http://www.researchonline.mq.edu.au/vital/access/services/Feed ${session.getAttribute("locale")} 5 http://www.researchonline.mq.edu.au/vital/access/manager/Repository/mq:20356 "A postgraduate thesis (MA (Hons)) submitted to the Department of European Languages, Macquarie University, Sydney". 2013-05-17T00:13:07.938Z ]]> http://www.researchonline.mq.edu.au/vital/access/manager/Repository/mq:22222 Wilderness in many parts of the globe is under considerable threat from human development. This has important ramifications not only for fauna and flora but also for human well-being. Wilderness in the Bible addresses this ecological crisis from a biblical and theological perspective. It first establishes the context of a biblical study of wilderness and then passes to an analysis of the attitudes toward wilderness in the canonical biblical record. This provides the biblical basis for the development of a theology of wilderness for the twenty-first century. The Australian wilderness is taken as a case study. 2012-10-23T00:32:00.112Z ]]> http://www.researchonline.mq.edu.au/vital/access/manager/Repository/mq:20583 22 page(s) 2012-07-26T17:41:32.938Z ]]> http://www.researchonline.mq.edu.au/vital/access/manager/Repository/mq:7733 1 page(s) 2012-04-18T01:50:08.660Z ]]> http://www.researchonline.mq.edu.au/vital/access/manager/Repository/mq:7734 10 page(s) 2012-04-18T01:50:07.380Z ]]> http://www.researchonline.mq.edu.au/vital/access/manager/Repository/mq:8562 12 page(s) 2012-04-18T01:50:05.859Z ]]> http://www.researchonline.mq.edu.au/vital/access/manager/Repository/mq:5291 In this article I give a brief synopsis of Croatian prose literature of the second half of the twentieth century, and the diachronic development of the novel, short story and fable in particular. Attention is given to contemporary Croatian short prose. Though recognising their importance as constant and dynamic influences, I refrain from making specific, detailed references to Croatian history and issues of a linguistic nature. For an overview of nineteenth and twentieth century Croatian history, see Mislav Ježic's article which appeared in the 1997 edition of the Croatian Studies Review. Relevant details about Croatian linguistic policy can be found in articles written by Josip Matešic and Luka Budak, both of which appeared in the same edition of the Croatian Studies Review. Other authors that offer an insight into Croatia's linguistic and historical reality, and the way they condition contemporary literature, include Banac (1990), Moguš (1995), Kačić (1997) and Perić (1998). More complete studies can be found in the literary journal Most (The Bridge), Vaupotić (1968) and Donat (1970 and 1996). Bogert (1991) offers a good survey of the literature of Krleža's time, while Eekman (1978) writes on South Slavonic literatures in general. Though a systematic history of Croatian literature has yet to be written in English or translated into English, sources from non-Croatian authors can be found in Škvorc (1997 and 1998). 2012-04-18T01:45:19.543Z ]]> http://www.researchonline.mq.edu.au/vital/access/manager/Repository/mq:5170 Vinko Brešić defined the essential difference between émigré and exile literature in his article Hrvatska emigratska književnost (1945-1990) (Croatian Émigré Literature [1945-1990]). This paper, which is based on the hypotheses of Brešić and Grubišić (1991), as well as some of my articles written in 195 and 1998, attempts to work out the literary models of unstable groups of émigré literature, affirming the difference between the émigré (migrant), the ethnic (minority) and, finally, the third group of what I call the 'voluntary' exile model. In this sense, this paper deals with the types of 'dislocatedness' in the corpus of émigré literature, and the models of their incorporation/exclusion in the matrix of Croatian literature and the adopted literary framework (in this case, Australian literature). Here I use two recently published novels as examples that illustrate some of the border phenomena in the context of the above model The first is the fictitious autobiographical novel Mojmir (1999), written by Ivana Bačić Serdarević, which partly fits into the émigré model. The second is Branka Čubrilo's 'unhistorically' motivated family chronicle, Male laži, velike laži (Small Lies, Big Lies, 2001), which belongs to 'voluntary' exile literature, and thus belongs more to Croatian literature proper than to émigré literature.. Both authors live in Sydney, but the model of their incorporation/exclusion into the two aforesaid bodies of literature are essentially different. On the basis of an analysis of these novels and their relation to the sources that condition them (the displaced environment), towards the end of this paper I try to determine their relation to the aforesaid bodies of literature which the novels, in a certain sense, are supposed to distinguish from one another. 2012-04-18T01:43:47.774Z ]]> http://www.researchonline.mq.edu.au/vital/access/manager/Repository/mq:7732 The centre for Croatian Studies Abroad was established as a joint project of the Croatian Language Department at the University of Split's Faculty of Philosophy, the Croatian Studies Centre at the Macquarie University in Sydney and the Croatian Studies Centre at Waterloo University in Waterloo, Canada. Other partners involved in the project of this Centre's establishment were also the Rector's Office of the University of Split, the Office for International Cooperation at the Croatian Ministry of Science, Education and Sports, the Croatian Science Foundation of Australia and New Zealand and the Croatian Studies Foundation in Toronto. The Centre officially started its work in April of 2007. The goal of the Centre is to provide support for the studies of Croatian language, culture and literature in non-European countries. This support is realized by short and long term visits of professors from the University of Split's Faculty of philosophy to Australia or Canada so they could provide assistance in the preparation and realization of teaching and the preparation of course materials and content for teaching language, culture and literature which will be used in non-European universities and high schools. Besides the logistical support team the Centre also provides classes for the study abroad programmes of Canadian and Australian (and soon U.S.) universities in the form of semester-long programmes and summer schools which are organized in Split. So far over 120 students from cca. fifteen countries (such as Australia, Argentina, Latvia, Ukraine and Bulgaria), with the aid of scholarships provided by the Croatian Ministry of Science, Education and Sport and the Croatian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and European Integration, participated in this programme and took courses in Croatian language, literature and culture at the Faculty of Philosophy in Split. The Centre's next goal is to set up a virtual program of undergraduate and graduate courses for the purposes of Croatian Studies abroad, Studies connected to the Centre as well as Studies interested in enriching their own teaching and research facilities with high quality academic content. 