Problèmes de linguistique générale
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01 Jan 2009
TL;DR: This paper showed the inadequacy of the structuralist method with its climax in generative grammar method when applied to our understanding of langauge and showed the adequation of the cognitive, typological and functional approach.
Abstract: The paper shows the inadequacy of the structuralist method with its climax in generative grammar method when applied to our understanding of langauge. It shows the adequation of the cognitive, typological and functional approach. based on croslinguistically empirical data, i show the intrinsically human nature of language, which distinguishes it from other communication sysrtemss, viz. animal, computer and artificial ones,. Points treated in some detail are : Iconicity, Deixis, Multiple encoding, Bi- (not tri-) phonematicity of the Semitic root, the essential Bipartition of the utterance (not necessarily sentence) into [topic and] focus (not subject and predicate), Into-prosody and language's fidelity to sensorial data including those refuted by reason, The conclusion is that it is biology, not mathematics, which is best adapted to the study of language, since iot is a biologically evolutive and dynamical phenomenon, not a mathematical one.
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04 Dec 2013
TL;DR: In this article, the authors propose an analysis multifactorielle de nos donnees, i.e., spontanees, tant ecrites qu’orales, de diverses sources, permis de comparer differents criteres permettant d'identifier ceux qui favorisent the selection de estar, and les differentes valeurs semantiques potentielles que le choix d’une copule plutot que de l’autre entraine.
Abstract: Cette etude empirique synchronique se focalise sur les emplois effectifs des copules espagnoles ser et estar dans les constructions attributives adjectivales dans la variete mexicaine de l’espagnol. Les constructions qui nous interessent sont celles qui admettent les deux copules, classiquement distinguees en termes de type de predicat, selon la distinction de Carlson (1977) : Individual-level Predicates et Stage-Level Predicates. Nous avons pourtant observe des occurrences dans la variete mexicaine ou cette distinction n’explique pas la presence de la copule estar, qui semble etre en cours d’extension, ce qui a deja ete observe par divers auteurs qui ont etudie certaines varietes americaines. Etant donne que la bibliographie sur le sujet est nombreuse et que les approches et perspectives sont diverses, il nous a semble important, pour la comprehension du sujet, d’etablir d’abord un historique critique de la question, qui a ete divise par type d’approche et par auteur. Ensuite, dans une demarche de decouverte, fondee en grande partie sur notre intuition de locutrice native, nous avons entrepris une premiere application analytique avec une tâche contextualisee de preference comparative entre locuteurs espagnols et locuteurs mexicains, ce qui a montre une considerable variation interne parmi les locuteurs mexicains. Enfin, nous proposons une analyse multifactorielle de nos donnees « naturelles », i.e. spontanees, tant ecrites qu’orales, de diverses sources, ce qui nous a permis de comparer differents criteres permettant d’identifier ceux qui favorisent la selection de estar, et les differentes valeurs semantiques potentielles que le choix d’une copule plutot que de l’autre entraine.
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...Benveniste ([1958] 155 1966), a été un des premiers linguistes à s’intéresser particulièrement à la subjectivité en linguistique, qui est fondée, selon son approche, sur les deux personnes grammaticales intervenant dans l’échange discursif, i....
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TL;DR: In this article, the authors make a distinction between completion and anteriority of preterital forms in the context of Spanish Imperfecto, Perfecto, Pluscuamperfecto and Indefinido by applying three binary tense oppositions.
Abstract: The present paper aims at accounting for the Spanish Imperfecto, Perfecto, Pluscuamperfecto and the Indefinido by applying three binary tense oppositions: Present vs Past, Synchronous vs Posterior and Imperfect(ive) vs Perfect(ive) For the sixteen Spanish tense forms under analysis a binary approach leads to covering twelve of them Their relation with the preterital forms outside the range of the three oppositions is accounted for by two surgical operations: (a) the notion of Imperfect(ive) is severed from the notion of ongoing progress by restricting it to underinformation about completion and by seeing continuous tense forms as involving a more complex semantics; (b) the notion of (non-)stative is strictly severed from interference of information coming from the arguments of a verb These theoretical moves make the way free for a formal-semantic insight into the interaction of Spanish tense and aspect It also paves the way for a principled distinction between completion and anteriority Restricted to tense forms pertaining to the past, our analysis sheds light on the struggle for survival of tense forms outside the binary system
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...In his chapter on the French tense system, Benveniste (1966) distinguishes between tense forms used in a story as a way for a speaker of presenting what happened in the past on the one hand and tense forms typically used in an interaction between speaker and hearer in a discourse on the other (p....
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19 Jun 2018
TL;DR: The authors argue that translation should attend more to the phenomenology of reading, triggering creative textual thinking in the responsive reader rather than testing the hermeneutic skills of the professional translator.
Abstract: Offering an original reconceptualization of literary translation, Clive Scott argues against traditional approaches to the theory and practice of translation. Instead he suggests that translation should attend more to the phenomenology of reading, triggering creative textual thinking in the responsive reader rather than testing the hermeneutic skills of the professional translator. In this new guise, translation enlists the reader as an active participant in the constant re-fashioning of the text's structural, associative, intertextual and intersensory possibilities, so that our larger understanding of ecology, anthropology, comparative literature and aesthetics is fundamentally transformed and our sense of the expressive resources of language radically extended. Literary translation thus assumes an existential value which takes us beyond the text itself to how it situates us in the world, and what part it plays in the geography of human relationships.
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01 Jan 2004
TL;DR: In this article, a montrer l'utilite d'une approche fonctionnelle-structurelle for l'etude des manuels scolaires en mathematiques.
Abstract: Cet article vise a montrer l'utilite d'une approche fonctionnelle-structurelle pour l'etude des manuels scolaires en mathematiques. L'approche s'inspire de trois sources: la theorie des fonctions du langage de Duval, le modele des fonctions du langage dans la communication de Jakobson et le modele des structures semiotiques developpe par Richard. Apres avoir presente l'approche dans la premiere partie, nous l'appliquons ensuite a l'analyse de deux courts textes, tires des manuels de geometrie qui ont ete en usage au Quebec, dans les ecoles secondaires de langue francaise. L'intention adidactique qui se degage des deux textes montre comment les moyens semiotiques mobilises sont mis au sevice de la qualite de la communication avec l'eventuel lecteur.
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