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Enhancing the value of comparative exposure assessment in alternatives assessment
Authors: Meng Qingyu , Zhou Xiaoying
Published: August 2023

Reducing chemical exposure is a crucial principle in alternatives assessment (AA) frameworks. Since the release of the report, A Framework to Guide Selection of Chemical Alternatives by the National Research Council in 2014, comparative exposure assessment (CEA) has been increasingly viewed as an essential part of selecting safer alternatives to chemicals of concern in consumer products. However, CEA has not been fully integrated into existing AA frameworks. CEA remains merely a technical step, disconnected from other AA components. This paper advocates for the integration of CEA as an essential part of AA, providing a holistic approach to identifying safer alternatives. The paper aims to illustrate the connection between CEA and other AA components, such as problem formulation, hazard assessment, life cycle assessment, economic assessment, and decision-making. It suggests systematic integration of CEA with cross-cutting AA considerations, including transparency, uncertainty, chemical mixtures, and sensitive receptors. This integration will enable the selection of a fit-for-purpose CEA approach based on the decision context and foster a more comprehensive approach to identifying safer alternatives. While the examples provided are not exhaustive, they aim to encourage further discussion on the integration of CEA into AA.
The land use, trade, and global food security impacts of an agroecological transition in the EU
Authors: Schiavo Michele , Le Mouël Chantal , Poux Xavier , Aubert Pierre-Marie
Published: August 2023

The need for an agroecological transition is regularly advocated by many actors and policymakers on the European scene, but many questions arise regarding the potential consequences that this transition may have on the rest of the world. Using a world biomass balance model, in this paper we show that a deep agroecological transition in the EU, if accompanied by a shift of EU food regimes towards more plant-based diets, is not detrimental to global food security. Without increasing its cropland areas, the EU can maintain the same level of exported calories as in a business-as-usual scenario while reducing its import needs. This result holds true also in an alternative scenario in which the other world regions adopt agroecological production methods and healthier diets. In contrast, an agricultural transition taking place in the EU without a change of EU food regimes, would drastically increase EU food dependence on global markets and contribute to the expansion of agricultural land in the rest of the world.
Evidence of sustainable intensification in the production of palm oil from crops planted with Elaeis oleifera x Elaeis guineensis in Colombia
Authors: Mosquera-Montoya Mauricio , Camperos Jhonatan Eduardo , Ruiz Elizabeth , Hernández Diego , García Alejandra , Vargas Liseth Estefanía , Mesa Eloina , Munévar Daniel , Sinisterra Kelly
Published: August 2023

Cultivars from crossings between Elaeis oleífera x Elaeis guineensis (OxG hybrids) have proven to have partial resistance to Bud Rot (BR), the most challenging disease for the Colombian palm oil agroindustry. Therefore, OxG hybrids were planted in areas that have experienced BR outbreaks since 2007. Soon, it was discovered that OxG hybrid female inflorescences required to be pollinated with pollen from E. guineensis to improve bunch formation. Researchers from Cenipalma noted that OxG hybrid bunches have a greater proportion of partenocarpic fruits. The latter generated a line of research that yielded artificial pollination in 2018. Artificial pollination consists of applying naphtaleneacetic acid (NAA) to female inflorescences in order to promote the formation of partenocarpic fruits. If artificial pollination was to be scaled up, many questions needed an answer such as, what was labor productivity, the stage at which bunches should be harvested and even, if it was profitable. This paper synthesizes the results of studies carried out by Cenipalma together with managers from oil palm plantations. These research studies were undertaken by means of time and motion studies, optimal harvesting time studies and cost–benefit analysis. Results come from plantations located at all the zones that have planted OxG cultivars that have planted the most common OxG hybrids. Our results indicate that an artificial pollination worker may be asked between 188 and 249 inflorescences per workday depending upon inflorescences density (inflorescences per hectare). We also found that by implementing criteria on optimal harvest time one may increase the oil extraction rate from 6 to 29.7%. Finally, it was found that artificial pollination is more costly than using only E. guineensis pollen, but the increase in yields at the field and the increase in the amount of oil extracted offset this extra cost and provide greater profitability to oil palm growers. This is a sample of how, by using the same natural resources, implementing artificial pollination, and harvesting at the proper stage; one can have greater yields and have a more resilient business. In other words, this is an example of sustainable intensification.
Displacement Prediction of Channel Slope Based on EEMD-IESSA-LSSVM Combined Algorithm
Authors: Yao Hongyun , Song Guanlin , Li Yibo
Published: August 2023

