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Inventaire des plantes alicamentaires utilisées comme assaisonnements en République du Congo
Authors: Milandou Longin Justin Clair Bonazaba , Mbani Beni Franck Madzou , Loumpangou Célestine Nkounkou , Dipelet Ulrich Gaël Bouka , Ouamba Jean-Maurille
Published: August 2023

Plusieurs assaisonnements naturels consommés par les congolais sont emportés d’autres pays et leurs apports alicamentaires ne sont  pas en général connus par ladite population. Dans le but de valoriser les plantes alicamentaires utilisées comme assaisonnements en  République du Congo, des enquêtes ethnobotaniques ont été menées dans quatre départements du Congo. Ces enquêtes ont permis de  recenser 61 espèces végétales alicamentaires utilisées comme assaisonnements dans ce pays. Parmi les familles botaniques recensées,  les Lamiaceae sont plus répondues avec 9 espèces végétales (14,51%) et suivi des Apiaceae avec 7 espèces végétales (11,29%). Les  plantes les plus citées comme assaisonnements dans les zones enquêtées sont Alllium cepa L. (100%), Allium sativum L. (100%), Allium  fistulosum L. (91,56%) et Laurus nobilus L. (87,49%). Les organes végétaux les plus consommées sont les feuilles (33,63%), les graines  (24,47%), les fruits (18,42%) et les bulbes (13,59%). Ces plantes sont utilisées par la population congolaise pour traiter plusieurs affections  à savoir : l’hypertension artérielle, le diabète, la grippe, la toux, les maux de dents, les infections, etc. Il est donc nécessaire de réaliser des  études scientifiques plus approfondies sur ces plantes permettant de faire l’apport entre les composés chimiques, la nutrition et les  activités biologiques des alicaments indiqués. 

 

English title: Inventory of plants used as seasonings in the Republic of Congo

Several natural seasonings consumed by the Congolese are taken from other countries  and their food intake is not generally known by the said population. In order to valorize the alicamentary plants used as seasonings in the  Republic of Congo, ethnobotanical surveys were conducted in four departments of Congo. These ethnobotanical surveys have  allowed us to identify 61 alicamentary plant species divided in this country Among these botanical families, the Lamiaceae are the most  popular with 9 plant species (14.51%), followed by the Apiaceae with 7 plant species (11.29%). The plant species most cited as seasonings  in the surveyed areas are Alllium cepa L. (100%), Allium sativum L. (100%), Allium fistulosum L. (91.56%) and Laurus nobilus L. (87.49%).  The most consumed plant organs are leaves (33.63%), seeds (24.47%), fruits (18.42%) and bulbs (13.59%). These plants are used by the  Congolese population to treat several ailments such as: high blood pressure, diabetes, influenza, coughs, toothaches, infections, etc. It is  thus necessary to carry out more thorough scientific studies on these plants allowing to make the contribution between the chemical  compounds, the nutrition and the biological activities of these drugs.
Habitudes de consommation des eaux de boisson et perception de la qualité organoleptique de l’eau de robinet par les populations du Grand Libreville (Gabon)
Authors: Soulounganga Patrice , Ndjeri-Ndjouhou Marthe , Ngohang Franck Estimé
Published: August 2023

Assurer une eau de consommation potable aux ménages du Grand Libreville est un véritable défi au vu du stress hydrique que connait  l’eau du robinet actuellement. C’est ainsi que les habitudes de consommation de ce précieux liquide dans cette mégapole ont évolué ces  deux dernières décennies. Cette étude avait pour objectifs d’évaluer les habitudes de consommation en eaux de boisson d’une part, et  déterminer la perception de la qualité organoleptique de l’eau de robinet des différentes communes d’autre part. La méthodologie  adoptée dans cette étude était basée sur un sondage qui a consisté à administrer aux ménages un questionnaire pré-validé. Les résultats  obtenus ont montré que l’eau du robinet est l’eau de boisson la plus consommée. Toutefois, la majorité des enquêtés estiment  que cette eau du robinet est de mauvaise qualité en plus d’émettre de sérieuses réserves sur son goût, sa couleur et son odeur. Ce qui  justifie son traitement à domicile avant utilisation. Par ailleurs, 42,8% des enquêtés estiment que cette eau serait responsable des  maladies hydriques. En conséquence, la diversité des sources d’approvisionnement en eaux de boisson est doublement liée à la vétusté  du réseau d’adduction et une perception négative de la qualité de l’eau du robinet. 

 

English title: Drinking water consumption habits and perception of the organoleptic quality of tap water by the populations of Greater  Libreville (Gabon)

Ensuring drinking water for households in Greater Libreville is a real challenge considering the current water stress in tap water. This is  how the consumption habits of this precious liquid in this megalopolis have evolved over the last two decades. This study aimed at  assessing drinking water consumption habits, on the one hand, and determining the perception of the organoleptic quality of tap water  in the various municipalities, on the other. The methodology adopted in this study was based on a survey (pre-validated questionnaire) to households. The results showed that tap water is the most consumed drinking water. However, most respondents believe that this tap  water is of poor quality and express serious reservations about its taste, colour and smell, which justifies its treatment at home before  use. Moreover, 42.8% of the respondents believe that this water is responsible for waterborne diseases. As a result, the diversity of  drinking water supplies is linked to the obsolescence of the supply network and a negative perception of the quality of tap water.
Revised stratigraphic sequence and type sections of the Southern Bida Basin, Nigeria
Authors: Ozulu G.U. , Aigbadon G.O. , Okoro A.U. , Odiaka N.I.
Published: August 2023

