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One of the major features of our modern world is its complexity and « informal » form. The “answers” to this complexity are various too. The educational issue would then be to identify relevant cultural solutions. Based on a chosen sample corpus of literature for young learners, the author will assess specific structuring configurations. We shall see that varied narratives have substantial and accessible responses to fundamental questioning. Literature for youth would then significantly broaden a way to engage young children into the world.
Keywords: albums, petite enfance, oeuvres ouvertes, thèmes existentiels, éducation, picture books, early childhood, “open works”, existential topics, education, álbumes, primera infancia, obras abiertas, temas existenciales, educación
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This article focuses on a little-known essay of an ethnographic, philosophical and literary nature, Le repas et l'amour chez les Mérinas (The dining and amorous customs of the Merinas), written by Jean Paulhan during a sojourn in Madagascar. I start by arguing that Paulhan's narrative, as singular and complex as it is, is particularly relevant from the perspective of a hermeneutical sociology because of its complex uniqueness. I then focus on specific textual elements of the narrative to identify possible vectors of interpretation. In a third and final section, I draw on Paulhan's work to advance some general propositions about an interpretive approach for the humanities, in which reflexive thinking plays an important role.
Keywords: Littérature, expérience, écritures créatives, axiologie, Jean Paulhan (1884-1968), Literature, experience, creative writing, axiology, Jean Paulhan (1884-1968), Literatura, experiencia, escrituras creativas, axiología, Jean Paulhan (1884-1968)
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AbstractFeelings of responsibility experienced by people caring for dependent kin and friends reflect new norms appearing in advanced modernity. Based on reports by “primary carers” in several regions of Quebec, the article reflects on responsibility using the philosophical theories of Ricoeur and Levinas as well as feminist theory of work and social reproduction. The authors analyse care-giving in relation to the ties (conjugal, family and friendship) between care-giver and recipient. They show that caring has more than instrumental meaning. It is also and clearly an expression of moral responsibility. This responsibility is lived as a combination of roles established by traditional notions of social bonds and duties and by emotional ties and choices. Caring is never completely one or the other, never either only duty or only choice. The “layering” of the double meaning opens unexpected possibilities.
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SummaryThis paper looks into the links between two contemporary tendencies in sociology : on the one hand, the increasing importance of discourse in social explication and, on the other, the extensive use of computerized methods for the study of discursive data. The hypothesis developed here posits that these two phenomena have not brought about sufficient epistemological and methodological reflection as to their consequences. The issue of constructing discourse as an empirical object which can be dealt with by the sociological method is consideired in the broad perspective of all objectivization processes. The examination of various types of attitudes relating to computers leads to the proposal of a model for the use of computerized methods in the analysis of discursive data.
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This text aims at showing the interest, if not the necessity, for social sciences to comprehend discourse as an object among others that, consequently, may be split, de-constructed and analyzed positively. In fact, the “linguistic materiality” of discourse is both thick and opaque and the analyst needs technical tools (linguistic, narrative, stylistic, computational,etc.) to describe it. We have given a brief survey of the diverging traditions, anglo-saxon and linguistic, of discourse analysis, and their common concern for its “materiality”. We have then presented a few analytic tools, and lastly in a third part, we have reintroduced the choice of these tools depending of subject matter and the researcher's aims.
Keywords: Discours, Sociologie, Matérialité linguistique, Discipline, Discourse, Sociology, Linguistic materiality, Discipline, Discurso, Sociología, Materialidad lingüística, Disciplina
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In this paper, the history of molecular biology is examined in a semiotic perspective. It is argued that it is best to look at the trope of “the genetic code” as the key catachresis of a metaphorical network grounded in cybernetics and developed in molecular biology since the early 1950's. Following Paul Ricoeur's notion of the metaphor, the author intends to show that the metaphorical network of molecular biology's “genetic code,” conveys against the referential illusion a scientific and philosophic truth. The theoretical point on the truth value of the metaphor is made more concrete through a consideration of the non-coding part of DNA, as both the false residual of a metaphor that equates DNA with the medium of an s-code, and the object of an “effet de réel/récit.” Only an open mode of reference for “junk DNA” could open the way for a renewed understanding of DNA, away from the limited information theory metaphors that would qualify these 97 % of the human DNA sequences as “noise” or “insignificant details.”
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In recent years, narrative theory has been an influential model for many writers on music. Things in musical syntax like repetitions, expectations, and resolutions make it tempting to speak of music as narrative, as an emplotment of events, yet such a model in fact involves more narrativization than narrative. It is perhaps more fruitful to focus upon the musical side of unambiguously narrative moments.In this paper, I want to try to integrate recent approaches to musical narration by suggesting that narrative in music is a performance which functions according to the logic of the supplement. My approach will be two-fold: first, I want to justify restricting the enquiry to pre-existing narratives set to music by considering the limitations of the emplotment model; second, I shall use Kundry's Act II narrative in Wagner's Parsifal as a magnet to attract a number of narrative approaches: some will stick and some will not.