This paper aims to develop a complex articulation of the civic meaningfulness of voluntary work that clarifies its political importance as a countervailing narrative pointing beyond dominant neoliberal and consumptive articulations of a good life. To start with, it sketches a hermeneutic perspective on civic meaningfulness based on the work of Paul Ricoeur. Subsequently, it introduces the ideas...

The author analyzes medical slang in Rio de Janeiro based on the view of interactive or live metaphor proposed by such authors as Black and Ricoeur, applied to puns and other jokes from medical work, with the goal of unveiling what physicians mean by this linguistic register. The article classifies medical slang in three broad areas, pertaining to the physician's relations with professional tra...

La narratologie moderne dispose de nombreux outils permettant aux lecteurs et chercheurs d’interroger la temporalite du recit ; on pensera par exemple a distinction entre temps l’enonce l’enonciation heritee Benveniste, reflexions Gerard Genette sur les « discours recit » ou encore somme philosophique Paul Ricoeur, Temps recit. Les ouvrages theoriques consacres dans litterature medievale sont p...