le Baillif

“… Lyric poetry as a tool to unify language and politics points of view. We propose to examine how lyric poetry was used as a politic tool by French kings of the Renaissance period (1515–1589). …”
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How to be Modern: The Darantière Press and Anglo-American Writers in France by Fiona McMahon

“…The bibliography appended to the investigation of Darantière's publishing history (1900-1928) reveals a remarkable number of volumes of English-language poetry, essays and fiction during this period. …”
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La directionnalité et la nature non-téléologique de l’évolution linguistique by Brian Lowrey

“…This paper deals with the nature of linguistic change, and, taking examples from the history of English, seeks to show that, contrary to what appears to be a widely held assumption, there is no reason to suppose that because one language undergoes a certain type of change, a similar change will necessarily take place in other, related languages. …”
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Histoire, architecture et mémoire au seuil de la prison : dispositifs scénographiques et enjeux patrimoniaux au castelet à Toulouse au XXIe siècle by Elsa Besson

“…Particularly noteworthy is the entrance building, known as Le Castelet, built of brick in a neo-Medieval architectural style, using a language rarely used on this scale for French prisons. …”
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Chevaux travaillés et chevaux qui travaillent : réflexions sur la notion de travail dans l’univers équestre by Léa de Boisseuil

“…Looking back over the history of the word ‘work’ in the French language, this paper proposes an enlarged appreciation of the working relationship between men and horses, relationships that cannot be reduced only to productive and working activities. …”
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Adaptation of Bakhtin's carnival characteristics in Persian "parody" based on the principles of contemporary criticism by Ahmad Goli, Yadollah Nasrollahi, Fereshteh Ahikhteh

“…The interpretation and deconstruction of polyphonic conversational logic within the infrastructure of creative misreading and the humor in carnival discourse and parody can be conducted in terms of employing Russian Formalist notion of familiarization,  the disconnection and isolation of text from normal structure in French deconstruction and the psychological evolution of humor to creativity.The result of this descriptive study, an analysis based on library and internet sources, indicates that Persian parodies share intertextual features and borrow from polyphonic language of Carnival. …”
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The Phenomenon of Emmanuel Macron. Book review of ‘Qu’est-ce que le macronisme?’ edited by E. Fottorino by P. G. Loginova

“…Macron, provides interesting biographical details and can be recommended for IR scholars, political scientists, journalists, and linguists since it is written in an impressive and elegant French language. The book under review can also prove useful in studying the role of an individual in history.…”
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The Leopard: from unpublished romance to bestseller by Zohreh Montaseri

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Por uma geohistória cartográfica: epistemologia das relações entre espaço, tempo e mapa, e seu contexto a partir do Renascimento by Bruno Zambianchi Rey

“…The reflections’ purpose is to explore the theoretical and philosophical relations between geography and history (space and time) in their paths as modern sciences, mainly through an analysis of french geographical traditions, amongst which are the spatial notions of vidalian and braudelian thought, and the critical responses to them. …”
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Kleist vs. Musschenbroek – a difficult way to truth by Jerzy Sawicki

“…It turns out that the French untrue version of the history of this finding is still alive, especially in European countries, so that pupils, students and physics enthusiasts receive a false message about this important discovery. …”
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Le mouvement étudiant et la question des langues en Algérie (1962-1965) : à propos d’un épisode méconnu de l’histoire de l’UGEMA-UNEA by Yassine Temlali

“…Centred on a promotion/modernisation of Arabic that did not sacrifice the French-speaking community, the positions of the PCA in this area corresponded to official language policy. …”
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Traduire dans un système autoritaire en temps de crise : les représentations des événements polonais de 1980–1981 dans la presse officielle polonaise à destination des lecteurs occ... by Regina Solová

“…The study was based on the presupposition that the description of reality is filtered through the idiosyncrasies of the authors of the original texts and their translations, as well as through the constraints of the source system at a particular moment in its history. The nature of the shifts in representations of reality was tested on the example of sixteen issues of the magazine Polska and their English (Poland) and French (La Pologne) translations, reporting on the Polish events of 1980–1981. …”
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L’itinéraire d’Adelbert von Chamisso : de l’hybride à l’universel by Vera Gandelman-Terekhov

“…These poems show Chamisso’s ability to evoke the history of foreign countries and to transpose poems from other languages into German. …”
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Development of Stylistics and Rhetoric in Lithuania by Irena Smetonienė, Marius Smetona

“…In Lithuania, works on stylistics in the national language appeared later, only at the end of the 1910s. …”
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« Paroles de flics ». Communications policières et actualité politique au Maroc (2005-2023) by Mériam Cheikh

“…In the first section, we provide a brief history of the development of police imagery in Morocco, from independence in 1956 to the end of the 1990s, the time of the political transition that was supposed to mark the beginning of what some analysts have hastily termed “the democratic transition”, In the second part, we look at how the police represent themselves by opting for a form of writing that is more journalistic than communication-based, giving the impression that they are trying to tell the truth about themselves by using the language of the regime’s “new era”: namely that of human and social development. …”
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ALTRE PAROLE DEL «DISSESTO FINANZIARIO»: BANCAROTTA, DECOZIONE, INSOLVENZA by Francesca Fusco

“…Other words for “financial distress”: bancarotta, decozione, insolvenza The semantic constellation around the economic concept of bankruptcy is extremely vast, and numerous are the terms that have historically been used in the language of law to indicate its various aspects. This contribution traces the history of the term bancarotta, a compound that has come down to us from French and that, from being synonymous with fallimento, over the centuries has specialised in indicating «lo stato di un negoziante che cessa i suoi pagamenti, non costrettovi da immeritate sventure, ma per sua colpa o delitto» (Gerolamo Boccardo, Dizionario universale di Economia politica e del Commercio, 2a ed., 1875). …”
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