Une vision nouvelle de l'Afrique d'aujourd'hui ?
Analyses of the death of the continent are not new. While the one of Stephen Smith springs from popular cliches, it is nonetheless nuanced and clarifies a number of points. However, identifying with and addressing oneself to afro-centrists and to their friend's, amounts to an attitude that may be familiar in France but incomprehensible in the south of the Sahara.
À propos des écritures africaines de soi
L’interrogation philosophique sur les conditions d’acces du sujet africain a la plenitude de soi s’est historiquement faite sur le mode liturgique de la victimisation. Deux courants ideologiques principaux ont, sur ces bases, pretendu fonder une politique de l’africanite : le courant marxiste et nationaliste et le courant dit « nativiste ». Contre leur penchant a la « cloture identitaire », cet article souligne que les representations africaines de soi se forgent a l’interface de l’autochtonie et du cosmopolitisme. La reflexion epistemologique, des lors, ouvre sur le debat politique.
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.