Slope displacement is a crucial factor that affects slope stability in engineering construction. The monitoring and prediction of slope displacement are especially important to ensure slope stability. To achieve this goal, it is necessary to establish an effective prediction model and analyze the patterns and trends of slope displacement. In recent years, monitoring efforts for high slopes have increased. With the growing availability of means and data for slope monitoring, the accurate prediction of slope displacement accidents has become even more critical. However, the lack of an accurate and efficient algorithm has resulted in an underutilization of available data. In this paper, we propose a combined EEMD-IESSA-LSSVM algorithm. Firstly, we use EEMD to decompose the slope displacement data and then introduce a more efficient and improved version of the sparrow search algorithm, called the irrational escape sparrow search algorithm (IESSA), by optimizing it and incorporating adaptive weight factors. We compare the IESSA algorithm with SSA, CSSOA, PSO, and GWO algorithms through validation using three different sets of benchmark functions. This comparison demonstrates that the IESSA algorithm achieves higher accuracy and a faster solving speed in solving these functions. Finally, we optimize LSSVM to predict slope displacement by incorporating rainfall and water level data. To verify the reliability of the algorithm, we conduct simulation analysis using slope data from the xtGTX1 monitoring point and the xtGTX3 monitoring point in the Yangtze River Xin Tan landslide and compare the results with those obtained using EEMD-LSSVM, EEMD-SSA-LSSVM, and EEMD-GWO-LSSVM. After numerical simulation, the goodness-of-fit of the two monitoring points is 0.98998 and 0.97714, respectively, which is 42% and 34% better than before. Using Friedman and Nemenyi tests, the algorithms were ranked as follows: IESSA-LSSVM > GWO-LSSVM > SSA-LSSVM > LSSVM. The findings indicate that the combined EEMD-IESSA-LSSVM algorithm exhibits a superior prediction ability and provides more accurate predictions for slope landslides compared to other algorithms.
Fast Lidar Inertial Odometry and Mapping for Mobile Robot SE(2) Navigation
Authors: Chen Wei , Sun Jian
Published: August 2023

This paper presents a fast Lidar inertial odometry and mapping (F-LIOM) method for mobile robot navigation on flat terrain with high real-time pose estimation, map building, and place recognition. Existing works on Lidar inertial odometry have mostly parameterized the keyframe pose as SE(3) even when the robots moved on flat ground, which complicated the motion model and was not conducive to real-time non-linear optimization. In this paper, F-LIOM is shown to be cost-effective in terms of model complexity and computation efficiency for robot SE(2) navigation, as the motions in other degrees of freedom in 3D, including roll, pitch, and z, are considered to be noise terms that corrupt the pose estimation. For front-end place recognition, the smoothness information of the feature point cloud is introduced to construct a novel global descriptor that integrates geometry and environmental texture characteristics. Experiments under challenging scenarios, including self-collected datasets and public datasets, were conducted to validate the proposed method. The experimental results demonstrated that F-LIOM could achieve competitive real-time performance in terms of accuracy compared with state-of-the-art counterparts. Our solution has significant superiority and the potential to be deployed in limited-resource mobile robot systems.
“Vergis Mein Nit”—Connectedness and Commemoration through Rings in the 16th Century
Authors: Ebenhöch Romina
Published: August 2023

By the end of the 16th century, finger rings in reverse glass painting technique became increasingly popular in Europe. Often, they are used in the context of signet rings with the monogram together with the coat of arms of its beholder depicted on the glass bezel. The following paper concentrates on nine finger rings of this group. Instead of an actual coat of arms though, these finger rings carry the device V(G)MN or FGMN (for-get-me-not) accompanied by a depiction of little blue forget-me-not flowers as the coat of arms. By collecting and describing the so far existing material, the paper aims to contextualize the use and function of the finger rings with the symbol of the forget-me-not flower in the fields of love, friendship and faith. Furthermore, it links the symbol of the for-get-me-not on finger rings and the imperative power of the written letters V(G)MN or FGMN to its tradition in German literature and texts.
Machine-Learning-Based Approach to Optimize CO2-WAG Flooding in Low Permeability Oil Reservoirs
Authors: Gao Ming , Liu Zhaoxia , Qian Shihao , Liu Wanlu , Li Weirong , Yin Hengfei , Cao Jinhong
Published: August 2023

One of the main applications of carbon capture, utilization, and storage (CCUS) technology in the industry is carbon-dioxide-enhanced oil recovery (CO2-EOR). However, accurately and rapidly assessing their application potential remains a major challenge. In this study, a numerical model of the CO2-WAG technique was developed using the reservoir numerical simulation software CMG (Version 2021), which is widely used in the field of reservoir engineering. Then, 10,000 different reservoir models were randomly generated using the Monte Carlo method for numerical simulations, with each having different formation physical parameters, fluid parameters, initial conditions, and injection and production parameters. Among them, 70% were used as the training set and 30% as the test set. A comprehensive analysis was conducted using eight different machine learning regression methods to train and evaluate the dataset. After evaluation, the XGBoost algorithm emerged as the top-performing method and was selected as the optimal approach for the prediction and optimization. By integrating the production prediction model with a particle swarm optimizer (PSO), a workflow for optimizing the CO2-EOR parameters was developed. This process enables the rapid optimization of the CO2-EOR parameters and the prediction of the production for each period based on cumulative production under different geological conditions. The proposed XGBoost-PSO proxy model accurately, reliably, and efficiently predicts production, thereby making it an important tool for optimizing CO2-EOR design.
Adaptive Control for Finite-Time Cluster Synchronization of Fractional-Order Fully Complex-Valued Dynamical Networks
Authors: Xiang Kaiquan , Kang Qiaokun , Chang Hao , Yang Jing
Published: August 2023

