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- Guignard, Sophie, 1958-
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Le cœur, l’âme et le corps : Expressions de l’intime féminin dans sept romans du XIXe siècle et de l’extrême contemporain
- 2015
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- This thesis examines representations of the intimate as experienced by female protagonists, through expressions related to the heart, the soul and the body, in a comparative study of novels by French women writers from the 19th century and the present day. The corpus consists of seven novels : Ourika by Claire de Duras (1822), Lélia by George Sand (1833 & 1839), Monsieur Vénus. Roman matérialiste by Rachilde (1884), Femme nue, femme noire by Calixthe Beyala (2003), Vous parler d’elle by Claire Castillon (2004), Le Cœur cousu by Carole Martinez (2007), and Mon cœur à l’étroit by Marie NDiaye (2007).As a starting point, the thesis provides an extensive literature survey of existing research on the intimate as well as an introduction of the feminist and psychanalytic approaches underpinning the subsequent analyses, which are conducted in two parts, according to the personal and relational dimensions of the intimate. The theories of Beauvoir, Kristeva and Lacan offer perspectives on the intimate experience of women characters which is conveyed in literary imagery as the desire of the Other, and which is oppressed in a patriarchal symbolic order, although an aesthetic with specific narrative techniques related to women’s experience of the intimate is identified in most of the novels. These features include blurring and fragmentation of spatiotemporality, a marked intricacy of narrative voice, proximate first-person narrators, and the development of themes such as the writing of the body, sensed as a container. A discrepancy is noticed between the dominating androcentric posture of the heroines which is found in underlying discourse, and the sensorial dimension of their experience. This leads to a sublimation of body and sexuality in the romantic novels, a masochistic exaltation of the body and pain in the decadent novel and a psychotic and paranoid state in the novels from present day literature. The themes of female sacrifice and of death and denial of the body are very strong throughout the corpus.Relationships within the family are explored, including the mother-daughter relationships that are emphasised in the recent novels but not in those from the 19th century. Family structure, Christian culture and patriarchal, hierarchical social organisation are analysed as grounds for women’s alienation in the novels. The issue of perversion, which is striking in the novels on several different levels, is described as a transgression which involves the reader.
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- Hellqvist, Birgitta, 1958-
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Le gérondif en français et les structures correspondantes en suédois : Étude contrastive
- 2015
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- The present study deals with the French gerund and the Swedish syntactic correspondences in a parallel corpus. The analysis is based on 3,988 authentic instances of the gerund and their corresponding structures in Swedish texts. These are collected in a corpus consisting of 13 original contemporary French novels and 13 original contemporary Swedish novels, including their respective translations. The main purpose is to identify the Swedish corresponding structures and consider how, and to what extent, they transmit the integrative function and the adverbial interpretations of the French gerund. Nine Swedish reoccurring structures are discerned, including the most common: coordinated clauses and adverbial clauses. The study shows that the nine Swedish structures share the integrative capacity of the gerund to different degrees, as well as how they transmit the adverbial interpretations in various ways. Some Swedish syntactic structures correlate with particular adverbial interpretation of the gerund.Another aim is to contribute to the existing research on the French gerund: the semantic analysis of the corpus has led to question – with authentic examples – the alleged absolute inability of the gerund to denote an eventuality that is the consequence of the eventuality denoted by the superordinate clause. The study also reveals, in light of Swedish corresponding structures, the relationship between certain adverbial interpretations of the gerund and more independent syntax in French.
