Al-Kīmiyā

Introduction

La Rédaction — Wed, 15 Jan 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Le numéro 25 d’Al-Kīmiyā s’inscrit dans une réflexion interdisciplinaire et plurielle sur la diversité linguistique, culturelle et discursive, explorant les interactions entre langues, cultures et contextes historiques. Les contributions rassemblées mettent en lumière des enjeux variés, allant de la traduction et du métissage linguistique à l’analyse pragmatique, sociolinguistique et discursive. [...]

“Au cœur du harem” (In the Heart of the Harem) and of the Linguistic Blending of Elisa Chimenti. Differential Comparison and Linguistic Decentering

Pierpaolo AMENTA — Wed, 15 Jan 2025 00:00:00 +0000

This article examines the literary language of Elisa Chimenti (1883-1969), which is full of xenisms, linguistic loans, metaphors and idioms that stem from a transcultural and heterolingual imaginary. Her novel Au cœur du harem (Éditions du Scorpion, 1958), translated into Italian in 2000 under the supervision of Emanuela Benini (Edizioni E/O), is a striking example. Drawing on a differential comparative approach (Heidmann 2017), we look at these texts to reflect on Elisa Chimenti’s literary language and to examine the translational stakes of her work and its heterolingualism (Grutman, 1997; Suchet, 2014).

Intercultural communication: comparative perspectives on theexpression of gratitude in Moroccan and French context

Salaheddine BELARBI, Mohamed EL JARARI — Wed, 15 Jan 2025 00:00:00 +0000

This study aims to compare the communicative practices between French spoken in France and Moroccan Arabic, focusing on the acts of thanking. The aim is to understand the underlying cultural differences through a comparative analysis of speech acts, particularly the acts of thanking, in both languages. The study falls within the field of contrastive pragmatics, which seeks to identify intercultural correspondences and dissonances in linguistic behavior. The results highlight that the comparison between the act of thanking in Morocco and in France reveals profound nuances in the way gratitude is expressed and perceived within these distinct cultures. Notwithstanding these differences, both cultures share a fundamental value of acknowledging others, thus emphasizing the importance of understanding cultural specificities in the context of intercultural communication.

The French Language in Lebanon: Contemporary Challenges and Revitalization Efforts in a Multilingual Context

Layali RIFAI, Gina ABOU FADEL SAAD — Wed, 15 Jan 2025 00:00:00 +0000

This article addresses the place of French in Lebanon as a foreign language, a language of education and a second language, in a context marked by the rise of English. It insists on the importance of preserving the Arabic-French English multilingualism which constitutes a real cultural heritage in Lebanon. It highlights the revitalization efforts undertaken by French-speaking individuals and cultural projects aimed at preserving the relevance of French in an increasingly globalized world.

The Origins of French for Specific Purposes: Historical Perspectives

Mariam SAHRAOUI — Wed, 15 Jan 2025 00:00:00 +0000

As a continuation of our research work on the teaching of French for Specific Purposes, we recommend to better define the specificities of this concept by going back to its origins as a means to understand its dimensions, its structures, its actors, etc. Indeed, the concept of French for Specific Purposes (FOS in French) appeared in the 1920s. FOS has undergone several phases of evolution that have marked its historical and methodological journey from military French to the language of specialization, to instrumental French, to functional French.
This article presents FOS’s journey through its history for the purpose of identifying the characteristics of each stage of its development. In this sense, we have outlined the different target groups of this specialized teaching. In order to adopt a methodological approach in teaching FOS, it is necessary to consider the nature of these audiences in order to meet their specific needs.

Arguments of Authority in Editorials for the Daily “Aujourd’hui le Maroc”: Analysis of Pre and Post Vaccination Periods

Zakaria OUALLOU — Wed, 15 Jan 2025 00:00:00 +0000

The Covid-19 health crisis, which shook the world in 2020, aroused keen interest not only in the media, but also among citizens, at the international level. This study focuses on the analysis of arguments of authority, which are powerful tools in editorial rhetoric, used to support positions by relying on recognized sources, focusing specifically on editorials in the French-speaking Moroccan newspaper “Aujourd’hui le Maroc”, relating to two phases, that of containment and that of vaccination. This period was marked by major health, social, economic and political upheavals. In this context, we will examine the editorialists’ choice of arguments in their attempt to persuade, and the construction of this argumentation through the testimony of experts, and the skills and experience of the authorities.

The Functions of Language in "Lettres à ses amis" by Mouloud Feraoun

Rachida SADOUNI, Fatiha RAMDANI, Amina TAHRAOUI — Wed, 15 Jan 2025 00:00:00 +0000

This article examines the epistolary correspondence in Mouloud Feraoun’s literary work “Lettres à ses amis”. It mainly aims to study the language functions employed in these letters according to Jakobson’s categorization (1963), as well as the traces of subjectivity and privacy. This paper analyzes the personality of Feraoun through his letters, and infers the characteristics of this writer’s epistolary. This article also examines Feraoun’s work from its conception to its final publication. We argue in this paper that the epistolary is not only a means of information and communication but also a revelation of secrets and disclosure of individual privacy using several elements and clues that belong to language functions.

The Routledge Handbook of Discourse Analysis (2023)

Fatima MOUSSA — Wed, 15 Jan 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Handford, M., & Gee, J. P. (Eds.) (2023). The Routledge Handbook of Discourse Analysis. Routledge

The Routledge Handbook of Discourse Analysis includes articles written by prominent scholars in the field of Applied Linguistics. The articles are particularly helpful as they overlap in their approaches to understanding and applying discourse analysis. The book can thus be helpful to scholars and students alike, covering a wide range of topics and providing numerous examples that can provide a shortcut to the various ways in which discourse analysis could be practically applied in research. The handbook is divided into eight parts, each of which includes a miscellany of articles. This review will cover some of the parts and only some of the articles, in the hope that they would give an overview of the content of the book. [...]