This paper aims to address finite-time cluster synchronization (FTCS) issues for fractional-order fully complex-valued dynamical networks (FFCVDNs) with time delay. To compensate for the limited application of one controller, the delay-dependent and delay-independent adaptive controllers with regard to quadratic and absolute-valued norms are developed, respectively. Based on the finite-time stability theorem and auxiliary inequality techniques, detailed Lyapunov analysis is provided to ensure that FFCVDNs can achieve FTCS, and the settling times (STs) are estimated on the basis of system and control parameters characterized by system models to decrease the conservativeness of the existing results. Finally, simulation examples are provided to verify the correctness of theoretical analysis.
The ‘Confessional’ Voice in Food Journalism: Decentring Narratives in the Whetstone Radio Collective
Authors: Vodanovic Lucia , Venkateswaran Janani
Published: August 2023

This article discusses the use of personal narratives in food media and journalism with a particular focus on podcasting. It situates the research amongst the abundance of lived experiences both in food content and in podcasting, two spaces that have been regarded as providers of the intimacy required to challenge impartiality practices in journalism. Given that the growth of podcasting has arguably failedto include enough non-mainstream voices, our primary research is based on four series of the Whetstone Radio Collective, a media organisation that aims to tell the stories of marginalised communities. Using content and thematic analysis, it establishes that the innovative use of first-person narratives of the hosts—who are overwhelming people of colour and embody stories of migration and displacement that mirror the food stories—is accompanied by conventional journalistic sourcing of experts who are already established voices based in the Global North. A recentring agenda is most obvious when it reclaims histories such as that of black farmers in the US, when it situates the consumption of foods as part of the global trade that drove the colonial project, or when it delves into and criticises foodways such as the social architecture of kitchens.
Management of Odontogenic Sinusitis: Results with Single-Step FESS and Dentoalveolar Surgery
Authors: Rangics Anna , Répássy Gábor Dénes , Gyulai-Gaál Szabolcs , Dobó-Nagy Csaba , Tamás László , Simonffy László
Published: August 2023

Objective: Odontogenic sinusitis (OS) is a well-known and important border of specialties in otorhinolaryngology and dentoalveolar surgery. Odontogenic sinusitis can develop due to iatrogenic harm or odontogenic infection. The gold standard diagnostic method is clinical and radiological—CBCT (cone beam computed tomography)—examination. The treatment of this condition requires collaboration between ENT and dentoalveolar surgery specialists and can be non-surgical or surgical based on staging. This paper aims to share the results of our clinical study whereby complex therapy was administered by a dentoalveolar surgeon and an otorhinolaryngologist in cooperation. Patients and methods: We conducted a retrospective study comprising 111 OS patients who underwent complex therapy between 2016 and 2023 at Semmelweis University, Budapest, Hungary. All patients were treated with concurrent FESS (functional endoscopic sinus surgery) and dentoalveolar surgery. Follow-up was based on symptoms, clinical examination and CBCT imaging. Results: Of the 111 patients, 107 were successfully treated with concurrent FESS and dentoalveolar surgery, and only 4 had further symptoms following the complex therapy and needed retreatment. Conclusions: The complex, single-session therapy involving FESS and oral surgery is an effective treatment method, which is less invasive and associated with fewer complications compared to previous interventions, such as the Luc–Caldwell procedure.
Experimental Study on Enhanced Oil Recovery of Adaptive System after Polymer Flooding
Authors: Pi Yanfu , Fan Xinyu , Liu Li , Zhao Mingjia , Jiang Linxiao , Cheng Guoyu
Published: August 2023

After polymer flooding in Daqing Oilfield, the heterogeneity of the reservoir is enhanced, leading to the development of the dominant percolation channels, a significant issue with inefficient circulation, a substantial amount of displacement agents, and elevated cost. In order to further improve oil recovery, an adaptive oil displacement system (ASP-PPG) was proposed by combining preformed particle gel (PPG) with an alkali-surfactant-polymer system (ASP). This comprehensive study aims to assess the effectiveness of the adaptive oil displacement system (ASP-PPG) in improving the recovery efficiency of heterogeneous reservoirs after polymer flooding. The evaluation encompasses various critical aspects, including static performance tests, flow experiments, microscopic experiments, profile control experiments, and flooding experiments conducted on a four-layer heterogeneous physical model. The experimental results show that the adaptive system has robust stability, enhanced mobility, effective plugging capability, and profile improvement capability. Notably, the system demonstrates the remarkable ability to successfully pass through the core and effectively block the large pores, resulting in an 18.4% recovery incremental after polymer flooding. This improvement is reflected in the reduced oil saturation values in the ultra-high permeability, high permeability, medium, and low permeability layers, which are 5.09%, 7.01%, 13.81%, and 15.45%, respectively. The adaptive system effectively recovered the remaining oil in the low and medium permeability layers, providing a promising approach for improving the recovery factors under challenging reservoir conditions.
Discours de langue et discours de parole : les énoncés concessifs
Authors: Bourquin Guy
Published: August 2023

Cette étude se situe dans le cadre plus général d’une réflexion sur les conditions dans lesquelles s’élabore, au sein d’un espace relationnel autonome, le «discours de la langue» qu’on différencie du «discours de la parole»). La réflexion procède d'une interprétation contrastive des énoncés concessifs du français, de l'anglais (ancien et moderne) et, accessoirement, du danois, du grec moderne et du chinois. Les connecteurs concessifs de surface (ceux que livre le «discours de la parole»), sont traités comme fragments d’un discours qui se tient ailleurs, et font l’objet d’un examen attentif, car c'est à partir de leurs valeurs de «langue» (de leur statut de signe linguistique) qu'on peut inférer la nature des opérations sous-jacentes.
Pragmatique linguistique et analyse de discours : l’implicite dans Wratislav, une nouvelle de Saki
Authors: Larreya Paul
Published: August 2023

