This paper is about problem solving. One common result of previous research is that pupils’ learning is greater in classrooms where they are engaged in problem solving tasks that are cognitively demanding. Therefore the purpose of this study is to analyse the didactic choices two teachers make when they are using mathematical problem solving in their classrooms. One teacher in Sweden who teaches pupils’ mathematics in grade 4 and one teacher in Malta that teaches mathematics in Year 6 takes part in the study. The pupils in both Sweden and in Malta are 10 years of age. Three questions directed this study: How cognitively challenging are problem solving tasks in the Swedish and Maltese mathematics classroom? How does a teacher in Sweden and a teacher in Malta define and exemplify the concept of problem solving? What similarities and differences are there between the Swedish and Maltese mathematical classrooms regarding two teachers’ didactic choice of mathematical problem solving, and the teachers working methods around these tasks? The study was based on observations and interviews. The purpose of the interviews was to get answers to how the teachers interpret the concept of problem solving and how they relate to it. The aim of the observations was to see how the teachers involved incorporate problem solving during the maths lessons and how the tasks carried out are cognitive. The results show that in the Swedish and the Maltese mathematical classroom, the teachers give reference to and work with cognitive demanding tasks that require a connection to conceptual and procedural knowledge. The differences between the two observed classrooms are significant. The teacher in Sweden provides space for discussion and creative reasoning and pupils often solve mathematical problems individually. The teacher in Malta provides students with mathematical skills of how pupils can solve mathematical problems using different models. The pupils in Malta are often working on problems together, with the teacher in a dialog.

It is not known what are the factors that lead to the unsuccess of many students concerning the reading skills. With the intent of knowing about national education based not only on national evaluations, Brazil has joined PISA (Programme for International Student Assessment) since 2000. The aforementioned exam is applied to 15-year-old students in more than 60 countries, and it indicates the average of reading and literacy skills of each state, making possible the reflection on teaching process. Through the result of that assessment, it is possible to verify that Brazilian students, especially in Sergipe, present a low reading skill when it is related to their age group. In this sense, this study has as its focus on analysing PISA´s exam of 2009 (the only area analysed here is the Reading part, therefore, Science and Mathematics will not be taken into account), by observing the converging points between the exam, the official documents and cognitive linguistics. It was analysed the results of questionnaires applied to three state schools in Aracaju, which participated of the assessment in 2009, observing the conceptions of reading adopted by some teachers, the reading activities that they developed in classroom and the common types of questions in their exams. Taking into consideration the analyses of those questionnaires as well as some questions of the exam, it was noticed that there is a divergence between what is taught during classes and what is asked in the exam. Furthermore, many teachers do not know exactly what is the reading conception adopted in the exam. Finally, it is expected with that result that reading skills of Sergipe´s students as well as policies of support to teachers are improved. / Não se sabe ao certo o que ocasiona o insucesso de muitos estudantes no que diz respeito à competência de leitura. Com o intuito de obter um retorno sobre a educação nacional, que não se baseie apenas em avaliações nacionais, o Brasil aderiu à realização da avaliação do PISA (Programa Internacional de Avaliação de Estudantes) em 2000. Essa prova, aplicada a alunos com 15 anos de idade e em mais de 60 países, indica a média de leitura e letramento de cada estado, tornando possível uma reflexão sobre a prática de ensino. Através do resultado dessa avaliação é possível verificar que os alunos brasileiros, especificamente de Sergipe, apresentam um nível de competência muito aquém do esperado para sua faixa etária. Em meio a isso, este estudo tem como foco fazer uma análise da prova do PISA 2009 (a área aqui analisada será apenas a de Leitura, portanto não serão consideradas as provas de Ciências e Matemática), observando os pontos convergentes entre a prova, os documentos oficiais e a linguística cognitivista. Além disso, foram analisados resultados de questionários aplicados em três escolas estaduais de Aracaju, que participaram da avaliação em 2009, observando as concepções de leitura adotadas pelos professores, as atividades de leitura que eles desenvolvem em sala de aula e os tipos de questões que mais utilizam em suas provas. A partir das análises dos questionários bem como das questões da prova, percebeu-se que há uma divergência entre o que se trabalha em sala de aula e o que a avaliação cobra, bem como muitos professores não sabem ao certo qual concepção de leitura adota. Espera-se que esse resultado a forma de se trabalhar a leitura em Sergipe, bem como as políticas de auxílio ao professor sejam aprimoradas.

