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Romanic Review (2023) 114 (3): 471–477.
Published: 01 December 2023
...Nabil Boudraa [email protected] Copyright © 2023 by the Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York 2023 Maghreb interdisciplinarity linguistic diversity postcoloniality The field of French and Francophone studies in US academia has evolved a lot...
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Romanic Review (2015) 106 (1-4): 93–102.
Published: 01 January 2015
... a notre passe et a notre civilisation arabo-islamique" (63). Algeria faced not only educational policy decisions but also a larger and perhaps thornier debate over whether linguistic diversity and hybridity would weaken efforts to coalesce national identity around a single language. In 1991 a "loi dite d...
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Romanic Review (2023) 114 (3): 601–608.
Published: 01 December 2023
... the category of “Francophone,” France itself is homogenized in detrimental ways that pay no tribute to the racial and linguistic diversity in the Hexagon itself. From a linguistic perspective, the “French” in “French and Francophone studies” reads as an insistence that there is a single, correct, original...
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Romanic Review (2015) 106 (1-4): 1–5.
Published: 01 January 2015
... as Twohig explains, Berkane doesn't necessarily represent the French language, nor is French (alone) the language whose disappearance Djebar laments. Reading the novel as a celebration of the linguistic diversity of Algeria, Twohig underscores the important place that it accords to Algerian Arabic...
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Romanic Review (2003) 94 (3-4): 277–289.
Published: 01 May 2003
... political and aesthetic issues. Conde has always engaged with large intellectual questions, from feminism to linguistic diversity, and in this paper, I want to take another look at the way language and loss are thematized in Heremakhonon. To develop this point, I will read Heremakhonon together...
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Romanic Review (2010) 101 (1-2): 23–35.
Published: 01 January 2010
... used to say, corrupt, the parrot's first words to the lady being full of Italianisms: "Donna, Dieu vu sal, / Messagier sum, ne vu sia mal; / Del miglior cabbaler cum fus." Such linguistic diversity underlines that "monolingualism," in the sense borrowed from Derrida, is not a numerical unity...
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Romanic Review (2015) 106 (1-4): 189–193.
Published: 01 January 2015
... recensions in which the Buddha is likened to a Christian saint or condemned for idolatry depending upon the translation politics of the recension. Gaunt argues that linguistic openness to the foreign and hybrid within and between Romance dialects is homologous with curiosity about and tolerance for diversity...
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Romanic Review (2024) 115 (2): 473–496.
Published: 01 September 2024
... the episode of Babel and that of Pentecost (Léon-Dufour 605; Moreno Cabrera). If then God confused the languages of Noah’s descendants, fragmenting the community and preventing the collective construction of a tower to “storm Heaven,” now linguistic diversity becomes a divine gift to convey a salvation...
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Romanic Review (2006) 97 (3-4): 285–307.
Published: 01 May 2006
... to Pennisi, the Southern tradition moved away from a logistic and merely grammatical approach; adopting a political and pedagogical perspective, it concentrated on issues of linguistic creativity and of communication across diverse social classes. See A. Pennisi, La linguistica dei mercatanti. Filosofia...
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Romanic Review (2020) 111 (1): 106–127.
Published: 01 May 2020
... to grasp. Scientific and linguistic truths are united in an Aristotelian model for gathering and translating the diversity of creation. The author’s prologue, which adopts an Aristotelian mode, thus advises that we first consider the visible before asking what God has veiled, noting that theology uses...
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Romanic Review (2023) 114 (3): 538–545.
Published: 01 December 2023
... cross-listed with other departments and programs. We have multidisciplinary training and work in conjunction with film and media studies, gender studies, medieval studies, Middle East studies, and world literature. The global scale of French linguistic and cultural practices is evident in our pedagogy...
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Romanic Review (2005) 96 (3-4): 443–454.
Published: 01 May 2005
... to discover sociolinguistic realities in literary texts undertakes to reveal disparity, diversity, and conflict as they manifest themselves in generic and stylistic forms. Occasionally these characteristics conceal, on the contrary, unity and coherence.2 Besides linguistic choices, human behavior persistently...
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Romanic Review (2000) 91 (1-2): 204–207.
Published: 01 January 2000
..., conventional. For on these grounds it then becomes possible to speak of what the reader "must" previously know and subsequently do to interpret, and how a reading is controlled by the text. Riffaterre's descriptions of linguistic competence and obligatory reading are crucial here. As Aurora puts...
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Romanic Review (2004) 95 (4): 480–482.
Published: 01 November 2004
... paragraph of Flaubert's story "Un Creur simple" through its various draft stages to the final text, while Almuth Gresillon ex- BOOK REVIEWS 481 amines the opening of Proust's A la Recherche du temps perdu. Gresillon adopts a strictly linguistic approach to the temporal markers (in particular "still...
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Romanic Review (2023) 114 (3): 509–516.
Published: 01 December 2023
... educators. Teaching French today is a radical act of hope fueled by our belief that French matters. Linguistic and cultural diversity matters because it ensures global heterogeneity, the very basis of human distinctiveness. When using the UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage and the United Nations...
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Romanic Review (2017) 108 (1-4): 103.
Published: 01 January 2017
... situational reflexivity without any of the aridity that plagues much linguistic-b ased writing on narrative and text/reader interaction. Ross s writing reaches out to his reader, engaging her or him in the work of analysis. As he notes in reference to seminars in the preface to The Writing of Melancholy...
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Romanic Review (2011) 102 (1-2): 280–283.
Published: 01 January 2011
...Tom Conley Copyright © 2011 The Trustees of Columbia University 2011 280 BOOK REVIEWS is the staging of different languages in contact, the author tries to find an answer to what the nature of this contact is: Is the linguistic difference an actual means of communication, as in the trilingual...
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Romanic Review (2023) 114 (3): 617–624.
Published: 01 December 2023
... the canon”? To make our discipline less Eurocentric? As legitimate as those intentions may have been, the tenets of Francophonie—the way it is curated, administered, exploited, regulated—are deeply problematic. Behind its seemingly objective linguistic meaning (the community of French speakers), the word...
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Romanic Review (2021) 112 (1): 138–157.
Published: 01 May 2021
... and the Casa di Dante in Rome (principal investigator Gennaro Ferrante), intends to provide a systematic survey and an accurate description of the early illustrations of Dante’s Divine Comedy , accompanied by the largest archive of high-resolution images of the poem, in which both linguistic and figurative...
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Romanic Review (2010) 101 (1-2): 167–180.
Published: 01 January 2010
... that endeavor with its broad interdisciplinary cast of speakers from mathematics, linguistics, anthropology, psychoanalysis, philosophy, classics and modern literature. A search for unity is not necessarily a search for sameness: yet one gets the impression that, along the way, the whole enterprise...
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