2012-04-18T01:40:05.716Z ]]> http://www.researchonline.mq.edu.au/vital/access/manager/Repository/mq:8780 In this paper the author suggests that we can employ the Hegelian theory of intersubjectivity, which is based on the idea of mutual recognition, to gain an insight into identity formation in general, and the formation of the Croatian identity in particular. Part of the presentation includes a summary account of how Hegel formulates this theory and the way it should influence the structure of the state community. Against this backdrop the author sets up a thought experiment to show how a non-Croat could potentially become a Croat, and thereby participate in the Croatian identity. 2012-04-18T01:40:05.700Z ]]> http://www.researchonline.mq.edu.au/vital/access/manager/Repository/mq:17754 Publication sponsored by the Ministry of Arts NSW, SLASA and the Club Uruguayo. The book collects representative memories of the Uruguayan community in Sydney. 2012-02-23T12:50:11.173Z ]]> http://www.researchonline.mq.edu.au/vital/access/manager/Repository/mq:13073 6 page(s) 2012-02-21T21:11:13.058Z ]]> http://www.researchonline.mq.edu.au/vital/access/manager/Repository/mq:17683 This article is about Greek-Australian women and their relationship as mothers and daughters; how these relationships developed? In what way they have been influenced by immigration? How does the concept of cultural memory is conveyed? The archetypal symbolism of maternal relationship reflected in the ancient Greek myth of Demetra and Persephone takes new dimensions through these fictionalized group of characters that represent the maternal relationships of Greek-Australian women. 2012-02-21T21:10:53.911Z ]]> http://www.researchonline.mq.edu.au/vital/access/manager/Repository/mq:17057 15 page(s) 2012-01-20T14:32:23.028Z ]]> http://www.researchonline.mq.edu.au/vital/access/manager/Repository/mq:16878 14 page(s) 2012-01-13T05:51:30.028Z ]]> http://www.researchonline.mq.edu.au/vital/access/manager/Repository/mq:4827 In his theatrical production “The Lost Breath” Barrie Kosky establishes a close connection to Franz Kafka’s ‘In the Penal Colony’. The main focus of this chapter is on the playful approach towards the staging of unstable meanings which the two texts have in common. The analysis applies Jacques Derrida’s concept of difference to the texts and focuses on the apparatus in order to reveal theatricality as the dynamic pattern that underlies their making and re-making of meaning. It is uncovered which elements of play and difference are inherent in Kafta’s text and how Kosky transfers them to the stage. Ultimately, the performance serves as an illustration of how Kafka’s ‘playing’ with meaning and the corresponding theatricality of making meaning can be successfully transported to the stage. 2012-01-11T21:25:11.567Z ]]> http://www.researchonline.mq.edu.au/vital/access/manager/Repository/mq:14526 Dos novelas uruguayas publicadas a partir del 2001 hablan de temas paralelos: Semidiós, de Amir Hamed, y Felicidades fugaces, de Teresa Porzecanski, autores de raíces sirias, aunque también judías la segunda. Este artículo explora el bagaje étnico de ambos escritores y las similitudes en el tratamiento de los conceptos de identidad, tiempo, espacio y escritura, trazando los vínculos de esos conceptos con sus propias raíces inmigrantes y con una similar búsqueda ontológica y divina. Nuestra idea es explorar en este artículo los vestigios de aquellos inmigrantes árabes y judíos que todavía se vislumbran en nuestra literatura presente. Estamos especialmente interesados en cómo esas generaciones ancestrales han inscripto el inconsciente colectivo de sus predecesores, porque es precisamente de ese legado inmigratorio desde dónde se edifica la identidad uruguaya. 2011-08-17T23:01:13.635Z ]]> http://www.researchonline.mq.edu.au/vital/access/manager/Repository/mq:14528 Pozornost ovoga rada usmjerena je na problem 'naracija nacije'. Ti su problemi promatrani i istraživani s dva gledišta: uzimajući u obzir društvo s dominantom 'većinom' u okviru kojih se stereotpi nacije, naracije i nacionalnih mitova (povijesti) oblikuju i 'prodaju', a uvažavajući 'razmještaj kulture' koje se s toćke gledišta manjine nalazi u okvirima dominantne kulture u određenom vremenu i prostoru. ENGLISH: Focus of this work is centered on the problems of 'narration of the nation'. These issues are considered and studied from two perspectives: in respect to dominant 'majority' community within which the stereotypes of nation, narration and national myths (histories) are formed and 'marketed', and with consideration of 'dislocation of culture' that is of minority point of view within the framework of dominant culture in a particular point of time and in given space. 2011-08-17T23:01:10.888Z ]]> http://www.researchonline.mq.edu.au/vital/access/manager/Repository/mq:14377 Successful integration of corpus linguistics tools and methods into language classroom practices largely depends on three key factors: user training, relevant corpora and suitable corpus analysis software. It is this last aspect that the present paper focuses on. The concordancer plays a vital role in the process of corpus analysis as the interface between the human user and the electronic corpus. However, the majority of current concordancers have been developed for professional users. This paper argues that the requirements of the classroom are quite different and need to be addressed in the software design. In response to this, the paper concludes with a detailed description of My Concordancer, which offers itself as a tailor-made approach to classroom concordancing. 2011-08-10T08:30:58.695Z ]]> http://www.researchonline.mq.edu.au/vital/access/manager/Repository/mq:14394 15 page(s) 2011-08-08T06:10:05.076Z ]]> http://www.researchonline.mq.edu.au/vital/access/manager/Repository/mq:12887 4 page(s) 2011-05-25T21:57:04.292Z ]]> http://www.researchonline.mq.edu.au/vital/access/manager/Repository/mq:1586 The main aim of the teaching project described here was to provide a student-centred approach to improving German language skills by using email as a means of communication with German native speakers. This aim was to be achieved by using an email tandem approach – described in this article - which is a form of autonomous learning where the focus is on learning through authentic communication with a native speaker. The email tandem project was bilateral in that Macquarie students of German corresponded with German university students of English. The German email partners wrote in English whereas the Macquarie students wrote in German. The students corrected and commented on their partner’s writing and a bulletin board, which was monitored by the project leader throughout the duration of the project, provided all participating students with a forum for discussion. 