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"Le Château noir, ou les Souffrances de la jeune Ophelle": entre Madame de Genlis et Mrs Radcliffe

Author(s): Łukasz Szkopiński / Language(s): French Publication Year: 0

The first part of the paper will focus on Anne-Jeanne-Félicité Mérard de Saint-Just’s two novels, "Mon journal d’un an, ou Mémoires de Mademoiselle de Rozadelle-Saint-Ophelle" (c. 1788) and "Démence de Madame de Panor, en son nom Rozadelle Saint-Ophèle" (1796). A special emphasis will be put on the possible literary influence of Madame de Genlis and her "Histoire de la duchesse de C***", particularly on the first of the two books. The motive of “folle d’amour”, clearly present in the second novel, will also be explored. Finally, the manner in which Mérard de Saint-Just, undoubtedly inspired by the popularity of the English Gothic fiction, reused these two texts while publishing her next novel, "Le Château noir, ou Les souffrances de la jeune Ophelle" (1798/1799), will be analyzed.

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La tétralogie de Durtal: les objectifs de la déconstruction huysmansienne de la formule romanesque traditionnelle

Author(s): Agata Sadkowska-Fidala / Language(s): French Publication Year: 0

From "À rebours", the Huysmansian novel, faithful to the naturalistic aesthetic and to the traditional formula, sets off in a direction which is immediately identified by Zola as a blow to naturalism, and which also constitutes a blow brought to the novel as a genre. In the catholic trilogy, the plot deteriorates from novel to novel, the document takes over, the protagonist’s monologue invades the story. The author explains it by a desire to renew the novel formula, which arrived at an impasse; the pedagogical design of the cycle contributes to the need to seek a new form. But that’s not all. The changes introduced reflect the wishes and needs of the protagonist, who seeks to huddle in a safe place and dreams of finding a haven of peace in the spiritual realm.

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La Romanistique – genèse, évolution et nouvelles perspectives d’une discipline singulière

Author(s): Hans-Jürgen Lüsebrink / Language(s): French Publication Year: 0

This contribution treats the history and the evolution of the discipline of ‘Romanistik’ (Romance philology) which is born in Germany in the beginning of the 19th century, in a twofold perspective: on the one hand, it points out its very particular conception, placed on an international level, embracing the study of different romance languages, literatures and cultures; and, on the other hand, it shows the evolution of the discipline during these last decades, where it has been partially put into question, being confronted to specific challenges on the methodological, theoretical, organizational and also professional level.

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Quelques pages de l’histoire des études romanes et italiennes à Varsovie. La correspondance de Mieczysław Brahmer et de Giovanni Maver (1927–1939)

Author(s): Teresa Jaroszewska / Language(s): French Publication Year: 0

M. Brahmer, one of the greatest figures of Romance studies in the 20th century Poland, in 1937 moved from Cracow to Warsaw to assume the post of the head of the Seminar of Italian literature and after the war for over 20 years he ran Warsaw’s faculty of Romance studies. He conducted an important correspondence with G. Maver, a pioneer of the Italian Slavic Studies and the director of the first Chair of Polish Studies in the West at the La Sapienza University in Rome where Brahmer was lecturing in Polish language and literature for six years. Their letters provide a valuable source material on the history of Polish Romance and Italian studies and the conditions in which this generation of scholars had to work, as well as give a testimony of their friendship. The article discusses Brahmer’s pre-war letters, describing i. a. the circumstances surrounding the establishment of the faculty of Italian studies in Warsaw.

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Vers une histoire des collocations. Recherches lexico-sémantiques et histoire des langues romanes

Author(s): Xavier Blanco / Language(s): French Publication Year: 0

We report on a project to catalogue and describe the collocations of literary texts from Old French as a first step for a diachronic study of collocations in the Romance languages. We give many examples of collocations by focusing on two structures: the comparatives in "comme N" and "plus que N" (with intensive meaning) and the adverbial construction "à N et à N" (with pejorative meaning).

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Pourquoi ille a-t-il été “sélectionné” pour devenir le pronom personnel et l’article indéfini dans les langues romanes?

Author(s): Marie-Dominique Joffre / Language(s): French Publication Year: 0

The latin deictic ille became in Romance languages on one side the article, on the other the personnal pronoun. Both are anaphorics like is in latin. Anaphorics are empty syntactic forms which refer to previously mentioned concept. What is the reason why the deictic ille became anaphoric? Its meaning is very extensive: it points out to a breaking, an innovation or an opposition. It’s true – when speaker continues to say words, he hopes he expresses something new. That’s why in late Latin the use of ille was expanding, the form left its own meaning and finally took the place of is.