La présente thèse porte sur la question de l’intelligibilité de la traduction juridique pour un praticien du droit. Notre hypothèse de travail consiste à dire que l’échec de la traduction juridique s’explique par l’absence de pertinence de la traduction pour son utilisateur. Pour éclairer cet aspect, une approche interdisciplinaire est adoptée. Méthodologiquement, nous partons de la critique de la notion d’équivalence et de la conception de la traduction comme recherche d’équivalents. Notre état de l’art se déploie en trois volets. Le premier volet traite de la théorie de la pertinence de Sperber et Wilson. Le second volet expose le traitement de la notion de pertinence en sciences de l’information. Le troisième volet présente la théorie de la pertinence et la théorie des connaissances élaborées par le sociologue Alfred Schütz Notre corpus d’étude comporte 145 bitextes allemand-français servant de base à des analyses contrastives. Dans la dernière partie, nous proposons une définition de la notion de pertinence et de ses conditions en traduction. Enfin, une méthode pratique de traduction fondée sur les notions de pertinence et d’usage est esquissée. / This thesis deals with the question of the intelligibility of legal translation for a legal practitioner. Our working hypothesis is that the failure of the legal translation is explained by the lack of relevance of the translation for its user. To shed light on this aspect, an interdisciplinary approach is adopted. Methodologically, we start from the criticism of the notion of equivalence and the conception of translation as a search for equivalents. Our state of the art is divided into three parts. The first part deals with the relevance theory of Sperber and Wilson. The second part describes the treatment of relevance in information science. The third part presents the theory of relevance and the theory of knowledge developed by sociologist Alfred Schütz. Our corpus includes 145 French-German texts used as a basis for contrasts analyses. In the personal contribution, we propose a definition of relevance and its conditions in translation. Finally, a practical method of translation based on the notions of relevance and usage is outlined.

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Cette recherche utilise la création d’un nouveau genre de jeux vidéo hyper-narratifs, les walking simulators, comme prétexte pour revisiter des théories liées à la narratologie et aux études du jeu vidéo de prime abord inadaptées à cette nouvelle manifestation vidéoludique. Les points de discordances sont soulevés pour enrichir le bagage théorique du champ des études du jeu vidéo en essayant de créer un compromis et une ouverture aux œuvres vidéoludiques dont la jouabilité est moins primordiale à l’expérience de la joueuse. En prenant comme point de départ la définition du jeu vidéo classique de Jesper Juul et la proposition d’une nouvelle configuration médiatique, dans le sens entendu par Philippe Marion, ce mémoire tente par la suite de mieux définir cette nouvelle configuration en analysant étroitement la relation qu’entretiennent la jouabilité, le récit et la joueuse. / This research uses the creation of a new genre of hyper-narrative video games, the walking simulator, as a pretext to revisit theories related to narratology and video games studies that are at first glance unsuited to this new type of video game manifestation. Points of discordance are raised to enrich the theoretical background of the field of video game studies by trying to create a compromise and an opening to video games whose gameplay is less essential to the player's experience. Taking as a starting point Jesper Juul's definition of the classic video game and the proposal of a new media configuration, in the sense understood by Philippe Marion, this dissertation then attempts to better define this new configuration by closely analysing the relationship between playability, narrative and the player.

This thesis outlines the three phases of cognitivism, which emerged in the first half of the 20th century as a reaction to the anti-mentalist tradition of philosophical thinking (represented by Charles S. Peirce and Charles Morris), and which was made possible in particular by the so- called linguistic turn in science (especially within analytic philosophy), which replaced mental units, regarded as non-scientific, with linguistic units, conceived as reflecting mental states and, moreover, allowing for adequate investigation. The thesis is largely guided by Thomas C. Daddesio's On Minds and Symbols, which is considered to be one of the first explicit attempts to formulate a cognitive-semiotic perspective, and wherein the author traces the previous development of the cognitive paradigm. Thus, first the factors that made the emergence of cognitivism possible are described, followed by an account of its development, which can be divided into two phases, as per Daddesio's model. This paper, however, goes beyond Daddesio's book and establishes a third phase, where cognitivism emerges as a separate field of inquiry within semiotics, i.e., cognitive semiotics. Within this development, the work traces in particular the transformation of the conception of the relationship between language and mind, which is...

