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Translation Studies has recently engaged with microhistory, drawing on archival holdings. Though this is a welcome development, it runs the risk of slanting research into translatorship since such archives tend to entail a degree of cultural gatekeeping and therefore reflect an atypically high degree of literary capital on the translator's part, due to the translator's own participation in prestigious forms of authorship and/or their association with authors with high literary capital. Seeking to account for the more typical experience of translators with low agency and low literary capital, the article outlines an alternative historiographical approach: prosopography, or collective biography. It first draws on the author's research in archives devoted to other actors in the communications circuit, in which translators are a tangential presence. It studies nineteenth-century publishers' archives at the Institut Mémoires de l'édition contemporaine in Caen, France, focusing on the issue of translatorial agency in negotiating moral rights. The second approach reads an online translation community, the Emerging Translators' Network, as a non-custodial participatory archive. This offers translation historians an opportunity to study the ambitions of aspiring translators at the outset of their careers and provides insights into the successful career trajectories of those who eventually earn an archival presence in their own right.
Keywords: archivistique, prosopographie, microhistoire, historiographie, non-custodialité, archive studies, prosopography, microhistory, historiography, non-custodiality, archivística, prosopografía, microhistoria, historiografía, sin custodia
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The Cameroonian government is committed to the integration of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) and relating policies in primary, secondary and university education, as shown by the number of awareness seminars organised in recent years and the significant budgets allocated to the various ministries responsible for the development of ICT. Wireless access points are available on university campuses. However, despite this apparent enthusiasm of the authorities, it appears that students' use of ICT does not follow any formal framing and is poorly mastered. In such a context, what link can be made between their use of ICT and their academic training?
Keywords: TIC, usage des TIC, formation académique, ICT, use of ICT, academic training
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The development of digital technologies has transformed teaching and learning methods. This evolution has led to a revolution in pedagogical practices and to the introduction of innovative learning systems. Indeed, digital technologies open up new opportunities for innovative and diversified reading and writing practices and provide motivating contexts for learning languages. In this article, we will present the results of an educational experiment carried out in a French university aimed at the (co-)construction of mono- and multimodal texts from a three-stage didactic device. We will describe each of the steps of this device which seeks to promote a continuous and sustained use of digital tools and to question the impact these tools can have on the development of language skills as well as on the cognitive and technical skills associated with multimodal literacy.
Keywords: écriture collaborative, écriture numérique, multimodalité, clavardage, TIC, collaborative writing, digital writing, multimodality, chat, ICT
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AbstractEvery day, we can witness the growing importance of Internet. A substantial amount of Web sites host interesting terminological information dealing with specialised subjects but have yet to be the object of a literature search. The online booking field, to name but one of many subject areas whose realizations are mainly on the Internet, can only be searched by using an array of specialised tools. During the development of a glossary on e-booking, jointly achieved with the Office québécois de la langue française and Amex Canada Inc., we adapted the traditional work process methods to retrieve and manage data found on the Web. In this article, we will start by presenting the distinctiveness of our field of study and the methodology we used to complete our method. We will then analyse the impact such an approach can have on the terminologists' work.
Keywords: terminologie, terminographie, terminologie computationelle, extraction automatique de la terminologie
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AbstractSchemes of arguments are subject to restrictions. Predicative expressions and their complements do not freely combine with each other from one class to another. Nouns of actions, and also nouns of agents, can “condensate” schemes by making their complements implicit. Two concepts are operative to describe paradigmatic restrictions as far as the scheme of arguments is concerned, i.e., conceptual collocation (semantic variation) and phraseologic paradigm (stylistic variation). Consequences on translation are observed in textual corpora (in law and winemaking) and on the Web.
Keywords: paradigme, schéma d'arguments, collocation conceptuelle, phraséologie
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Following a presentation of the network of Quebec academic libraries, the author describes the challenges facing the network (globalization, student recruitment, financing, slowing demographic growth, distance learning, etc.). Finally she summarizes the Conference of Rectors and Principals of Quebec Universities action plan for 2007 to 2010, which includes topics such as collections access, research training, welcoming new readers and collaboration with neighbouring communities.
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AbstractAccording to Mitchell, landscape is not an artistic genre; it is a medium with the ability to mask or naturalize the violence etched into the land by the conqueror's gaze or actions. The emergence of photography, soon to play a dominant role in the perception of landscape, precipitates a reversal at the end of the nineteenth century: landscape is henceforth transformed from an instrument of violence into an object that, in and of itself, is tyrannical. The goal of this paper is therefore to analyze the operational function of photography and its vehicles in an attempt to establish whether the combination of photography with vehicle actually altered the perception of landscape, and if so, how and with what repercussions?
Keywords: Paysage, photographie, véhicules, reproduction, déplacements, intermédialité, Landscape, photography, vehicles, reproduction, mobility, intermediality
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Nothing is as purely imaginary as the digital archive. Like a brilliant specter from the vast recesses of the cultural universe, the digital archive sweeps through the night skies of the mind, turning time's past into real-time, lighting up spatial horizons with light-space, folding the historical past into the projected future, breaking down fixed boundaries, always following the unpredictable pathways of the awaiting imagination. Never really interested in truth-telling, nor particularly loyal to the concept of bunker archeology, the digital archive is that rarest of cultural phenomenon: a code matrix tracing an uncertain arc across the human condition, projecting retrieved memories into the present, here confronting the solid matter of reality with imaginary reconstructions of the past, there gathering speed as the code matrix is propelled forward by the gravitational force-fields of the surrounding planets of society, economy, and culture, always becoming in the process something more intense, more vivid, more purely imaginary.
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This article explores the popularization of gender reveal parties and considers what they can tell us about current societal expectations around gender, parenthood, and consumption. Gender reveal parties are events in which expectant parents reveal, or even learn, the sex of the child-to-be through a surprise display of something pink or blue, typically using innocuous means such as confetti, balloons, or a coloured cake. However, methods for revealing fetal sex have become increasingly bizarre and dangerous, involving firearms, car fires, and, in at least one case, an alligator. This article examines digital media depictions of gender reveal parties and their aftermath; discusses sexing technologies and diversity in biological sex and gender; looks critically at how capitalism and the White neoliberal state have constructed the gender reveal party as a performative event for parents-to-be; and explores the physical and affective violence done to individuals, families, and the natural environment by gender reveal parties.
Keywords: gender reveal, gender, parenthood, capitalism, biological sex