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L’apport des langues romanes en français actuel

Author(s): Anna Bochnakowa / Language(s): French Publication Year: 0

The text is a review of loanwords from the Romance languages in modern French. The corpus of the analyzed examples (ca. 1300 words) was created with the help of a computer program which was a supplement to the dictionary Le Petit Robert de la Langue Française from 2017. Words from Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Provencal, Occitan and Romanian have been registered. The issue of direct and indirect linguistic loans as well as classification by source languages will be discussed. In addition to the general presentation of Romance loans in French, a dozen or so selected examples will be discussed in terms of morphology, semantics and etymology.

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La pratique de la ponctuation du début du XVIe siècle: le cas des imprimés de Galliot du Pré

Author(s): Huei-Chen Li / Language(s): French Publication Year: 0

According to Annie Charon-Parent, Galliot du Pré, bookseller and publisher of the sixteenth century, printed medieval romances and history since 1512. As we know that the medieval punctuation is characterized by its anarchy and variability, however, does the passage from the manuscript to the print foster the codification of punctuation? Does the practice of Renaissance punctuation respect the recommendations of medieval or Renaissance grammarians? Our study, based upon two Galliot du Pré’s printed books, published between 1526 and 1527, one of which is kept in the National Library of France (Res. Ye-22), and the other in the Library of the Arsenal (Res. 4-H-2780), proposes to present the practice of each printed book in order to highlight the Galliot du Pré’s sub-system.

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Un gisement de correspondances féminines au siècle des Lumières: les Archives d’Argenson. Contribution à une étude des pratiques orthographiques des femmes au royaume de la variante

Author(s): Philippe Caron / Language(s): French Publication Year: 0

In France, during the 18th century, there is a high level of flexibility in the way printers and writers spell their text. Not only do written productions differ considerably from one to another but the dictionaries themselves sometimes display a range of variants for the same word till the end of the century. The French Academy has not yet its full authority and shows little concern in creating a standard at the beginning. Nevertheless, the 1740 and 1762 issues of its dictionary tend to become more influential. Such a change in the way people consider its usage may explain why written practice, namely among the nobility, shows a growing concern for orthography by the end of the 18th century.

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Notes sur la néologie de l’adjectif dénominal en français actuel: de la récurrence de quelques modèles dérivatifs suffixaux

Author(s): Alicja Kacprzak / Language(s): French Publication Year: 0

Our article deals with the issue of the denominal adjective’s neology in today’s French. First, the question is asked about the current productivity of this category, and the lexicogenic processes in force. Attention is then focused on the semantic values of these neologisms, conveying either various qualifying determinations, or relational determinations. The basis for this research is a corpus of 2459 adjectives, gathered within two neological platforms, "Le Logoscope" and "Néoveille". Their action consists of screening for neologisms in the French press articles during the last few years.

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Les prépositions de lieu en français et en italien dans le cadre de la linguistique cognitive: le cas des prépositions françaises "à, dans, en" et des prépositions italiennes "a, in, in contracté"

Author(s): Katarzyna Kwapisz-Osadnik / Language(s): French Publication Year: 0

The article aims at comparative analysis of French and Italian prepositions of place with regard to the imagery, especially the trajector-landmark relationship. Differences in conceptualization of these prepositions, which lead to differences in the way they are used, are inscribed in various linguistic visions of the world. In the first part of the article the selected prepositions (especially used in the same contexts) are comparatively analyzed (e.g. "On se voit à la Place de la Concorde vs Ci vediamo in Piazza Garibaldi"; "Je vais à l’église vs Vado in chiesa"). In the second part, the types of imagery are being presented, which is to prove whether or not a landmark conceptualization determines the preposition. The article concludes with the semantic-cognitive schemata of the studied prepositions.

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L’infinitif injonctif en français et en polonais

Author(s): Joanna Górnikiewicz / Language(s): French Publication Year: 0

In this paper, the author provides an analysis of non-elliptical injunctive utterances in Polish and French in which an independent infinitive verbal form serves as the main verb. The research aims at describing their syntactic as well as semantico-pragmatic and generic properties that require, encourage or ban the use of this form in both languages. These independent infinitive constructions, described as being distributionally equivalent to imperative mood, have been studied from an illocutionary perspective as grammatical expression of different directive speech acts. The results show general constraints that both forms are subject to which are captured through the interaction of their semantic features with the context they are uttered in.

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Traduire le signe ou le référent?

Author(s): Manar El Kak / Language(s): French Publication Year: 0

This study establishes that the diversity in Arabic translations of the French pronoun "on" results from the multiple discursive values that this pronoun has due to its polysemy. Because "on" does not have a corresponding pronoun in Arabic, and it being essentially a third-person pronoun, most translators tend to render on according to its referent in the context. A close look at "on", however, through Gustave Guillaume’s psychomecanical perspective, reveals that this approach is not always appropriate. Therefore, this study proposes an alternative approach that aims at finding the potential meaning of on by employing the following criteria: "verb", "co-referential pronouns", and "locative/temporal nouns". The study asserts that, by employing this approach, translators will be better equipped to distinguish between the linguistic sign and its referent.