2011-01-07T00:40:04.549Z ]]> http://www.researchonline.mq.edu.au/vital/access/manager/Repository/mq:1398 15 page(s) 2011-01-07T00:37:22.413Z ]]> http://www.researchonline.mq.edu.au/vital/access/manager/Repository/mq:8865 21 page(s) 2010-07-06T07:40:08.717Z ]]> http://www.researchonline.mq.edu.au/vital/access/manager/Repository/mq:8813 11 page(s) 2010-06-30T10:00:28.483Z ]]> http://www.researchonline.mq.edu.au/vital/access/manager/Repository/mq:8755 17 page(s) 2010-06-25T16:20:47.562Z ]]> http://www.researchonline.mq.edu.au/vital/access/manager/Repository/mq:8632 5 page(s) 2010-06-17T09:00:33.949Z ]]> http://www.researchonline.mq.edu.au/vital/access/manager/Repository/mq:8621 This paper integrates different supervisory models with a view to proposing a framework that will foster a supportive intellectual environment for the supervisor-student relationship. To provide conceptual background to the discussion, the paper reviews some of the existing models for postgraduate research supervision found in the literature. The paper juxtaposes these models against the experience that we, the authors, have encountered in our supervision of student research, as well as from interviews that we conducted with other supervisors. We argue that although the existing literature sets out multiple models of research supervision, our experience has been that they have been rather prescriptive and apply to specific situations. Here we redefine our experiences through our perception of our disciplinary environment, our perception of the university environment, and our student’s perspective. Unfortunately, little attention is paid in the literature to the perspective of the student in the supervision process. We argue that to foster an effective environment in the supervision of student research, there is a need to be aware of the variation in our students’ understanding of the research situation, their educational and cultural backgrounds, their expectations of the outcomes of their study and many other factors. Our proposed framework acknowledges that postgraduate supervision is a symbiotic process where balance is integral to the development of the student as researcher. 2010-06-16T13:31:17.009Z ]]> http://www.researchonline.mq.edu.au/vital/access/manager/Repository/mq:8318 In this paper, which extends earlier analyses published in the second half of the nineties, we show, by means of an ethnophraseological study (Peeters, 2006a), that an indepth examination of the usage conditions of French Ça va ? as well as of the reactions it triggers enables us to postulate a French cultural value (i.e., the value of frankness), the reality of which will have to be further corroborated by means of an ethnoaxiological study. The approach is contrastive: an attempt is made to better understand the functioning of French Ça va? through a comparison with Australian English How ARE ya?. Amongst other things, the comparison reveals differences of frequency and shows that the way one reacts to utterances of this kind is not necessarily the same from one language to another. 2010-05-25T04:20:09.180Z ]]> http://www.researchonline.mq.edu.au/vital/access/manager/Repository/mq:8135 29 page(s) 2010-05-13T02:20:20.396Z ]]> http://www.researchonline.mq.edu.au/vital/access/manager/Repository/mq:5022 El título completo del libro es: "Perfumes letales y banquetes eróticos: los mundos de Teresa Porzecanski". Esta es la primera vez que se publica un libro sobre la reconocida escritora y antropóloga uruguaya Teresa Porzecanski. Incluye tres entrevistas inéditas con Estela Valverde. En este ensayo se afirma que Porzecanski realta cuentos para dialogar con eso mundos legendarios y oscuros que anidan en sus genes, mundos que ella percibe germinando en su imaginario. Este libro habla de su búsqueda por un espacio donde la mujer reivindique su genealogía, su experiencia, su conocimiento y su expresión. A través de sus trabajos, Porzecanski le devuelve a la mujer el papel de guardián de la tradición y la procreación, proponiéndola, a la vez, como custodia de la eternidad y como divina creadora, instaurándola definitivamente en el imaginario social y metafísico-religioso occidental, del que había sido desde siempre desplazada. Sus memorias ancestrales judías se conjugan con sus conocimientos antropológicos de otras etnias uruguayas. Y es que para Porzcecanski la "verdadera libertad...sigue estando en el discurso". Su controversial obra constituye una estimulante evocación de los poderes imaginativos de la mujer y la posiciona como una de las más polémicas narradoras latinoamericanas del presente y la más destacada escritora uruguaya viviente. 2010-05-11T06:36:51.778Z ]]> http://www.researchonline.mq.edu.au/vital/access/manager/Repository/mq:8037 The works of Georges Baudoux contain a curious mix of fact and stereotype. His short stories have been read as real historical and ethnographical accounts and his characters, real people according to O'Reilly, express themselves in a language peculiar to each ethnic group - the at times slangy French of the whites, "canaque" French, bichelamar etc. Not without talent, Baudoux succeeds in transcribing different accents, different ways of speaking, different languages and even manages to reproduce in some way the oral nature of Kanak languages. This work of "retranscription" thus gives a certain linguistic authenticity to the text. Nevertheless, as Hollyman points out, Baudoux's Kanak French is stereotypical. Baudoux reports what he hears in the New Caledonian bush but his observations sometimes seem deformed by his prejudices and his own representations. Is this the case for the other languages present in the work of Baudoux ? "Sauvages et Civilises", a short story in which we find all the stereotypes associated with Kanaks that have been around in the colony since the publication of the writings of Cook and d'Entrecasteaux, gives us the opportunity to analyse linguistically the speech of two "others": Socrates, the Reunion Creole living in a Kanak tribe and the Vietnamese cook working for the whites on board their yacht. While we notice a good number of authentic traits in these representations, we also see some stereotypes. What motivates Baudoux's representations? Where, indeed, can we situate the genesis of his representations? 2010-05-05T23:20:29.244Z ]]> http://www.researchonline.mq.edu.au/vital/access/manager/Repository/mq:3380 Following the rationale that corpora have an important part to play in fostering language awareness, this monograph investigates the use of spoken corpora in the teaching of German as a foreign language. Corpus-based research has had an increasing influence on language teaching pedagogy, with regard to linguistic content as well as to teaching methodology. While the majority of studies reporting on corpus-based teaching approaches refer to English, only a small number of studies have discussed such an approach for German. In this study, the exploitation of language corpora is proposed in order to arrive at authentic teaching materials which facilitate the comprehension of German modal particles, which pose numerous problems for learners of German as a foreign language. The approach is twofold: first, the frequency of those word forms which may function as modal particles is established. Secondly, concordance data of the more frequently occurring particles are analysed qualitatively. Teaching materials based on these analyses are developed referring to patterns of use which can be relayed to language learners in order to provide them with tools for the decoding of particle meaning. 