L'Interrogative En Francais Paperback

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Because of their intriguing formal variety, the total and partial interrogatives of French have been the subject, over the past years, of a great deal of research in syntax and sociolinguistics, while other currents such as rhetoric or pragmatics competed in ingenuity to account for their semantic variability. In order to enrich the debate, this work offers a broad-spectrum reflection on the interrogative turns of French, their syntactic and intonation marking, the linguistic or social parameters likely to trigger, in a given context, the choice of an interrogative variant. rather than another; the work also deals with the semantic and inferential properties of interrogatives, The authors base their analyzes on verified examples, sometimes taken from specific corpora (dialogues from suburban films, text messages, La Fontaine's Fables, comics, etc.). They show a theoretical eclecticism which seems necessary to us to apprehend in a non-reductive way this complex, multifaceted object.

9783034332897

French

Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag Der Wissenschaften

1 Jul 2018

328

Marie-José Béguelin is honorary professor of French linguistics at the University of Neuchâtel. His work focuses in particular on reference and anaphora, the interface between micro- and macro-syntax, graphic variation and written-oral relationships, the epistemology of linguistics. Since 2008, she has been a member of the Royal Academy of French Language and Literature in Belgium. Aidan Coveney is professor of French language and linguistics at the University of Exeter, where he teaches translation, phonetics, sociolinguistics. His research concerns variation in spoken French (in particular that of interrogative forms), the use of personal pronouns, theories of variation. He is also the author of a book on the articulatory phonetics of French. Alexander Guryev has a doctorate in French linguistics and an FNS post-doc at the University of Geneva. His work focuses on the variability in interrogative forms of French and on reformulation markers, in French and Russian.

Marie-Jose Beguelin

Alexander Guryev

Aidan Coveney