The Olympics of Literature: a little-known story
D-100 before the start of the Olympic Games in Paris! Did you know that the Olympic Games from 1912 to 1948 included art and literary events? Inspired by antiquity, Pierre de Coubertin felt it was important to connect writers and artists with his new sports religion. A look back at a little-known episode of the […]
Literature: “Kaddour”, the portrait of a father by Rachida Brakni
For her first novel, director and actress Rachida Brakni paints a portrait of her father Kaddour, who died in the middle of the Covid-19 pandemic, after a difficult childhood in Algeria and a busy life in France… Rachid Brakni © Dorian Fool With Rachid Brakni, actress and director. His first novel Kaddour was published by […]
“Whore”: Dominique Lagoorgette examines the history of a word and a stigma
The term “whore” is omnipresent in everyday language: sometimes a misogynistic or sexist insult, sometimes a misused term to provoke shame, sometimes an interjection “Whore!” (which in the mouths of some speakers almost serves as a substitute for a comma!) But what is the history of this word? This linguistic study by Dominique Lagoorgette decodes […]
What are specialist dictionaries used for?
What are disciplinary dictionaries? What are they for? How do we use it? Should they only be read by experts? Advertising – Laura Abou Haidar, Professor at the University of Grenoble-Alpes in the laboratory LIDILEM, Laboratory for Linguistics and Didactics of Foreign and Mother Languages in Linguistics / FLE – Marion Tellier, University Professor at […]
World Francophonie Day: What does the English language owe to French?
What if English had become the language it is thanks to French? Don’t these words borrowed from English From Challenge to Vintage come from…old French words? In his new essay, the linguist Bernard Cerquiglini writes The English language does not exist (Folio Essays) places the English language in the universal heritage of the French language! […]
Festival of the French language Rouen: making the diversity of the French people heard
A program on the occasion of the 6th edition of the Festival des Langues Françaises in Rouen, Normandy at the National Drama Center to highlight the diversity of French. Advertising Nathalie Hounvo Yekpe, Beninese actress, director and author Edouard Elvis Bvouma, winner of the RFI Theater Prize in 2017 for The bearded doll. It plays […]
Stray letter: the fascinating stories of the letter “R”
Making an entire film about a letter may seem absurd! But whether in German, Hebrew, Creole, Russian or Japanese, this letter is sometimes mysterious or even disturbing and, according to linguists, it is one of the last letters whose sound children acquire. Guest : Nurith Aviv, Director. His film “Lettre Errante” was released in theaters […]
“So beautiful”, a play about domestic violence in sign languages
So nice shows two deaf friends telling each other (through signs) about the domestic violence they both suffer from. Guest: Jennifer Lesage-DavidCo-director of theInternational Visual Theater, a flagship venue for the dissemination and creation of bilingual, visual and physical theater, supports several artistic projects, particularly involving sign language. His show “So Nice” runs until March […]
Literature: “Mona’s Eyes”, the transmission of the beauty of art
Mona, 9 years old, learns that she will permanently lose her sight within a year. And during these 52 weeks, his grandfather will teach him the beauty of art by introducing him to a painting every week. Guest : Thomas Schlesser, art historian, director of the Hartung-Bergman Foundation, professor at the École polytechnique and author […]
Missak Manouchian, a resistance fighter and poet in the Pantheon
If we know the resistance fighter Missak Manouchian, an Armenian resistance fighter who emigrated to France after escaping the Armenian Genocide and was shot by the Nazis in 1944, we are less familiar with the work of the poet that he was. Stéphane Cermakian has just translated his work anew. It appears under the title […]