A reassessment of the stratigraphy of the Southern Bida Basin has been attempted among various disagreements. For this work, field  geological mapping and stratigraphic descriptions of exposed lithologic types on outcrop sections were used. Section-by-section  descriptions of important outcrops based on field observations aided in identifying lithologic units and delineating the boundaries of the  sub-basin's three formations (Lokoja, Ahoko, and Agbaja). The type sections for formations in the sub-basin were not properly erected, so  Jones (1958) type section has been supplemented by a more comprehensive hypostratotype, and the name Patti Formation, which is  considered a misnomer in this context, has been replaced with Ahoko Formation proposed by Rahaman et al. (2019). Ahoko village is the  type locality. The Agbaja Plateau, where the Agbaja Formation is best exposed, has been presented as the lectostratotype for the  formation, while the revised stratigraphic succession of the Lokoja region shows the Lokoja Formation directly encompassing the  Paleozoic Basement terrain, with the Maastrichtian Agbaja and Ahoko Formations (former Patti) overlying it sequentially.
Anticholinesterase activity and antioxidant effect of vitamin E in aluminium chloride induced toxicity in Drosophila melanogaster
Authors: Inneh C. A. , Eiya Bibiana O.
Published: August 2023

Background: Aluminium chloride (AlCl3) toxicity has been reported to be linked with impaired locomotion, memory, learning, oxidative stress and impairment of cholinergic function which are synonymous with features seen in Alzehmiers disease (AD). Vitamin E has been put forward as a possible therapeutic intervention for AD. However, there are controversies as to whether Vitamin E is beneficial in the management of AD. Anticholinesterase activity and antioxidant potential of vitamin E was evaluated in aluminium chloride induced toxicity in Drosophila Melanogaster.Methods: A 2.5mg dose of Vitamin E was considered the appropriate standard for this study after exposure of flies to varying doses of vitamin E in a 15-day survival study. Group I served as control while group II were treated with 40mM aluminium chloride (AlCl3) via their diet. Group III were treated with 2.5mg of Vitamin E via their diet and Group IV were co-administered with 40 mM AlCl3 and 2.5mg of Vitamin E via their diet. The flies were maintained on these treatments at room temperature for seven (7) days. Negative geotaxis was carried out to assess for locomotor performance (climbing activity). The impact of 40 mM AlCl3 and/0r 2.5mg of Vitamin E on the survival rate of flies was also evaluated by carrying out a 15-day survival study At the end of the experimental period, the flies were homogenized and the supernatants were used to assay for, malonaldehyde (MDA) concentration, acetylcholinesterase (AChE), superoxide dismutase (SOD), catalase (CAT) and glutathione S-transferase (GST) activities.Results: AlCl3 significantly reduced (P<0.05) the survival rate, decreased the climbing activity of flies, elevated MDA concentration and AChE activities of flies. SOD, CAT and GST activities were also significantly reduced (P<0.05) in AlCl3 treated flies. In the co treatment protocol, vitamin E was able to significantly improve (P<0.05) the survival rate, improved their climbing activity and ameliorated AlCl3 increase in AChE activity and MDA concentration in these flies. In addition, vitamin E significantly attenuated (P<0.05) AlCl3 induced decrease in SOD, CAT and GST activities.Conclusion: This study has shown that vitamin E has both antioxidant and anti-cholinesterase activities and could be of therapeutic benefits against AlCl3 induced toxicity and associated diseases like Alzheimer’s disease.
Quintais agroflorestais em Mossoró, Rio Grande do Norte
Authors: Pimentel Nathália Gabriele Lopes , Souza Lohany Sthefany , Diógenes Francisco Edislan Gurgel , Silva Carlos José da , Araujo Poliana Coqueiro Dias
Published: August 2023

O termo quintal agroflorestal é utilizado para denominar a área ao redor da residência composta pelo consórcio entre plantas agrícolas, árvores e animais. O presente estudo objetivou caracterizar quintais agroflorestais rurais no município de Mossoró, RN. Foi aplicado um questionário semiestruturado em 27 domicílios, para caracterização familiar e dos quintais. Observou-se que as famílias são compostas em sua maioria por adultos (52%), predominantemente, com ensino fundamental (62,9%). O manejo dos quintais é, geralmente, realizado por toda a família, apesar do pouco interesse dos jovens nas atividades desenvolvidas; a composição florística apresenta em sua maioria espécies frutíferas (66%) e exóticas (57%); as aves são a principal fonte de proteína animal (84%). Poucas famílias realizam comercialização dos produtos (22,2%), podendo este fator estar relacionado com a idade dos quintais, visto que muitos se encontravam em formação (48%), e com baixa diversidade de espécies. Observa-se a importância do enriquecimento com diferentes espécies agrícolas e florestais nos quintais rurais do município de Mossoró. Os quintais agroflorestais podem ser empregados no semiárido como alternativa aos sistemas tradicionais de produção, considerando as características climáticas da região e com vistas à produção agrícola e florestal sustentável.
The Gift Paradigm: A Short Introduction to the Anti-Utilitarian Movement in the Social Sciences
Authors: GÜREL Kazım Tolga
Published: August 2023

