In introduction to traditional Chinese wedding, we first focus on the stages of wedding including engagement, preparations, wedding ceremony and post-wedding rituals, which is controlled by a set of rigid rites called “three letters and six rites”. Meanwhile, people’s sense of hierachy, views on life and folk customs are represented in the process. Cheongsam or Qipao is a kind of traditional dress for women, yet still in fashion today. Plus...
Peking opera is an intriguing and mellow form of traditional Chinese theater. To help you to appreciate Peking Opera, we’ll explain its development and unique features like four major roles, meanings of facial makeup and four artistic skills in speech, singing, dancing and combating in movements that are more symbolic and suggestive. Traditional Chinese medicine is based on Chinese philosophy about yin-yang balance theory, harmonious relationship between man and nature. With those views, we’ll look at meridians and Qi, traditional treatment methods such as acupuncture, scraping therapy, herbals, etc. Traditional Chinese painting is the third theme discussed. We’ll talk about historical periods of Chinese painting from pottery painting of Yangshao civilization (5000 BC) till present day. Plus...
Les 29 - 30 octobre derniers, les coordinateurs locaux de 8 pays (Arménie, Danemark, Grèce, Lettonie, Malte, Portugal, Roumanie, Slovaquie) ont rencontré l’équipe de projet au CELV, en vue de préparer des ateliers nationaux sur le thème « Valoriser les classes multilingues ». La série de manifestations nationales à l'intention des praticiens, des multiplicateurs et des administrateurs aura lieu entre janvier et septembre 2020. Plus...
Force est cependant de constater que, dans nombre d’États membres du Conseil de l'Europe, les langues continuent parfois à être utilisées pour dresser des groupes les uns contre les autres. Empêcher des personnes d’utiliser la langue qu’elles considèrent comme la leur dans différents contextes peut entraîner une violation de leurs droits en tant qu’individus. Plus largement, des communautés entières en subissent aussi les conséquences ; en outre, l’emploi des langues figure souvent parmi les enjeux des conflits entre différents groupes ou entre des pays voisins. Plus...
Les politiques relatives à la langue et à la connaissance de la société qui s’adressent aux migrants dans les États membres du Conseil de l’Europe et les possibilités d’apprentissage sont au centre de la nouvelle enquête présentée à la conférence tenue au Conseil de l’Europe le 16 octobre. Cette enquête a été menée par le Conseil de l’Europe en coopération avec l’Association des organismes certificateurs en matière de langues en Europe (ALTE) en 2018 dans 40 des 47 États membres de l’Organisation. Plus...
The Governing Board of the European Centre for Modern Languages met at the ECML premises in Graz on 9-10 October. Turnout was once again extremely high with 32 participants representing 27 of the 33 member states of this Partial Agreement. The Bureau presented the wider Governing Board with a Recommendation for the forthcoming ECML Programme 2020-23 - Inspiring innovation in language education: changing contexts, evolving competences. Plus...
The Governing Board of the European Centre for Modern Languages met at the ECML premises in Graz on 9-10 October. Turnout was once again extremely high with 32 participants representing 27 of the 33 member states of this Partial Agreement. The Bureau presented the wider Governing Board with a Recommendation for the forthcoming ECML Programme 2020-23 - Inspiring innovation in language education: changing contexts, evolving competences. Plus...
The event will also showcase the results of the ECML’s current programme – Languages at the heart of learning – and launch the next programme 2020-23 – Inspiring innovation in language education: changing contexts, evolving competences. Plus...
On May 26-29, 2020 in Moscow the Institute for African Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences, in co-operation with the Research Council for the Problems of African Countries, holds the 15th African Studies Conference titled Destinies of Africa in the Modern World. The Conference main events will take place on the premises of the Institute for African Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences. The working languages are Russian and English.DESTINIES OF AFRICA IN THE MODERN WORLD
15th International African Studies Conference
(Moscow, Russia, May 26-29, 2020)
Program : V-1. Languages of Africa from Cultural and Historic Perspective.
V-1. Languages of Africa from Cultural and Historic Perspective Языки Африки в культурно-исторической перспективе
V-1-a. History, Areal Linguistics, Ethnoliguistics История, ареальная лингвистика, этнолингвистика
Nacira Abrous, Philippe Cassuto, Jairo Guerrero, Victor Porkhomovsky. Afroasiatic (Semito- Hamitic) Terms of Kinship from the Areal Perspective.
Н. Абру, Ф. Кассюто, Х. Герреро, В.Я. Порхомовский. Афразийские (семито-хамитские) термины родства в ареальной перспективе.
Alpha Oumarou Ba. Some Dialectological Aspects of the Fulani Language. А.У. Ба. Некоторые аспекты диалектологии языка фула. Ezequiel Koile. Phylogeography of the Bantu Expansion. Э. Койле. Филогеография распространения языков банту.
Nina Pawlak. Hausa Phraseologisms as a Structural Property of Language and Cultural Value. Н. Павляк. Фразеологизмы хауса как в структурная особенность языка и как культурная ценность. George Starostin. On the Genetic Affiliation of the Fur-Amdang Language Group. Г.С. Старостин. Генетическая принадлежность фур-амдангской языковой группы.
Nelli V. Gromova, Yulia G. Suetina. S. Baldi’s Ethnolinguistic Dictionary: 30 Years Later. Н.В. Громова, Ю.Г. Суетина. Этнолингвистический словарь С. Балди: 30 лет спустя.
Anastasia V.Lyakhovich. Code-switching phenomenon in African literatures. А.В. Ляхович. Феномен переключения языковых кодов в африканских литературах.
Viktoria Shatokhina. Attitude to Belief through the Prism of Swahili Paremias. В.С. Шатохина. Отношение к вере через призму паремий суахили. Р.Т. Юзмухаметов. Персидские лексические заимствования в языке суахили. Ramil T. Yuzmukhametov. Persian Lexical Borrowings in Swahili
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