This paper suggests that heterodox economists should not think of themselves as economists first, and only secondarily as heterodox, and must emphasize methodological issues, in particular the different assumptions (or axioms) implicit in their theories vis-àvis the mainstream. The paper argues that the notion of a cutting edge of the mainstream, which is breaking up with orthodoxy, is misleadi...

« J’ai considéré ce roman comme définitivement inachevé le 27 janvier 2011 » : ainsi s’ouvre la postface du romancier catalan Jaume Cabré à son Confiteor (Jo confesso, 2011, traduit par E. Raillard en 2013). Cette formule qui pointe, au-delà de totalité d’une oeuvre publiée, l’infini possible, résonne dans les préoccupations esthétiques et éthiques roman. Malgré l’assiduité narrateur, Adrià, ch...

This paper presents a theory concerning the dependence of intonational contours on discourse context, and expounds a framework for modeling contrastive stress, a phenomena whereby pitch accents are strategically placed based on their ability to discriminate among available discourse entities. The intonation theory, which is presented with respect to a model of discourse coherence inspired by Ce...

The article deals with a set of exercises for the formation spontaneous monologue speech: describing picture / photograph, reproductive exercises, situational (with supplemented, problematic and imaginary situations), discusive (discussion commenting), compositional