At the end of 1980, a group of social scientists founded a journal called Bulletin du Mauss. The social scientists gathered around this journal tried to criticise the utilitarian mind with anti-utilitarian publications and to show that this mindset was not universal. Alain Caille stated that at the beginning, this movement set out with criticisms only on economism. Later on, he further developed the intellectual platform and aimed to show that some of the patterns of modern and post-modern society are structures established over time: "Reversing them, learning to look at them differently”. The minimum condition for these is to realise that societies, groups and individuals constitute a self-generating process. Although Caille seemed to be approaching the anarchist tradition, he could not escape the sterility of liberalism because he could not see that the fundamental phenomenon that could weaken the totalitarian state and erode the central government dictatorship was through labour.
Desacontecimento jornalístico enquanto estratégia de narração de fatos não marcados
Authors: De Souza Ventura Mauro , Aidar Abib Tayane
Published: August 2023

Este artigo problematiza a literatura sobre gêneros e noticiabilidade jornalística para, em chave de resistência aos tradicionais processos de produção jornalística, propor o conceito de desacontecimento enquanto estratégia de narração de fatos não marcados (Sodré, 2009), a partir do registro da cotidianidade de personagens anônimos e da mobilização de dispositivos dialógico-afetivos. Inscreve, neste sentido, um quadro semântico alternativo à dinâmica da informação, viabilizada como contrapartida empreendida por atores do campo profissional e por agentes externos que, em vias de midiatização, geram circuitos alternativos às lógicas profissionais.
IMPROVING THE ABILITY OF JOB INTERVIEWS IN ENGLISH FOR VOCATIONAL SCHOOL CADETS USING THE DEMONSTRATION METHOD
Authors: Julaihah Siti
Published: August 2023

This study discusses the readiness of cadets in facing the job interview process in English where the demands from companies or agencies are that they have reliable and professional personnel. In the initial activity of recruiting employees, there are several stages that must be met in addition to the administrative requirements, the HR is also required to be able to carry out the interview process well, especially in English. The research method used in this research is classroom action research which is carried out in two cycles in the first cycle, the researcher uses the direct instruction method and in the second cycle uses the demonstration method. The results of this study arebased on the achievement of the success criteria at the end of cycle 2 where the average value of the cadets reached 80.13. In addition, the percentage of the number of cadets who got a score of 71 reached 100%.
RANCANGAN ALAT PENDETEKSI KETERSEDIAAN FLIGHT PROGRESS STRIP BERBASIS Internet Of Things (IoT) DI UNIT FDPS/RDPS JAKARTA AIR TRAFFIC SERVICE CENTER (JATSC)
Authors: Fatonah Feti , Lamtiar Suse , Oktaviana Aliefiah , Ali Rachmat
Published: August 2023

In JATSC Radar Data Processing System and Flight Data Processing System (RDPS / FDPS) Unit has one of the systems, namely Enhance- Jakarta Automation Air Traffic Service (E-JAATS). This equipment plays an important role in aviation services. The Working Processing (CWP) controller has equipment, one of which is to produce a flight progress strip. Flight strip is equipment used by ATC to keep a record of instructions issued and then used as a representation of all flights in a particular sector. RDPS / FDPS unit technicians are tasked with ensuring the availability of the flight strip. One of the problems that occurred when doing On The Job Training at the Jakarta Air Traffic Service was that RDPS / FDPS technicians did not know the availability of the flight strip every time and waited for information from ATC when the flight strip ran out. Based on this situation, the authors want to design a flight strip availability detection tool using NodeMCU and an infrared sponsor that can be accessed via Blynk APP so that it can help technicians find out information on flight strip availability at any time and immediately make changes when the flight strip will run out.
Biblioteques públiques amb fons catalans a l’àrea lingüística alemanya
Authors: Quintana Artur , Stegmann Tilbert Dídac
Published: August 2023

The most important libraries with holdings on the Catalan language and literature in the German-speaking countries are listed and described in detail. These holdings contain 60,000 volumes in total. The richest is the Biblioteca Catalana in Frankfurt am Main with 15,000 volumes and 120 journals. In Hamburg, Berlin, Trier, Munich and Zurich there are 3,000 to 8,000 volumes each. Augsburg, Basel, Freiburg im Breisgau, Fribourg in Switzerland, Göttingen, Heidelberg, Regensburg and Tübingen each have stocks of between 1,000 and 3,000 volumes. In Bochum, Bonn, Cologne, Münster, Salzburg and Speyer, the holdings vary between 500 and 1,000 volumes. The problem that arises for Catalan Studies is that it is not expressly mentioned as a special subject by the DFG is shown. It is suggested that the Catalan studies stocks of other countries are also recorded quantitatively in further analogous essays.
Die neue Brockhaus Enzyklopädie (seit 1986 fünf Bände) und Katalonien: Über die internationale Schreibung katalanischer Ortsnamen
Authors: Stegmann Tilbert Dídac
Published: August 2023

