Tradition is an important issue when considering food which can be described at different levels within social groups as small as a family or as a function of time scale. Traditional foods can be related to special events such as weddings, religious days specific for each country, and are often concerned with local foods and artisan foods referring to specific ingredients, location of the produ...

Following the Second Vatican Council, the predominant trend in Catholic moral theology has been decidedly antagonistic toward the tradition that dominated moral theology before the Council, namely the use and formulation of ecclesiastically-approved “manuals” or “handbooks” of moral theology, the contents of which chiefly involved general precepts of morally good and bad behavior as well as the...

There is a well known tradition in the literature on definite Determiner Phrases (DPs) that concentrates on the asymmetries in the distribution and the anaphoric properties of determiners such as articles and demonstratives. A huge amount of work on the topic has been done on French by linguists like Kleiber, Corblin, Marandin, Maes, Apothéloz, Reichler-Béguelin or De Mulder, and on English by ...

Although feedback utterances are ubiquitous in dialogue and identified as a crucial aspect of language interaction, existing semantic/pragmatic proposals do not offer a comprehensive model for them. The present abstract argues for a two-step formal model using fairly standard semantics for lexical item entries and attempting to derive the pragmatic communicative functions from the semantics tha...

i ‘ s and one of them, the first twin (Dupond) said in a low cavernous voice, ‘‘So you have read the Tintin books!’’ ‘‘Yes,’’ I said, and to win them over I added, ‘‘I used to read Asterix’s books6, too.’’ The second twin (Dupont) smiled and said, It was the autumn of 2006. That evening, I was sitting with two French twins in a French restaurant. They had called and invited me to come, explaini...

In recent years there has been a considerable development in modelling nonlinearities and asymmetries in economic and financial variables. The aim of the current paper is to compare the forecasting performance of different models for the returns of three of the most traded exchange rates in terms of the US dollar, namely the French franc (FF/$), the German mark (DM/$) and the Japanese yen (Y/$)...

Cultural tourism has become the doctrine of development in many countries. Various local commodities have been transformed into tourist attractions to satisfy curiosity tourists. Unfortunately, cultural destinations tends be exclusive, where its activities focus on presenting artificial that are packaged for This article describes best practice how France succeeded developing a culture-based se...