Recent advances in linguistics / pragmatics can provide a sound methodological basis for some aspects of discourse analysis. In particular, the following concepts may be of use in the study of the implicit : (a) speaker / hearer subjectivity ; (b) presupposition ; (c) locutionary /illocutionary ellipsis ; and (d) «implicatures».
Gauchissement apologétique, idéologie et heuristique : la part de l’ombre dans le discours Chomskyen
Authors: Pamiès Jean
Published: August 2023

In this article, a number of apparently disconnected, wild speculations which one finds scattered in Chomsky’s writings are shown to follow inevitably from the conjunction of the universal schema he offers for any acquisition of an intricate cognitive structure underdetermined by data and his rejection of the strict inductivism of empiricist epistemology. The underlying coherence and internal drive of Chomskyan discourse is thus brought to light, together with the unavoidable ideological cost of the implicit guiding principles of Chomskyan heuristic. This approach can in no way challenge the empirical validity of precise hypotheses on the specific nature of Universal Grammar in the particular case of language, and is merely intended to give food for thought to those linguists who do not insist on failing to see the wood for the trees.
De Faust à l’«Homme Faustien » : Hernando de Soto et l’alchimie du nouveau monde
Authors: Foata Anne
Published: August 2023

In Andrew Lytle's fiction, the conquest of the New World is presented as an alchemical operation which has brought the Western World spiritual ruin. In At the Moon's Inn (1941), Hernando de Soto, the conqueror of Florida, appears as a man of Faustian will and appetites, whose lineaments are borrowed from the legendary figure of Faust and his avatar in Spengler’s «Faustian Man.»
Au frontières de l'autre: Nadine Gordiner et The Late Bourgeois world
Authors: Triomphe Micheline
Published: August 2023

«Aux frontières de l’autre » (On the borderline of otherness) explores the quasi-obsessional way(s) in which Nadine Gordimer, the white South-African writer, deals with the Black as the supreme figure of otherness. An initial survey of her fiction (short stories and novels) shows her insistence on the hopelessness of any attempt, however earnest, to bridge the gap between Blacks and Whites, or more concretely, between the White and the Black experience of life in a context of apartheid. The discussion then focuses on one of the shorter novels, The Late Bourgeois World, published 1966, as an instance of the dramatic fate of a White man passionately struggling against the barriers of race, family, culture and education. Failure and defeat however are not Gordimer’s final word, since death can hardly be nothing but death when sacrificial. To-morrow is another day.
Migration and Identity: Louis Adamic
Authors: Birnbaum Gudrun
Published: August 2023

Louis Adamic was himself part of the turbulent years of mass immigration before WWI, having left his native Slovenia in 1913 at the age of fourteen. His work as a writer and journalist was devoted to the complexities and conflicts of an American society in which millions of immigrants and their children were living poor and troubled lives. He became influential in the 1930's and 40’s because he succeeded in speaking for these millions, describing both their original cultures and their plight in America in ways that touched both immigrant and old-stock American readers.
Two I(s)-Landed Anti-Heroes: Cendrar's Dan Yack and Hawkes Skipper
Authors: Colvile Georgiana Mary Morton
Published: August 2023

Romance of reflections and reflections on romance. The specular confrontation between two novels : Blaise Cendrars’ Les confessions de Dan Yack (1917-1929) and John Hawkes’ Second Skin (1964) and between the two protagonists Dan Yack and Skipper, temporally and spatially far apart, results in a surprising series of similarities and also surrealistic antinomies. No better example of 'objective chance’ could be found, as it is highly unlikely that in 1964, Hawkes would have read a French novel that was almost unknown and out of print. Nevertheless, this essay was written as a playful rather than a didactic or arbitrary exercise.
Images of the City in Recent Experimental Films
Authors: Brinckmann Christine Noll
Published: August 2023

Cinq films expérimentaux, trois américains et deux allemands ont été présentés en vue de montrer comment la ville peut devenir un sujet cinématographique à différents égards : soit en représentant la réalité, soit en sélectionnant certains aspects de la réalité, soit en transformant la réalité urbaine d’un point de vue structurel, rythmique, lyrique, etc.

Les films visionnés étaient les suivants : Peter Hutton’s New York portrait Chapter 1 (1977-78) ; Ernie Gehr’s Shift (1972-74) ; David Rimmer’s Real Italian pizza (1971) ; Noll Brinckmann’s The West village meat market (1979) et Upholstered furniture in the open air (1984).
Vision and Voice in two City Novels : Dreiser and Ellison
Authors: Ross Stephen M.
Published: August 2023

Chez Dreiser comme chez Ellison le visible et la lumière l’emportent sur la voix et la parole, au détriment de la communauté humaine. Dans Sister Carrie, roman pourtant prolixe, le discours de l'héroïne se réduit aux réponses monosyllabique qu'elle fait à ses partenaires successifs. La parole se noie dans les lumières de la ville, et alors que Hurstwood s’enfonce dans la nuit jusqu’au suicide, Carrie poursuit sa brillante ascension d'étoile du spectacle. Quant au protagoniste de Invisible Man, c’est un orateur aveugle et invisible essayant de survivre dans un monde où ne compte que la vue ; il en prend du reste conscience quand il s'enferme dans un sous-sol éclairé de 1 369 ampoules et se décrit comme «voix désincarnée ». Ellison définit ainsi la condition du romancier qui voudrait faire entendre sa voix dans un genre essentiellement visuel et urbain.
Extra -et métalinguistique : La langue à la rencontre du réel
Authors: Adamczewski Henri
Published: August 2023

