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When it first appeared in 1996 the Dictionary of South African English on Historical Principles (DSAEHP) intended to reflect the linguistic reality of South African English, a ‘contact language’ spoken as a home language by comparatively few people. Just
Bernard Cros
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Résumé Cet article s'intéresse aux multiples usages et entendements des processus de territorialisation, de déterritorialisation et de reterritorialisation en géographie. Examinant un vaste corpus d'articles francophones et anglophones, il cherche à dégager les différentes approches et sous‐approches de ces notions par les géographes, ce afin d ...
Frédérik Leclerc, Mario Bédard
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ESSAI D’IDENTIFICATION DE LA GEOGRAPHICITE
Dans certains dictionnaires de géographie, des auteurs ont tenté de jouer les pères nobles en revendiquant le concept de géographicité qui, malgré son utilité indéniable, n’a pas déclenché de leur part une véritable recherche pour l’identifier et en ...
Claude Raffestin
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Pierre‐Joseph Buc'hoz: did he deserve his bad reputation?
Summary A biography and critique of Pierre‐Joseph Buc'hoz (1731–1807) – lawyer, physician, mineralogist, naturalist, compiler and publisher – is provided. Often criticised as being a mass‐plagiariser, this is commented on, based on a detailed examination of several of his publications.
Nicholas Hind
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Humanimals: A Socio‐Ecological Reading of the Marseille Plague of 1720
Abstract The aim of this article is to return to a small number of historically significant first‐person testimonies of the Marseille epidemic of 1720 in order to analyse in detail their construction and depiction of human exceptionality as a form of life in a time of plague.
David McCallam
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“STRANDED ON THE SHORES OF HISTORY”? MONUMENTS AND (ART‐)HISTORICAL AWARENESS
ABSTRACT Can past agents deliberately influence our historical awareness by designing objects’ appearances and sending them to us down the stream of time? We know they have certainly tried to do so by raising monuments. But according to an influential narrative, the efforts of the “monumentalists” are destined to fail: no monument can keep a legacy ...
Jakub Stejskal
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TRAITEMENT DE L’ADAPTATION DES EMPRUNTS DANS LE TRÉSOR DE LA LANGUE FRANÇAISE
Si l’emprunt figure parmi les multiples procédés permettant d’enrichir le fonds lexical d’une langue, son intégration totale dans un système linguistique n’intervient qu’au terme d’un long processus que peuvent retracer les dictionnaires. Nous étudierons
Sabine Albert
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Letters, gifts and messengers. The epistolary strategies of St Radegund
This article studies the ways the sixth‐century queen and monastic founder Radegund (c.520–87) managed the non‐textual elements of communication by letter. While Radegund’s role as a writer and commissioner of letters has been well studied, her efforts as an orchestrator of letter deliveries, gift exchanges and other associated acts of public ...
Robert Flierman, Hope Williard
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Marrying the Unbeliever: Gender, Law, and Disparitas Cultus in Early Modern Japan*
The marriage between a Christian and a non‐Christian has been a highly discussed topic in the history of the Catholic Church and canon law. This study aims to analyse the construction of knowledge concerning disparitas cultus by using a broad array of sources including moral theology, canon law, and missionaries' cases that circulated in different ...
Luisa Stella de Oliveira Coutinho Silva
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Abstract In my article, I propose to analyze the Du Châtelet‐Mairan dispute from the perspective of the modern theory of argumentation, focusing on the study of arguments from authority. I study separately the opinions of Du Châtelet and Mairan on the correct use of the argument from authority (Is the opponent using the argument correctly?
Dagmar Pichová
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