Henri Boyer
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Author: Francesc Feliu
language: en
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
Release Date: 2023-01-15
National linguistic ideology has been at the base of most historical processes that –whether they are complete or not – have brought us to the current reality: a world of languages that represent, with greater or lesser exactitude, the diversity – and convergences – of human groups. Various of today’s thinkers have predicted the decline or even the end of national ideologies. In the area of language, postmodernism would make the linguistic affiliation of the community individuals irrelevant, de-ideologise language use, and extend plurilingualism and language alternation in association with a new distribution of (physical or functional) spaces of linguistic practice. But is this true everywhere? Are languages now nowhere the core of collective identity? Or are we witnessing a distinction between languages that, because of their magnitude, status, strategic position, etc., can continue to exercise the function of national languages and languages that have to renounce this function? Has national linguistic ideology really ceased to make sense? What other strategies should the historic language of a given geographic area employ if it wants to continue forming part of the life of the community that is set up there? What kinds of languages are desired by politicians, intellectuals and philologists? This book aims to bring some thoughts about these questions.
Hexagonal Variations
Hexagonal Variations provides an essential overview of key debates about contemporary French society and culture. Concise, challenging and comprehensive, its chapters each address the processes of change and redefinition that characterise France today. Contributors analyse and situate cinematic, literary, online and visual texts, mediatic, political and everyday discourses, in each case pinpointing how diversity, plurality and reinvention inflect cultural and social evolution in France. The chapters in the collection share a key set of thematic concerns and raise topics for debate among scholars and students alike. Central to these are questions about France’s uncertain place and role in Europe and the wider world; the morphing topography of its capital; and the many conundrums posed by the persistence of Republican paradigms in a global environment. If France is no longer the exception, what are the versions and varieties of being French that are lived, thought and imagined in the new millennium?
The Zonbi Conspiracy
"A vampire, a werewolf and a zombie walk into a bar. The bartender screams 'Get the hell out of here! Bad joke in motion!'." Matty said. "We could sit next to the horse, the priest, the rabbi and the two nuns if the gorilla didn't mind," Rose added. Both erupted into more laughter. "And then we could eat the priest, rabbi and the nuns-convince the gorilla to join us and all ride out of town on the horse; after we had dismembered the bartender, of course. Dibs on the brains, by the way." "Are you really compelled to eat brains?" Life runs slightly different in the Brownstone home of Jareth Archer. A creature disguised as a man with a pair of unique friends to help him in his daily (and nightly) affairs. From the role play fiction generated from 'Vampires-A Dark Alleyway' comes a new set of tales centering on the vampire Carcosian- Vermathrax-rex.