Le lexique viticole regional dans l’Ouest de la France : une analyse socio-historique sur corpus

2020 ◽  
Vol 65 (4) ◽  
pp. 423-439
Author(s):  
Inka Wissner
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Professional Training ◽  
Historical Linguistics ◽  
Time And Space ◽  
General Terms ◽  
Current Usage ◽  
And Diffusion ◽  
Regional Wine

"Regional Wine Terminology in Western France: a Sociohistorical Corpora-based Terminology. In a highly standardised language like French, wine terminology seems largely influenced by national and supranational standards, marked by specialists and diffused through professional training or specialised publications, for instance. Yet, in general, terms referring to wine are at the same time rooted in a territory. Where do they come from, and how do they pass from one area or group of speakers to another? How do people perceive them? Are they necessarily of vernacular tradition? For the study of regional wine terminology, this article focuses on a traditional wine-growing area in France (Poitou-Charentes). It combines the methods of historical linguistics in order to trace the origin and diffusion of regionalisms retrieved from a contemporary corpus with a sociolinguistic analysis of their status through discourse analysis and enquiries. The article analyses more than twenty dialectal terms, revealing their distribution in time and space as well as their legitimacy in current usage. Keywords: wine terminology, Western France, French historical lexicology, dialectology, sociolinguistic enquiries, discourse analysis."

Language Change and Movement as Seen by Historical Linguistics

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Derek Nurse
Keyword(s):  
West Africa ◽  
20Th Century ◽  
Language Change ◽  
Historical Linguistics ◽  
Linguistic Features ◽  
Time And Space ◽  
Change Over Time ◽  
Comparative Linguistics ◽  
Language Boundaries ◽  
Over Time

The focus of this chapter is on how languages move and change over time and space. The perceptions of historical linguists have been shaped by what they were observing. During the flowering of comparative linguistics, from the late 19th into the 20th century, the dominant view was that in earlier times when people moved, their languages moved with them, often over long distances, sometimes fast, and that language change was largely internal. That changed in the second half of the 20th century. We now recognize that in recent centuries and millennia, most movements of communities and individuals have been local and shorter. Constant contact between communities resulted in features flowing across language boundaries, especially in crowded and long-settled locations such as most of Central and West Africa. Although communities did mix and people did cross borders, it became clear that language and linguistic features could also move without communities moving.

scholarly journals Indefinites and free choice

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marco Degano ◽  
Maria Aloni
Keyword(s):  
Free Choice ◽  
Historical Linguistics ◽  
Formal Semantics ◽  
Alternative Semantics ◽  
Current Usage ◽  
Diachronic Study ◽  
Grammatical Theories ◽  
Indefinite Pronouns

AbstractIndefinites display a great functional variety and they give rise to different pragmatic effects. We focus on free choice indefinites and in particular on the Italian qualsiasi. Our aim is to reconstruct the grammaticalization path of this item and understand how diachronic data might shed some light on existing semantic theories of free choice. We employ corpus-based tools to build a database containing occurrences of qualsiasi from its origin and early forms to its current usage. We show that qualsiasi emerged from a particular unconditional construction and we outline the different stages which led to its grammaticalization. We analyze the compatibility of our diachronic study with formal accounts of free choice inferences, with a focus on Alternative Semantics analyses for indefinite pronouns and so-called grammatical theories of free choice. Our work shows that an integration between formal semantics and historical linguistics is fruitful and worth pursuing.

scholarly journals The Category of Existential Continuum in the English Biographical References

2012 ◽  
pp. 221-226
Author(s):  
D. A. Efremova
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Time And Space ◽  
Text Linguistics

The article is devoted to the peculiarities of existential continuum in English biographical references, which are investigated in terms of text linguistics and discourse analysis. The text manifestation of the category of the existential continuum has, as a whole, an objective character; however subjectivity is expressed in its individual and author's partitioning of the text, a metaphorisation, figurativeness, anecdotism and the functioning of the categories of time and space as a means of the characters’ characteristics.