Henri Adamczewski reprend et explicite dans une perspective à la fois théorique et pédagogique, les idées force qui sous-tendent ses recherches les plus récentes et dont on trouvera la présentation la plus complète dans sa Grammaire Linguistique de l’Anglais.
Du linguistique à l’extra-linguistique
Authors: Coulomb Claude
Published: August 2023

The extralinguistic links and contrasts with the linguistic as well as with linguistics. If we concentrate on the first of these opposing pairs from the point of view of the interpretation of utterances, it appears that from the linguistic to the extralinguistic there is a double continuity. First of all the extralinguistic can be conceived of as set of utterances or propositions underlying potential utterances. Secondly the presence of such utterances is signaled explicitly in speech by identifiable or constructible marks.
Coco-talk : the proper study of mankind
Authors: Paira-Pemberton Jean
Published: August 2023

De la science fiction à la fiction de la science. L’ambiguïté de notre thème : «extra-linguistique et linguistique » montre combien il est difficile de délimiter une frontière entre le verbal et le non-verbal, entre le monde du langage et le monde tout court. Cette difficulté dans le domaine de la linguistique est doublée par un mouvement similaire (de l’exclusion vers l’inclusion) dans la théorie psychanalytique. On peut l’observer aussi bien dans le travail de Freud lui-même que dans son développement lacanien. Tandis que le langage impose ses catégories discrètes à l’expérience, il défie par sa nature même toute tentative de définir une limite entre l’externe et l’interne. Il n’est pas possible non plus de vaincre le problème en le transcendant. L’utilisation par Lacan de la bande de Moebius - surface où ne peuvent se définir ni extérieur ni intérieur - pour symboliser le ’parlêtre’ et sa définition du signifiant illustrent bien cette position précaire.
Les «opérations enfouies » du codage idiomatique
Authors: Gréciano Gertrud
Published: August 2023

The use of polylexematic frozen figures, called idioms, illustrates two typical semantic regularities : first, an obligatory demotivation, due to the neutralization of the literal constituent-meanings. Secondly, an optional and complementary remotivation that proceeds by allusions to literality, according to pragmatic laws. Cognition succeeds in explaining demotivation by conceptualisation, an abstract rationality-based naming that situates the idiom in a noematic super-or hyponymous network. Remotivation then becomes the result of symbolization, an expressive intuition-based naming where mediating and explanatory visual colorations can be recognized. As extralinguistic capacities neutralize extralinguistic data, the idiomatic phenomenon is an inter-or even metalinguistic one.
Some Kicks against the Prick : John Metcalf in his Essays
Authors: Solecki Sam
Published: August 2023

Le Point sur les Pointes de John Metcalf.

Il est possible d’isoler deux sujets essentiels de préoccupation dans Kicking Against the Pricks. Le premier se manifeste dans la position ironique et satirique que Metcalf adopte à l’égard de la société nord-américaine et plus particulièrement canadienne. Littérature, critique et culture expriment des attitudes coloniales et des critères locaux qui en même temps les dominent et dont la fonction dernière est de protéger un produit local de qualité inférieure. L’essai analyse également le second centre d’intérêt de Metcalf -la nouvelle canadienne contemporaine et ses critiques. Si est peut-être justifiée la critique brillante et souvent ambitieuse que Metcalf fait du concept d’une tradition littéraire canadienne, l’essai suggère que son attaque a non seulement pour effet de défaire certaines réputations suspectes mais aussi de remodeler la tradition canadienne de telle sorte que John Metcalf y trouve une place.
The corruption of memory : Mavis Gallant’s ‘An Autobiography’
Authors: Besner Neil K.
Published: August 2023

La corruption de la mémoire : «An Autobiography» de Mavis Gallant.

Dans la nouvelle de Mavis Gallant, «An Autobiography», le lecteur est invité à réfléchir sur les rapports entre la fiction, la forme, et la vérité, tout particulièrement sur les moyens par lesquels la mémoire rappelle ou recrée le passé. C’est en examinant comment les jeux combinés de l’autobiographie et de la fiction décident de l’ordre de la structure narrative de cette nouvelle que le lecteur arrive à percevoir comment les impulsions incompatibles du narrateur de se déplier et se replier révèlent son personnage.
La quête de l’identité dans A Summer at Lonely Beach de Miriam Waddington
Authors: Leclaire Jacques
Published: August 2023

La quête de l’identité dans «Summer at Lonely Beach » de Miriam Waddington.

La quête de l’identité est un thème central de Summer at Lonely Beach. Elle prend la forme d’une dialectique de l’altérité et de l’unicité et elle explore une nouvelle manière d’assumer l’identité juive, la possibilité de créer une identité canadienne multiculturelle, synthèse de l’altérité et de l’unicité.
Self-reflexive Elements in stories of Clark Blaise
Authors: Leckey Robert
Published: August 2023

Although narrators in Clark Blaise’s short stories are sometimes seen as detached and passive observers of the events they describe, they are actually deeply involved in the narrative implications of their tales and committed to the self-reflexive impulse which prompts them to create stories about creating stories. This impulse is examined in relation to three of Blaise’s works of short fiction : A North American Education (1973), Tribal Justice (1974), and Resident Alien (1986).
Partie d’images avec Matt Cohen
Authors: Mane Robert
Published: August 2023

Partie d’images avec Matt Cohen.

