Introduction : entrechocs culturels

Normalisation de la langue et de lecriture arabe : enjeux culturels regionaux et mondiaux

Arabic language and writing are now facing a resurgence of international normative solutions that challenge most of their local or network based operating principles. Even if the multilingual digital coding solutions, especially those proposed by Unicode, have solved many difficulties of Arabic writing, the linguistic aspect is still in search of more adapted solutions. Terminology is one of th...

Pratiques des sites, usages des réseaux. Le social bookmarking, héritages culturels, appropriations médiatiques

This paper offers an approach to “social bookmarking”: four French websites are described here, with regards to their cultural signification. “Bookmarking” can be considered a traditional intellectual and cultural activity: this symbolic level must be taken into consideration to understand how people act on the Internet, and how they attach value and meaning to their actions. Individual partici...

An Introduction to Sociolinguistics

Introduction to circular data

In many diverse scientific fields, the measurements are directions. For instance, a biologist may be measuring the direction of flight of a bird or the orientation of an animal. A series of such observations is called ”directional data”. Since a direction has no magnitude, these can be conveniently represented as points on the circumference of a unit circle centered at the origin or as unit ...

Introduction to Ethics

  The issues involved in this article are mainly concentrated on the origins of ethics or Moral ethics as an indepent science It has been said that this area of science was founded by Greek Philosophers after a great crisis and debates between such thinkers as Socrates, Plato and Aristotle on one side and  study of other cuitures and moral traditions, especially the Chinese and Hindu tradition...