2010-05-04T04:43:26.948Z ]]> http://www.researchonline.mq.edu.au/vital/access/manager/Repository/mq:7502 "Us and them" or "United we stand, divided we fall"?: the singular versus the universal in the history of language -- 2. Globalisation and its impact on attitudes to language in international business -- 3. Sex, lies and stereotypes: putting cultural tips for doing business in France to the test -- 4. Foreign language use in business: surveying the surveys -- 5. Survey methodology: if at first you do not succeed... think of Descartes and turn to PR -- 6. When a picture is not necessarily worth a thousand words: behaviour and attitudes of New Zealand companies in the French market -- 7. Views from the "other" side: French reactions to the linguistic and cultural efforts of their New Zealand partners in the French market -- Conclusion. 2010-05-03T03:27:02.653Z ]]> http://www.researchonline.mq.edu.au/vital/access/manager/Repository/mq:4342 2010-04-30T07:00:24.759Z ]]> http://www.researchonline.mq.edu.au/vital/access/manager/Repository/mq:6199 2010-04-28T04:10:07.597Z ]]> http://www.researchonline.mq.edu.au/vital/access/manager/Repository/mq:7807 10 page(s) 2010-04-19T06:20:21.813Z ]]> http://www.researchonline.mq.edu.au/vital/access/manager/Repository/mq:6874 One key theme in the area of computer-assisted language learning has been the potential of computer-mediated communication (CMC) for the language learning process. Here, CMC refers to communication conducted through the medium of computers connected to one another in local or global networks. It requires specific software tools and can be either synchronous (e.g., chat, audio- or video conferencing) or asynchronous (e.g., e-mail, threaded discussion lists). This chapter explores how CMC might contribute to language learning and teaching. Starting off with an overview of the development of research in this field, a model for the analysis of successful telecollaboration procedures and processes is used for the discussion of a German-Australian exchange. 2010-04-14T03:33:38.150Z ]]> http://www.researchonline.mq.edu.au/vital/access/manager/Repository/mq:7669 Chinese migrants appropriated their own spiritual and secular communal places after settlement in Australia, in Sydney. The development of communal built environemnt-physical sites-is of importance in provision of diverse communal services,stabilizing and refixing identity and the perception of Chineseness. Besides the creation of feeling of home for settlers, diverse linkages are generated out of these places. 2010-04-06T17:50:42.442Z ]]> http://www.researchonline.mq.edu.au/vital/access/manager/Repository/mq:7614 Guillermo del Toro's El laberinto del fauno/Pan's Labyrinth combines the imagery of fantasy cinema for children and the narrative structure of a fairy tale with the brutality and violence of the Spanish Civil War. This article explores the way El laberinto del fauno's setting and genre create surprising tensions between historical and fantastic narratives. Through a viewing of the film as an elaboration of different processes of power, the role of the child and the significance of the family structure are brought into conjunction with the history of violence. Strategies of exclusion as well as strategic transgressions, rules and rule-breaking, law and imagination all serve to create divergent paths through the labyrinth. 2010-03-30T08:41:12.216Z ]]> http://www.researchonline.mq.edu.au/vital/access/manager/Repository/mq:7503 This publication is in two languages - English and Russian. the co-author is Dr. G.N. Aver'janova 2010-03-22T02:50:05.660Z ]]> http://www.researchonline.mq.edu.au/vital/access/manager/Repository/mq:7318 2010-03-12T09:21:39.644Z ]]> http://www.researchonline.mq.edu.au/vital/access/manager/Repository/mq:7180 2010-03-02T04:20:12.459Z ]]> http://www.researchonline.mq.edu.au/vital/access/manager/Repository/mq:7173 2010-03-01T20:30:08.853Z ]]> http://www.researchonline.mq.edu.au/vital/access/manager/Repository/mq:1128 8 page(s) 2010-01-27T23:20:09.329Z ]]> http://www.researchonline.mq.edu.au/vital/access/manager/Repository/mq:1184 19 page(s) 2010-01-27T23:19:32.203Z ]]> http://www.researchonline.mq.edu.au/vital/access/manager/Repository/mq:1198 34 page(s) 2010-01-27T23:19:22.369Z ]]> http://www.researchonline.mq.edu.au/vital/access/manager/Repository/mq:1371 Lacan tells us that “we are our desires” and Cixous perceives this excess of intimate expression as a revolutionary act. This article uses these parameters to analyse the promotion of the Uruguayan writer Juana de Ibarbourou to the title of “Juana de América” and to assess how this disproportionate honour resonated in the construction of her identity and in the strategies Ibarbourou adopted to safeguard her ancestral desires. 2010-01-27T23:17:25.499Z ]]> http://www.researchonline.mq.edu.au/vital/access/manager/Repository/mq:1660 This study explores the journey motif in Italian cinema, with a particular emphasis on Salvatores' quintessential road movies Marrakech Express and Puerto Escondido and two recent lesser known variations of the genre, Davide Ferrario's Figli di Annibale and Marco Risi's Tre mogli. Attention is paid to Edward Said's trope of exile which he associates both with the negative connotations of loss and exclusion and with the positive connotations of exile as critical perspective. In considering the clash between forced mass exile and willed homelessness, the suggestion is made that road movies, by centring on the contemporary figure of the voluntary exile in a period when Italy is being invaded at its margins (and thus challenged at its very core) by displaced persons in search of political asylum and economic opportunity, implicitly draw attention to this binary of inclusion and exclusion. It is argued that the figure of the solitary exile or expatriate, while cast as a post-modern nomad, remains tied to the discourses of modernity and the colonial project. 2010-01-27T23:13:44.772Z ]]> http://www.researchonline.mq.edu.au/vital/access/manager/Repository/mq:2065 The study of Russian, a highly inflectional language, requires a sound understanding of the use of grammatical cases, prepositions and prepositional constructions with the oblique cases. The genitive case is by far the most frequently used and is the most complex of the oblique cases; its use encompasses more than one hundred prepositional and prepositionless constructions. This book, which has been designed for advanced students, is intended to give a comprehensive picture of the genitive case phenomenon. 