Trade openness, real exchange rates and job reallocation

This paper investigates the impact of real exchange rate movements on job reallocation at the industry level. The analysis focuses on the manufacturing sector of Belgium, using data for 82 NACE 3-digit industries, over the time span 1996-2002. I find that real exchange rate changes do have a significant impact on job flows, and that this impact is magnified by increasing levels of trade exposure. In particular, a real appreciation is found to lower net employment growth through higher job destruction, while job creation is not significantly affected. These results are in line with previous empirical evidence on the United States, and differ from earlier findings for France and Germany, where the adjustment to real exchange rate shocks has been found to occur mainly through the job creation margin. I suggest that these differences may be explained by the fact that Belgium is a small open economy

Using SDRT to analyze pathological conversations. Logicality, rationality and pragmatic deviances

International audienceSchizophrenia is well-known among mental illnesses for the severity of the thought dis- orders it involves, and for their widespread and spectacular manifestations ranging from deviant social behavior to delusion, not to mention affective and sensory distortions. Confronted with such a pathological con- versation, any "ordinary" speaker intuitively feels that there are some incoherencies or discontinuities. The aim of this research is to account for these using both pragmatics and formal semantics. Linguistics, especially semantics and pragmatics, is thus central to this work

From Talk to Action: Experiencing Interlocution in Developmental Interventions

This article explores how to analyze and conceptualize the dynamics through which conversations in Change Laboratory research interventions lead to envisioning and implementing material changes in activities. Leont’ev’s concept of personal sense is used as a theoretical lens for tracing these dynamics and to provide a means to relate local conversations to overall transformation of profes-sional practices. In addition, the article tests the potential of Vasilyuk’s theory of experiencing and Trognon’s interlocutionary logic for analyzing Change Laboratory conversations from the point of view of how talk is experienced by the interlocutors. Experiencing is seen as a dialogical process that connects ongoing conversations and future-oriented actions, and through which interlocutors overcome critical situations. The analysis of Change Laboratory discussions in a Finnish middle school provides ground for looking at Change Laboratory as a research setting and a practice of intervention which can enrich our understanding of how change unfolds through discourse. The article concludes that interventions such as Change Laboratory could benefit from identifying systematic procedures for facilitating experiencing and interlocution. Within the perspective of seeking such methodological procedures, the article opens up a discussion on complementarities and possibilities of integration between the Change Laboratory and another interventionist approach called the Clinic of Activity

Liminaire

Trognon Alain. Liminaire. In: Bulletin de psychologie, tome 31 n°334, 1978. p. 412

Analyse automatique du discours en psychologie et théorie des artéfacts expérimentaux. Vers une psycho-linguistique de la situation expérimentale ?

Trognon Alain. Analyse automatique du discours en psychologie et théorie des artéfacts expérimentaux. Vers une psycho-linguistique de la situation expérimentale ?. In: Bulletin de psychologie, tome 26 n°304, 1973. Psycholinguistique. pp. 280-286

L'interaction n'a pas de dehors

Trognon Alain. L'interaction n'a pas de dehors. In: Bulletin de psychologie, tome 38 n°370, 1985. Psychologie clinique VIII. pp. 558-561

Remarques sur les effets comparés de l'entretien non directif et du questionnaire sociologique

Trognon Alain. Remarques sur les effets comparés de l'entretien non directif et du questionnaire sociologique. In: Bulletin de psychologie, tome 31 n°334, 1978. pp. 430-435

L'hypothèse d'isomorphie en psychologie génétique du langage

Trognon Alain. L'hypothèse d'isomorphie en psychologie génétique du langage. In: Bulletin de psychologie, tome 30 n°326, 1976. pp. 74-99