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          Je tiens à remercier tous les étudiants qui étaient présents aujourd'hui à ma soutenance de doctorat, et tous ceux qui m'ont encouragé durant ces années de travail. Vous êtes ma force et ma motivation.  Ne renoncez jamais à vos projets et vos rêves. La persévérance et la détermination sont les clés de la réussite.  Merci à tous du fond du cœur!  

      Quinze jours après (déjà), je n'arrive toujours pas à me faire à l'idée que vous nous avez quitté à jamais. Après plus de dix années de collaboration, vous étiez devenu une véritable figure paternelle et un soutient moral inestimable. Vous avez toujours cru en moi, vous m'avez encouragé lorsque j'ai voulu baissé les bras, vous étiez le seul à avoir soutenu mes decisions, vous m'avez honoré de votre présence à mon mariage.      Il y a quelques jours à peine, vous répondiez à mes questions par e-mail, et je me suis dit je le remercierai plus tard car j'ai encore d'autres questions à lui poser. La semaine d'après, vous étiez parti pour de bon. J'ai réalisé que vous aviez répondu à mes e-mails alors que vous étiez en train de nous quitter dans d'atroces souffrances. Vous avez fait votre travail jusqu'à la fin.       Vous me disiez souvent, à moi et à mon amie Nachida, "le jour où vous soutiendrez votre thèse, je serai en paix...

The first thing you have to keep in mind is that you are not asked to write a PhD thesis. The aim of the Master research paper is to evaluate the student ability to use what he learned during the three semesters and his competences in writing and analyzing. Thus, your topic must be as clear and specified as possible, your arguments well exposed and your examples very relevant.  Don’t look for very complex topics especially if you don’t master them. Remember that you only have few weeks to finish your research paper and that the most important is how you deal with the subject, not the subject itself.  The followings are some very easy tips that can help you to find a topic or inspire you to find one: 1. The easiest way is to start with an existing bilingual corpus. The best one is the dictionary. Take a good dictionary, for example Oxfor English-Arabic Dictionary and look for expressions. Put them into categories. For example: expressions about animals, ...

محتوى هذه المادة يعتمد على دروس الآساتذة عيسي العياشي و بلعابد عبد الحق

Dr Giuseppina Scotto di Carlo, New Trends in Popularisation: Linguistic and Communicative strategies in TED Talks. Popularisation “is a social process consisting of a large class of discursive-semiotic practices […] aiming to communicate lay versions of scientific knowledge”. (Calsamiglia & van Dijk 2004: 371).  This means that science popularisation allows everyone to understand scientific knowledge. In the past, there was a clear-cut distinction between scientific and popularised texts. According to this perspective, science is built on a hermetic language that needs to be “translated‟ from the science world to a popularised context. The audience was seen as an ignorant mass on which the scientific community has the power to decide what has to be known and what not. Only during the last decade, studies on professional-lay interaction have focussed more on mass media, which constitute a triangular communication space, a “meeting point‟ between scientists, the ...

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Many thanks to Mr. Fawzi Bouzian who made the effort of finding two of the three books we talked about last time.  The first one was indeed Al-Azif (العزيف) also known as The Necronomicon, which is a fictional grimoire that was first mentioned in the short story of horror writer H.P. Lovecraft  entitled The Hound in 1924. Thus, "Al-azif" means the sound of demons and jinn.    The second book was Avalon Landing , mentioned in the American drama film Finding Forrester in 2000.   The film depicts the story of a friendship between a teenager and a writer, William Forrester (Sean Connery), who wrote the novel of the century (Avalon Landing). "Avalon" is the name of a legendary isle (a paradise) in which King Arthur is supposed to rest.  The third book was a difficult one to find. It was a book mentioned in the story of American author Edgar Allan Poe called The Thousand-and-Second Tale of Scheherazade  (1850). The title of this str...

It was Rudyard Kipling who said that words are the most powerful drug of mankind. But unlike more conventional drugs, certain words have no use once they cross the border. Cultures make language in their image, and sometimes there are linguistic “reflections” in one language that simply don’t find their partner in another. Enter these fantastic words, each of which encompasses feelings and emotions that the English language can only use entire phrases to define. Toska , Russian Though the word can roughly be translated as sadness or melancholy, author Vladmir Nabokov had much more distinct description of the endearing term: “No single word in English renders all the shades of toska. At its deepest and most painful, it is a sensation of great spiritual anguish, often without any specific cause. At less morbid levels it is a dull ache of the soul, a longing with nothing to long for, a sick pining, a vague restlessness, mental throes, yearning. In particular cases it may be ...

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