The aim of this article is to identify how university-level students (of French as a Foreign Language) engage in completing a listening comprehension task. We will focus particularly on cognitive engagement, which we will ...

This article examines the functional affinities between the French plus-que-parfait and the Slovak antepréteritum. Since this Slovak tense is considered by linguists as a peripheral tense, it is absent from contrastive ...

Charles De Coster’s La Légende d’Ulenspiegel was deemed by Young Belgians a national epic. The novel has been translated into many languages, including Polish. The first Polish translation was published in 1914. The article ...

This article presents a study conducted with French-speaking participants who are advanced learners of Italian, focusing on their pronunciation and perception of Italian phonological features, such as consonant gemination ...

The work of Marie Gevers and Paul Willems offers a poetic and philosophical perspective on nature. Through water, landscapes, and the cyclical rhythm of time, they offer a reflection on the human condition, death, and the ...

Vincent Jouve’s tripartite model of the literary character, i.e., the “lisant,” the “lectant,” and the “lu”, provides a useful framework for analysing Mauriac’s approach to characterisation. Mauriac, following in the ...

Reflections on the theory of the art of writing often accompany the work of a writer. Camille Pert can be considered a particular representative of this trend; her keen interest in social issues led her to devote several ...

The communication we master, sometimes unconsciously or almost unconsciously, involves, upon analysis, a whole system of complex steps aimed at overcoming several ontological and noetic thresholds. Indeed, language assembles ...

This article analyses words and expressions used to say good things and bad things in Hungarian youth slang and is based on Dávid Szabó’s doctoral dissertation entitled L’argot des étudiants budapestois, published in 2004, ...