2010-01-27T23:08:34.638Z ]]> http://www.researchonline.mq.edu.au/vital/access/manager/Repository/mq:2262 2010-01-27T23:06:19.221Z ]]> http://www.researchonline.mq.edu.au/vital/access/manager/Repository/mq:2279 In response to research pointing to failures in international business stemming from a lack of cultural understanding, it has become fashionable in recent years to include sections or even chapters on 'culture' in international business texts. Indeed, a number of books dedicated to the subject of the cultural aspects of doing business in foreign countries, including France, have appeared. As in other areas of international business, however, North American authors dominate the literature. While this interest in things cultural is, on the face of it, commendable, many of these international business writers are forgetting that their own inherent cultural assumptions and preconceptions are exposed when they write on 'other' cultures. At times, they reveal more about their own culture than that of the 'foreign' one. How valid can advice on a given culture, in this case French culture, written from the point of view of another culture with its own prejudices be? Can it be 'correct' or are we entering the realm of stereotypes? And is the guidance relevant to cultures outside America? In order to answer these questions, this paper discusses the findings of research carried out in France in 2002. Fifty published 'tips' for doing business in France were gathered and 'tested' on French business people. In many cases, the results indicate that the advice given is, at best, superficial or stereotypical, at worst, erroneous. 2010-01-27T23:06:08.073Z ]]> http://www.researchonline.mq.edu.au/vital/access/manager/Repository/mq:2367 The central research question addressed in this contribution asks how online exchanges between language students via the internet can contribute to the general educational aim of intercultural communication: a field of research that in the context of language education has been referred to as 'network-based language teaching' (Warschauer 2000)and 'telecollaboration' (Belz 2003). Based on the rationale that the contribution of computer-mediated communication to intercultural learning is still rather ambiguous, this article provides a brief outline of research literature in this area and relates the findings to an asynchronous email-exhange between Australian and German university students, studying German and English respectively. 2010-01-27T23:05:21.704Z ]]> http://www.researchonline.mq.edu.au/vital/access/manager/Repository/mq:2428 The comprehension and correct use of German modal particles poses manifold problems for learners of German as a foreign language since the meaning of these particles is complex and highly dependent on contextual features which can be linguistic as well as situational. Following the premise that German modal particles occur with greater frequency in the spoken language, the article presents an analysis which is based on corpora representing spoken German. The concept 'spoken language' is discussed critically with regard to the corpora chosen for analysis and narrowed down in relation to the use of modal particles. The analysis is based on the following corpora: Freiburger Korpus, Dialogstrukturenkorpus, and Pfeffer-Korpus. In addition, a collection of telephone conversations (Brons-Albert, 1984) was scanned into computer-readable files and analysed using MicroConcord (Scott & Johns, 1993). A quantitative analysis was carried out on all corpora. The qualitative analysis was limited to the telephone conversations and looks at the constraints on and functions of the different occurrences of the form "eben". 2010-01-27T23:04:43.009Z ]]> http://www.researchonline.mq.edu.au/vital/access/manager/Repository/mq:2473 1 page 2010-01-27T23:04:12.738Z ]]> http://www.researchonline.mq.edu.au/vital/access/manager/Repository/mq:2855 1. izd. 2010-01-27T22:59:38.180Z ]]> http://www.researchonline.mq.edu.au/vital/access/manager/Repository/mq:2859 2010-01-27T22:59:36.986Z ]]> http://www.researchonline.mq.edu.au/vital/access/manager/Repository/mq:2870 An exploration of the treatment of identity, time, space and writing in two Uruguayan writers from different ethnic backgrounds, one Jewish the other Arab, and their linking of these concepts to similar ontological and divine searches. By exploring the remnants of these ethnic traditions in contemporary Uruguayan narrative at present we explore how these ancestral cultures have inscribed the collective unconscious of later generations and contributed to the construction of the Uruguayan identity. 2010-01-27T22:59:30.911Z ]]> http://www.researchonline.mq.edu.au/vital/access/manager/Repository/mq:2903 8 page(s) 2010-01-27T22:59:17.978Z ]]> http://www.researchonline.mq.edu.au/vital/access/manager/Repository/mq:3250 11 page(s) 2010-01-27T22:55:12.937Z ]]> http://www.researchonline.mq.edu.au/vital/access/manager/Repository/mq:3503 29 page(s) 2010-01-27T22:52:36.282Z ]]> http://www.researchonline.mq.edu.au/vital/access/manager/Repository/mq:3911 This paper documents cross-cultural similarities and variations in meaning shifts and polysemy extensions of the English noun love, the cognate verb to love, and their Russian equivalents throughout the period between the eleventh century and the present day. In both languages the words love and to love also refer, beside the central contemporary connotations around 'strong affection', to other emotions and feelings, in addition to behavioural responses associated with love. Regardless of some differences, the English love and to love, and the Russian ljubov' and ljubit', generally signify similar emotions, feelings, and behavioural responses, because similar factors influenced their range. The study illustrates how polysemy and meaning shifts can be a source of the understanding of the way the idea 'love' is conceptualized and expressed in different languages. 2010-01-27T22:47:27.230Z ]]> http://www.researchonline.mq.edu.au/vital/access/manager/Repository/mq:4258 14 page(s) 2010-01-27T22:43:36.402Z ]]> http://www.researchonline.mq.edu.au/vital/access/manager/Repository/mq:4349 German-speaking playwrights have exercised a considerable if subtle influence on Australian theatre history. Presenting a range of paradigmatic case studies, this book offers a detailed account of Australian productions of German-language drama between 1945 and 1996. The reception of Bertolt Brecht is used as a touchstone for analysing stagings of plays by writers such as Max Frisch, Rolf Hochhuth, Peter Handke and Franz Xaver Kroetz. In addition, more recent developments in the reception of German drama on the Australian stage are discussed. 