The choice of tu or vous (T/V) involves complex variables that are difficult to distill down to teachable rules although patterns of usage can be identified through various research methods. This article examines a T/V survey administered... more
The choice of tu or vous (T/V) involves complex variables that are difficult to distill down to teachable rules although patterns of usage can be identified through various research methods. This article examines a T/V survey administered to 255 French speakers who were asked which pronoun they thought a native speaker would use in twelve different role-play scenarios. The survey results, correlated with related studies, identify five major variables that influence pronoun selection —age, gender, degree of familiarity, status and context. Teachers can help students build the sociolinguistic competence for appropriate pronoun selection through activities that focus on these factors
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At the turn of the century, a young aspiring poet named Pauline Tarn (1877-1909) left her native England to live in Paris where she fell in love with a woman, changed her name to Rene Vivien, learned Greek so she could translate Sappho... more
At the turn of the century, a young aspiring poet named Pauline Tarn (1877-1909) left her native England to live in Paris where she fell in love with a woman, changed her name to Rene Vivien, learned Greek so she could translate Sappho into French, took lessons in French prosody, and began writing lesbian poetry in French using conventional forms, including the most conventional of fixed poetic forms-the sonnet. For those critics investigating the complexities of Vivien\u27s life and work, this curious set of events has led them first to Paris-Lesbos and Vivien\u27s role in reviving Sappho as a powerful female precursor, while questions relating to the more formal aspects of her poetry are still waiting to be explored.\u27 Contemporary feminists admire Vivien as one of the first women to write openly lesbian poetry, and yet her reputation as the Sappho of 1900 makes it more difficult to understand why she wrote in a language much more gender-marked than her native English, and why s...
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Focuses on the poems of Lucie Delarue-Mardrus. Primary identification with the figure of the poet; Separation from normal human activities; Publication of Delarue-Mardrus\u27 poems
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The development of intercultural competence and foreign language skills in study abroad and the foreign language (FL) classroom is often seen as an either/or proposition due to lack of time, training or the availability of materials in... more
The development of intercultural competence and foreign language skills in study abroad and the foreign language (FL) classroom is often seen as an either/or proposition due to lack of time, training or the availability of materials in the target language. The Critical Incident method (CI) provides an example of an intercultural training tool that can link these competencies in ways that are developmentally appropriate for the FL and IC levels of the students. This method uses authentic intercultural mishaps to develop critical thinking skills as students reflect on the cultural values and attitudes underlying the experience. Drawing on research in study abroad FL pedagogy, this paper describes the CI method, provides a review of best practices in the context of study abroad, and develops an example of a CI from a study abroad program in France to illustrate how cultural incidents can be used to promote both intercultural and foreign language competence
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This edited collection of twenty-one essays emerged from the seventh international conference of Women in French UK held in 2002 on the theme of women and feminism during the ‘Belle Époque’ explored within the narrower historical frame of... more
This edited collection of twenty-one essays emerged from the seventh international conference of Women in French UK held in 2002 on the theme of women and feminism during the ‘Belle Époque’ explored within the narrower historical frame of 1890–1910. A somewhat expanded time frame allows Holmes and Tarr and their contributors to explore women\u27s situation within a period which retrospectively was viewed with some nostalgia from ‘beyond the trenches’ of the First World War. A fundamental question underpinning this excellent volume is ‘to what extent the period 1890–1914 was a “Belle Epoque” for women’ given the doublethink of a political régime that trumpeted freedom and equality for all while simultaneously denying women access to many basic civil rights. The collection is a crucial intervention in the field, building upon earlier, more narrowly focused studies of the period such as Jennifer Waelti-Waters and Steven C. Hause\u27s anthology Feminisms of the Belle Epoque (1994) which...
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The development of intercultural competence and foreign language skills in study abroad and the FL classroom is often seen as an either/or proposition due to lack of time, training or the availability of materials in the target language.... more
The development of intercultural competence and foreign language skills in study abroad and the FL classroom is often seen as an either/or proposition due to lack of time, training or the availability of materials in the target language. The Critical Incident method (CI) provides an example of an intercultural training tool that can link these competencies in ways that are developmentally appropriate for the FL and IC levels of the students. This method uses authentic intercultural mishaps to develop critical thinking skills as students reflect on the cultural values and attitudes underlying the experience. Drawing on research in study abroad FL pedagogy, this paper describes the CI method, provides a review of best practices in the context of study abroad, and develops an example of a CI from a study abroad program in France to illustrate how cultural incidents can be used to promote both intercultural and foreign language competence.
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... Suzanne Rodriguez's new biography makes it clear that instead of a poem, Barney lived her life like a racy lesbian romance novel ... Like previous biogra-phers, Rodriguez dwells at length on Barney's primary relationships... more
... Suzanne Rodriguez's new biography makes it clear that instead of a poem, Barney lived her life like a racy lesbian romance novel ... Like previous biogra-phers, Rodriguez dwells at length on Barney's primary relationships with Renee Vivien, Liane de Pougy, Remy de Goumont ...