this paper aims to offer a critical reading of the contemporary english author ian mcewan’s fifth novel entitled black dogs (1992). i postulate that literary critics have frequently read his fiction for what it is not. as such, mcewan’s thought-provoking engagement with cultural questions has more often than not gone unexamined owing to a critical blueprint that, reducing his oeuvre to the topo...

This paper investigates the prosody of focalisation in Somali, a cushitic tonal accent language. The Somali nouns undergo many tonal accent alternations according to the discursive contexts. A primary aim of the study is to explain these alternations by assuming that they are triggered by intonative tones. However, very little attention has been devoted to the intonation of Somali. As Somali ha...

We develop a polarised variant of Curien and Herbelin’s λ̄μμ̃ calculus suitable for sequent calculi that admit a focalising cut elimination (i.e. whose proofs are focalised when cut-free), such as Girard’s classical logic LC or linear logic. This gives a setting in which Krivine’s classical realisability extends naturally (in particular to callby-value), with a presentation in terms of orthogonal...

la présente recherche, en s’appuyant sur les concepts narratologiques de gérard genette, cherche à étudier la question du point de vue dans un amour de swann de marcel proust. l’analyse minutieuse de cette question s’avère importante pour une double raison: 1. l’étude formelle de l’œuvre monumentale qu’est à la recherche du temps perdu dépasse sans aucun doute le statut d’une simple pratique de...

background:  multiple  sclerosis  (ms) patients permanently confronted  with serious challenges from treatment regimen. developing  a new  questionnaire in ms management, through  evaluation  of patients’ perspectives   and  knowledge   regarding   treatment  will help  to  identify the  sources  of tension, and  to  build  a therapeutic   alliance.   we   purposed   to   describe    ms patient...