Langue et Cultures

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  Hervé CURAT

  La mesure des mots

  Microscopie du Livre I des fables de La Fontaine

  Librairie Droz | Langue et Cultures n° 46

  This textual analysis of the 22 « fables de La Fontaine » that make up Book One of his 1668 selected Fables follows the order in which they occur in the collection so as to preserve the author’s intention. The analysis of each fable is presented alongside the text itself...

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  L'Interface langage-cognition The Language-cognition Interface

  Actes du 19e Congrès International des Linguistes, Genève, 22-27 juillet 2013

  Droz | Langue et Cultures n° 45

  The year 2013 marks the centenary of the death of Ferdinand de Saussure and thus offers a strong symbolic opportunity for evaluating the future prospects of linguistics....

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  Emilia HILGERT

  Partition et constructions prépositionnelles en français

  Librairie Droz | Langue et Cultures

  This semantic and syntactical study sheds new light on partitive constructions in French, describing a prepositional micro-system that structures partitive configurations, offering also a hypothesis of how prepositional configurations in French ...

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  Le Projet de Ferdinand de Saussure

  Librairie Droz | Langue et Cultures

  Ferdinand de Saussure is the most frequently cited linguist of the twentieth century, but his work remains poorly understood. The contributions to this project demonstrate the profound coherence of Saussure's general linguistic theory...

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  Marie LAMMERT

  Sémantique et cognition : les noms collectifs

  Librairie Droz | Langue et Cultures

  French collective nouns, such as bouquet, comité, bourgeoisie, équipe, meute, present a singular form conveying plurality, expressed in their semantic and distributional programmes...

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  Aaic TIJANA

  Espace, temps, prépositions

  Librairie Droz | Langue et Cultures

  Espace, temps, prépositions is a basic spatial-temporal ontology, resulting from works on mereotopology and reference frames, defining the basic semantics of spatial, temporal and spatial-temporal prepositions in French. Tijana Asic analyzes the...

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  Charles NODIER

  Dictionnaire raisonné des onomatopées françaises

  Librairie Droz | Langue et Cultures

  The great lexicographer Pierre Larousse praised Charles Nodier’s dictionary of onomatopoeias as a « masterpiece of modern linguistics », noting its interest and erudition. Nodier explains in his preface that onomatopoeias are the source for all...

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  Hervé CURAT

  Lévi-Strauss mot à mot : Essai d'idiographie linguistique

  Librairie Droz | Langue et Cultures

  As a collective system, language does not have the consistency that theoreticians used to credit it with: the system varies from one speaker to another. It is only possible to regain this ideal by focussing on an individual. By studying the linguistic...

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  Yannick PORTEBOIS

  Les Arrhes de la douairière : Histoire de la dictée de Mérimée ou l'orthographe sous le Second Empire

  Librairie Droz | Langue et Cultures

  The supposedly frivolous court of the Second Empire did actually care about spelling. Mérimée's famously difficult - and seemingly gratuitous and incoherent - dictation was more than a complicated game. It served to demonstrate that there could be no...

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  Jan Amos COMÉNIUS

  "Novissima Linguarum Methodus" : La toute nouvelle Méthode des langues

  Librairie Droz | Langue et Cultures

  The Moravian intellectual Jan Amos Komensky better known as Comenius, published his Linguarum methodus novissima in 1648. In it he reveals his method of teaching and learning language. Astonishingly, this treatise bears all the characteristics of a...