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- Landolsi, Houda, 1981-
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L’exemplification et ses marqueurs
- 2018
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- This thesis deals with exemplification and example markers in contemporary French. Earlier research has focused mainly on the rhetorical aspect and showed less interest in syntax and semantics.The current study is based on several written corpora; the data are provided by C-ParlEur (Corpus of European Parliament discourse), by a corpus composed of non-academic humanities texts, and by a third one consisting of twenty contemporary French novels.The first part of the thesis focuses on the identification of the example in written text. Emphasis is given to the study of exemplification as a relation between two segments that are pragmatically linked. The analysis leads us to propose two main categories: the example-sample and the example-model. While the first represents the example as a non-specific and arbitrarily chosen element of the paradigm, the second shows the example as a particular and typical element.The second and third parts of the study are devoted to a detailed analysis of the characteristics and functions of three markers par exemple, comme and notamment – not only from a semantic and pragmatic viewpoint, but also from a rhetorical perspective. This account includes a thorough description of their functions and of the different constructions in which the markers appear. It also embraces a detailed analysis of the intersection between the example markers and the segment they introduce, as well as between the exemplifying unit and the sentence in its entirety.Even though par exemple, comme and notamment have several distinctive properties, they also have many common characteristics. Our analyses lead to the result that the segment these markers introduce is an intermediate link in the argumentative chain and thus entails a re-evaluation of the traditional definition, which recognizes only that the example’s role is to provide the mental imagery needed to overcome the difficulty of shaping an object or understanding a concept. The study of example and exemplification as a linguistic phenomenon allows us to refine the rhetorical definition of examples as inductive arguments, to propose a multi-dimensional description that aims to identify the examples’ main textual, topical and argumentative roles, and to reveal exemplification as a complex strategy in the negotiation of meaning.
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- Magriñá Badiella, Carles, 1974-
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Post tenebras spero lucem : Alquimia y ritos en el Quijote y otras obras cervantinas
- 2014
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- This study focuses on two areas: alchemy (Part I) and rituals of initiation (Part II) in the works of Miguel de Cervantes, focusing on Don Quijote de la Mancha as my main case study.The first part analyses the function of alchemy and how it can be interpreted throughout the works and various literary genres of Cervantes. It will demonstrate that the texts of Cervantes contain both explicit and implicit allusions to, as well as different aspects of alchemy, such as operative and spiritual alchemy and how these are ultimately used by Cervantes as a means of expression. The author draws from this rich source and modifies these means of expression in order to achieve various results: sometimes with wit or in relation to fraud; at other times it focuses on inner alchemy relating to chivalry in what I have called spiritual chivalry, which has the aim of self-improvement and ultimately, gnosis. Regarding the chivalric rituals of initiation, according to this investigation chivalry serves as both satire and representation of the alchemical process in the case of Don Quijote, which finds its key moments during the rituals. In this sense alchemy and chivalry are studied as two sides of the same coin, in which the search for something higher, an object (the philosopher stone, the beloved), subjects the protagonist to continuous transmutations and puts him in contact with the transitory, that is, liminal states, people and spaces. From this perspective Don Quixote de la Mancha is built upon liminal poetics.My approach, which follows the tenets of analogical hermeneutics, is included within the framework of the Western Esotericism Studies. The 16th and 17th centuries were a fertile age for alchemy throughout Europe. In Spain, alchemy and other esoteric disciplines co-existed with the Spanish Inquisition and its body for the control of ideas and texts: censorship. By being ambiguous and putting into dialogue different ideas of alchemy, Cervantes not only allowed readers to reach their own conclusions, he also protected his work from censorship.
