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• 15 déc 2014

  Paris

  Appel à contribution - Langage

  Brevity is the soul of wit

  Angles, French Perspectives on the Anglophone World

  For its inaugural issue, Angles: French Perspectives on the Anglophone World welcomes original proposals inspired by the celebrated aphorism: ‘Brevity is the soul of wit’. Often used to describe a literary and social form (humor or sarcasm) or to illustrate commonplaces, the dictum encapsulates beliefs about the relationship between ‘brevity’ and ‘wit’ which have numerous implications in different disciplines and forms of expression. The aphorism not only suggests that brevity is a gateway to revelatory truths, it also implies that true ‘wit’ exists only in shortened form, paradoxically positing depth of meaning (‘soul’) in brevity of form, and also hinting that humor loses its essence when explicated. Additional contradictions emerge when one recalls the context in which the line appears in Hamlet, when Polonius tires the audience by giving some words of wisdom to his departing son.

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• 30 nov 2011

  Appel à contribution - Langage

  Linguistiques et colonialismes

  Le numéro 19 de la revue de sociolinguistique en ligne Glottopol aura pour thématique « linguistiques et colonialismes». L'appel à contributions est ouvert jusqu'au 1er novembre 2011. Les participations de chercheurs en sciences du langage, histoire, anthropologie sont les bienvenues. Les articles en français, anglais, espagnol et portugais sont acceptés.

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