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ItemVariation in the Stress of Russian Short-form Adjectives(IJORS, 2023)This article examines the dynamics of word stress in one of the more complex and increasingly literary areas of Russian, that of short-form adjectives. By comparing the stress patterns of a normative dictionary with another contemporary source which gives stylistic evaluations of stress positions, the article traces the main accentual tendencies which are occurring in this area of morphology and aligns them with two previous surveys of short-form adjectives. Above all it is the feminine singular and the plural forms which are pivotal. The article reveals the contradictory and even circular dynamics of stress in short-form adjectives, especially in patterns a, c and c´: in stem-stressed forms (pattern a) there is a clear tendency towards mobile stress by virtue of a shift of stress from stem to ending in the feminine form, while, at the same time, a smaller group of such adjectives appears to have shifted stress from the ending to the stem at an earlier stage. The main mobile-stress pattern (pattern c) also confirms a contradictory tendency to move ending stress to the stem in feminine forms together with a weaker trend to shift stem stress to the ending in the plural forms. Taken as a whole, all these shifts in different directions are creating new complex stress patterns characterised by at least two forms with variation.
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ItemRééquilibrage? A Geo-Semiotic Analysis of Noumea’s Main City Square as Case Study(Liverpool University Press, 2023-07-14)The notions of rééquilibrage and destin commun are central to the Matignon and Noumea Accords, which aimed to achieve self-determination for New Caledonia. The preamble of the Noumea accord recognizes that colonization stripped the Kanak peoples of their languages, culture and identity. As a result, various programs were launched to reinstate their memory and cultural patrimony. These were predominantly established in the Province Nord, while in the Province Sud material representations of Kanak languages and culture remained sparse. This study centres on the geosemiotics of the main city square in Noumea—the Place des Cocotiers—by examining the way in which the various communities are represented in the square and how it has evolved over time as a kind of urban palimpsest. Through the concepts of centripetal and centrifugal forces, this article focusses particularly on the tension between representations of French colonial power and the visibility of the Kanak first nation people and their identity in the built landscape. It concludes by considering the recently erected statue of Jean-Marie Tjibaou and Jacques Lafleur in the light of self-determination and the goals of rééquilibrage and destin commun.
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ItemUncovering ergative use in Murrinhpatha: Evidence from experimental data(ROUTLEDGE JOURNALS, TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD, 2023-01-02)
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Item[Review of the book] Concrete flowers: a novel, by Wilfried N'Sonde (translated by Karen Lindo)(Taylor and Francis Group, 2021-10-02)
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Item[Review of book At Home in Our Sounds: Music, Race, and Cultural Politics in Interwar Paris, by Rachel Anne Gillett,(H-Black-Europe, 2022-05-01)
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ItemIntroduction: Postcolonial realms of memory in the francophone world(Liverpool University Press, 2016-01-06)In September 2020, the mayor of Paris, Anne Hidalgo, announced plans to unveil a statute of Solitude, a former slave who fought against the French reinstatement of slavery in Guadeloupe in 1802. Solitude was arrested during the revolt, sentenced to death, and hanged. The inauguration of a statue in her memory would constitute the first statue of a black woman to be put up in the French capital.
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ItemNo Preview Available‘L’Identité antillaise de Frantz Fanon, selon Raphaël Confiant’(Presses universitaires des Antilles, 2021-01-04)This article will examine the dual Antillean-Algerian identity of Frantz Fanon, as imagined by Raphaël Confiant in L’Insurrection de l’âme : Frantz Fanon, vie et mort du guerrier-silex (2017). Confiant describes the text as an imagined autobiography of Fanon because it combines a third-person, factual account of Fanon’s career as a psychiatrist in Algeria with more personal reflections about his Antillean childhood, recounted from the perspective of the imagined ‘I’. In the text Confiant emphasizes Fanon’s role in the Antillean resistance, an underexplored episode of Fanon’s life which nevertheless was crucial in the formation of his anticolonial thought. The article will analyse the literary techniques Confiant uses to highlight Fanon’s great sacrifice, while also arguing that the text is a salient example of the concept of ‘nœuds de mémoire’ by Debarati Sanyal, Max Silverman and Michael Rothberg. The Caribbean and Algerian memories of Fanon’s life and work do not compete with each other; rather, they complement each other.
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ItemMadness, Isolation and the Female Condition in Gisele Pineau's Writing(Liverpool University Press, 2022)This article examines themes of madness and mental illness in fictional and non-fictional writing by Guadeloupean author Gisèle Pineau. Madness is an important trope in French Caribbean literature that critiques the enduring legacies of colonization, slavery and forced displacement. It is a prevalent theme in Pineau’s work because her writing is inspired by her parallel career as a psychiatric nurse. The article explores madness from a gendered perspective in her short stories “Ombres créoles” (1988) and “Ta mission, Marny” (2009). Arguing that here, madness is a specifically Antillean condition that both erases the agency of the female protagonists and grants them power to resist, the article then examines how Pineau explores the theme from a metropolitan viewpoint in the autobiographically inspired Folie, aller simple: journée ordinaire d’une infirmière (2010). Through her writing, Pineau bears witness to the ordeals of Caribbean women haunted by the collective trauma of slavery and patriarchal power.
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Item[Review of the book Our Civilizing Mission: The Lessons of Colonial Education, by Nicholas Harrison](Oxford University Press (OUP), 2023-07-18)
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ItemTranslation policies in times of a pandemic An intercity comparison(JOHN BENJAMINS PUBLISHING CO, 2023-07-06)Abstract In 2020–22, multilingual vaccination communication became an urgent priority around the world, requiring trusted communication in non-official languages. In Brussels, Melbourne and Shanghai, quite different legal frameworks and language policies were challenged by the need for behavior-change communication in a wide range of culturally and linguistically diverse communities. In all three cases, practices were developed that showed the limitations of existing translation policies. Here we use policy analysis to explore the nature of those challenges, to compare the different solutions found in the three cities, and to propose how policies might be developed and adjusted to enhance time-pressured trust-building communication.