Typology and the future of Cognitive Linguistics

2016 ◽  
Vol 27 (4) ◽  
pp. 587-602 ◽  
Author(s):  
William Croft
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Cognitive Linguistics ◽  
Language Use ◽  
Historical Linguistics ◽  
Linguistic Variation ◽  
Theory Of Language ◽  
The Individual ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Individual Speaker

AbstractThe relationship between typology and Cognitive Linguistics was first posed in the 1980s, in terms of the relationship between Greenbergian universals and the knowledge of the individual speaker. An answer to this question emerges from understanding the role of linguistic variation in language, from occasions of language use to typological diversity. This in turn requires the contribution of discourse analysis, sociolinguistics, and evolutionary historical linguistics as well as typology and Cognitive Linguistics. While Cognitive Linguistics is part of this enterprise, a theory of language that integrates all of these approaches is necessary.

First-Person Shooter Game Engines and Healthcare

2012 ◽  
pp. 76-89
Author(s):  
Christos Gatzidis
Keyword(s):  
Healthcare Professional ◽  
Professional Training ◽  
State Of The Art ◽  
First Person ◽  
Raising Awareness ◽  
Current Usage ◽  
Game Engines ◽  
Key Issues ◽  
First Person Shooter ◽  
Healthcare Professional Training

First-person shooter (FPS) games have evolved from humble beginnings to what is currently considered the interactive entertainment genre most associated with state-of-the-art developments in gaming, particularly those of a technological and graphical nature. This chapter outlines and discusses past efforts, current usage of contemporary tools, and, finally, the significant suggested potential of first-person shooter gaming engines in the area of health, irrespective of whether these are targeted towards healthcare professional training, patient rehabilitation, or even raising awareness on key issues (to name but a few contemporary and/or suggested remits of the medium).

scholarly journals Søvnens tid og rum. Om at læse søvnen i På sporet af den tabte tid

2015 ◽  
Vol 30 (73) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jacob Ulrich
Keyword(s):  
The Novel ◽  
Time And Space ◽  
General Terms ◽  
Potential Problems ◽  
Lost Time ◽  
Function Of Sleep

Jacob Ulrich: “The Time and Space of Sleep: Reading Sleep in In Search of Lost Time”This article examines the significance and structuring function of sleep and sleep related instances in Marcel Proust’s In Search of Lost Time. Through close readings of narrative conceptions of time in the ouverture the article shows how descriptions of the narrator’s sleep both destabilize the narrative and form a narrative pattern to which the overall structure of the novel adheres. Secondly, the article focuses on spatiality and sleep, particularly the narrator’s bedroom, which appears as a privileged place where certain perceptual conditions are displayed and experimented with. Descriptions of sleep in the novel thus form a boundary or threshold that negotiates between inner and outer modes of perception. The article concludes by addressing, in more general terms, the potential problems involved when studying ‘sleep and literature’.

Training by Satellite

1991 ◽  
Vol 5 (3) ◽  
pp. 168-174
Author(s):  
Miguel Antonio de Freitas ◽  
Antonio S.C. Fernandes
Keyword(s):  
Distribution System ◽  
Professional Training ◽  
High Technology ◽  
Current Method ◽  
Learning Technologies ◽  
Technological Advance ◽  
Peripheral Country ◽  
Founding Member ◽  
Delta Programme ◽  
And Diffusion

Within the EC DELTA programme (Developing European Learning Through Technological Advance), Action Line V was dedicated to projects analysing and promoting favourable conditions for the development of advanced learning technologies. From 1989 to 1991 PRO-DELTA (Portuguese Research On DELTA) studied current and future conditions, in a peripheral country, for the diffusion of a high-technology satellite distribution system for professional training. This article analyses three aspects of implementing and diffusing the system, and is based on FUNDETEC's experience with EuroPACE, of which it is a founding member. The authors discuss: the preferences of Portuguese small and medium-sized enterprises in relation to the use of satellite-based training; the current method of diffusing the system; and the costs and viability of different options for the reception and diffusion of satellite-based courses.

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