ISSUES IN LANGUAGE AND CULTURE
Edited by : MOHA ENNAJI
2017

MOHA ENNAJI

Introduction

Jaouad Moumni
Trigger of Do-Support: A Minimalist Approach

Belkacem Boumedini
De l’emprunt à l’alternance codique dans la chanson rai en Algérie

Najlaa El Gouar
TICE, apprentissage et auto apprentissage

Abdessamad Rouai
Aspects cognitifs de la linguistique générative (en arabe)

Nabia Daouda Hadria
Le multilinguisme en Algérie et son rôle dans l’évolution de l’éducation et des médias

 

 

Introduction

This issue includes scientific contributions aimed at deepening the debate on the topics of language, culture, and society, which are the focus of attention of students, professors, and specialists in linguistics, sociology, education, anthropology, and language policy. Much of this research directly or indirectly addresses knowledge of language in different fields and offers the findings of value-added experiments in language, pedagogy, and sociology that can be of interest to readers and researchers.

 

 

Trigger of Do-Support: A Minimalist Approach
pp. 1-14
Jaouad Moumni

In this context, Jaouad Moumni presents an analysis of do-support with regard to negative constructions in English, French and Standard Arabic within the minimalist theory of Chomsky. The syntactic difference between the English do-support construction and its French and Standard Arabic counterparts is shown to be due to parametric differences in functional categories, mainly IP/TP and NEGP. The article argues that IP in English is weak, and therefore impotent to attract finite verbs to IP, whereas in French and Arabic it is strong, and hence attracts finite verbs to raise up further to IP. With regard to NEGP, English “not” is a barrier for verb-raising, by contrast Arabic NEG [+T] (we refer to temporal negative markers (lam, lan…)) is a bound marker which adjoins to IP to check tense inflection, and hence does not need a support to attach to.
 
 
De l’emprunt à l’alternance codique dans la chanson rai en Algérie
pp. 15-24
Belkacem Boumedini

Belkacem Boumedini discusses the theme of the popular Rai song, noting that the Algerian Rai singers select the themes of their songs from among the youth they know. Their text is written in dialectal Arabic, where mixing with the French language remains a phenomenon to be studied. Using borrowing and code-switching, the Rai singers compose their texts and sing for an audience known for its multilingualism. The article focuses on both language phenomena (code-switching and borrowing) that emerge in the Rai corpus.
 
 
TICE, apprentissage et auto apprentissage
pp. 25-41
Najlaa El Gouar

Najlaa Elgouar debates the need to integrate the use of new communication technologies not only to be up to date or follow the development of the digital world but also to improve the quality of education. The researcher points out that ICTs are certainly not a tool to respond to all problems of education, but rather a way to enhance learning. The integration of innovative and stimulating digital and educational materials will allow the transformation of classrooms and encourage the creation of a new space for cooperation among all participants in the education process. This article is the result of an experiment with French language and linguistic diversity students at Ibn Tofail University.
 
 
Aspects cognitifs de la linguistique générative (en arabe)
pp. 1A-22A
Abdessamad Rouai

The article by Abdessamad Rouai aims to highlight the cognitive aspects of language through the linguistic models proposed by Noam Chomsky, and to examine the relationship between language and mind from the point of view of cognitive linguistics. This article discusses two basic issues: the relationship of linguistics to cognitive science and its contribution to the construction of a theory of mind, and examination of the linguistic program and its cognitive associations through its four sub-axes, namely the internal approach of language and mind, the computing system, and the biological and cognitive foundations of language.
 
 
Le multilinguisme en Algérie et son rôle dans l’évolution de l’éducation et des médias
pp. 23A-33A
Nabia Daouda Hadria

Nabia Daouda Hadria discusses multilingualism in Algeria and its role in the development of education and media from a social and linguistic perspective, indicating the existence of a remarkable coexistence between the classical Arabic language and the national languages such as Amazigh and Dialectal Arabic, or what is called Algerian Arabic, in addition to French. The article also addresses education and media as the two domains which use languages most widely.

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