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“The Republic is watching you”: French republicanism as a state religion
No full textInternational audienceThis article explores how the French Republic is invoked in public and political discourse, arguing that it operates as an implicit state religion. The author examines how secularism and republican values are used to justify policies and measures that often target specific populations, particularly the Muslim community. The paper traces the evolution of republican rhetoric since the early twenty-first century, showing its transition from a political tool to a rigid and prescriptive language. Through examples such as the “Islamo-leftism” controversy and the assassination of teacher Samuel Paty in 2020, the author highlights the increasing ideological weight of republicanism. The study suggests that the Republic functions as a doctrinal framework shaping social and political debates, potentially excluding diversity and enforcing a uniform model of society. To support this argument, the author proposes a discourse analysis of various texts invoking the Republic
"Les féminazis c’est les pires" : autopsie langagière et enjeux sociaux d’une injure antiféministe
No full textL’objectif de cet article est de proposer une étude de la circulation du mot féminazi et
des représentations qu’il convoque, et ce, au moyen d’une étude de corpus en ligne. Constitué de
textes médiatiques et de commentaires issus des réseaux sociaux, ce corpus permet d’obtenir une
cartographie complète et variée afin de mieux comprendre les contextes d’utilisation de féminazi.
Adoptant une approche croisant analyse de discours et humanités numériques, ce travail sur la violence
langagière s’appuie sur la statistique textuelle, l’énonciation et l’argumentation, et est enrichi
par l’introduction d’un corpus de mèmes, signes graphiques et textuels utilisés et produits en ligne
afin de proposer des commentaires sur des sujets de société.Abstract: The aim of this paper is to propose a study of the circulation of the word feminazi and the
social representations it conveys. In order to do this, a corpus is studied, made up of media texts and
comments from social networks, in order to obtain a cohesive and diverse approach to better understand
the contexts of use of the word. With an approach combining discourse analysis and digital
humanities, this work on language violence is informed by textual statistics, as well as an approach
based on argumentation. Furthermore, this paper is also enriched by the introduction of a corpus
of memes – these graphic and textual signs used and produced online to provide commentary on
social issues
Perspectives on Japanese animation : a comparative study between France and Japan
No full textNotre étude a pour objet les représentations discursives de l’animation japonaise. En France, le dessin animé japonais, l’anime, fait aujourd’hui partie des habitudes culturelles de plusieurs générations, mais a connu des débuts tumultueux à son arrivée dans le pays au milieu des années 70. Au Japon d’où il est originaire, l’anime fait depuis longtemps partie de la culture populaire du pays. Nous avons cherché à savoir comment l’anime, décrit comme étant bien implanté au Japon mais aussi en France, était perçu par les jeunes habitants de ces deux pays. Nous avons également souhaité savoir si la culture de ces deux pays pouvait exercer une influence sur la façon dont il est dépeint. Nous avons effectué une enquête auprès d’étudiants français et japonais à qui nous avons soumis un questionnaire dans leur langue respective. L’analyse discursive et sémantique des réponses des participants français et japonais a permis d’extraire leurs représentations en matière d’anime, mais aussi en ce qui concerne les cultures française et japonaise. Nous avons ensuite procédé à l’analyse comparative de nos résultats qui a permis de confronter le regard des étudiants français à celui de leurs homologues japonais.This study focuses on discursive representations of Japanese animation. In France, Japanese cartoons, known as anime, are now embedded in the cultural habits of many generations, but faced controversial beginnings when they first reached the country in the mid-1970. In Japan, the country where it was born, anime has long been a part of Japanese popular culture. Through this study, we aim to find out how anime, which are depicted as well established both in Japan and France, are perceived by young people in these two countries. We also seek to know if the culture of those two countries can exert influence on how it is described by them. The study was carried out in the form of a survey conducted among French and Japanese students, through a questionnaire in their respective languages. The discursive and semantic analysis of the surveyed participants’ answers has enabled us to extract their representations about anime, but also about French and Japanese cultures. This was followed by a comparative analysis of our results which allowed us to confront French students’ perspective with that of their Japanese counterparts
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Get PDF“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Get PDFWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
La valeur du désaccord
No full textAussi familier soit-il, le désaccord déconcerte et déroute. Qu’on s’en délecte ou qu’on le fuit, objet secret de désir ou de crainte, le désaccord reste une énigme. Le concept, sans cesse, se dérobe et résiste. Il échappe aux tentatives de le réduire à une définition trop étroite, sans souplesse ni texture. À contre-courant des idées reçues, à rebours de la doxa philosophique, le présent ouvrage travaille à révéler l’unité structurelle et la valeur profonde du désaccord. Dès lors, les vingt-trois contributions réunies ici en dévoilent le sens et la grandeur, par contraste avec ce qu’il n’est pas. Dans la diversité des approches, elles incitent à une conversion du regard et permettent de percevoir le désaccord comme une occasion, une chance et une richesse. Elles aident à en cerner la variété des fonctions, logiques et usages. Une variété qui, tout compte fait, raconte l’histoire de la démocratie – sa complexité et les doutes permanents qui l’habitent. Distincts et pourtant complémentaires, tous ces points de vue éclairent un même enjeu, d’une actualité brûlante : la liberté et les défis posés par sa pratique. En effet, que serait la liberté sans la possibilité même du désaccord, sans les occasions multiples, et parfois contradictoires, de le faire valoir, de le revendiquer, de l’assumer ? Une coquille vide et un terrain sur lequel rien ne pousse ! Arpenter le chemin démocratique du désaccord, n’est-ce pas, dès lors, redonner à la liberté son courage et sa vitalité
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Get PDFWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
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