Translating Culture: Reading the Paratexts to Aimé Césaire’s Cahier d’un retour au pays natal

Translating Culture: Reading the Paratexts to Aimé Césaire's Cahier d'un retour au pays natal — This article is concerned not with the linguistic translation of a Caribbean text, but with its cultural translation. It presents the argument that the paratexts to the multiple editions of Aimé Césaire's Cahier d'un retour au pays natal fonction principally as instruments of cultural translation. It also describes how the transfigurations of the Cahier's paratext over time and across cultures serve as markers for the changing epistemes of "Caribbean culture" and "Francophone Caribbean Literature."Traduire la culture : La lecture des paratextes au Cahier d'un retour au pays natal d'Aimé Césaire — Cet article traite non pas de la traduction linguistique d'un texte antillais, mais de sa traduction culturelle. Il présente l'argument que les paratextes aux nombreuses éditions du Cahier d'un retour au pays natal d'Aimé Césaire fonctionnent principalement en tant qu'instruments de traduction culturelle. Il décrit aussi comment les transfigurations du paratexte au Cahier à travers le temps et les cultures servent à marquer les épistémès changeants de la « culture antillaise » et de la « littérature francophone antillaise »

Efficiency in Transportation - Increasing Carpooling in Vermont: Alternatives to Single Occupancy Vehicle

This report focuses on the GoVermont program – a state managed rideshare matching program – as a window into the obstacles and opportunities to increasing carpooling in Vermont. In this project, researchers conducted an initial survey of 370 GoVermont participants and then conducted four in-depth conversations with 25 of those respondents. Researchers also reviewed GoVermont materials, previous research on carpooling and examined data from the US Census and NHTS data on travel behavior at the individual and household level. Findings indicate the difficulty in expanding carpool activities in the context of present settlement patterns, job distributions and car ownership. Regardless the results should be instructive to policy-makers seeking to improve car occupancy rates

Using folk songs as a source for dialect change? The pervasive effects of attitudes

The present article argues that the social category of ‘standardisation' has been instrumental in creating a Foucaultian discourse archive governing what may and what may not be stated on the subject of the history of English. It analyses the question of how language attitudes have been instrumental in creating the myths that have driven the discourse of Standard English since the 19th century, but it goes further than this by showing how language performance, in the form of folk songs in England, has also come under this same archive of standardisation. However, in both cases, i.e. language and language performance, it is argued that a below-the-surface alternative discourse has now gained enough force to seriously challenge the doctrine of standardisation and to necessitate the formation of new discursive contents for a social concept that is in serious danger of becoming hollow and outdate

New technology for interactive CAL: The origami project

Origami is a three‐year EPSRC project that forms part of a general research programme on human‐computer interaction. The goal of this research is to investigate and implement new methods for human‐computer interaction, and to apply and evaluate their use. The research centres on the DigitalDesk, an ordinary desk augmented with a computer display using projection television and a video camera to monitor inputs. The DigitalDesk allows electronic and printed documents to be combined to give richer presentation and interaction possibilities than are possible with either separate medium. This paper examines the implications of such a system for CAL, and presents two prototype applications that demonstrate the possibilities

iDilemmas and Humanities Education: Redefining Technology Literacy Pedagogy and Practice

U.S. and global citizens will increasingly be called upon to navigate complex social issues surrounding information and communication technologies (ICTs). At the start of the 21st century, humanities educators are uniquely positioned to impact the ways technology literacy is taught and learned in secondary and post-secondary educational settings. Cultural, social, and textual criticism are increasingly embedded in the evolving theories surrounding technology literacy. To build the new kinds of technocultural humanism required, however, humanities educators must continue to fight against fragmented, atheoretical technology literacy practices that while not ill-intentioned, do not fit the methodologies needed to produce the best results. Humanities educators must 1) inoculate themselves against the E Literacy Myth positing that Gen-Y / Millennial students are inherently tech savvy ; 2) be willing to provide key perspectives and conversations that have been largely absent from technology discussions; 3) avoid focusing research on narrow textual perspectives, but also investigate the vast range of practical and social implications of technology\u27s use conditions; and 4) explore new classroom techniques that can produce immediate technology literacy gains even if programmatic changes are not forthcoming

ANCA-associated vasculitis

The vasculitides are a heterogeneous group of conditions typified by their ability to cause vessel inflammation with or without necrosis. They present with a wide variety of signs and symptoms and, if left untreated, carry a significant burden of mortality and morbidity. The ANCA-associated vasculitides (AAV) are three separate conditions - granulomatosis with polyangiitis (GPA - formerly known as Wegener’s granulomatosis); microscopic polyangiitis (MPA) and eosinophilic granulomatosis with polyangiitis (EGPA - previously known as Churg-Strauss Syndrome). This review examines recent developments in the pathogenesis and treatment of AAV

Active paper for active learning

Recent research into distance learning and the virtual campus has focused on the use of electronic documents and computer‐based demonstrations to replace or reinforce traditional learning material. We show how a computer‐augmented desk, the DigitalDesk, can provide the benefits of both paper and electronic documents using a natural interface based on real paper documents. Many electronic documents, particularly those created using the guidelines produced by the Text Encoding Initiative (TEI), include detailed semantic and linguistic information that can be used to good effect in learning material. We discuss potential uses of TEI texts, and describe one simple application that allows a student's book to become an active part of a grammar lesson when placed on the DigitalDesk. The book is integrated into an interactive point‐and‐click interface, and feedback is related to the currently visible pages of the boo