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AbstractCan there be a unified theory of irony ? The pretense theory advanced by Gregory Currie is certainly one of the best candidates, although it is not without difficulties, as one can see from various examples from Swift. It is argued that Swift gives not only an excellent illustration of the various dimensions of the pretence theory of irony, but also of an anti-post-modern conception of the values of the ironist.
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AbstractThis article illustrates the well-known idea that dictionaries are depositories of cultural heritage in the same way as monuments, festivals or libraries. As symbolic objects, they are testimonies to historical and cultural realities that need to be perpetuated and transmitted. A contemporary dictionary of retailing is discussed here as encompassing today's and yesterday's realities in different parts of the world. More than just a depository of words, this dictionary accounts for habits, customs and usages described in full-fleged encyclopedic articles. Archaïsms and neologisms, new connotations and socio-linguistic factors penetrate and influence the language of trade, creating a tension between local and international usage, with the inevitable dominance of American English in modern retailing. Examples are given in French, English and Spanish.
Keywords: dictionnaires, objet culturel, patrimoine, vocabulaire du commerce
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The use of biographical elements in a literary essay can arise from the need to organize archival material according to the narrative logic of a life story. Borrowing from a genre with which the reader is familiar, the history of mentalities, the history of the literary institution and reflections on identity combine in a hybrid form, the “biographical essay”. The biographical essay is characterized by techniques belonging to fiction and metafiction, and the flexibility of this type of writing gives the author permission to explore reading hypotheses about his character or the reference society, with infinitely more freedom (but just as much rigour) as a traditional academic essay. Bernard Andrès adopted this method in his fictionalized biography, L'énigme de Sales Laterrière. He is also applying it to his current research on literary adventurers of the eighteenth century.