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La langue tahitienne : parcours d’apprenants adultes
No full textNotre environnement nous façonne, de même que les langues que nous entendons et les représentations que nous en avons. Fruit d’un travail de recherche de quatre mois, mené parallèlement à mes engagements professionnels, ce mémoire vise à déconstruire certains clichés concernant l’apprentissage du tahitien, en particulier à l’âge adulte, afin de rendre le reo tahiti accessible à tous. À travers les parcours d’apprenants adultes ayant accepté de participer à des entretiens semi directifs, nous analysons les stratégies d’apprentissage efficaces, dans un contexte où les technologies évoluent constamment. Nous prions le lecteur de bien vouloir excuser les quelques coquilles encore présentes dans cette version révisée ; il semblerait que quatre mois et un emploi à temps plein ne suffisent pas toujours à dompter la langue française, même pour un mémoire sur le tahitien ! La réflexion présentée ici est encore jeune, mais j’espère que ce travail pourra être utile et stimulant pour les esprits curieux, et qu’un jour un travail plus abouti pourra voir le jour
Mažai žinomas Klaipėdos ir apylinkių piešinys 1586 m. jūrlapyje | A Sketch of Klaipėda (Memel) and the Surrounding Area in an Unknown Author’s Rutter of 1586
No full textBy digitising and publicising their exhibits, European archives, libraries and museums are opening up an increasing number of historical sources to a wider audience. This publication deals with a late 16th-century manuscript rutter (a nautical book of sailing directions), created by an unknown Dutch cartographer, and bearing the French title Recveil et povrtraict d’avlcvnes villes maritimes et plvs memorables ports et levrs advenves et marcques servantes a la navigation en la mer oceane. The manuscript is held by the National Library of Spain (Biblioteca Nacional de España) and was thoroughly described by Günter Schilder in 1991. This presentation focuses on two charts out of 24 charts depicting coastlines from La Rochelle to Tallinn in the manuscript that depict the waterways along the shores of the Baltic Sea, the coasts of the Duchy of Courland and Semigallia and the Duchy of Prussia, in a stretch between Memel (Klaipėda) and Danzig (Gdańsk). The drawings show coastlines seen from the sea, as if from a bird’s-eye view, and provide an opportunity to reflect on a view of this stretch of Baltic coast that sailors saw at the time. According to collected data on the depth of the water in the Curonian Lagoon, the author concludes that the drawings present reliable information, probably because they were created based on information provided by sailors. However, the precision of the information is apparently not absolute, as the site 7 Berge (Seven hills), shown between Liepāja and Klaipėda by later sources, was localised here between Ventspils and Liepāja. The charts are also interesting in that they contain a drawing of the town and castle of Memel (Klaipėda) and its surroundings, which was so far not known in the historiography of Klaipėda. It is safe to assume that the 1586 drawings are some of the earliest cartographic sources representing Klaipėda and its surroundings
Rationale for BepiColombo Studies of Mercury’s Surfaceand Composition
No full textBepiColombo has a larger and in many ways more capable suite of instrumentsrelevant for determination of the topographic, physical, chemical and mineralogical proper-ties of Mercury’s surface than the suite carried by NASA’s MESSENGER spacecraft. More-over, BepiColombo’s data rate is substantially higher. This equips it to confirm, elaborateupon, and go beyond many of MESSENGER’s remarkable achievements. Furthermore, thegeometry of BepiColombo’s orbital science campaign, beginning in 2026, will enable itto make uniformly resolved observations of both northern and southern hemispheres. Thiswill offer more detailed and complete imaging and topographic mapping, element mappingwith better sensitivity and improved spatial resolution, and totally new mineralogical map-ping.We discuss MESSENGER data in the context of preparing for BepiColombo, and de-scribe the contributions that we expect BepiColombo to make towards increased knowledgeand understanding of Mercury’s surface and its composition. Much current work, includinganalysis of analogue materials, is directed towards better preparing ourselves to understandwhat BepiColombo might reveal. Some of MESSENGER’s more remarkable observationswere obtained under unique or extreme conditions. BepiColombo should be able to confirmthe validity of these observations and reveal the extent to which they are representative ofthe planet as a whole. It will also make new observations to clarify geological processesgoverning and reflecting crustal origin and evolution.We anticipate that the insights gained into Mercury’s geological history and its currentspace weathering environment will enable us to better understand the relationships of surfacechemistry, morphologies and structures with the composition of crustal types, including thenature and mobility of volatile species. This will enable estimation of the composition of the mantle from which the crust was derived, and lead to tighter constraints on models forMercury’s origin including the nature and original heliocentric distance of the material fromwhich it formed.RST/Luminescence Material