2010-01-27T22:42:41.312Z ]]> http://www.researchonline.mq.edu.au/vital/access/manager/Repository/mq:4575 17 page(s) 2010-01-27T22:39:59.880Z ]]> http://www.researchonline.mq.edu.au/vital/access/manager/Repository/mq:4579 This paper looks at verbs that convey a similar meaning but govern different cases. The study is based on a sample of verbs and word combinations that have the semantic component 'to teach'. The use of cases with such verbs is explained through the metaphorical conceptualization of teaching in Russian. The cases governed by the verbs with this component depend on the understanding of teaching as either giving, guiding, forming, filling, feeding, or lighting. Different metaphorical concepts cause differences in the syntactic properties of verbs with the 'teach' component. 2010-01-27T22:39:57.284Z ]]> http://www.researchonline.mq.edu.au/vital/access/manager/Repository/mq:4584 Grafström (1969, 275) se rappelle vivement le jour, en 1948, où, lors d'un voyage en autocar, désireux d'entamer la conversation avec une dame et sa «jolie fille», il leur demanda, «faute de mieux»: «Vous êtes de Paris, mesdames?». La mère lui répondit: «On est de Lyon, monsieur». Un an plus tard, Cohen (1970, 129–130) observa que, dans la phrase Nous sommes de Tours, le pronom on serait «forcé»; en revanche, «on concevrait bien, au cours de la conversation: ‹Nous, on est de Tours› ». On…, nous…, nous…, on…: il existe désormais trois façons de renvoyer, dans la langue parlée contemporaine, à la première personne du pluriel. Si, dans l'usage écrit et, de façon plus générale, quand on s'exprime de façon formelle, nous reste la norme, on paraît à ce point avoir pris la place du pronom traditionnel dans la conversation de tous les jours que son statut de pronom indéfini s'est affaibli et qu'il n'est plus possible d'assurer qu'un on indéfini soit systématiquement compris comme il faut. Aussi constate-t-on que d'autres pronoms sont de plus en plus souvent mis à profit: des pronoms dont l'emploi générique, plutô t que d'être nouvellement acquis, connait une soudaine extension concomitante avec l'affaiblissement de la valeur indéfinie du pronom on. À l'heure actuelle, tu et vous s'emploient avec une certaine régularité là où, dans un usage plus soigné et plus formel, on s'attendrait à un on indéfini: «Il y a des vieux que si tu leur dis qu'une boîte de Temesta tu peux pas leur donner, ils te font un scandale»; «Vous allez voir deux Français de France, puis ils parleront pas tous les deux pareil». Le premier exemple est de Blanche-Benveniste (1994, 85), le second de Laberge/Sankoff (1979, 425). Temesta est le nom d'un médicament. L'hypothèse avancée ici pourra être rapprochée de celles de Coveney (2003) et de Fonseca-Greber/Waugh (2003), dont nous n'avons connu le travail qu'après avoir rédigé une première version du nôtre. Coveney renvoie en outre à Ball (2000, 67), aux yeux de qui le «débordement» de on a été remédié par le recours à un tu indéfini, plus conversationnel, destiné à réduire la panoplie de fonctions associées au pronom on. 2010-01-27T22:39:52.841Z ]]> http://www.researchonline.mq.edu.au/vital/access/manager/Repository/mq:4616 11 page(s) 2010-01-27T22:39:30.591Z ]]> http://www.researchonline.mq.edu.au/vital/access/manager/Repository/mq:4635 12 page(s) 2010-01-27T22:39:18.750Z ]]> http://www.researchonline.mq.edu.au/vital/access/manager/Repository/mq:4636 9 page(s) 2010-01-27T22:39:17.539Z ]]> http://www.researchonline.mq.edu.au/vital/access/manager/Repository/mq:4640 12 page(s) 2010-01-27T22:39:15.253Z ]]> http://www.researchonline.mq.edu.au/vital/access/manager/Repository/mq:4662 14 page(s) 2010-01-27T22:39:02.026Z ]]> http://www.researchonline.mq.edu.au/vital/access/manager/Repository/mq:4776 23 page(s) 2010-01-27T22:37:41.491Z ]]> http://www.researchonline.mq.edu.au/vital/access/manager/Repository/mq:4815 17 page(s) 2010-01-27T22:37:17.746Z ]]> http://www.researchonline.mq.edu.au/vital/access/manager/Repository/mq:4818 16 page(s) 2010-01-27T22:37:15.460Z ]]> http://www.researchonline.mq.edu.au/vital/access/manager/Repository/mq:4839 19 page(s) 2010-01-27T22:37:03.064Z ]]> http://www.researchonline.mq.edu.au/vital/access/manager/Repository/mq:4854 According to Ehrhart and Corne, Tayo is an endogenous creole that crystallized under the peculiarly plantation-like circumstances present at the St-Louis mission in the late 19th century. Noting some linguistic similarities with Reunion Creole, Chaudenson (1994) raises the question of whether Reunion Creole had had any influence on the development of Tayo. This notion is refuted both by Ehrhart (1994) and Corne (1994, 1995, 1999, 2000a, 2000b), although Corne (2000a) concedes that due to some linguistic and socio-demographic evidence, Reunion Creole influence on Tayo cannot be excluded. This paper revisits this debate and reopens questions that earlier researchers appear to have closed by discussing the implications of two texts written in Reunion Creole and published in New Caledonia. The first is a Georges Baudoux text containing the ‘Reunion Creole’ of Socrates, a black Reunion Creole taken to New Caledonia in 1870 to work as a coolie. The second is a political text attacking a ‘Creole’ candidate running for election on the Conseil Supérieur des Colonies published in 1884 by journalist Julien Bernier, an immigrant from Reunion. Accepting the authenticity of these texts raises questions pertinent to the debate on Tayo genesis. Given that réunionnais was being spoken in New Caledonia when Tayo was developing, were any speakers in contact with the Kanaks of St-Louis? What, if any, influence did their language have on the developing St-Louis patois? I discuss these questions by re-examining socio-historical evidence and by making some brief comparisons between the New Caledonian Reunion Creole texts and Tayo. 2010-01-27T22:36:54.453Z ]]> http://www.researchonline.mq.edu.au/vital/access/manager/Repository/mq:4887 Postoji li australska književnost kao izgrađeni sustav? Ili se zapravo radi o dijelu književnosti engleskog govornog područja vezanoj tradicionalno uz Britaniju, a u posljednje vrijeme uz Sjevernu Ameriku? Na to pitanje mislim da je moguće pronaći odgovor predstavljanjem suvremenog australskog književnika za kojeg je u posljednjih dvadesetak godina uvriježeno mišljenje da se radi o najzanimljivijoj osobnosti suvremene australske književnosti. Uz to, u odgovoru na postavljeno pitanje pomoći će nam i uspostavljanje književnih okvira koji su uvjetovali njegovo pojavljivanje i čitanje u Australiji 2010-01-27T22:36:31.369Z ]]> http://www.researchonline.mq.edu.au/vital/access/manager/Repository/mq:4886 U ovom tekstu namjera mi je progovoriti o dva problema. Jedan je usustavljivanje emigrantske književnosti u pripadni korpus, bilo da se radi o korpusu zemlje s kojom ta književnost dijeli jezik ili zemlje s kojom dijeli prostornu susjednost. Drugi je problem kompleksniji i vezan je uz pitanje egzila i njegovih iskaznih potencijala. Uz pojavljivanje u književnim teksovima, ovaj se fenomen reflektira i u drugim tipovima iskaza koji su tradicionalno promatrani kao prijenos i posredovanje zbilje, a ne njezino uobličavanje. U tom kompleksu dolazi do diskurzivnog preplitanja fiktivnog i faktografskog, te do usložnjavanja na razini forme, gdje elementi fikcijskog preuzimaju dominantnu ulogu u diskurzivnim