«You try to make a joke of everything but you’re really a serious person». Ce commentaire qui, dans Café Le Dog, s’applique un personnage d’écrivain, offre une clé pour comprendre les nouvelles de Matt Cohen. Prenant l’auteur à son propre jeu, cet essai, qui se veut ludique plus qu’académique, passe en revue les «images» proposées par les nouvelles et en tire des conclusions sur la thématique et l’art de l’écrivain.
Constructing the artificial obvious
Authors: Carver Torrent Ruth Ann
Published: August 2023

"Constructing the artificial obvious". (Commentaire du chapitre "An Expedition to the Pole" tiré de "Teaching A Stone To Talk" : Expeditions and Encounters de Annie Dillard).

Les pôles terrestres, paradoxalement centraux et excentrés tout à la fois, sont les points sur lesquels se focalise une expédition qui explore la relation entre la perception, le langage et la créativité. Cet article examine la façon dont Dillard utilise l'imagination comme méthode dans son entreprise, ainsi que le penchant de l'écrivain pour l'excursion inventive en terrain inconnu.
Les Murray's The Boys Who Stole the Funeral
Authors: Clunies Ross Bruce
Published: August 2023

Les A. Murray, le poète australien, a dit un jour qu'en écrivant The Boys Who Stole the Funeral il avait voulu regagner du terrain que la poésie avait perdu au profit du roman. Le romancier Christopher Koch, ami de Murray, lui a implicitement répondu dans un essai intitulé "The Novel as Narrative Form". Notre étude porte sur le récit poétique et le récit en prose et sur l’intersection possible du roman en vers et du roman en tant que poème narratif, The Boys Who Stole the Funeral nous servant de référence.
Notes on dialogism and the treatment of time in Under the Volcano
Authors: Schaeffer Pierre
Published: August 2023

Dans cet article, le dialogisme d'Under the Volcano (roman de Malcolm Lowry paru en 1947) est étudié sous l'angle des rapports fructueux qu'il entretien avec les manipulations temporelles programmées par la trame narrative du roman.
L'ordre des mots de l'incise au style direct et au style indirect
Authors: Strauch Gérard
Published: August 2023

L'ordre des mots historique de l'incise de style direct est l'ordre inversé ("said he"). Dès son apparition, au contraire, l'incise de style indirect adopte l'ordre des mots assertif ("he said"), probablement par analogie avec l'incise de modalisation ("I think", "I am afraid", "I hope"). La première remise en cause de cette opposition est l'apparition, dans la deuxième moitié du 18ème siècle, de l'incise assertive au style direct. L'évolution inverse et symétrique de l'incise de style indirect ne se produit que plus d'un siècle plus tard. Aujourd'hui, la ligne de partage entre les deux structures ne s'établit plus entre style direct et indirect, mais à l'intérieur de chaque registre, selon la nature du sujet de l'incise. Le système actuel impose, dans les deux registres, l'ordre assertif lorsque le sujet est un pronom personnel, et laisse le choix de l'ordre des mots lorsque le sujet est nominal. Au style direct, toutefois, le sujet nominal est inversé trois fois sur quatre, alors qu'au style indirect, c'est la structure assertive qui prédomine dans les mêmes proportions. Cette situation semble refléter encore l'ancienne dichotomie.
Atwood and Autobiography : The Opening Sequence of Murder in the Dark
Authors: Quinn Antoinette
Published: August 2023

This essay explores Margaret Atwood’s experimental approach to autobiographical convention in the context of Umberto Eco's observation that "postmodern discourse" is an "ironic rethinking" of narratives from the past.
La Short Story Canadienne et les Rapports Conjugaux
Authors: Larrière Claire
Published: August 2023

Les problèmes inhérents au mariage semblent un thème majeur et permanent de la "short story" canadienne. Les textes rassemblés dans The Oxford Book of Canadian Short Stories qui recouvrent un large éventail de périodes, de régions et de sujets, ont servi de base à cette étude. Les multiples causes de malentendus et de comportements abusifs sont examinées, ainsi que l'évolution des relations maritales et de leur expression, qui va du mode le plus réaliste au plus allusif, poétique et humoristique. C'est précisément l'évolution du genre de la nouvelle, plutôt que ses sujets, qui semble offrir quelque perspective d'amélioration dans les relations conjugales.
Modalities of the Edge : Mavis Gallant’s Fiction
Authors: Godard Barbara
Published: August 2023

Examining Mavis Gallant's "The Other Paris" the essay shows that there is no "depth" in Gallant's world : everything is an effect of surfaces, as the classic realist novel is ironically rewritten. Here, the ironic trope develops from the contrasts between evident and latent meanings emerging from the recontextualization of well-known literary forms. Gallant parodies the generic conventions which she defamiliarizes.
«A Bolt of White Cloth», Leon Rooke as Parabolist
Authors: Mathews Lawrence
Published: August 2023