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- Manuguerra, Nicolas, 1980-
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Para-espaces dans le théâtre français de la période romantique (1828-1835)
- 2019
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- This thesis deals with the functions of prevalent threshold-like spaces such as windows, stairs, doors or balconies in theatre plays from the height of the Romantic era in France (1828-1835). The study coins the concept of « para-espaces » (para-spaces) and elucidates the way they mediate between different divisions of the spatiotemporal structure of a play. It applies a textual approach with a deeper focus on the inherent permeability of para-espaces, rather than merely their capacity to impose physical or symbolic limits. It aims to shed light on the impact of para-espaces on the structures of the dramatic text, to observe how they contribute to a redefinition of the relations between the stage and its surroundings – spatially and temporally, and to discern how they affect the poetics and aesthetics of theatre productions during the Romantic period. The analysis is based on a corpus of 36 plays representing different authors and genres. The theoretical part of the thesis revisits the fundaments of the notion of “dramatic space” and defines the concept of “para-espaces”, as well as discussing their potential to occupy a key place in global spatiotemporal structures of plays. It investigates how they mediate between the “actual space” (the stage) and “virtual spaces” (its spatiotemporal surroundings). The first chapter of the analysis deals with para-espaces as “spatio-dramatic pivot points”, i.e. as the spatial, actionnal and symbolic anchors of many plays. The second chapter focuses on sound permeability and how para-espaces are used to mediate information and heighten tensions between what is exposed on stage and what is hidden from sight. Para-espaces also convey visual information from the offstage space. The third chapter focuses on the prevalent rhetorical figure of “teichoscopie”, examining the benefits of placing part of the action offstage. It argues that this phenomenon, by allowing for a systematic emphasis on emotional reactions on stage, influences both the type of text it generates (in both monological and dialogical structures) and the relative disappearance of the role of the “confidant” among the dramatis personae. The fourth chapter addresses the ambiguities of para-espaces as mechanisms for both openness and closeness in the works of Alexandre Dumas, and elucidates how he uses them to build up tension, as well as to deepen the characterization of the protagonists of his plays. The fifth and final chapter discusses the inscription of para-espaces in the predominant aesthetic of “the spectacular”, finding that they often deviate from their original function in order to actualize tensions related to identity and social roles in nineteenth-century France.
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- Santos Muñoz, Arantxa
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Conversación digital: copresencia y disponibilidad : Estudio pragmático del preámbulo de reuniones multipartitas por videoconferencia
- 2016
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- The present thesis explores how interaction is initiated in multi-party meetings in Adobe Connect, 7.0, with a particular focus on how co-presence and mutual availability are established through the preambles of 18 meetings held in Spanish without a moderator. Taking Conversation Analysis (CA) as a methodological point of departure, this thesis comprises four different studies, each of them analyzing a particular phenomenon within the interaction of the preambles in a multimodal environment that allows simultaneous interaction through video, voice and text-chat.The first study (Artículo I) shows how participants solve jointly the issue of availability in a technological environment where being online is not necessarily understood as being available for communicating. The second study (Artículo II) focuses on the beginning of the audiovisual interaction; in particular on how participants check the right functioning of the audiovisual mode. The third study (Artículo III) explores silences within the interaction of the preamble. It shows that the length of gaps and lapses become a significant aspect the preambles and how they are connected to the issue of availability. Finally, the four study introduces the notion of modal alignment, an interactional phenomenon that systematically appears in the beginnings of the encounters, which seems to be used and understood as a strategy for the establishment of mutual availability and negotiation of the participation framework.As a whole, this research shows how participants, in order to establish mutual co-presence and availability, adapt to a particular technology in terms of participation management, deploying strategies and conveying successive actions which, as it is the case of the activation of their respective webcams, seem to be understood as predictable within the intricate process of establishing mutual availability before the meeting starts.
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- Svensson, Maria, 1978-
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Marqueurs corrélatifs en français et en suédois : Étude sémantico-fonctionnelle de d’une part… d’autre part, d’un côté… de l’autre et de non seulement… mais en contraste
- 2010
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- This thesis deals with the correlative markers d’une part… d’autre part, d’un côté… de l’autre and non seulement… mais in French and their Swedish counterparts dels… dels, å ena sidan… å andra sidan and inte bara… utan. These markers are composed of two separate parts generally occurring together, and announce a serial of at least two textual units to be considered together. The analyses of the use of these three French and three Swedish markers are based upon two corpora of non-academic humanities texts. The first, principal corpus, is composed only of original French and Swedish texts. The second, complementary corpus, is composed of source texts in the two languages and their translations in the other language. By the combination of these two corpora, this study is comparative as well as contrastive. Through application of the Geneva model of discourse analysis and the Rhetorical Structure Theory, a semantic and functional approach to correlative markers and their text-structural role is adopted. The study shows similarities as well as differences between the six markers, both within each language and between the languages. D’une part… d’autre part and dels… dels principally mark a conjunctive relation, whereas d’un côté… de l’autre and å ena sidan… å andra sidan more often are used in a contrastive relation, even though they all can be used for both kinds of relations. Non seulement… mais and inte bara… utan mark a conjunctive relation, but can also indicate that the second argument is stronger than the first one. By the use of these two markers, the language users also present the first one as given and the second one as new information. In general, the French correlative markers appear to have a more argumentative function, whereas the text-structural function is demonstrated to be the most important in Swedish.
