“Ah non, je ne parle pas anglais moi. Je suis française !” Une contribution à la typologie des pragmatèmes

• Authors: Ruth de Oliveira

Title variants

EN

“Oh no, I do not speak English. I’m French!” A contribution to the typology of pragmatems

• Languages of publication: FR

Abstracts

EN

This work presents and discusses the development of the hypothesis according to which clitic doubling (pronominal reduplication), as seen in the sentence “Je ne parle pas anglais moi. / I do not speak English [me]”, has the fundamental structural and pragmatic parameters of the pragmatem (R. D e O l i v e i r a, 2018). Structural, because it is a compositional construction but selected as a whole by the speaker to respond to a communication goal associated with a precise utterance situation (G. F l é c h o n et al., 2012); pragmatic, since this device is a means of acting on the interlocutive context, allowing the accomplishment of a certain number of specific acts (I. M e l’č u k, 2013). In this sense, we argue that, like the pragmatem, the devise called French clitic doubling simultaneously has the following three characteristics, it is (i) fixed, (ii) compositional, and (iii) associated with a specific utterance situation.

Keywords

EN

Pragmatem; clitic doubling; French language; language acts

• Publisher: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego
• Journal: Neophilologica
• Year: 2020
• Volume: 32
• Pages: 132-145

Dates

published

2020-12-23

Contributors

author

Ruth de Oliveira

• University of Cape Town

Identifiers

DOI

10.31261/NEO.2020.32.07