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The lexical semantics of blaguer: French ways of bringing people together through persuasion, deception and laughter

open access: yesThe European Journal of Humour Research, 2020
This study presents a lexical semantic analysis of the French verb blaguer and related expressions. This verb belongs to a suite of “French humour practices”, and French-English dictionaries translate it as ‘to joke’.
Sophia Waters
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Do patients with schizophrenia use prosody to encode contrastive discourse status?

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychology, 2014
Patients with schizophrenia (SZ) often display social cognition disorders, including Theory of Mind (ToM) impairments and communication disruptions. Thought language disorders appear to be primarily a disruption of pragmatics, SZ can also experience ...
Amandine eMichelas   +9 more
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French psychiatry [PDF]

open access: yesInternational Psychiatry, 2006
French psychiatry is currently facing a period of profound change, as many of what were considered its most specific characteristics and traditions have been called into question. It is therefore difficult to draw a profile of French psychiatry, because it has to take into account a radical splitting between, on the one hand, what is still the common ...
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From the depths: rich pickings of principles of sustainable development and general international law on the ocean floor - the Seabed Disputes Chamber’s 2011 advisory opinion [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
In February 2011, the Seabed Disputes Chamber of the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea handed down its Advisory Opinion in Responsibilities and Obligations of States Sponsoring Persons and Entities with respect to Activities in the Area ...
French, Duncan
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French Literature: From Realism to Magical Realism

open access: yesJurnal Poetika, 2020
The purpose of the article is to explore the evolution of French literature between the late 19th century and early 21st century. Although French literature has long been dominated by rationalistic ways of thinking, based on the thoughts of René ...
Ali Shahab, Faruk Faruk, Arif Rokhman
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Le français, une langue en contact au Maroc : de la variation à l’appropriation [PDF]

open access: yesRevue Roumaine d’Etudes Francophones, 2019
In Morocco, French language is constantly interacting with different local cultural and linguistic facts. It plays an important role in spreading the wealth of various contacts between languages and cultures.
Samia BELHAJ
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Adieu Bias: Debiasing Intuitions Among French Speakers

open access: yesPsychologica Belgica
Recent debiasing studies have shown that a short, plain-English explanation of the correct solution strategy can improve reasoning performance. However, these studies have predominantly focused on English-speaking populations, who were tested with ...
Nina Franiatte   +3 more
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Word-Initial Prevocalic [h-] in Middle English

open access: yesStudia Anglica Posnaniensia, 2021
The present contribution discusses the phonological reality of initial fricative h- in words of Germanic and French origin in dialectally identified 106 texts from the Innsbruck Corpus of Middle English Prose (Markus 2008), with the focus on native words
Wełna Jerzy
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"Unlearning" construction types transferred from the L1: Evidence from adult L1 Afrikaans L2 French

open access: yesStellenbosch Papers in Linguistics Plus, 2010
Two construction types that are allowed in Afrikaans but not in French are transitive expletive constructions and full-NP object shift constructions. The study reported here tested whether Afrikaans-speaking advanced adult learners had knowledge of the ...
Conradie, Simone
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How French is ‘French’ Sport?

open access: yesNottingham French Studies, 2015
This article explores how sports in France have responded to the challenges of globalization, and also to the opportunities of an increasingly multicultural society. Two case studies are offered in which a distinctive national model may be seen to have been exposed to powerful transnational forces between 1985 and 2015, a period which also corresponds
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