997 resultados para Catalan language.


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This article argues that two movements in constant interplay operate within the historical trajectory of the Spanish language: the localization that becomes globalized and the globalization that becomes localized. Equally, this article illustrates how, at the same time that Spanish is expanding in the world, new idiosyncratic and localized forms of the language are emerging. This article deals with the issues of standardization and language ideology, language contact, and redefinition of identities. The article focuses on three geographic loci: Spain, where Spanish opposes Catalan, Basque, and Galician; the United States, where migrants' Spanish dialects converge and confront English and each other; and finally, Latin America, where Spanish is in contact with Portuguese, indigenous, and Afro-Hispanic languages. The concepts that structure the discussion explain both language expansion and contraction as well as the conflict and constant negotiation between a language's standardized forms and its regional and social varieties.

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The reprise evidential conditional (REC) is nowadays not very usual in Catalan: it is restricted to journalistic language and to some very formal genres (such as academic or legal language), it is not present in spontaneous discourse. On the one hand, it has been described among the rather new modality values of the conditional. On the other, the normative tradition tended to reject it for being a gallicism, or to describe it as an unsuitable neologism. Thanks to the extraction from text corpora, we surprisingly find this REC in Catalan from the beginning of the fourteenth century to the contemporary age, with semantic and pragmatic nuances and different evidence of grammaticalization. Due to the current interest in evidentiality, the REC has been widely studied in French, Italian and Portuguese, focusing mainly on its contemporary uses and not so intensively on the diachronic process that could explain the origin of this value. In line with this research, that we initiated studying the epistemic and evidential future in Catalan, our aim is to describe: a) the pragmatic context that could have been the initial point of the REC in the thirteenth century, before we find indisputable attestations of this use; b) the path of semantic change followed by the conditional from a ‘future in the past’ tense to the acquisition of epistemic and evidential values; and c) the role played by invited inferences, subjectification and intersubjectification in this change.

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Les investigacions recents sobre la transferència i l'adquisició d’una L3 han indagat sobre les interferències lingüístiques quan hi ha més d'una font de transferència. Els participants en aquest estudi de cas van ser parlants d’espanyol i d’anglès, que apreninen una tercera llengua, el català, tipològicament més pròxima a l’espanyol. Aquest estudi va investigar la producció dels bilingües del català fosc /ɫ/, un segment que no és present en espanyol ja que tots els laterals es produeixen com una clara /l/, i que, tanmateix, es realitza en anglès en posició final després de vocal. Contràriament al model que planteja la proximitat d'idiomes prèviament adquirids com un dels factors determinants per a la transferència de competències, l’estudi va mostrar que la proximitat tipològica a un dels L1 no és determinista per a la transferència en el nivell fonològic en l’aprenentatge d’una L3, ja que els participants produeixen laterals catalanes similars a /ɫ/. En aquest estudi de cas es constata, d’acord amb el Model de Millora Acumulativa, com es transfereix aquest segment fonològic des de l’anglés al català.

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De nombreuses langues du monde grammaticalisent les formes lexicales itive (aller) et ventive (venir) en auxiliaires temporels. Si ce fait a été abondamment décrit dans des langues particulières, on ne dispose pas d’une étude contrastive des deux tours, ce que nous proposons d’entreprendre dans la présente communication, sur quelques langues, A partir des premiers constats suivants : - la forme itive est plus fréquemment grammaticalisée que la forme ventive : en anglais p. ex. seul go est grammaticalisé ; - si le plus souvent l’itif s’est grammaticalisé dans l’expression de l’imminence-ultériorité (le train va partir) et le ventif dans celle de la récence (le train vient de partir), ce n’est pas toujours le cas : en catalan, anar + inf. est un prétérit (el tren va marchar : ‘le train est parti’), et actualise donc le procès non comme ultérieur mais comme antérieur ; - certaines langues, comme le français, ont développé sur ces auxiliaires, outre les effets de sens temporel d’imminence-ultériorité pour l’itif et de récence pour le ventif, un effet de sens d’extraordinaire, qui peut être signifié aussi bien par l’un que par l’autre tour (il va pas / vient pas me dire) - l’imminence-ultériorité sur l’itif et la récence sur le ventif souffrent des restrictions temporelles, plus accusées pour le premier : en francais p. ex., aller, dans cet effet de sens, se conjugue aux seuls présent et imparfait (le train va / allait / * irait / *est allé partir) ; venir admet en plus le futur et le conditionnel (le train vient/ venait/viendra/ viendrait/ *est venu de partir). On se propose (i) d’expliciter les différents éléments de l’asymétrie dans la grammaticalisation des deux formes itive et ventive dans les langues retenues (anglais, catalan, espagnol, français, italien, portugais), et (ii) de formuler une hypothèse explicative de ces faits hétérogènes.

