Signo - Théories sémiotiques appliquées Cours et exercices de français gratuits James Elkins: The Most Beautiful Painting in the World This month I am going to write about the painting that means the most to me, Giovanni Bellini's Ecstasy of St. Francis in the Frick Collection in Manhattan. By a stroke of luck it is included in the Google Art Project, so I can reproduce it in detail. When I was young--maybe from the age of ten or twelve--I was entranced by this painting. This month I am going to introduce the painting, and see if I can convince you how absolutely astonishing it is, and next month I will explain how too much reading can undermine your experience of the visual world. The painting shows Saint Francis, dressed in his monk's robes, looking up into the sky. They're hypnotic, those rocks. Immediately above the saint's head, the cliff face divides and flows around him, as if he were a boulder in a stream. Toward the top of the painting, an arc of yellowish rocks mimics the saint's pose. Even the gatherings of fabric at his waistband are echoed in the tendrils of ivy spreading from a fissure in the rock.
Glottopol, revue de sociolinguistique en ligne A l'origine de ce projet, on trouve un groupe de chercheurs travaillant au sein du laboratoire Dysola (Université de Rouen). Malgré la diversité de leurs terrains et de leurs problématiques, ces chercheurs ont en commun quelques orientations majeures : ils étudient les pratiques et les représentations langagières dans des situations de plurilectalisme (pluralité des langues, des variétés, des usages) ; leurs travaux portent sur le recensement et la description des variétés en présence, l'analyse des modes de contact entre ces variétés et l'examen des politiques linguistiques qui leur sont liées ; ils s'intéressent particulièrement aux situations dans lesquelles le français est en contact avec d'autres langues. Le titre de la revue fait évidemment référence au concept de glottopolitique. Premiers thèmes retenus : Le numéro 23, janvier 2014, Inaccessibles, altérités, pluralités : trois notions pour questionner les langues et les cultures en éducation est disponible.
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