L’acte manqué dans La Cantatrice chauve : un discours réussi

"The Parapraxis in The Bald Soprano: a Successful Speech. This paper is about Parapraxis in the Cantatrice chauve, which Ionesco associates with politics. The unconscious knowledge of the Cantatrice chauve (The Bald Soprano) is the knowledge of comedy and tragedy; it is a form of knowledge which leads man towards an empty word which can no longer be articulated in meaningful speech. The nagging antinomies of common life emerge in the background. There is an endless dialectic that crosses time and history, life and death, joy and pain. There is an unsolved conflict that the Cantatrice chauve holds together, thus repeating the trauma of separation and the breakdown of community ties. The tragedy of language is that you can only live in a subjective way. It is a communication which affirms the absence of communication, opening up the tragicomic horizon of language and disintegrating the power which underlies the language of communication. Keywords: parapraxis, speech, language, communication, knowledge, enigma. "

Random Regular Expression Over Huge Alphabets

In this article, we study some properties of random regular expressions of size [Formula: see text], when the cardinality of the alphabet also depends on [Formula: see text]. For this, we revisit and improve the classical Transfer Theorem from the field of analytic combinatorics. This provides precise estimations for the number of regular expressions, the probability of recognizing the empty word and the expected number of Kleene stars in a random expression. For all these statistics, we show that there is a threshold when the size of the alphabet approaches [Formula: see text], at which point the leading term in the asymptotics starts oscillating.

Henri de Lubac et Maurice Blondel : une rencontre entre philosophie et théologie

Maurice Blondel’s philosophy has had a decisive influence on the theology of Henri de Lubac, but more than an influence, it goes of an encounter and a dialogue between two great Catholic thinkers. This article proposes, over the course of successive encounters and collaborations between Blondel and Lubac, a presentation of Lubac’s reflection in that it extends Blondel’s critique of extrinsicity to the field of theology. This friendship between Lubac and Blondel testifies to the inherent character of the mystical question to both philosophy and theology. This anchoring signifies the Mystery of Christ at work in the gesture of reason and in the understanding of faith. At the same time, Lubac promotes, in philosophy itself, an intelligence through faith. Friendship has not been an empty word with Lubac who openly defended Maurice Blondel on several occasions, and even after Blondel’s death, when Lubac continued to make the philosopher’s thought known by publishing and annotating a large part of his correspondence.

COMPLEXITY OF THE INFINITARY LAMBEK CALCULUS WITH KLEENE STAR

We consider the Lambek calculus, or noncommutative multiplicative intuitionistic linear logic, extended with iteration, or Kleene star, axiomatised by means of an $\omega $ -rule, and prove that the derivability problem in this calculus is $\Pi _1^0$ -hard. This solves a problem left open by Buszkowski (2007), who obtained the same complexity bound for infinitary action logic, which additionally includes additive conjunction and disjunction. As a by-product, we prove that any context-free language without the empty word can be generated by a Lambek grammar with unique type assignment, without Lambek’s nonemptiness restriction imposed (cf. Safiullin, 2007).

Anagram-Free Graph Colouring

An anagram is a word of the form $WP$ where $W$ is a non-empty word and $P$ is a permutation of $W$. We study anagram-free graph colouring and give bounds on the chromatic number. Alon et al.[Random Structures & Algorithms 2002] asked whether anagram-free chromatic number is bounded by a function of the maximum degree. We answer this question in the negative by constructing graphs with maximum degree 3 and unbounded anagram-free chromatic number. We also prove upper and lower bounds on the anagram-free chromatic number of trees in terms of their radius and pathwidth. Finally, we explore extensions to edge colouring and $k$-anagram-free colouring.

Ping-Pong Protocols as Prefix Grammars and Turchin Relation

The paper describes how to verify cryptographic protocols by a general-purpose programtransformation technique with unfolding. The questions of representation and analysisof the protocols as prefix rewriting grammars are discussed. In these aspects Higman andTurchin embeddings on computational paths are considered, and a refinement of Turchin’srelation is presented that allows to algorithmically decide the empty word problem forprefix rewriting grammars.

Jana Rozenhalova in conversation with Jerome Carson

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to provide a profile of Jana Rozenhalova. Design/methodology/approach Jana provides a short summary of her life and is then interviewed by Jerome. Findings Jana tells us about her long struggles with eating disorders and provides us with the metaphor that it is like being a broken cup glued back together again. You have to be very careful it does not break again. Research limitations/implications Jana’s story is one, yet it offers us unique insights. She comments at one point, “[…] if it was not for the eating disorders […] I would not be me”. Practical implications Jana notes that while she could see many reasons behind her eating disorders, they did not really matter. What mattered was that she could overcome them. Social implications While Jana first thought hope was an empty word, she now realises in retrospect that she was more hopeful than anyone she knew. As Patricia Deegan (1996) puts it, “Hope is not just a nice sounding euphemism. Hope and biological life are inextricably intertwined” (p. 93). Originality/value Jana concludes her account saying she would like to be able to look back at her life and feel that she had lived up to her potential. Most of us would also be happy with that outcome.

The Variations of Words in Their Meanings

<p>The article investigates the variation of full word-forms and empty word-forms in the English language. Having investigated a lot of linguistic sources the author gives the explanation to them. Firstly, the author investigates the meanings of words. She considers words to be ambiguous notions both in everyday speech and in linguistics. As linguists claim words may be considered as forms whether spoken or written, or as composite expressions which have form and meaning. Then basing on linguistic sources the author gives the classes of word-forms in English: full forms and empty forms. The author investigates the differences between the two classes. She states that empty word-forms differ grammatically and semantically from full-words.</p>

Where do they come from?

Much work has been done to explore the origin and functions of the Chinese “Shi…De” construction, but there are still some problems left unsolved. Firstly, there is no consensus on what a syntactic category the “Shi…De” construction belongs to. Second, no agreement has been reached with regard to the functions of De and Shi in the “Shi…De” construction. Third, the reason why Chinese chooses “Shi…De” to assume the function of focusing is not clear. Moreover, though previous studies have discussed the origin and the diachronic distribution of this construction, the mechanism for its generation or its genesis is left untouched. This paper discussed the Chinese “Shi…De” construction from a synchronic perspective. The findings include: (1) The Chinese “Shi…De” constructions are essentially assertive sentences which relate to the grammaticalization of Shi; (2) De as an empty word is a particle at the phrase level and a functor together with a Shi at the sentence level; (3) The “Shi…De” construction is endowed with its own semantic function; (4) The mechanism for forming Chinese cleft sentences is analogy.