L’action positive est-elle efficace? Une évaluation empirique du programme pour l’équité dans l’emploi en Irlande du Nord

A description, and analysis, of an empirical investigation of the effectiveness of affirmative action in the Northern Ireland employment

Encadrement discursif et postposition du sujet: l'éclairage des contes oraux

This article re-examines the relationship between framing and postposition of the subject in contemporary French, using oral data from the French Oral Narrative Corpus. The authors argue that the widely-supported binary distinction between 'SV-framing' and 'VS-nonframing' is in fact much more complex, with some clear counterexamples to accepted theory and others that force us to re-consider the definition of framing.

"Je ne sais plus du tout qui je suis": The Phenomenology of Cancer in Anne Cuneo’s 'Une cuillerée de bleu'

Taking as its case study Anne Cuneo’s autopathography, Une cuillerée de bleu (1979), and supported by a phenomenological reading of the subjective realities of illness, including feelings of alienation, fragmentation, and passivity, this article considers how the experience of cancer affects the patient’s perception of her body, self, and world.

Les techniques du dinandier: formes et fonction des outils lithiques spécifiques à la déformation plastique des métaux

In recent years, the proliferation of discoveries has enabled studies of stone tools used in metal working to develop. The increasing number of tools, made mostly from Neolithic polished axes, reveals a typological and functional diversity that remained largely unsuspected. This diversity is an opportunity to understand the tools and address the technical issues relating to the plastic deformation of metals. The operations that are represented here demonstrate the techniques used by coppersmiths with specialised tools.

Chronology of the site of Grotte du Renne, Arcy-sur-Cure, France: implications for Neanderthal symbolic behaviour

Higham et al (2010) published a large series of new dates from the key French Palaeolithic site of the Grotte du Renne at Arcy-sur-Cure. The site is important because it is one of only two sites in Europe in which Châtelperronian lithic remains co-occur with Neanderthal human remains. A large series of dates from the Mousterian, Châtelperronian, Aurignacian and Gravettian levels of the site was obtained. The 14C results showed great variability, which Higham et al (2010) interpreted as most likely to be due to mixing of archaeological material in the site. In contrast, Caron et al (2011) suggested that the site stratigraphy is well preserved and that the problem with the variability in the radiocarbon ages was due to unremoved contamination in the dated bone. In this paper we address their critique of the original Higham et al (2010) paper

Review of Fortunatus Rudakemwa 'L'Évangélisation du Rwanda (1900–1959).

Book review of L'Évangélisation du Rwanda (1900–1959). By Fortunatus Rudakemwa. (Études Africaines.) Pp. 388 incl. 9 figs. Paris: L'Harmattan, 2005. €31.50 (paper). 2 7475 9741 5; 978 2 7475 9741 8.

Review of Richard Friedli & Mallory Schneuwly Purdie (eds), L’Europe des Religions. Éléments d’analyse des champs religieux européens. Actes du programme 2002-2003 de formation doctorale.

Book Review in Schweizerische Zeitschrift für Religions und Kulturgeschichte No. 100 (2006) of Richard Friedli & Mallory Schneuwly Purdie (eds), L’Europe des Religions. Éléments d’analyse des champs religieux européens. Actes du programme 2002-2003 de formation doctorale, Berne: Peter Lang, collection « Studia Religiosa Helvetica », vol.8/9, 2004, 257p.

Représentations de lecture(s) dans l'oeuvre daudétienne

O século XIX testemunhou uma produção literária inegualável, registando vidas e obras de autores, títulos de obras, jornais e revistas. Em tempos de algum individualismo estético-cultural em que cada obra lida parece, ao leitor contemporâneo, a única obra do mercado literário sem qualquer referência a outros autores, e em que o Governo implementa medidas para incentivar comportamentos de leitura, verificamos que o século XIX, além de muitas obras ter produzido, também divulgou muitos autores e suas obras, revelando respeito pela obra literária e testemunhando hábitos de leitura. O estudo da obra de Alphonse Daudet permitirnos- á constatar que os homens de letras liam as obras uns dos outros; que escreviam sobre as obras e partilhavam espaços de criação e produção literárias. A escrita e a leitura, actividades largamente referenciadas em todos os géneros literários adoptados por Daudet, reflectem um lugar comum da sua produção literária como também evidenciam um modus vivendi.