(Be) like en anglais, genre en français : de la prosodie comme commentaire subjectif

This study aims at contrasting (be) like and genre as triggers of direct speech. Like appears mostly in the well-studied be like structure which has now become a true contender of say when reporting direct speech. Genre, on the other hand, appears in more diverse constructions, although the locution...

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Main Author: Jeanne VIGNERON-BOSBACH
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Language:English
Published: Laboratoire d’Etudes et de Recherches sur le Monde Anglophone (LERMA) 2020-06-01
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Online Access:https://journals.openedition.org/erea/10023
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description This study aims at contrasting (be) like and genre as triggers of direct speech. Like appears mostly in the well-studied be like structure which has now become a true contender of say when reporting direct speech. Genre, on the other hand, appears in more diverse constructions, although the locution faire genre seems to be productive but not limited to direct quotation. In a contrastive approach, we will first describe how be like and genre function as quotatives of direct speech by observing them in examples from spoken corpora. We will then attempt to show how they can represent two opposite ways of expressing subjectivity (neutral - polemic). Finally, we will focus on the way those two quotatives mark out the frontier between the quoting and the quoted segments, and how they interact with prosody to materialize this frontier. Furthermore, we will see that this acoustic feature may represent a form of subjective comment on the quoted speech.
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spelling doaj-art-849258d66d0e4e69859c723abd6b4cda2025-01-09T12:55:10ZengLaboratoire d’Etudes et de Recherches sur le Monde Anglophone (LERMA)E-REA1638-17182020-06-0117210.4000/erea.10023(Be) like en anglais, genre en français : de la prosodie comme commentaire subjectifJeanne VIGNERON-BOSBACHThis study aims at contrasting (be) like and genre as triggers of direct speech. Like appears mostly in the well-studied be like structure which has now become a true contender of say when reporting direct speech. Genre, on the other hand, appears in more diverse constructions, although the locution faire genre seems to be productive but not limited to direct quotation. In a contrastive approach, we will first describe how be like and genre function as quotatives of direct speech by observing them in examples from spoken corpora. We will then attempt to show how they can represent two opposite ways of expressing subjectivity (neutral - polemic). Finally, we will focus on the way those two quotatives mark out the frontier between the quoting and the quoted segments, and how they interact with prosody to materialize this frontier. Furthermore, we will see that this acoustic feature may represent a form of subjective comment on the quoted speech.https://journals.openedition.org/erea/10023genresubjectivitydirect speechlikecontrastive linguisticsspoken corpora
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(Be) like en anglais, genre en français : de la prosodie comme commentaire subjectif
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subjectivity
direct speech
like
contrastive linguistics
spoken corpora
title (Be) like en anglais, genre en français : de la prosodie comme commentaire subjectif
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title_full_unstemmed (Be) like en anglais, genre en français : de la prosodie comme commentaire subjectif
title_short (Be) like en anglais, genre en français : de la prosodie comme commentaire subjectif
title_sort be like en anglais genre en francais de la prosodie comme commentaire subjectif
topic genre
subjectivity
direct speech
like
contrastive linguistics
spoken corpora
url https://journals.openedition.org/erea/10023
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