Different Means Of Expression Research Articles

The popularization of plate tectonics: presenting the concepts of dynamics and time

There have been many attempts to describe and represent the theory of plate tectonics to laypeople. In the context of a study conducted at the request of a museum, we have tried to determine how the concepts of both geological time and the movements of the plates have been reformulated. After having systematically studied in detail publications aimed at more or less educated readers, we have selected a corpus of twelve articles from nine different magazines or journals. Among the different means of expression used by the popularizers, rhetorical figures constitute a significant resource. Procedures based on analogy (metaphor, comparison, analogical reasoning) were brought together in a single category without differentiating between the figures. This paper proposes a critical inventory of the most prominent figures constructed on the principle of analogy and used to explain tectonic concepts to different categories of reader. This work should help museum curators to choose how they reformulate these concepts.

Author, text and reader in the novels of Carlos Fuentes

Author, Text and Reader in the Novels of Carlos Fuentes focuses on the problem of communication as one of the central preoccupations that remains consistent throughout the literary production of Mexican novelist Carlos Fuentes. This preoccupation manifests itself at the discursive level of the author's fiction as he continually seeks different means of expression from novel to novel. Concentrating on four novels that illustrate this aesthetic, Cambio de piel (1967), Terra Nostra (1975), Una familia lejana (1980) and Cristobal Nonato (1987), this study examines the means of textualization by which Fuentes activates his reader and how this coincides with his notions of the role of literature in society.

"Ecce, quomodo moritur justus" J. Gallusa in nekaterih njegovih sodobnikov

"Ecce, quomodo moritur justus" J. Gallusa in nekaterih njegovih sodobnikov