the cultural relation between iran and france was a result of the russians' wars against iran. hence, the cultural activities of the french lazariste missionaries, especially among the christian society of iran, make an important part of this relation and a portion of unknown history of the qajar era that has not been much investigated and reflected. from mohammad shah's period (1250–...

This study examines addressing choices by combining university students' and teachers’ perspectives, concentrating on the French pronominal address forms (tu, T vous, V). Our data consist of a triangulation an oral discourse completion task (ODCT), retrospective interviews, focus group discussions among informants consisting L2 speakers L1 Finnish French. In our analysis, we examined horizontal...

It may seem a little surprising to consider Kenneth Slessor, who was born in the year 1901, in a context of aestheticism and fin-de-siècle writing. Such a procedure may seem more appropriate to earlier Australian authors such as Christopher Brennan, Hugh McCrae or Victor Daley. Nevertheless, the influence of the Aesthetic Movement, of certain nineteenth-century French authors, directly or via E...

In the 19th century Alphonse the Lamartine (1790–1869), a French writer, said that “History Teaches Everything, Including the Future.” This is a very accurate statement; the definition of what makes whole nations, what characterizes patriotism, relates to the history of that particular place. This understanding about the importance of History has always been recognized by thinkers, philosophers...

I read with great interest the article published by Ollivier and others 1 about gastrointestinal illnesses among French Forces deployed to Djibouti. It offers a panorama of infectious diarrheas occurring in French soldiers deployed in this East African country and points out the high incidence rate of these affections even compared with Western Africa. I worked in the Medicine Unit of the Frenc...

as part of a wider attempt to bestow the spirit of scholarly prose upon the research articles’ rhetorical structure, academic writers invariably take advantage of quantity metadiscourse markers to avoid prolixity and live up to the implicit and explicit maxims of quantity category as suggested in gricean cp and similar models.  in order to develop a clear understanding of quantity strategies di...