Presented by Qing Li (University of Calgary) The paper investigates how the history presented in bilingual heritage museums in China, can be written, translated, and interpreted with constraints. The translation activities discussed in the paper include inter- lingual translation from Chinese into English, and inter-semiotic translation by directly producing introductory texts in English. Through a…

Presented by Mélanie LeBlanc (Université de Moncton) Cette étude de sociolinguistique s’attache à décrire et à comprendre certains des processus sociaux qui entrent en jeu dans la (re)construction identitaire d’une communauté francophone en milieu minoritaire – la Baie Sainte-Marie, communauté acadienne du sud-ouest de la Nouvelle-Écosse – à la fin des années 1990 et au…

Presented by Folake Onayemi (University of Ibadan) Babafemi Adeyemi Osofisan known as Femi Osofisan or F. O. is a foremost Nigerian playwright, poet and critic of Yoruba descent, who has adopted and re-presented three ancient Greek plays against the backdrop of Yoruba cultural setting. His Tegonni (An African Antigone) (1994) is an adaptation of Sophocles’…

Presented by Jordan K. Skinner (Princeton University) Émile Benveniste approached general linguistics by examining language in all of its paradoxical complexities and in so doing addressed a number of “problems in general linguistics”. By examining each of these problems, Benveniste shows us something both obvious and profoundly astonishing about what language is in general. “Language…

Presented by François Renaud (Université de Moncton) Conference4-Mar.19.2021 Le sujet ici proposé s’inscrit dans le cadre d’un nouveau projet de recherche portant sur le rapport entre philosophie et poésie en Grèce anFque, en parFculier entre Platon et Homère, projet qui me conduit donc à la quesFon du rapport entre écriture et oralité, dont la musique…