presjecištima u kojima faktografsko tradicionalno kotira kao dominantno. Radi se o fikcionalizaciji izvjestiteljskog diskurza i o pojavi usložnjavanja diskurzivnih presjecišta u kojima novinski članci ili radioreportaže zadobivaju karakteristike fikcijskog teksta, udaljavajući se od vlastite forme posredovanja informacije i postajući posredovanjem totaliteta (imaginarnog) svijeta. Ova rubna pojava po mom je mišljenju u izdvojenom egzilnom (a do određene mjere i emigrantskom) diskurzu vrlo važna za tumačenje fenomena izdvojenosti iseljeničkog korpusa i njegovo ne–odnošenje prema dva sustava: onom zemlje domaćina u kojem prostorno nastaje i onom zemlje podrijetla prema kojem se jezično i strukturalno odnosi. Uz navedeno, mišljenja sam da sustav 'drugosti' koji proizvodi ovakvo stanje stvari može pridonijeti razumijevanju dvaju procesa. Tu ponajprije mislim na proces književne komunikacije, ali i na sustavno proučavanje odvojka hrvatske autohtone emigrantske kulture koja je s matičnom hrvatskom kulturom stvorila ne–odnos, više negoli interaktivan odnos, razmjenu i puteve za uspostavljanje međusobnog razumijevanja. Tako za razliku od prilično jasnog modela koji iz domovinskog ugla promatranja razvija Kalogjera (2003), a u kojem se emigrantska književnost jasno može podijeliti na egzilnu, etničku i globalnu, mislim da se izvandomovinski kut uvida u kompleksnost čitava sustava krije upravo u tekstovima koji po svojoj prirodi i izvanjskim stilskim osobinama nisu fikcijski, već na prvi pogled pripadaju izvjestiteljskom, odnosno faktografskom tipu diskurza. U njima je stvoren svijet 'imaginarne Hrvatske' koja nije mimeza stvarne zemljopisno postojeće zemlje, već mita o toj zemlji izgrađenog na temelju nostalgične čežnje za domom, kakve više u stvarnosti zapravo nema. Tako uz etničku književnost (uklopivu u korpus zemlje domaćina i tematski vezanu uz postojanje i život određene etničke skupine na tematskoj razini), egzilnu književnost (koja se uvijek odnosi prema korpusu zemlje podrijetla i funkcionira u sklopu njezina, katkad proširena, sustava) i globalne autore (sa svim asocijacijama koje taj pojam izaziva u procesu usložnjavanja problematike u nadnacionalnim uklapanjima u korpus),1 moramo govoriti i o izdvojenom korpusu koji funkcionira u svom imaginarnom prostoru i stvara vlastiti sustav vrijednosti kojeg je često vrlo teško znanstveno verificirati, ako se problemu prilazi iz pozicije koja prostorno nije dio tog imaginarnog sustava ili se prema njemu ne odnosi kao prema vrijednoj konotaciji, neovisno o tome misli li se iz književno kritičarskog ugla promatranja o samom materijalu kao proučavanja vrijednom ili potpuno marginalnom, u smislu doprinosa razvoju nacionalne književnosti. 2010-01-27T22:36:31.206Z ]]> http://www.researchonline.mq.edu.au/vital/access/manager/Repository/mq:4912 8 page(s) 2010-01-27T22:36:12.780Z ]]> http://www.researchonline.mq.edu.au/vital/access/manager/Repository/mq:4913 11 page(s) 2010-01-27T22:36:12.756Z ]]> http://www.researchonline.mq.edu.au/vital/access/manager/Repository/mq:4920 The lack of understanding of the principles underlying feminist ideas prevents the reading public of Ukraine from grasping the fact that feminist criticism is now simply one of the methodological strategies of contemporary literary scholarship. And yet the beginnings of feminism in Ukraine date back to the 1880s and the first feminist anthology, Pershyi vinok (The First Garland). Recent feminist writing, though not always consciously feminist, has included the poetry of the eldest and most eminent of the female writers, Lina Kostenko, who first appeared i n print in the 1950s. Her new and unexpected interpretations of historical detail are well highlighted when contrasted with those of male writers. Natalka Bilotserkivets' is a much younger poet, who does not consider herself a writer of gendered or feminist texts, but may be read as such by the initiated reader. The most strikingly and openly feminist approach is that of Oksana Zabuzhko, a poet, prose-writer and essayist whose sophisticated style encompasses subjects and themes from the political to the erotic. Zabuzhko's interest in sexual politics leads her to use the past to condemn the enduring patriarchal social order, often focusing on the role of the woman-victim and presenting a critical view of men generally. Public discussions of this genre of poetry, as well as the availability of recently translated classical feminist texts, are a sign that Ukrainian feminist literature is coming of age. 2010-01-27T22:36:08.058Z ]]> http://www.researchonline.mq.edu.au/vital/access/manager/Repository/mq:4930 18 page(s) 2010-01-27T22:36:01.056Z ]]> http://www.researchonline.mq.edu.au/vital/access/manager/Repository/mq:4933 The aim of the present paper is to compare the conceptualization of joy reflected in contemporary Russian metaphorical lexical expressions with the conceptualization of this emotion as reflected in the semantic changes and polysemy of words for joy. 2010-01-27T22:35:59.997Z ]]> http://www.researchonline.mq.edu.au/vital/access/manager/Repository/mq:4982 This book fills a gap by providing the first in-depth study of Calvino’s interst in scientific models and methods and the ways these have informed his narratives, which makes it of interest to scholars in the field of Italian literature, comparative literature and postmodern and cultural studies. In a work that goes well beyond numerous shorter contributions on Calvino and scientific method, the author demonstrates how closely Calvino's narratives and essays were indebted to contemporary developments in scientific and philosophical thought, in particular to "la pensée complexe", and to chaos theory. 2010-01-27T22:35:25.703Z ]]> http://www.researchonline.mq.edu.au/vital/access/manager/Repository/mq:4993 14 page(s) 2010-01-27T22:35:19.717Z ]]> http://www.researchonline.mq.edu.au/vital/access/manager/Repository/mq:4995 One of the foremost concerns of Italo Calvino’s work – both in his fictions and in his essays – was the quest to recuperate a unified view of knowledge, akin to the traditional cosmogony which preceded the (post)modern fragmentation of knowledge into separate branches and fields of specialization. Focusing on Lezioni americane, this essay analyzes Calvino’s concept of interdisciplinarity and the link he makes between literature and cosmogony as the earliest literary genre. Calvino called for literature to return to “its original specific vocation as ‘natural philosophy’”; namely, a cultural unifier that negotiates meaning across disciplines and genres. This essay demonstrates the extent to which the American lectures, which became the author’s literary testament, constitute an important example of literature’s role as a unifying framework situated within the broader context of emerging, new, interdisciplinary sciences, notably complexity science. 