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ArticlesMalika ABENTAK
Résumé: Les
technologies de l’information et de la communication (TIC) ont envahi
tous les domaines. L’enseignement a misé sur ces technologies pour
rehausser la qualité de ses formations et pour faire face aux problèmes
des sureffectifs. Dans ce sens, nous nous intéressons à l’apprentissage
mobile et plus particulièrement à l’usage des Podcasts, par les
étudiants, à des fins pédagogiques. Nous nous interrogeons sur les
effets de cette technologie sur l’apprentissage des étudiants et plus
particulièrement sur leur niveau en langue française écrite. Pour
connaître ces effets, nous avons opté pour une enquête par questionnaire
auprès d’un échantillon restreint des étudiants de première année de la
Faculté des Sciences Juridiques, Économiques et Sociales, département «
Économie et gestion », université Ibn Zohr, Agadir, Maroc. Afin de
contextualiser et concrétiser les réponses apportées par ces étudiants,
nous avons eu recours à l’analyse des rapports réflexifs de ces
étudiants. Ces rapports relatent l’expérience de ces concernés quant à
leur usage spontané des podcasts à des fins pédagogiques en dehors de
l’enceinte académique..
Salah BEN HAMMOU
Abstract: This
study investigates the use of spoken and written discourse features in
audio-visual translation. To investigate the characteristics of spoken
and written language features in audiovisual translation, I have
conducted a quantitative comparison between a dubbed and a subtitled
version of an American TV Show. I adopted Bibber’s (2004) Dimension 1:
involved vs. informational production. According to this dimension, we
distinguish between positive and negative features. The high frequency
of the first group characterizes involved registers. Whereas, the high
frequency of the second group typifies informational registers,. In this
case study, it can be concluded that positive features, namely first-
and second person pronouns, private verbs and present -tense are more
frequent than the negative features in the three samples. Thus, the
register used in the three samples of our data is highly involved. But
when comparing between the three versions, we see that the dubbed
language is more involved than the subtitled language. Similarly, when
comparing the degree of “informationality” in the three samples, we can
see that the subtitled language is more informational than the original
and dubbed languages.
György BORUS Abstract. This
paper seeks to explore and explain some of the distant causes of the
Glorious Revolution of 1688-89. It argues that without the fundamental
change in English public opinion at the beginning of the 1670s, the
Glorious Revolution – which was an Anglo-Dutch achievement – would have
been impossible. It discusses the foreign policy of Charles II, the
consequences of the third Anglo-Dutch War and some domestic
developments, which all combined to change the way well-informed people
in England perceived continental affairs. The article also touches upon
the role of coffeehouses in the development of a public sphere in later
Stuart England.
Klaudia Emanuela GAJEWSKA Abstract. Many
theoretical discussions on speaking have unanimously pointed to the
underlying role of information exchange in every day oral communication.
Even though such a tendency to stress the communicative aspect of
speech production processes associated with the works of, for instance,
Caroll (1953), Byrne (1976), Levelt (1959) or Whorf (1940) could be
identified, the objective of the present paper is to focus on the
society- and culture-oriented investigations of speaking. On having
considered the selected socio-cultural constructs, among others,
Hofstede’s (1991) typology of cultural dimensions, Lakoff’s (1975)
description of gender-based linguistic differences or Vygotskian
(1934/2012) Socio-Cultural Theory, we intend to argue for the adoption
of the interdisciplinary approach to the discussion of speaking, whose
final product, speech, is a highly socially- and culturally-determined
linguistic phenomenon.
Ioan MICLEA Abstract. In
August 2017, a health crisis has spread all over Europe due to the
contamination of eggs with Fipronil, which according to the World Health
Organization, is “slightly toxic” when ingested in large quantities. Purpose:
This paper aims to examine how the Romanian media and the Romanian
media online users framed the egg recall and to determine the level of
crisis responsibility attributed by the media and the Romanian media
online users, as stakeholders, to the organizations involved in this
crisis. Methodology: Using Semetko & Valkenburg’s typology of
frames (2000), I employed a content analysis of the news articles
issued from August 1 to December 8, 2017 by the Romanian mass-media and
of the comments related to these articles. I used the QDA miner 5
software to determine the frequency of the frames and a correspondence
analysis was employed to identify the relationship between the keywords
(phrases) and the frames. Results: The findings showed the
salience of attribution of responsibility, followed by human interest
and economic frames within the news coverage. The qualitative analysis
of the attribution of responsibility frame in the news articles showed
that the European Union is the institution usually made responsible for
the spread of contaminated eggs, being the institution that regulates
the usage of unsafe substances (such as Fipronil). The findings showed
that the Romanian media online users mainly focused on the economic
consequences frame of the crisis, talking about the price increases that
the crisis has produced.
Barikui NNAANE, Prosper Festus OLISE Abstract. One
of the trends redefining and reshaping the landscape of the mass media
not only in Nigeria, but also globally is the integration of
User-Generated Contents (UGCs) in professional journalism practice. This
trend which is driven by the social media has engendered citizen and
participatory journalism. However, in spite of the seeming contributions
of UGCs to the expansion of the public sphere, there are genuine
concerns and fears about the erosion of gatekeeping and factual
verification of information. The focus of this study therefore was on
User-Generated Contents (UGCs) and professional journalism practice in
Nigeria, and how journalists in select media houses in Abuja and Lagos
perceived and used this phenomenon. The research design was survey; the
sampling technique was accidental or convenience sampling, while the
research instrument was questionnaire. A key finding of the research
amongst others was that Twitter UGCs were the most used, followed by
those from YouTube. The authors recommended that while social media UGCs
should be used with caution especially in a country like Nigeria where
there is gullibility of information-consumption without verification.
Grace O. PREZI Abstract. The
main objective of this paper is to investigate language contact and
phonetic adaptation with reference to Nigerian English variety. It
focuses on the segmental aspect of phonetic adaptation. The data for
this study comprises both primary and secondary data which are obtained
through observation, interview and secondary sources like textbooks,
journals, internet etc. Using the descriptive method of data analysis,
the following findings are evident. English and Nigerian indigenous
languages came into contact as a result of slave trade and missionary
activities. Nigerians engage in phonetic adaptation in order to suit
Nigerian situation, environment, purpose and users. In the Nigerian
English, such forms of segmental phonetic adaptation like vowel and
consonant phonetic adaptations abound. Segmental phonetic adaptation
processes in the Nigerian English include substitution, adjunction,
insertion, elision and monophthongization. Factors responsible for the
phonetic adaptation in Nigerian English comprise linguistic and
sociological factors. Linguistic factors include absence of some
phonemes in their indigenous language, phonetic environment of speech
sounds, linguistic and communicative incompetence and bilingualism while
the sociological factors include for convenience sake and for the sake
of local intelligibility. Some distinctive features which distinguish
one class of sound from the other like consonant and vowel features are
maintained during phonetic adaptation in Nigerian English. Phonetic
adaptation in Nigerian English is equally allophonic.
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