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La grammaire au service de l’activité professionnelle: sélection, progression et agencement des ressources linguistiques dans les formations en français à des fins professionnelles

Author(s): Magdalena Sowa / Language(s): French Publication Year: 0

The grammatical competence is a component of communicative competence, but in practice the communication skills often prevail over language correctness. Nevertheless, it should be remembered that the use of language subsystems in accordance with grammatical rules is the basis for precise and effective verbal communication, especially in a professional context, and may indicate the professionalism of the language user. The subject of this text is a reflection on the role of grammatical elements in professional communication and on the place of grammar in specialist language programs and effective ways of teaching it. The learner’s profile and his/her needs will be the starting points to discuss possible approaches to teaching grammar.

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L’apprentissage informel des langues étrangères à l’époque du "Cadre européen commun de référence"

Author(s): Monika Grabowska / Language(s): French Publication Year: 0

The progression undertaken by foreign language teaching in the institutional context is often a faithful reflection of the CEFR scales, especially since it follows the progression endorsed by school workbooks. Consequently, this teaching seems to impose, but without any explicit recognition, an articulation of formal learning activities with informal learning sequences roughly understood as referring to communication activities which are not provided with educational forms. Our paper takes up, very modestly, the methodological challenge of determining the place of informal learning at the time of the CEFR-shaped teaching, which would consist in highlighting the concept of informal learning as a necessary component of every foreign language learning process, leading significantly to upgrade the level of communication competence, in order to recognize it accordingly.

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Podcasts: quelles contributions à l’apprentissage de la langue française écrite? Cas des étudiants de l’université IBN ZOHR au Maroc

Author(s): Malika Abentak / Language(s): French Publication Year: 0

In this article, we are interested in the use of Podcasts for learning purposes by Moroccan students. We will be analyzing the effect of this tool in terms of the French written language of the Ibn Zohr’s University students, in Agadir. Being interested to this problematic, means first of all being interested to the learning process of the students via the Podcasts, before focusing on the learning product. At this level, several questions could be developed.

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La réalisation de schwa dans un corpus de discours non spontané en français: une recherche chez les apprenants hellénophones

Author(s): Olympia Tsaknaki,Freiderikos Valetopoulos / Language(s): French Publication Year: 0

In this paper we are interested in the realization of schwa (/ə/) by Greek-speaking learners, considering the challenge that is addressed to many learners of French as a foreign language. Our research was based on the principles set out by the IPFC (Interphonologie du Français Contemporain) project and conducted by means of a non-spontaneous corpus study. The paper first briefly outlines the behavior of the schwa and the interest of the study. It then deals with the way FFL textbooks introduce the schwa to pre-intermediate learners. Finally, the research is presented and the conclusions achieved are discussed.

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L’influence de l’évaluation afin d’améliorer la prise de parole (en FLE), ou L’évaluation peut-elle être motivante dans la prise de parole?

Author(s): Christine Martinez / Language(s): French Publication Year: 0

The subject of this study is a report on the oral output of the learners which turns out to be problematic. Indeed, the oral production is associated with an explanatory monologue or an exchange where each speaker takes on the role of a debater. The presentation required during oral production courses at the Institute of Applied Linguistics at the University of Warsaw aims to prepare learners to handle French as a Foreign Language (FFL) like a native. This is a long-term project, but given the results of this pilot study, we are optimistic. In this text, we first establish our point of view on evaluation. Then, in the body of the text, we describe the methodology as well as the study in question, which was carried out at the ILA in Warsaw and at the Institute of Neophilology at the University of Białystok in parallel. At the end, we present our results and remarks.

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Les grammairiens métronomes, ou comment retenir aisément les règles de la langue française

Author(s): Paul Aron / Language(s): French Publication Year: 0

The history of grammars written in verse has barely been studied. Since the Renaissance, such grammars fall under two main heads: (1) grammars intended for women who haven’t studied latin; (2) grammars based on mnemonic means, so as to facilitate the learning of the language. As normative grammars tend to impose their standards, versified grammars become more and more typical of eccentric grammarians.

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Le rôle des sois possibles dans l’apprentissage d’une L3

Author(s): Dorota Pudo / Language(s): French Publication Year: 0

Modern L2 motivation theories related to the self tend to favour research in learning only one L2, especially global English. Interactions between ideal selves related to various languages can imply competition for mental resources, usually won by the more stable self (related to English). To promote lasting motivation to learn other foreign languages, formation of an ideal multilingual self seems to enhance weaker ideal L2 selves and to influence indirectly the intended learning effort.

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