The most important encyclopedia of German-speaking countries, the Brockhaus Enzyklopädie, has since 1986 published the first five volumes of a completely new edition of 25 volumes, which will be published by 1995. Unfortunately, in its Catalan-themed entries, it uses the names of places and people in Spanish. This persistence of the Francoist and centralist obfuscation with regard to the autochthonous personality of the Catalan-speaking countries must be considered completely inadmissible. Catalan forms must also be normative abroad. Mentioning the Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana as a very easy point of reference to resolve any doubts about the correct Catalan spellings and citing the exact provisions of the laws of linguistic normalization of the Principality and the Balearic Islands and the corresponding decree of the Generalitat Valenciana, points out the urgent need for the Brockhaus Enzyklopädie, in the coming volumes, to change its spelling policy to the point of respecting the Catalan reality.
Die Rolle des Katalanischen im Erziehungswesen am Anfang dieses Jahrhunderts
Authors: Berkenbusch Gabriele
Published: August 2023

The article first gives an overview of the situation of education in Barcelona around 1900. The panorama of the various public and private institutions, religious and non-religious, makes us almost forget the little importance of schooling at that time. Two important and often confused movements are fighting for an improvement in the school: the pedagogical renewal movement and the Catalan school movement.The use of Catalan in school becomes a language conflict and is treated in Parliament as a political conflict. The analysis of that parliamentary debate shows that the transcendent political fact does not lie in language use but in the ideological, pragmatic and pedagogical facts that are always linked to linguistic facts.
Katalonien im Spanien des 19. Jahrhunderts
Authors: Brunn Gerhard
Published: August 2023

Spain was an anachronism in nineteenth-century Europe, politically unstable, underdeveloped in agriculture and industry, and dependent on contemporary economic centers. The city and the region of Barcelona are above all the leading region in the direction of modernity, which also arrived despite many retarding factors. But unlike the developed states of Europe, economic and social progress has so far been limited to a few regions. This leads to deep tensions between the leading region, Catalonia, and the political center, Madrid. From about 1880, Catalanism articulated these differences in development politically and nationally. So that, from a modern point of view, Catalans could use standard elements of national identity - such as their own history, language and literature.
Die Arabismen im Katalanischen
Authors: Kiesler Reinhard
Published: August 2023

In this article I present the first results of a research of 100 ‘safe’ indirect Arabic words in Catalan. These arabisms were chosen according to six criteria, the most important of which are: the inclusion of all the sure and direct arabisms of the fundamental vocabulary (Llobera and Ramon 1982; I found twelve therein); the 100 arabisms investigated had to be in common usage; as this is very difficult to find out, I have chosen only words that are registered in Pompeu Fabra's General Dictionary of the Catalan Language (DGLC). After pointing out some important differentiations such as ‘safe’ vs. insecure arabisms and hinting on ‘non-arabisms’, I present statistical data and the results of onomasiological research (according to the Hallig / Von Wartburg 1963 system). At the end I provide examples of Valencian and Balearic arabisms.
Lèxic popular regional i diccionari normatiu
Authors: Gimeno Betí Lluís
Published: August 2023

Based on the need to expand and update the normative lexicon of Catalan, the article discusses criteria for the inclusion of lexemes. The author criticizes the insufficient consideration of regional vocabulary with wide distribution from the Balearic, Valencian and Tortosí areas and the western Catalan forms in general. A number of Tortosian lexemes meet the proposed criteria and have both enriched the historical vocabulary and helped bridge the current gap between spoken and written language. The author sees himself in agreement with more recent works by the philological section of the Institut d'Estudis Catalans as well as modern dialectology and lexicography.
Salvador Espriu und Primera història d'Esther: improvisació per a titelles
Authors: Berger Verena
Published: August 2023

Salvador Espriu is one of the main authors of the revival of Catalan theater after the civil war of 1936. In a climate of political and linguistic repression, he wrote Primera història d'Esther in a language that seemed doomed to death. He created one of the main linguistic monuments of modern Catalan literary history and a magnificent synthesis of the biblical myth of Esther and the history of Catalonia in Franco's Spain. The article aims to highlight the cultural and linguistic aspects of the work, relating it to Espriu's desire for universalism, and to approach the author's intentions.
As in his poetry, Espriu relates the fate of the Jewish to that of the Catalan people. He uses the double effect of "theater within theater" and lets the action take place on two levels. The first, that of the theater: the present, Sinera, the myth of Sinera, the spectators, the people, the Catalans, Catalan culture. The second, that of theater within theater: the past, Susa, Esther’s myth, the 'observed', the puppets, the Persians and the Jews, Western culture.
Sprachwissenschaft und Sprachpolitik: Fortsetzung der Debatte
Authors: Kabatek Johannes
Published: August 2023

In vol. 7 of the Zeitschrift für Katalanistik, Brigitte Schlieben-Lange initiated a discussion on the relationship between linguistic research and language policy, referring to an article by Guillem Calaforra and talking about the specific case of the controversy over Catalan in València and the role of the "argumentum ex auctoritate" in the discussion.