Critical discussion of the work of Leon Rooke has tended to ignore the fact that he has called himself a "moralist". Examination of the title story of A Bolt of White Cloth (1984) reveals the way in which he uses the tradition of parable to fulfil this role. Reference to Kafka’s "On Parables" provides a paradigm for Rooke's method : he is interested not in specific moral issues but rather in confronting the reader with the idea of the parabolic in such a way as to challenge his/her presuppositions about the function of a literary work.
Real Mothers : Femininity, Motherhood and Fiction. The Short Stories of Audrey Thomas
Authors: Vice Sue
Published: August 2023

Les nouvelles courtes de Audrey Thomas montrent les rapports étroits entre fémininité et création artistique, en particulier dans leur traitement de la maternité.
Rudy Wiebe’s Reconstruction(s) of the Indian Voice
Authors: Hochbruck Wolfgang
Published: August 2023

Rudy Wiebe's treatment of the Indian voice in three of his short stories ("Along the Red Deer and the South Saskatchewan" ; "Where is the Voice Coming From ?" ; "Games for Queen Victoria") mirrors three different approaches he experimented and played with. They are exemplarily classified as "Remake", "Reflection" and "Rerun". The fact that the Indian voice in literature is always a metaphor is seen as a link between the (colonial) Victorian mode and the postmodern, at the same time questioning the existence of any "realistic" representation of Indian speech and languages in fictional texts.
Vers une pragmatique de la négation
Authors: Hamm Albert
Published: August 2023

Towards a pragmatics of negation.

This paper investigates some of the causes of the unsatisfactory treatment of negation in linguistic theory. Various factors are identified and particularly the fact that negatives often signal a relation to an implicit discourse and that negation has thus a pragmatic dimension which is often neglected. A brief reminder of the limits of the major theories as regards the treatment of negation, will enable us to conclude that the theory of annonciative operations offers the most satisfactory frame, and deals best with the psycholinguistic aspect of negation.
Relations lâches et serrées dans les propositions relatives en WHICH et THAT
Authors: Dubos Ulrika
Published: August 2023

Le choix entre les relatifs WHICH et THAT ne dépend pas exclusivement du degré de détermination du GN antécédent. La présence d'un prédicat à valeur assertive dans la subordonnée favorise THAT en permettant une relation serrée entre GN antécédent et prédicat, sur le modèle focalisation-contraste. WHICH apparaît dans les contextes à relation lâche, son individuation étant favorisée par les références situationnelles, les prédicats multiples, les modaux épistémiques et l'emphase exclamative.
Représentations métalinguistiques et explication grammaticale. Etude de quelques emplois du modal shall en indépendantes et principales
Authors: Arigne Viviane
Published: August 2023

Metalinguistic representations and grammatical theory. A study of shall in independent and main clauses.

In this article, we propose to see how metalinguistic representations can account for various uses of shall in independent and main clauses. Thee study is made within the framework of Culioli's enunciative theory in which one term is referred to, or located by, another. This concept of oriented reference is used to analyse an etymological semantic value in which two subjets are viewed in reference to each other. We then examine how other oriented relations between terms exert constraints on semantic values or help create new ones : the nature of the terms related - subjects as parameters of the system of reference, syntactical subjects or notional domains - must also be taken into account.
Représentations sous-jacentes, représentations lexicales et alternances vocaliques en anglais
Authors: Watbled Jean-Philippe
Published: August 2023

Underlying representations, lexical representations and English vowel alternations.

In this article, we discuss the basic principles of a constrained version of generative phonology. Phonological rules fall into two sets : lexical and post-lexical rules. We distinguish underlying representations, which are the inputs to lexical rules, from lexical representations, which are the inputs to post-lexical rules. We postulate a condition on possible rules, limiting the degree of abstractness of representations. English vowel alternations are re-examined within the framework of this revised model of lexical phonology.
Les séquences d'adjectifs en position prénominale
Authors: Coulomb Claude
Published: August 2023

S'agissant de la syntaxe de l'adjectif en position prénominale l'attention s'est portée en priorité sur les séquences d'éléments juxtaposés sans marques ni marqueurs de coordination et la question qui, le plus souvent, a été alors posée est celle de l'ordre des adjectifs. Nous nous proposons ici d'examiner et de comparer les divers modes de coordination des adjectifs en position épithète de façon à faire apparaître les choix auxquels ils répondent ainsi que les contraintes dont ils dépendent.
Quelques justifications complémentaires concernant l'emploi de that dans les complétives
Authors: Souesme Jean-Claude
Published: August 2023

Some Further Remarks Concerning the Use of THAT in Subordinate Clauses

Out of context, it is often quite difficult to say whether that has to be used to head subordinate clauses, but the study of our corpus has lead us to notice that it is required when the predicative relation present in the subordinate clause is repeated. Consequently, we can venture to say that whenever that is used, it stands as the marker of a repetition : even when there is no explicit repetition, it nevertheless reveals the speaker's will to show that he now passes a judgement on the content of the subordinate clause, which was necessarily constructed before the utterance itself. Therefore, the content of a that-clause is never introduced as a new piece of information. Such is the case, however, when φ is used preferably to that ; then it has to be considered as another marker with its own specific value.
Personnage et métafiction dans The Trick of It de Michael Frayn
Authors: Gutleben Christian
Published: August 2023