2010-01-27T22:35:18.534Z ]]> http://www.researchonline.mq.edu.au/vital/access/manager/Repository/mq:5016 8 page(s) 2010-01-27T22:35:05.151Z ]]> http://www.researchonline.mq.edu.au/vital/access/manager/Repository/mq:5066 19 page(s) 2010-01-27T22:34:34.140Z ]]> http://www.researchonline.mq.edu.au/vital/access/manager/Repository/mq:5086 21 page(s) 2010-01-27T22:34:22.302Z ]]> http://www.researchonline.mq.edu.au/vital/access/manager/Repository/mq:5145 10 page(s) 2010-01-27T22:33:43.809Z ]]> http://www.researchonline.mq.edu.au/vital/access/manager/Repository/mq:5261 14 page(s) 2010-01-27T22:32:23.201Z ]]> http://www.researchonline.mq.edu.au/vital/access/manager/Repository/mq:5265 This paper describes an approach to teaching German designed for students who wish to acquire a reading knowledge of the language, specifically for research purposes, in the field of Ancient History where a large number of standard texts are published in German. A corpus of German academic texts was compiled to serve as a basis for linguistic analysis through procedures commonly employed in corpus analysis, such as compilation of word lists, frequency counts and concordances. While existing corpora of written German focus mainly on press and literary texts, a specialised corpus as proposed here may serve as a database for research into the linguistic structures particular to academic texts in German, notably in the domain of Ancient History. Corpus-based research has had an increasing influence on language teaching pedagogy, with regard to linguistic content as well as to teaching methodology. While the majority of studies reporting on corpus-based teaching approaches refer to English, only a small number of studies have discussed such an approach for German. In this contribution, the exploitation of language corpora is proposed in order to arrive at authentic teaching materials in the field of German for Academic Purposes. 2010-01-27T22:32:20.727Z ]]> http://www.researchonline.mq.edu.au/vital/access/manager/Repository/mq:5287 In Australian English, tall poppies are usually individuals who, on the basis of unwarranted self-adulation, itself a consequence of success, amassed fortune or fame, have become targets for criticism; or, less frequently, individuals who, overcome by success, amassed fortune or fame, and on the mistaken assumption that they are above the law, have engaged in unlawful behaviour, only to find that, eventually, the law catches up with them as well. They become the victims of a widespread tendency, known as the tall poppy syndrome, to scrutinize high achievers and cut down the tall poppies among them. Sometimes, especially in the world of science, the term tall poppy is also used to refer to outstanding scholars who deserve to be publicly acknowledged for their work. This paper looks at tall poppies and at the tall poppy syndrome in Australian discourse, and argues that the term tall poppy is a key word which, when studied closely in terms of its currency, its incidence in collocations, etc., reveals a great deal about the real nature of egalitarianism, one of Australia’s most often named cultural values. 2010-01-27T22:32:05.228Z ]]> http://www.researchonline.mq.edu.au/vital/access/manager/Repository/mq:5329 18 page(s) 2010-01-27T22:31:33.899Z ]]> http://www.researchonline.mq.edu.au/vital/access/manager/Repository/mq:5343 This article examines and assesses the evolution and role of Peronism since 1943 in Argentina and offers some prognoses about its future prospects. An attempt is made to narrow the focus of the analysis and study the political system in response to the changing times and circumstances with a view to extrapolating the key elements that have shaped the different faces of this political movement. Also, a subsidiary focus of this article is to underline the changing policies and postures of Peronism in the emerging global order in which Argentina has been trying to insert itself. 2010-01-27T22:31:24.857Z ]]> http://www.researchonline.mq.edu.au/vital/access/manager/Repository/mq:5346 16 page(s) 2010-01-27T22:31:23.710Z ]]> http://www.researchonline.mq.edu.au/vital/access/manager/Repository/mq:5367 In Australian English, tall poppies are usually individuals who, on the basis of unwarranted self-adulation, itself a consequence of success, amassed fortune or fame, have become targets for criticism; or, less frequently, individuals who, overcome by success, amassed fortune or fame, and on the mistaken assumption that they are above the law, have engaged in unlawful behaviour, only to find that, eventually, the law catches up with them as well. They become the victims of a widespread tendency, known as the tall poppy syndrome, to scrutinize high achievers and cut down the tall poppies among them. This paper looks at tall poppies and the tall poppy syndrome in Australian discourse (with special reference to sports and federal politics), and, using Wierzbicka's natural semantic metalanguage, explicates the corresponding communicative (and, more generally, behavioral) norm "Thou shalt not be a tall poppy." In line with the general theme of this journal, the paper also provides some explicit intercultural comparisons. Furthermore, it includes a few more general remarks, in which I look at the notion of "communicative norm" and at the place of intercultural pragmatics within the broader field of intercultural communication. 2010-01-27T22:31:09.523Z ]]> http://www.researchonline.mq.edu.au/vital/access/manager/Repository/mq:5368 As soon as a speaker abandons a language - or a culture - for another one, an interlanguage appears and starts developing. It will take some time before such a speaker is able to avoid the majority of misunderstandings that are typical of exolingual situations and that are often the result of non-adherence to foreign communicative norms and cultural values. The study of these norms and values is an important part of cross-cultural study in general, and can benefit from a study of culturally revealing keywords. There are thus three distinct approaches to the study of cross-cultural phenomena: transcultural pragmatics deals with norms, transcultural axiology with values, and transcultural semantics with keywords. 2010-01-27T22:31:09.257Z ]]> http://www.researchonline.mq.edu.au/vital/access/manager/Repository/mq:5370 L’activite´ scientifique des linguistes revient selon le linguiste et anthropologue ame´ricain Benjamin Lee Whorf a` une queˆte de sens (Jakobson 1962: 658; Wierzbicka 1993: 9). La meˆme image a e´te´ utilise´e plus re´cemment (Dascal 1992: 110) a` propos de l’activite´ de l’interpre´tant (celui qui s’efforce de comprendre ce que quelqu’un d’autre vient de dire). L’acte interpre´tatif est une queˆ te de sens et, en tant que telle, demande un effort qu’on aurait tort de sous-estimer. Les proble`mes rencontre´s en cours de route sont aussi re´ els pour ceux qui s’entendent adresser la parole dans leur propre langue que pour ceux a` qui on vient de s’adresser dans une langue e´trange`re acquise, par exemple, sur les bancs de l’e´ cole. Ce sont les meˆmes proble`mes qui se posent; ce qui risque d’eˆtre diffe´ rent, c’est le degre´ de pre´paration de l’interpre´tant. 2010-01-27T22:31:07.832Z ]]>