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Cette thèse porte sur l’œuvre littéraire de trois romancières anglaises du XVIIIe siècle : Frances Burney, Ann Radcliffe et Jane Austen. À travers l’analyse de leurs romans, je démontre comment elles ont utilisé ce genre littéraire relativement nouveau, pour aborder les problèmes philosophiques centraux de cette époque. Afin de soutenir que ces écrivaines ont utilisé le roman pour aborder des problèmes philosophiques, je dois démontrer, dans un premier temps, la capacité des œuvres littératires en général à produire un contenu cognitif et à générer des connaissances. Mon propos me conduit ensuite à démontrer comment elles ont contribué significativement à problématiser et explorer ce que j’appelle « Le problème de la Modernité », soit le sentiment d’aliénation produit à l’époque moderne par la séparation entre le sujet humain, le monde et les autres humains. J’expose alors comment ce sentiment d’aliénation est au cœur des romans de Frances Burney, dont les héroïnes, dépossédées de leur identité sociale, errent sans protection, dans un monde hostile. Je démontre également comment les romans gothiques d’Ann Radcliffe, malgré leurs horreurs, offrent un moyen « esthétique » de faire face à cette aliénation. J’explique finalement comment Jane Austen tente de reconstruire le rapport du sujet humain au monde par l’entremise de l’imagination et de la fiction, d’une part, et de notre engagement moral envers autrui, d’autre part. Enfin, l’analyse de leurs œuvres permet de démontrer comment leurs réflexions au sujet de la précarité du sujet moderne rejoint les préoccupations des philosophes avec lesquels ces romancières sont en discussion. / This dissertation looks at the work of three prominent women novelists of the long eighteenth century: Frances Burney, Ann Radcliffe, and Jane Austen. Through a close analysis of their novels, I demonstrate how mid-eighteenth-century to early nineteenth-century British women authors used the novel, a relatively new literary genre, to engage with some of the central philosophical problems of their time. I explore how novels, being works of fiction, contain certain “truths,” notably forms of knowledge about humans and the world, thus serving as important sources of learning. Since the philosophical problems addressed by philosophers in the eighteenth century were numerous, I narrow their scope significantly, focusing on what I call “the modern predicament,” that is, the sentiment of alienation produced by the separation of the human subject from the world and other humans. I demonstrate how this sentiment of alienation is at the core of Frances Burney’s novels, whose heroines, dispossessed of social identity, wander without much protection in a hostile world. I also demonstrate how Ann Radcliffe’s Gothic novels, in spite of their horrors, provide an aesthetic way of coping with personal alienation and imagining a better state of the world. Finally, I show how Jane Austen’s novels suggest ways of reconciling the subject, others, and the world through the literary imagination and mutual sympathy. Most importantly, I show how these women novelists engage with and revise the ideas of modern philosophers.

Cette thèse met en place un modèle permettant d'éclairer les relations entre certaines émotions et la conception que l'individu a de lui-même. En accord avec plusieurs auteurs contemporains, il est ici défendu que la conception que nous avons de nous-mêmes prend la forme d'une identité narrative, c'est-à-dire d'un récit à l'intérieur duquel nous tentons de structurer une image cohérente de nous-mêmes. Dans cette perspective, il est proposé qu'un certain groupe d'émotions, comme la honte, la fierté et la culpabilité, occupe une place cruciale dans la formation et le maintien de cette image de soi. Ces émotions, que nous pouvons qualifier d'auto-évaluatives, conditionnent l'évaluation que nous avons de nous-mêmes et participent ainsi à l'élaboration de la représentation de soi. De plus, cette identité narrative, à travers un certain aspect normatif et motivant, vient à son tour influencer la manifestation et l'interprétation de ces mêmes émotions. Ainsi, la relation entre les émotions auto-évaluatives et l'identité narrative serait une relation complexe d'influences réciproques. L’analyse proposée devrait permettre de clarifier de nombreux aspects de l’économie mentale de l’individu et plus particulièrement de sa motivation morale. / This thesis establishes a model to understand the relationships between a particular group of emotions and the individual's conception of himself. In agreement with several contemporary authors, it is argued here that the conception we have of ourselves is in the form of a narrative identity, namely a story within which we try to structure a coherent picture of ourselves. In this perspective, it is proposed that a group of emotions, including shame, pride and guilt, occupies a crucial place in the formation and maintenance of this self-image. These emotions, that we can describe as self-assessing, would influence self assessment and thus participate in the development of self-image. Moreover, narrative identity, through a normative and motivational aspect, will in turn influences the manifestation and interpretation of those same emotions. So the relationship between emotions and self-assessing narrative identity is a complex relationship of mutual influence. The analysis proposed here might help clarify many mental processes of the individual and especially its moral motivation.

The purpose of this study is to outline students’ attitudes towards ICT in the learning of English. The research was carried out as action research at a vocational high school in Sweden. The study aims at giving answers to the questions what the students’ attitudes towards ICT are, to what extent they think that ICT affects their learning and if ICT use changes their attitudes towards English. The students had little or no previous experience of ICT. For a period of two months, they used ICT in their English studies. This work was organized according to Svensson’s (2008) definitions ICT as a tutor, ICT as a tool and ICT as an arena, which are connected to behavioristic, cognitive/constructive and social constructivist/socio-cultural learning perspectives, respectively. For example, the students read and listened to texts online, wrote their own dialogues for a movie and maintained their own blogs. After each module, they evaluated the method and at the end of the project they were interviewed. The study shows that most of the students were positive towards ICT in learning English. They were most positive towards ICT as a tutor, which was interesting given that behavioristic ways of learning are often criticized by today’s scholars. Furthermore, the students claimed that ICT gives them new opportunities to learn. Not surprisingly, to learn in a way that suits the individual learner was seen as positive. They stated that it was difficult to comment on the impact that ICT might have had on their performance after such a limited period of time, but they indicated that they thought that they had improved at least a little. During the interviews, a few students claimed to have changed their attitudes towards English a little, in a positive way, but it was difficult to confirm this after such short time.