Résumé : La Cour nationale du droit d’asile (CNDA) est une juridiction vers laquelle se tournent les demandeurs d’asile après un premier refus du statut de réfugié à l’Office français de protection des réfugiés et des apatrides (OFPRA). Si notre recherche porte sur le phénomène bureaucratique que représente la CNDA, le cœur de cette étude vise le fonctionnement de sa sentence administrative. La sentence désigne aussi bien l’acte du jugement que le verdict rendu suite au délibéré. C’est bien à travers ce double aspect que notre enquête propose d’étudier son exercice en relation avec son histoire, ses acteurs et les conditions de son processus décisionnel. L'objectif est ici de contribuer aux fondations d’une sociologie politique de cette institution qui doit être appréhendée comme une activité sociale et politique, dont le fonctionnement ne peut se départir aussi bien des luttes de pouvoirs et des usages sociaux du droit que de la situation politique générale du pays. En cela, la question se pose : comment le traumatisme et l’exil sont-ils racontés comme récits de vie et compris comme arguments juridiques auprès d’une instance publique dont la tâche est d’accorder un statut social à des individus privés de la protection de leur État d’origine ? Pour y répondre, nous nous intéressons moins aux conditions de production de la loi qu’à sa pratique et à sa place au quotidien, dans une institution où les trajectoires et les discours posent le rapport souvent ambivalent entre la pitié d’un côté, et la légalité de l’autre. / The National Court of asylum rights (CNDA) is a jurisdiction towards which a number of asylum seekers turn after an initial refusal of asylum by the French Office of the Protection of Refugees and stateless persons (OFPRA). While our research focuses on the bureau-cratic phenomenon represented by the CNDA, the central idea of this study targets the functions of administrative sentencing. A sentence designates not only the act of judgement but also the verdict given after deliberation, and it is through these two facets of sentencing that the present document proposes to examine its subject in relation to historical context, actors, and the conditions of the decision-making process. The current document's purpose is to contribute to the underpinnings of a sociological politic which should be understood as a social and political activity, of which the function cannot separate the power conflict and social usages of rights from the general political situation of the country in question. Within this tension, a question arises: how can trauma and exile be told as a 'life story' and be understood as a 'legal argument' by which the object is to accord a 'legal social status' to individuals from whom legal protection is withheld by their respective native countries? Examining the idea of sentencing within this framework consists less of considering the conditions of a law's production and more its quotidian implementation within an institution where.an individual's trajectory.and.personal story raise questions.regarding the often ambivalent relationship between compassion and legal process.

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In Part One, three experiments investigated the effects of the surface structure of semantic illusion sentences upon semantic illusion rate (Chapters 3 to 6), but only a comparison of question and statements revealed any significant effects, with questions leading to more semantic illusion responses. To explore the implications of this lack of effect, a rating scale study was designed to provide an overview of how semantic illusion sentences compare to sentences used in ordinary discourse: semantic illusion type sentences were found to differ significantly from other sentences along a number of salient dimensions. In Part Two, three further experiments related semantic illusions to problem solving and examined the processing requirements of semantic illusions. Findings indicated that semantic illusions are subject to a kind of ‘functional fixedness’, which prevents thorough processing (Chapters 9 and 10). This may in part be explained by the load that semantic illusion sentences place on working memory, as was indicated by the results of two further experiments, which investigated the role that the different components of working memory play in semantic illusion processing (Chapter 11).

Matrix Sentence Tests consist of syntactically fixed but semantically unpredictable sentences each composed of 5 words (name, verb, quantity, adjective, object). Test sentences are generated by choosing 1 of 10 alternatives for each word to form sentences such as

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This study is an analysis of a translation of the text ”A Lotta Night Music: The Sound of Film Noir” written by Richard R. Ness. The study focuses on the adaption of film and music terminology as well as complex sentence structures for a new and broader target audience. The analysis was accomplished with the help of Marianne Lederer’s theory of deverbalization and re-expression. Furthermore, Vinay and Darbelnet’s methodology for translation was utilized along with Andrew Chesterman’s syntactic strategies in order to help clarify the restructuring.                       First of all, concerning film and music terminology, the main issue of interest was how to best adapt the terms for the target readers. From the analysis of various examples of difficult terminology it was concluded that the strategy best used for the different terms depends on the presupposed knowledge of the target reader. Whether you borrow, translate literally or adapt is a matter of how much the target reader knows beforehand.                       Secondly, as for the complex sentence structures of this highly academic text, the extensive, highly hypotactic sentences were extracted and broken down into shorter sentences while keeping the author’s message intact. In this way, the readability was increased and hence the text was adapted for a wider target audience. Moreover, the fact that readability increased was proven with the aid of LIX, a means of measuring the degree of difficulty of a specific text.                       Finally, it has been determined in this study that, although this particular text is still highly academic, breaking down overly long sentences generally helps to increase readability without compromising the author’s intended message.