Mother Tongue, la contradiction performative1

How is the Mother Tongue Acquired

Implementing Mother-tongue

Hong Kong is a homogeneous community both in terms of race (98% Chinese) and language (over 80% speak Cantonese as their mother tongue). However, the historical and sociolinguistic dynamics there are such that English is the dominant medium of instruction at secondary level and above, while Modern Mandarin, a non-indigenous Chinese (standard) dialect, provides the norms for both the use of Chin...

Relational Algebra: Mother Tongue - XQuery: Fluent

This work may be seen as a further proof of the versatility of the relational database model. Here, we add XQuery to the catalog of languages which RDBMSs are able to “speak” fluently. Given suitable relational encodings of sequences and ordered, unranked trees—the two data structures that form the backbone of the XML and XQuery data models—we describe a compiler that translates XQuery expressi...

Chabot, Derbez et Isoardi: points de vue sur la contradiction et la rationalité

Carlos Derbez a déjà participé par ses contributions au numéro 66 de décembre 2003, avec son ami André Richard. Après une informatique alternative, il nous propose ici une réflexion sur la nature de la rationalité à l'âge de l'informatique. Le début de ce texte est présenté dans ce numéro, et la fin dans le numéro 75 de décembre 2006. Vous pouvez aussi trouver le document à l'adresse : http://v...

From Mother Tongue Education to Multilingual Higher Education

Through the time, the higher education has changed the learning system since mother tongue to bilingual, and in this new century has been coming develop a multilingual education. All as part of globalization process of the countries and the education. Nevertheless, this change only has been effectively in countries of the first world, the rest have been lagging. Therefore, these countries requi...