This short article deals with similar problems through the example of current Galician. It is postulated, first of all, that we must not forget the clear difference between science and politics, and that, therefore, the researcher, when expressing her/himself on language policy issues, should clearly state where he presents the objective results of her/his research and where s/he speaks on subjectively evaluated policy issues.
Josep Maria Andreu: lletrista de la Nova Cançó
Authors: Soldevila i Balart Llorenç
Published: August 2023

The Nova Canço Catalana is mainly associated with the artist type of the cantautor, but professional composers and lyricists have also to be taken into account to describe this movement. The articles presents the most prolific and important lyricist of the Nova Canço era, Josep Maria Andreu (1920-2014), who – apart from literary poems – between the 1960’s and the 1990’s wrote the lyrics for 114 original Catalan songs and adapted some 281 foreign song texts to Catalan. Special attention is given to his most successful song, “Se’n va anar”, which he wrote in 1963. An appendix to the article contains an exhaustive list of Andreu’s original work and adaptations.
Aspectes de la persona tràgica en Salvador Espriu
Authors: Cocozzella Peter
Published: August 2023

Partly inspired by Miguel de Unamuno and partly by Ramón del Valle-Inclán, Salvador Espriu (1913-1985), the most important poet of the Catalan Civil War generation, developed his own version of the tragic mode. Throughout Espriu's entire literary work, this mode emerges in the multiple development of the "I/You symbiosis". The "I" represents the author's highest level of consciousness, transformed into the essential epiphany of Espriu's persona; the "You" is the complementary other, linked to the "I" in an indissoluble existential duality. Espriu shows that the "I/You" duality is often of contradicting nature: It explains itself as a dialectic with metaphysical depths and far-reaching ethical and theological implications. Ultimately, Espriu proves that literature in general and theater in particular are a direct projection of what Unamuno would call the "tragic meaning of life." Tragedy – in the various aspects examined by this study – is Espriu's original representation of existence itself.
Aproximació a una de les iniciatives culturals de Lleida en els anys de la transició: el cas de «La gralla i la dalla»
Authors: Sanvicén i Torné Paquita
Published: August 2023

This paper gives an overview of the history of “La gralla i la dalla”, a group of cultural activists that existed in Lleida between 1974 and 1985. This movement, which in the first time evolved out of the Humanities section of Lleida’s newly-founded university but later on became less dependent on academic circles, was primarily dedicated to the promotion of poetry in Catalan and to that of various forms of visual and performing arts, but also maintained pro-Catalanist political positions. The genesis of the group is situated in the evolving cultural landscape of Lleida between the end of the Civil war and the final decade of Franco’s dictatorship. Special attention is paid to an analysis of the literary review L’Estrof which was published by the group between 1979 and 1985.
Kosmologisches Wissen, das Konzept des Universums und die Kugelgestalt der Erde bei Ramon Llull (1232-1316)
Authors: Krüger Reinhard
Published: August 2023

The starting point of the paper is the fact - marginalized in the early modern period - that knowledge of the spherical shape of the earth was known throughout the Middle Ages, so that this model in Llull's work became "such an ordinary matter" "that he occasionally no longer describes it explicitly". In fact, traces of the cosmological model can be found already in the early Libre de la contemplació de Déus (1372) and four years later in the Liber Chaos, which "almost inevitably necessitates the notion of the spherical earth in the midst of the universe." The spherical shape is also the starting point for the theoretical situating of the Christian idea of hell and heaven in the Doctrina Pueril, written in the 80s, while in the later writings of Félix. Libre de les meravelles del mon and Arbre de ciència, as well as in the Liber Proverbiorum, the sphere model can only be inferred implicitly. Finally, in the Tractatus novus de Astronomia, written in Paris in 1297, the term "clod of earth" ("complexio terrae") applied to Saturn indicates a conception of celestial bodies that is closer to the shape of a sphere than to the conception of a disk.
Algunes divergències entre el català parlat (o col·loquial) i el català escrit
Authors: Wesch Andreas
Published: August 2023

In both the universal and the historical-individual language sense, spoken Catalan has a number of typical properties compared to written Catalan which are responsible for a relatively clear discrepancy between the oral and the scriptural discourse traditions. Universal phenomena include elliptical constructions and various techniques of particular expressiveness in oral discourse. Typically Catalan are, on the other hand, simplifications of the system of enclitic personal pronouns, the postposition of demonstratives or analogy phenomena in the area of gender and number. The essay uses numerous examples from several corpora to work out the most important divergences between the oral and the scriptural code in the Catalan as used in the city and the province of Barcelona.
El català a les enginyeries de la Universitat Politècnica de València: Dades i reflexions
Authors: Montesinos López Anna
Published: August 2023

This study examines the presence of Catalan during the last years at the Polytechnical University of València. To begin with it examines the situation of the so-called “study groups in Valencian” and their correspondence with the students’ demand for these groups. Next, it exposes the philosophy and actual state of the Catalan technical subjects within the various engineering studies. Finally the results of the last years’ enquiries are presented, in which students of technical computer-engineering were questioned on their origin, their linguistic habits and uses, on their motivation to chose courses in technical Catalan, etc.
"Lur fayt, lur vida, lur ventura, tot so divisav'en pintura". Zum Gebrauch der Ekphrasis bei Guillem de Torroella. Mit einem Ausblick auf Anselm Turmeda und Joanot Martorell
Authors: Opitz Christian Nikolaus
Published: August 2023

In medieval literature, descriptions of works of art add extra meanings to the narrative. E. g. in Guillem de Torroella’s La Faula images of lovers on Guillem’s saddle and stained glass windows depicting the Knights of the Round Table in King Arthur’s palace represent two subject matters which are of great importance in courtly literature: fin amor and chevalerie. Furthermore, the glass-paintings show images of an idealized past and can therefore be related antithetically to King Arthur’s lament on the decay ofcourtly values. Consequently the description of artworks forms an essential part of the text’s allegorical message. In Anselm Turmeda’s Cobles de la divisió del regne de Mallorques, a short ekphrasis similarly introduces heroes of the past into the narrative to serve as counterpart to a decadent present, whereas in the Tirant lo Blanc murals showing lovers and Christian knightsanticipate the story’s principal subject matters.Keywords: Ekphrasis, allegorical writing, Catalan literature / 1350–1500, Guillem de Torroella / La Faula, Anselm Turmeda / Cobles de la divisió del regne de Mallorques, Joanot Martorell / Tirant lo Blanc.
Surrealismus und Intermedialität in La vie secrète de Salvador Dalí
Authors: Roloff Volker
Published: August 2023