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Dans le département des Pyrénées orientales, nombreux sont ceux qui apprennent le catalan, langue régionale aux côtés du français. Cet espace géographique plurilingue se rattache à l’entité plus vaste de la Catalogne, berceau de conflits diglossique virulents, au coeur de revendications d’autonomie qui secouent le climat politique actuel en Espagne. Cet article rend compte d’une enquête réalisée dans le cadre du projet «Représentations des langues et des identités en Méditerranée en contexte plurilingue» (EA 739 Dipralang). Il s’agit de mettre en évidence les représentations du catalan et du français chez les apprenants de catalan, qu’ils soient locuteurs natifs, étudiants à l’université, dans les filières spécifiques ou comme option, ou encore qu’ils se destinent à l’enseigner dans les classes bilingues. Nous faisons l’hypothèse que ces représentations diffèrent en fonction de l’implication dans la diglossie français-catalan et qu’elles sont un écho au conflit linguistique propre à la Catalogne. Pour la vérifier, nous utilisons la méthode d’analyse combinée mise au point par Bruno Maurer.

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Metaphor is a multi-stage programming language extension to an imperative, object-oriented language in the style of C# or Java. This paper discusses some issues we faced when applying multi-stage language design concepts to an imperative base language and run-time environment. The issues range from dealing with pervasive references and open code to garbage collection and implementing cross-stage persistence.

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Language is a unique aspect of human communication because it can be used to discuss itself in its own terms. For this reason, human societies potentially have superior capacities of co-ordination, reflexive self-correction, and innovation than other animal, physical or cybernetic systems. However, this analysis also reveals that language is interconnected with the economically and technologically mediated social sphere and hence is vulnerable to abstraction, objectification, reification, and therefore ideology – all of which are antithetical to its reflexive function, whilst paradoxically being a fundamental part of it. In particular, in capitalism, language is increasingly commodified within the social domains created and affected by ubiquitous communication technologies. The advent of the so-called ‘knowledge economy’ implicates exchangeable forms of thought (language) as the fundamental commodities of this emerging system. The historical point at which a ‘knowledge economy’ emerges, then, is the critical point at which thought itself becomes a commodified ‘thing’, and language becomes its “objective” means of exchange. However, the processes by which such commodification and objectification occurs obscures the unique social relations within which these language commodities are produced. The latest economic phase of capitalism – the knowledge economy – and the obfuscating trajectory which accompanies it, we argue, is destroying the reflexive capacity of language particularly through the process of commodification. This can be seen in that the language practices that have emerged in conjunction with digital technologies are increasingly non-reflexive and therefore less capable of self-critical, conscious change.

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Enterprise Application Integration (EAI) is a challenging area that is attracting growing attention from the software industry and the research community. A landscape of languages and techniques for EAI has emerged and is continuously being enriched with new proposals from different software vendors and coalitions. However, little or no effort has been dedicated to systematically evaluate and compare these languages and techniques. The work reported in this paper is a first step in this direction. It presents an in-depth analysis of a language, namely the Business Modeling Language, specifically developed for EAI. The framework used for this analysis is based on a number of workflow and communication patterns. This framework provides a basis for evaluating the advantages and drawbacks of EAI languages with respect to recurrent problems and situations.