A central aspect of speech fluency in a foreign language is natural phrasing (word grouping). It is often assumed that syntactic principles predict phrasing adequately. This point of view is contradicted by an extensive body of psycholinguistic experimentation. A timing model was developed based on psycholinguistic evidence [Zellner, B. (1996). Structures temporelles et structures prosodiques e...

idiom. Following this, Otis devotes the bulk of her study to tracing the elaboration of the organic memory theory in the novels of Emile Zola, Pio Baroja, Thomas Mann, Miguel de Unamuno, Emilia Pardo Bazan and Thomas Hardy (it is welcome to see writers in Spanish represented). These case studies are intended to demonstrate the widespread cultural diffusion of the organic memory theory, and the ...

Water, as portrayed in Goubert's study, strikes me as a quintessential Latourian non-human actor, which was "conquered" and transformed by architects, town planners, engineers, hygienists, physicians, and chemists, but which also made its own "conquest", dramatically changing the scientific and cultural landscape of nineteenthand twentieth-century France. Thus, Goubert argues that a cultural an...

razzmatazz quackery hardly developed before the rapid expansion of commerce, advertising, communications and the press after the 1740s. Benes also shows that, at least up to the War of Independence, many of the showbiz-style quacks were paying brief visits to Europe, including the pioneer electro-therapist and sex-therapist, James Graham. In one final way, this volume documents the different co...

In 1901, when Pasteur had been dead for six years and his rabies vaccine had been used in man for sixteen years, Emile Roux, Pasteur's trusted medical adviser, friend, and collaborator, wrote: "None among the acute infectious diseases has a more fascinating history than rabies." Medical scientists of his day would have agreed with him; so would generations of physicians and writers since the da...

le lyrisme de louis aragon, se fondant sur la circonstance historique et portant une coloration héroïque, se réconcilie avec le modèle épique et justifie l’impropreté de l’opposition épique-lyrique à qualifier la poésie de résistance. soucieux de la forme poétique, aragon  partage avec les rhétoriqueurs des vers rimés de la poésie médiévale, qui agissent comme un miroir permettant de refléter ...

cet article a étudié le statut et les modalités de l'intervention des événements historiques dans la création de l’œuvre très célèbre de louis aragon, le fou d'elsa. nous y avons tout d’abord donné une définition des deux genres, poème et prose, pour voir à quel genre appartient cet ouvrage. après avoir expliqué le phénomène de l'hétérogénéité générique de l’ouvrage, on a vu comm...