Summary: Scholarship has accustomed to go into Dalí’s La vie secrète (1942) only with respect to biographic facts and details of artistic relevance with the aim of finding keys to the paintings of the great Catalan artist. Nevertheless, the recently published critical edition of the originally French text (2006) offers a great deal of research opportunities concerning, especially, questions of intermediality between literary and iconic traditions. This study deals with the interpretation of La vie secrète as dramatic novel representing the “secret life” in a series of key scenes, metamorphoses and simulations. With respect to Dalí’s traditional self-interpretation, we try to point out the hitherto unrecognized elements of surrealist self-representation. [Keywords: Intermediality, theatrality, Dalí, surrealism, autobiographic novel].
Zwischen gemalter Poesie und poetischem Theater. Grenzgänge des Medienkünstlers Joan Miró
Authors: Winter Scarlett
Published: August 2023

Summary: This article explores Joan Miró’s artistic experiments, which range from work in genres such as painting and poetry, music, dramatic performances to dance performances, and in which the artist puts his own mark on the image-text-dialogue and dramatic poetry. The artist’s curiosity to experiment and his interest in transboundary “dimensionalism” spark new techniques of intermedial combinatorics and reflection. Miró’s poetic writings, dramatic drafts and other forms of productions appear from this vantage point as pictorial texts, visionary spectacles and dream-analogous projections, which push the boundaries of space and time, of perception and the senses. Figures of speech and visual figures such as pictures, texts, sounds and bodies are rearranged in a play of metamorphoses and shiftings between various media. [Keywords: avant-garde, dimensionalism, intermedialty, Joan Miró, surrealisme]
Mori el Merma – aus dem Bild herausgetretene Ubu-Figuren Mirós. Der Triumph des Künstlers über den Franquismus
Authors: Ehrich Riewert
Published: August 2023

Summary: If Picasso’s Guernica (1937) marks the beginning of the dark period of Franco’s dictatorship in Spain, the theater play Mori el Merma by Joan Miró and the Putxinel∙lis Claca troupe stands for the end of fascism in that country. The performance of this play coincides with the proclamation of the democratic constitution in 1978. Together with Picasso, and with the same humanistic spirit, Miró had created his monumental fresco El Segador for the Spanish pavilion at the Paris World Fair (1937). If this work has since disappeared, the battle of the painter for human rights did not come to an end with it. The iconographic model of both the Segador and Merma was Ubu roi by the French artist Alfred Jarry (1873–1907). With this dramatic (and pictorial) work he anticipated the archetype of the “small” bourgeois who finds himself in a position of absolute politic power. Jarry’s monstrous marionette inspired many 20th c. artists, and Miró used this character in many drawings and lithographies as well. The performance of this genuinely ubuesque creation in Barcelona’s Liceu theater, with the Spanish royal family in the audience, represents the unforgettable highlight of Mirós continuous fight against the dictatorship. [Keywords: Miró, theatre, Apollinaire, Jarry, Spanish Civil war, fascism].
Inseguretat lingüística o consciència normativa? Inseguretat i ús de la llengua entre els joves valencians
Authors: Baldaquí Escandell Josep M.
Published: August 2023

Summary: In this article we analyse the relationship between the use of the Catalan language in the Valencian Country and the linguistic insecurity of students in their last years of compulsory education (between age 14 and 16). Two different indexes have been produced: the first as regards the formal linguistic insecurity (the consciousness of the distance between the normative linguistic usages and the speakers’ own usages), and the second concerning the perception and the beliefs as regards this linguistic insecurity. The analysis of the results shows that those students who have the best linguistic competence and use the Catalan language most often, have a lower perception of their own linguistic insecurity but a higher formal linguistic insecurity. This contradiction could be interpreted as being a result of their better linguistic competence. The paper also offers some reflections on the theoretical concept of linguistic insecurity. [Keywords: Linguistic insecurity, linguistic usage, Catalan language, perception of linguistic insecurity, formal linguistic insecurity].
La recepció de l'obra Després de la pluja, de Sergi Belbel, a Alemanya
Authors: Eisner Cornelia
Published: August 2023

Summary: Sergi Belbel is the Catalan playwright whose plays have had most international success, including in Germany. The play that made him known internationally in the early nineties was Carícies. In Germany, his work came to public attention when his tragicomedy Després de la pluja (Nach dem Regen) premiered at Deutsches Schauspielhaus in Hamburg in 1995. This article takes into account the analyses of critiques of the play’s German premiere as well as six other productions in different cities of Germany and Switzerland and analyzes the reception of Belbel’s plays on the German stage. [Keywords: Catalan theatre, Sergi Belbel, contemporary theatre, German stage, theatre criticism, reception study]
Propietats pragmàtiques i gramaticals en el desenvolupament de la coreferència pronominal
Authors: Perera Joan , Bel Aurora
Published: August 2023

