L’alternance syntaxique dans l’incise de discours direct : des normes de la grammaire aux mécanismes textuels
This article focuses on the syntactic variation – subject-verb, verb-subject – in the reporting clause embedded in or following a quotation, and provides a double approach of word order by combining the syntactic and the textual functioning of the reporting clause in English journalistic texts. In a...
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| Language: | English |
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Laboratoire d’Etudes et de Recherches sur le Monde Anglophone (LERMA)
2015-06-01
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| Series: | E-REA |
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| Online Access: | https://journals.openedition.org/erea/4238 |
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| Summary: | This article focuses on the syntactic variation – subject-verb, verb-subject – in the reporting clause embedded in or following a quotation, and provides a double approach of word order by combining the syntactic and the textual functioning of the reporting clause in English journalistic texts. In a general background of complex relations between reporting and reported clauses in English, punctuation and verb syntax contribute to the dependency of the verb-subject reporting clause on the reported clause and to the autonomy of the subject-verb reporting clause. At a textual level, the reference of the subject and the textual role of the speaker show that the reporting clause continues to function differently according to word order: the verb-subject reporting clause refers directly to the reported situation, whereas the subject-verb reporting clause dwells on previously introduced topics. |
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| ISSN: | 1638-1718 |