Saussure et l’étymologie populaire

Deux grandes raisons m’ont conduite à soulever ici le problème de l’étymologie populaire dans l’oeuvre de F. de Saussure. D’un point de vue général, tout d’abord, c’est le sentiment d’une contradiction relative à la notion de « conscience du sujet parlant », et à son statut théorique dans la littérature d’inspiration structuraliste. Dans cette littérature en effet, le sentiment linguistique du locuteur spontané est souvent invoqué à l’appui des modélisations savantes, qui le prennent à la foi..

Encoding and maintaining reference in oral discourse.

International audienceThis study deals with information management and reference encoding modes in oral discourse production. Three potentially influential factors were the distance between the first occurrence of an item and its later occurrences, a topic change that takes the focus off that item, and the span of the conceptual information available for verbalization. French-speaking adult subjects were asked to tell stories from comic strips to a listener who was unfamiliar with them. The frames in each strip were presented simultaneously or in succession. Four versions were generated for each comic strip: a given version was either short (three frames) or long (eight frames), and either did or did not have a topic change. The results showed that the target character was usually marked as a given, regardless of the version. This was more often true, however, when the topic did not change. When the character was treated as a given, referent accessibility marking was dependent on (1) topic change alone when the frames were presented simultaneously, and (2) topic change and comic strip length when the frames were presented in succession. The discussion analyzes the results in terms of the allocation of cognitive resources to maintaining coreference and to assisting addressees in their processing

Déficits dans la maîtrise des procédés de cohésion

Pupils' compositions in short-term vocational education bear traces of characteristic difficulties in cohesion and in mastery of linguistic processes. This study presents a typology and an analysis of the main deficiencies observed, based on a corpus of 263 papers provided by the organizers of the symposium. The main problems observed concern the articulation between texts and instructions, the choice of a deictic location and of an argumentative line, the use of anaphoric expressions, the choice of referential expressions, managing agreements and logical and argumentative linking.Pupils' compositions in short-term vocational education bear traces of characteristic difficulties in cohesion and in mastery of linguistic processes. This study presents a typology and an analysis of the main deficiencies observed, based on a corpus of 263 papers provided by the organizers of the symposium. The main problems observed concern the articulation between texts and instructions, the choice of a deictic location and of an argumentative line, the use of anaphoric expressions, the choice of referential expressions, managing agreements and logical and argumentative linking.Reichler-Béguelin Marie-José. Déficits dans la maîtrise des procédés de cohésion. In: Linx, hors-série n°6-2, 1995. Difficultés linguistiques des jeunes en formation professionnelle courte. Diagnostic et propositions de remédiation. De la langue ordinaire au technolecte. Actes du Colloque international de Paris X – Nanterre, organisé avec le soutien du Conseil Régional d’Ile-de-France, de l’institut Universitaire de Formation des Maîtres de Versailles et du Rectorat de Versailles 19, 20 et 21 décembres 1994.Volume 2. pp. 405-422

Anaphore, cataphore et mémoire discursive

Reichler-Béguelin Marie-José. Anaphore, cataphore et mémoire discursive. In: Pratiques : linguistique, littérature, didactique, n°57, 1988. L'organisation des textes. pp. 15-43

L’approche des « anomalies » argumentatives

Reichler-Béguelin Marie-José. L’approche des « anomalies » argumentatives. In: Pratiques : linguistique, littérature, didactique, n°73, 1992. L’argumentation écrite. pp. 51-78

Alternatives et décisions lexicales dans l'emploi des expressions démonstratives

Reichler-Béguelin Marie-José. Alternatives et décisions lexicales dans l'emploi des expressions démonstratives. In: Pratiques : linguistique, littérature, didactique, n°85, 1995. pp. 53-87

Françoise Gadet, Saussure. Une science de la langue, Paris, PUF, collection Philosophies, 1ère édition, 1987

Reichler-Béguelin Marie-José. Françoise Gadet, Saussure. Une science de la langue, Paris, PUF, collection Philosophies, 1ère édition, 1987. In: L'Information Grammaticale, N. 70, 1996. p. 62