Dans la mesure où le personnage repose sur l'illusion fictionnelle et où la métafiction sabote cette illusion, l'édification du personnage dans un roman fortement métafictionnel semble a priori compromise. Or, dans The Trick of It, le personnage scripteur acquiert sa complexité structurelle, linguistique, référentielle précisément parce que les énoncés dont il est sujet possèdent une dimension métafictionnelle – sur le plan extradiégétique.
Tradition et Traditionalisme
Authors: Raphaël Freddy
Published: August 2023

If living tradition is both repetition and continuous innovation, traditionalism, in its nostalgia of the lost origin, freezes tradition into an immutable order and negates at once time and otherness. The inventive and creative dynamics of man results from the tension between the desire for rootedness and the call of adventure.
Imaginaire scientifique et naissance d’une tradition : la géométrisation des jardins (1500-1700)
Authors: Baridon Michel
Published: August 2023

En s’appuyant sur l’histoire des sciences et la théorie de la connaissance, cette étude des jardins de la Renaissance montre qu’à la suite de la découverte de la perspective linéaire, un tournant se prend au XIVe siècle dans l’esthétique des jardins. La tradition qui naît à ce moment-là va durer jusqu’aux premières décennies du XVIIIe siècle.

Cette tradition trouve son origine dans la méthode des géomètres qui fonctionne non seulement dans les sciences mais aussi dans les Lettres et dans les arts où elle introduit des critères quantitatifs dans le dessin des jardins, en architecture, en musique et dans la critique littéraire.
R.B. Sheridan’s The Critic : Handing down, handing on, handing back the Burlesque Tradition
Authors: Ross Ciaran
Published: August 2023

Le terme «tradition» est étudié ici comme principe de groupement du discours. The Critic engage une relation avec la tradition burlesque, mais elle n’est jamais identique à ces modèles sur lesquels la notion même de la tradition est fondée. Sheridan montre les limites de la complicité traditionnelle entre la scène et la salle, démystifie les conventions mais ne nie pas leur existence.
L’invention de la tradition ou l’art d’accommoder les restes
Authors: Chénetier Marc
Published: August 2023

L’«invention de la tradition» dit un triple rapport. Le premier lie la tradition à une invention fondatrice. Dans le deuxième, l’invention est une condition de survie de la tradition, son principal effet, voire sa nature profonde. Dans un troisième, on détache tradition et invention des notions d’origine et de continuum pour les placer dans le champ d’un devenir mutuel.
«She told me her was going», she and her : Two feminine subject pronouns in Black Country English
Authors: Higgs Lyndon
Published: August 2023

The dialect spoken in the Black Country, England, contains two variants for the Standard English feminine subject pronoun she. These are she and her. Upon a close analysis of recorded data, it would seem that the choice of pronoun is clearly not random, but depends on several factors, such as the speaker, the situational context, and the speaker’s relation with the referent of she or her. These social and relational concepts bear some similarity to the tu and vous pronoun system in French, since factors such as solidarity, respect and disrespect affect the choice of pronoun. The use of two feminine pronouns can reduce ambiguity when there are two different female referents in utterances such as «she told me her was going ».
The Satanic Verses de Salman Rushdie : portrait de Satan en bouc émissaire
Authors: Fort Camille
Published: August 2023

Our study focuses on Saladin Chamcha, hero of Salman Rushdie’s fourth novel, The Satanic Verses, and tries to articulate two interpretations which appear to be mutually exclusive. A theological reading of the plot might consider the hero’s transformation into a “stinking goat” as Rushdie’s satire of a manichean conception of good and evil ; a postcolonial reading would identify the goat as scapegoat, the victim of a community’s process of ostracization. These readings are too schematic and should be opposed to the writer’s aim at blurring and melding the Satanic paradigm and the paradigm of the victim. Following René Girard’s study of the scapegoat, we can perceive in the story a parodie, tragical rewriting of the Book of Job, where Satan is persecuted by God (whose substitute figures in the narrative are the father and the author). If the victim has an author, then it can escape its status by repositionning itself in the fictive discourse which engenders it : either by becoming an accusing subject in its turn, or by subverting the clichés of victimhood (the goat, the fall...), or else by appropriating the discourse that objectivizes it as a victim. The novel’s fate has displayed the limitations of such strategies ; still, they contribute mainly to its force and literary originality.
The Notion of Victim and the Literary Imagination in Toni Morrison 's Sula
Authors: Ippolito Emilia
Published: August 2023

The violence of a past of slavery, and therefore of exclusion, annihilation, expulsion and displacement has to be turned into the present of narration, to re-negociate identity and history. In this way Morrison negates narrative continuity, electing marginalized and subversive subjects to create a collective agency, through acts which explore the varying nuances of the concept of victim, self-victimization and violence, from the literary to the non-literary categories. In this way, literary imagination serves black history through its own subversion. Sula reflects such an experiment. Morrison’s second novel narrates the story of two friends, Nel and Sula, two young black girls on the way to adulthood, searching for their own selves and fighting against social conventions which confirm their history as an imposed past of slavery, a history in which there is no place for them as acting subjects. Most interestingly, the clue to the representation of the victim in Sula is to be found in the dialectical tension between community as a monolithic status quo and individual as subversive figure. It is through this and other forms of destructive interaction that the black female victim of history finds her way to self-assertion.