Summary: In this paper, we examine the referential properties of null and overt subject pronouns in Catalan in the semi-spontaneous production of oral and written narrative texts by three groups of speakers/writers: 9–10 year olds, 12–13 year olds, and 16–17 year olds. We aim at determining whether these two types of pronouns play the same role and to what extent they contribute to anaphora resolution and discourse cohesion, both at an intra- and an inter-sentential level. We concentrate on anaphoric relations expressed by 3rd person pronouns in subject position. Our results show that, at an intra-sentential level, null pronouns normally refer to subject antecedents, mainly in the spoken modality, while overt pronouns refer back to either a subject or a non-subject antecedent. This entails that once a discourse element becomes a discourse topic and is the subject of a sentence, a null pronoun is used. Moreover, a parallel tendency is observed at an inter-sentential and discourse level. [Keywords: Reference; pronouns; Catalan; anaphora resolution; written development; oral development]
La situació social del català al País Valencià en el trànsit dels segles XX al XXI
Authors: Mas i Miralles Antoni , Montoya Abat Brauli
Published: August 2023

Summary: In this article we analyse the sociolinguistic situation of Catalan in the Valencian region in the last two decades. The Servei d’Investigació i Estudis Sociolinguistics (The Department for Research and Sociolinguistc Studies), an official centre of the Department of Education of the Valencian Government, carried out the interviews which have been used in this study in 1992, 1995, 2005 and 2010. With this data, we have studied the evolution of the knowledge, usage and attitude Valencian people have with regard to their language. In general terms, the evolution of Catalan is shown to be negative, and its usage is decreasing in social and private spheres. The reasons for this decrease – which can be observed in relative figures – can be justified, on one hand, by the arrival of a great number of immigrants in this period and, on the other, by the political change which took place in 1995 in the Valencian Government, which has meant a regression in the process of linguistic recovery. [Keywords: Catalan language; Valencian Region; demolinguistics; sociolinguistics]
Reflexions sobre el tractament de la fraseologia catalana en els diccionaris català-alemany (prenent com a exemple unitats amb components religiosos)
Authors: Torrent Aina
Published: August 2023

Summary: This paper presents a series of reflections on the way Catalan phrases are dealt with in Catalan-German lexicography, while also proposing a set of guidelines for its use in phraseological theory and practice. The hypothesis defended by the author here is that the aim of any dictionary in the field of phraseology should be to provide the idiomatic meaning and use of the phrases. Cognitivism and, above all, pragmatics are discussed as the most important methods that can be used to achieve this goal. Likewise, the paper also highlights the importance of the internet in modern phraseography. [Keywords: Catalan-German phraseography; phraseological theory and practice; idiomatic meaning; cognitivism; pragmatics]
Al voltant de la relació epistolar entre Joan Coromines i Joan Sales: un recull d'antroponímia i toponímia de Vallclara (1954)
Authors: Selfa Sastre Moisés
Published: August 2023

Summary: The epistolary relationship between Joan Coromines (Barcelona, 1905 – Pi-neda de Mar, 1997) and Joan Sales (Barcelona, 1912–1983) documents how Sales actively collaborated in the collection of toponymic materials for the Onomasticon Cataloniae in municipalities and parishes of the Camp de Tarragona, Muntanyes de Prades and the Segarra. Joan Sales reported to Coromines his routes and the difficulties that he encountered in these areas. A result of the surveys carried out in these sites is the collection of Vallclara (Tarragona) presented in our work. [Keywords: Joan Coromines; Joan Sales; Onomasticon Cataloniae; toponymy; Camp de Tarragona; Muntanyes de Prades; Segarra]
A propòsit de l'edició de Tintín en alguerès i dels problemes de codificació
Authors: Bosch i Rodoreda Andreu
Published: August 2023

Summary: Based on the experience of the Maria Montessori Teaching Resources Centre in Alghero, the Algherese adaptation of Tintín al país de l’or negre (Barcelona, 1995; English title: Tintin in the Land of Black Gold), coordinated by the author of the present article, constitutes one of the most successful publications in terms of the creation and utilization of a useful Algherese language model for schools. On the basis of criteria presented in the paper “L’ensenyament del català a l’Alguer i la qüestió del model de llengua” at a meeting of the Philological Section of the Institut d’Estudis Catalans in 2000, the model employed applies Catalan spelling standards but, at the same time, is in greater alignment with the Catalan spoken in Alghero from a morphological, lexical and syntactic point of view. The article reflects upon two possible methods of codification, e.g. of Algherese, put forward by the sociolinguist Enrico Chessa who in the process regarded the disparities and differences between spelling and phonetic transcription: on the one hand, the adoption of “Italian spelling to represent sound sequences in Algherese”; and, on the other hand, codification using Catalan spelling with “deviation from the phonemic principle”. Apart from analysing of the language model used and problems posed by Algherese codification, the article pays tribute to the work of Joaquim Ventalló (1899–1996), translator of the Tintin albums from French into Catalan, the basis for the Algherese adaptation of Tintin in the Land of Black Gold. [Keywords: Codification of Algherese; standardisation; dialectal variation; phonetic variation; translation; literary adaptation]
Ent-Setzte Lektüren. Literarische Bildung und ästhetische Individualität in Antoni Tàpies' Memòria personal
Authors: Wild Gerhard
Published: August 2023

