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AbstractBased on Linda Hutcheon's theoritical writings, this paper aims at studying two examples of ironic composition in Tombeau de Romain Gary, namely the title and the refrain. The title's literal meaning first refers to the tombeau, a literary genre born in the sixteenth century. Another possible meaning appears through literary and biographical analyses as well as criticism, which account for the framework of an essay; then, in the in-between appears a tombstone, a tombeau, for a writer who was never buried. The refrain highlights the inadequacy of the question asked to the mother, and reveals the feminist writer's abrasive and ironic criticism when she underlines how unhealthy Roman Gary's relationship with his mother Nina proved to be. Finally, the comparisons between the two mother images, one provided in Romain Gary's La promesse de l'aube and the other by Nancy Huston's Tombeau de Romain Gary create a third ironic meaning.
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Many studies have highlighted various characteristics of populist discourse. This raises the question of the extent to which populist discourse differs from non-populist discourse. To answer this question, we textometrically subjected the programs of ten populist and ten non-populist political actors, confronting two opponents in the same country. The analysis reveals that populists and non-populists have much in common, constrained as they are to adjust their opinions to the political questions related to a country and to the general requirements of the dynamic between a contender for government and the electorate. The analysis also finds some dissimilarities, such as the fact that populist platforms are proportionally more insistent than non-populists on economic issues and that non-populist platforms are more animated than others by social democratic principles.
Keywords: Populisme, non-populisme, textométrie, lexicométrie, programmes politiques, manifestes politiques, plateformes politiques, analyse comparée, Populism, Non-populism, Textometry, Lexicometry, Political Programs, Political Manifestos, Political Platforms, Comparative Analysis
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In the aftermath of decolonization, the new Arab states in the Middle East undertook the codification of the civil law. Codification in the Arab world implies more than a simple technique for compiling and codifying legal norms. It assumes the specific role of modernizing and subtly secularizing the law. Codification allows for the establishment of a corpus juris to a large extent detached from Sharia. Comparative law is at the heart of this undertaking and can play a part in reconciling a legitimate desire for modernity while respecting tradition. Although the contribution of comparative law to the legislative process is very important, its role as a source of inspiration may vary from one country to another and will depend upon the preponderance given to traditional Islamic law in each jurisdiction. This article examines the degree to which comparative law plays a role in the process of civil law codification in Arab countries.