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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

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

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.

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

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.

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

Keywords: Philosophie, sociologie

This essay focuses on comics that show a sensitivity to “deep time” and the conception of our current epoch as the so-called “Anthropocene”. Through comics by Diniz Conefrey, Alberto Breccia and the WREK collective, this text explores how the bodily temporality of reading and drawing stands in productive counterpoint to some of the themes of these comics. These thematic layers are informed by the interpretive horizon of geological time and pose a politics of form to negotiate this contradiction.