Summary: There has not been an exhaustive attempt to analyze the literary work of Antoni Tàpies. His Memòria personal (1977) in particular did not get the attention it merits as a poetic creation. The central thesis of our study is that Memòria personal has to be regarded not only as documentary text concerning Tàpies’ life, but also as a highly artificial arrangement of textual fragments. The listing of texts by famous authors that Tàpies not only read during his whole lifetime but also quoted in the Memòria personal, enables us to describe a large scale of intertextual levels. The spectrum of incorporated texts ranges from the mere mention of book titles and the literary insertion of work segments to highly elaborated forms of stylistic parody and pastiche. As a patchwork of extraneous literary elements, the supposed autobiography tends to disguise central episodes in Tàpies’ life. All quoted authors, works and genres such as Proust, Mann, Sartre and Wagner refer to a specific concept of incorporating existent former material, while its use in the text corresponds with Tàpies’ view on artistry. Art work becomes a means to transform reality itself by assembling its fragments in an act of individual craftsmanship, as may be seen in graphic work like Figura de paper de diari amb fils (1946). Thus, Tàpies’ use of intertextuality reflects a highly sophisticated view of world literature as a medium and material of aesthetic creation itself. [Keywords: Intertextuality; artistic material; autobiography; identity; literary camouflage; Proust; Thomas Mann; Sartre; Max Ernst; Leonardo da Vinci]
Tàpies, again and again
Authors: Geisler Eberhard
Published: August 2023

Summary: In this article I try to comprehend and explain my thirty-year fascination with Antoni Tàpies’s work. In addition to the painter’s own references to Zen-Buddhism, I would like to refer to European philosophy, especially Heidegger and Adorno, for my line of argumentation to explain his painting. I point to the artist’s manner of muffing which he uses to unhinge the laws of logos and representing thought; I examine the concept of emptiness and establish a parallelism between music and gestural painting. I suggest a reading of Heidegger’s gesture of greeting as his turn against the habits of exchange principle and value judgment. I also touch on the vulnerability of man and material, the aesthetics of surface and the phenomenon of symmetry. [Keywords: Philosophy; social criticism; muffing; value judgment; symmetry]
A Catalan Cobla Sparsa of the Fifteenth Century: An Icon of Ambivalence in the Misogynistic Background of Celestina, Act I
Authors: Cocozzella Peter
Published: August 2023

Summary: A short one-stanza poem, identified by the rubric «Cobla sparsa de lahor he deslaor,» is emblematic of the ambivalence that informs the «Maldezir de mugeres,» signature piece of Pere Torroella, renowned Catalan writer of the fifteenth century. The present essay is an attempt to demonstrate how the alternation of laor (‘praise’) and deslaor (‘unpraise’) plays a paramount role within the wide context of the debate about women in both Castilian and Catalan literature of the 1400s. For a background of that debate, I adduce evidence in the poetry of the troubadours and in the cants of the nonpareil Valencian bard, Ausiàs March. Ultimately, the paradoxical laor/deslaor conflation reflects a two-pronged phenomenology: 1) the tradition of dysfunctional rhetoric that comes to a head in the fractious dialogue illustrated in Act I of the Tragicomedia de Calisto y Melibea, better known as Celestina; 2) the definition of Torroella’s self-fashioning in terms of the process of coming to grips with the authenticity of a lover’s experience. [Keywords: «Gender debate»; irony; maldit; misogyny; repetitio; «textual community»]
Joan Vinyoli i el Premi Ausiàs March de Gandia de 1959
Authors: Carbó Ferran
Published: August 2023

Summary: This study deals with the participation of the poet Joan Vinyoli in the first announcement of the Ausiàs March de Gandia Prize created in 1959, in which he was a finalist for his book of poems For the Secret Staircase (Per l’escala secreta) while Pere Quart was the winner with Paid Holidays (Vacances pagades). The original and two typewritten manuscripts of the unpublished book, preserved in Vinyoli’s archive, are contrasted. Although the work remained unpublished, the poetic materials were later spread and re-used, mainly for the development of other books. Finally, the letters exchanged between members of the prize jury – Joan Fuster, Josep Maria Castellet and Salvador Espriu – are revised and taken into account. [Keywords: Vinyoli; Ausiàs March prize in 1959; For The Secret Staircase]
Towards a constructionist account of Old Catalan la un a l'altre
Authors: Nkollo Mikolaj
Published: August 2023

Summary: The aim of this paper is to trace, in accordance with the assumptions of Construction Grammar, how Latin reiterated reciprocal clusters came to be subsumed under la un a l’altre in Old Catalan texts (13th to 14th century). The data for conducting the analysis were selected from Corpus Informatitzat del Català Antic, comprising 240 bipartite reciprocal constructions. The shift can be traced back to two diachronic mechanisms: the loss of the relics of binary quantification and the gradual advent of articles. By means of the formal apparatus of Construction Grammar, Old Catalan is demonstrated to have had three distinct, albeit lexically related, reciprocal form-meaning pairs. They are different in that in some of them un and altre have the status of anaphorically bound elements and represent two distinct c-structure nodes, whereas in others un and altre form a single constituent. Finally, rather than conveying reciprocity proper, in sentences where it appears alongside se, la un a l’altre gains a more subjective status. All these facts lend support to the hypothesis of a gradual entrenchment and an increasingly schematic character of the medieval reciprocal sequence. [Keywords: reciprocal constructions, continuous vs. split bipartite sequence, c-structure, form-meaning pairing, binding, subjectification]