Études de linguistique française – serie

This volume presents a series of critical essays on the accentuation, rhythm, and intonation of contemporary French which offer new insight into the formal and functional characteristics of French prosody from three different perspectives (historical, epistemological, descriptive). These properties are interpreted in the context of the latest international research into the prosody of languages.

Cet ouvrage s’attache, au moyen d’une analyse épistémologique minutieuse d’une part significative du corpus benvenistien, à mettre en évidence une spécificité remarquable de la linguistique benvenistienne, qui rend l’impasse à laquelle elle conduit tout particulièrement digne de réflexion: d’être tout à la fois présaussurienne lorsqu’il s’agit de linguistique générale et éminemment saussurienne dans son versant idiomologique. This study undertakes a detailed epistemological analysis of a large section of Benveniste’s writings in order to illustrate some remarkable features of his linguistic work which is at the same time pre-Saussurean, inasmuch as it constitutes a theory in general linguistics, and decidedly Saussurean because of its idiomological elements

This study proposes an ambitious typology of the written representation of oral speech. It is based on a detailed semiological examination of the relationship between orality and literacy as well as on an analysis of data stemming from literary discourse. Three types of representation of orality are distinguished, where the written form appeals to the phonographic system, the metalinguistic semantics or the prosodic performance of the reader.

This collection is dedicated to the study of names for humans, which can be attributed a special position in the lexicon. They occur in great numbers and display an extraordinary semantic complexity. The contributions gathered in this volume are mainly concerned with questions of semantics, modality and agency pertaining to names for humans.

This study proposes an ambitious typology of the written representation of oral speech. It is based on a detailed semiological examination of the relationship between orality and literacy as well as on an analysis of data stemming from literary discourse. Three types of representation of orality are distinguished, where the written form appeals to the phonographic system, the metalinguistic semantics or the prosodic performance of the reader.

This book offers a general model of reported speech that relies on clear, well-argued theoretical choices in order to describe accurately the diversity of observed situations. The metalanguage/alterity articulation is critically discussed at various levels (language, discourse, subject) where a central function of differential auto-configuration takes place.

This collection is dedicated to the study of names for humans, which can be attributed a special position in the lexicon. They occur in great numbers and display an extraordinary semantic complexity. The contributions gathered in this volume are mainly concerned with questions of semantics, modality and agency pertaining to names for humans.

This book offers a general model of reported speech that relies on clear, well-argued theoretical choices in order to describe accurately the diversity of observed situations. The metalanguage/alterity articulation is critically discussed at various levels (language, discourse, subject) where a central function of differential auto-configuration takes place.