In this paper, first we examine the usual treatment of temporal information and we recall the main features relative to the temporality analysis in texts. Then we deal with the formal representation of calendar expressions, and we provide a functional approach, based on a categorical representation of ordinals. Finally, an ongoing application providing a help for the reading of long biography i...

l’image de la sémiotique française s’est figée, à partir des années 1960, comme celle d’une discipline formelle travaillant exclusivement sur des artefacts séparés de la vie et de la réalité de l’expérience vécue. en effet, la sémiotique classique narrative coupant le texte de la réalité du monde vécu, donne toutes les valeurs à l’énoncé, extrait de leur contexte, où les sujets sont exclus de l...

This article describes a collaborative three-year research project that focused on nurses’ experiences of a learning environment as they participated in an Internet-based cardiac nursing program. In addition to gathering data about the general appropriateness of the learning environment in a specialty content area, the study examined the environment’s facilitation of online scholarly discourse ...