This article deals with Fanny Hensel’s journey to Italy. The written sources (the diaries, the letters Fanny wrote to her family in the course of this year) are confronted with the musical sources (a selection of compositions ...

Laura Alcoba, a French-Argentine writer, revised the Spanish translation (2014) of her work Le bleu des abeilles (2013) for the edition of the Trilogía de la casa de los conejos (2021), which brought together La casa de ...

This article aims to study how linguistic variation in Italo Calvino’s Il barone rampante is treated in the two French translations (Bertrand, 1960; Rueff, 2018) of the novel. Relying on contrastive linguistics ...

A somewhat neglected theme in the 1980s-1990s, variation is now enjoying renewed interest. The aim of this article is to address variation and plurilingualism in contemporary French, which are more often than not confined ...

In this study, we present a didactic unit, concerning the lexical variation which characterizes proverbs in Antilles Creole and their equivalents in French, for Italian-speaking adult learners and in a university context ...

In cognitive studies, metaphor is seen as a conceptual interaction between two conceptual domains (Lakoff, Johnson, 1985; Kövecses, 2010). From the idea of the transfer of a concept into a foreign domain, it is possible ...

As an oral lexicogenic process, verlan is not intended to be written down, but the question of its spelling may arise for lexicography, literature, intralinguistic subtitling and advertising. Based on a study of the spellings ...

While linguistic variety, both internal and external, might enhance the language system, this is not the case for French in the Moroccan context. Internal variation does not provide any advantage to the Fren- ch language, ...

According to most grammars and dictionaries of present-day Spanish, the operators aún and todavía are considered synonymous elements of expression of continuity or persistence of a previous element, known – totally or ...