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- Thegel, Miriam, 1986-
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¿Opiniones, normas o pura necesidad? : La modalidad deóntica y la modalidad dinámica a través de deber y tener que
- 2017
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- This study focuses on the notions of deontic and dynamic modality in Spanish and how they are expressed through the modal verbs deber ‘must’ and tener que ‘have to’. The analysis is based on a corpus of political debates from the European Parliament, conducted 2010‒2011 by Spanish MEPs. In total, 578 occurrences of deber and 334 occurrences of tener que have been studied in detail, in order to understand their semantic and pragmatic behavior.Out of the 912 cases, 860 were classified as deontic necessity and 52 as dynamic necessity. When separating the deontic readings from the dynamic ones, the notions of volitivity and factuality proved to be crucial: whereas deontic cases are volitive and non-factual, dynamic cases can be described as non-volitive and, to a high extent, factual.In order to further examine the deontic uses, four classificatory variables were taken into account, namely, grammatical person, degree of agentivity, tense and source of the necessity. The distributions of deber and tener que were analyzed using Chi-square tests. Statistically significant differences were found for all four variables. The results show that deber is highly preferred in the third person, whereas tener que occurs equally often in the first and third person. Moreover, deber occurs more frequently in contexts which obscure the responsible agent, such as the impersonal se construction and inanimate subjects. As far as tense is concerned, the major difference between deber and tener que is found in the conditional tense, where tener que barely occurs, while deber is fairly frequent. A final difference between the two verbs is that the speaker usually is the source of the necessity when tener que is used, whereas deber is the first option when the speaker refers to another source or authority.In conclusion, it is argued, firstly, that there is a clear difference between deontic and dynamic modality in Spanish, and secondly, that deber and tener que display different semantic and pragmatic functions in deontic contexts, pointing towards an intersubjective use of deber and a subjective use of tener que.
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- Thelin, Nils B.
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L’ aspect, le temps et la taxis en français contemporain : Vers une sémantique de la perspective temporelle
- 2016
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Bok (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Cette étude a pour but de présenter une approche de la grammaire temporelle du français basée sur une conception vraiment perspectivique de la temporalité. À la différence de la sémantique d’intervalles, prédominant dans la recherche temporelle internationale, la recherche française incluse, la Théorie Perspectivique de la Temporalité (la TPT) part du fondement perceptuo-sensoriel et cognitivo-pragmatique des concepts humains d’espace et de mouvement. De ceux-ci la TPT dérive par un processus métaphorique la temporalité en tant qu’instrument de perspectivation. Sous forme des catégories d’aspect, de temps et – dorénavant – de taxis, la temporalité exerce l’analyse perspectivique sur les objets : les événements et les situations. Au contraire de la confusion répandue caractérisant l’analyse traditionnelle, la TPT offre une distinction claire entre la temporalité en tant que sémantique perspectivique d’un côté, et l’idiosyncrasie du verbe en tant que sémantique actionnelle (Aktionsarten, ʽmodes d’action’) de l’autre. Épistémologiquement, l’approche de la TPT se base sur une conception fondamentalement déductive de la théorisation et regarde la méthode inductive et classificatrice seulement comme signe d’un stade d’analyse initial et transitoire. L’approche monosémiste absolue de la temporalité, en focalisant exclusivement la stratégie par défaut de décodage, ignore cette distinction. Par contre, l’approche polysémiste, préconisée ici, tient compte également des processus primaires d’encodage. De plus, elle reflète d’une manière naturelle le fait que les expressions linguistiques sont restreintes par la loi de l’économie. À côté de l’aspect et du temps, la TPT présente, pour la première fois, des arguments pour intégrer dans la grammaire du français, en tant que catégorie particulière dans le système hiérachico-processuellement unifié de distinctions temporelles, la perspective de taxis, responsable de l’ordre séquentiel.
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