Tag: French language
Louis-Ferdinand Despreez emerges from the shadows for the first time
South African novelist, involved alongside Nelson Mandela’s ANC, Louis-Ferdinand Despreez was advisor to several African heads of state. From his residence in Pretoria, he traveled the African continent for thirty…
Arthur Teboul pours out his minute poems
” We all have a whisper in our head all the time. What’s hard is accepting it, hearing it, then writing it down. (Replay) Band Lyrics Writer Fire! Chatterton, Arthur…
Raphaël Confiant breathes new life into the rue Blomet ball
” The place has become a place of living together, of populations that should never have rubbed shoulders. (Replay) In his new novel The rue Blomet ball », Raphaël Confiant…
“Living with ChatGPT”: how to tame the cat?
Artificial intelligence entered our lives a few months ago, whether through Midjourney, Dall-e, Stable Diffusion or ChatGPT. It goes very quickly, and triggers both passionate and worried reactions. THE Book…
Jean-Charles Massera, a writer to degender the language
How to demasculinize literature and our lives? In “Occupy Masculinity”, Jean-Charles Massera questions our habits to better deconstruct them. In a world where pronouns evolve, the arrival of iel and…
Fixed spelling in the face of a living language: how to make French evolve?
Before, people made fewer mistakes, young people no longer know how to speak, or even Belgians distort their language… Faced with these declinist formulas heard here and there, the group…
The voice elsewhere: ventriloquism, stuttering and other accidents
The voice is an enigma. We have listened to the ventriloquists, in the Bible and in the movies. We have listened to the stutters of Ghérasim Luca or MC Solaar,…
Climate: “Better fight against our collective inaction” thanks to linguistics
This week’s France Book is titled Blah blah blah, end climate talk, published by Robert. The author, Albin Wagener, sociolinguist, dissects the different types of discourse to talk about climate…
Eloquence puts on a show at La Sorbonne
Convincing, moving or persuading are some of the essential qualities for rhetoric. A discipline honored each year by the University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne during the international eloquence competition. Advertisement…
Greenwashing or climatoscepticism, Albin Wagener wants to put an end to climate chatter
” I prefer to speak of climate emergency… In the term emergency, there is the incentive to act quickly, quickly in the face of phenomena which are violent, rapid and…