Equivoque et Ironie dans la Poesie Satirique Contre la Cantatrice Anna Zamperini a Lisbonne (1772)
Famous Italian singer, Anna Zamperini arrived in Portugal in 1772. She was soon victim of satirical poets who blamed her for being a woman of easy virtue. If this critical appreciation is clearly explained by a certain number of them, it is also enjoyable in ironical poems which ambiguous expression entails a more subtle reading able to spot the equivocal words. 
The double-edged discourse can be discovered not only in the form but also in the political intention of the poet: the satire, which seems to be a free speech, obeys, as a matter of fact, the Pombal’s ideology with regard to morality and national identity, two close concepts in those days. 
 
 
Keywords: Zamperini, equivocal, satirical poetry, irony, national identity, Pombal’s power.
Équivoque d’une agression. Relecture du Nez qui voque de Réjean Ducharme
Polyphonique, l’ironie s’avere une communication fragile. L’article traite des strategies du discours ironique dans ses rapports avec le malentendu. La reflexion porte sur Le nez qui voque de Ducharme. Denaturalisee, la voix narrative ne possede pas de signaux univoques garantissant la reception ironique. C’est pourquoi il convient d’envisager aussi l’autre voie, celle du mal, de l’illegitime et de l’invective litteraire. Obligeant le lecteur a sejourner dans l’inconfort de l’irresolu, Ducharme atteint un certain ideal ironique.
MT and the Swiss language service providers: an analysis and training perspective
Switzerland is perceived as a highly multilingual country, with four national languages and a solid translation tradition in official, administrative and corporate settings, now even extended to include English. A research case study was set up to investigate the understanding and use of translation and language technologies by Swiss language service providers. This paper highlights some findings, particularly focusing upon the issue of translation automation processes in multilingual documentation production, with a view not only to spot preconceptions or knowledge gaps about MT, but also to 
suggest some training principles. We will argue that training activities ought to present MT systems as 
key aiding components of translator workbenches and, their output, as a valid linguistic resource for further human refining, if necessary. Moreover, in line with the idea that MT can be part and parcel of multilingual content production cycles, we will look at the interaction of MT with controlled language, CAT tools and terminology work. In sum, we will make explicit the usefulness of MT against the 
widespread prejudice that investing in MT does not return any benefits given the ‘low and hilarious quality of its output’, as quoted by most of the interviewees of our case study.