Ce que la syntaxe tisse, la sémantique tend à l’effilocher : étude de phénomènes de déconnexion forme-sens dans des énoncés de discours rapporté
As the French psychoanalyst André Green puts it: “[l’activité de lecture d’un texte par un critique psychanalyste] est attentive à tout ce qui est supposé tromper l’attente du lecteur. Elle suit la trame du texte (texte = tissu [… ]), mais en refusant le fil d’Ariane qui est proposé au lecteur” (La...
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| Language: | English |
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Laboratoire d’Etudes et de Recherches sur le Monde Anglophone (LERMA)
2012-03-01
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| Series: | E-REA |
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| Online Access: | https://journals.openedition.org/erea/2339 |
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| Summary: | As the French psychoanalyst André Green puts it: “[l’activité de lecture d’un texte par un critique psychanalyste] est attentive à tout ce qui est supposé tromper l’attente du lecteur. Elle suit la trame du texte (texte = tissu [… ]), mais en refusant le fil d’Ariane qui est proposé au lecteur” (La déliaison 18). The linguist, like the analyst himself, aims at exploring the various underlying meanings of given textual sequences. This paper will examine the textual phenomena of déliaison or “unlinking”, by giving examples of potential disconnections between form and meaning in utterances of direct speech.An instance of disconnection emerges whenever there exists a certain level of discrepancy between a sequence of signs in a text including punctuation and the pragmatico-semantic analysis of this sequence. On the syntactic level, an utterance can be described as an occurrence of direct speech but a careful analysis of this utterance can sometimes invite a reassessment of its status, even challenging its inclusion within the sphere of reported speech. This study will highlight the type of material with which a phenomenon of disconnection between form and meaning is likely to emerge. The prominence of form in a written production presumably enables the emergence of disconnections between form and meaning, which would be some instances of “syntaxe mensongère”, according to the expression used by Monique De Mattia-Viviès (Bulletin de la SAES 84 22). |
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| ISSN: | 1638-1718 |