{"title":"Sans doute et probablement : des synonymes ?","authors":"Anouch Bourmayan, Fumitake Ashino","doi":"10.1017/s0959269521000107","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s0959269521000107","url":null,"abstract":"Résumé Dans cet article, nous entendons dissiper une illusion sémantique : celle de la synonymie de sans doute et de probablement. Nous partons des hypothèses descriptives suivantes : probablement présente une proposition comme probable, c’est-à-dire comme une proposition dont la vérité a plus de raisons d’être confirmée que d’être infirmée, tandis que sans doute présente une proposition comme s’imposant selon une perspective restreinte. Nous défendons l’idée que ces marqueurs sont des adverbes modaux épistémiques présentant un sens littéral distinct mais une même valeur évidentielle : celle d’une inférence à la meilleure hypothèse. Nous expliquons ainsi pourquoi sans doute et probablement peuvent être perçus comme synonymes dans certains contextes, mais montrons que cette synonymie n’est qu’apparente car les marqueurs apportent en réalité un regard différent sur l’information : sans doute présente un jugement médiatisé par une perspective subjective, tandis que probablement véhicule un mode de présentation objectif de l’information.","PeriodicalId":43930,"journal":{"name":"Journal of French Language Studies","volume":"31 1","pages":"363 - 383"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2021-09-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45681652","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Marqueurs reformulatifs en français et en russe: de quelques intéressants parallélismes entre les deux langues","authors":"Alexander Guryev","doi":"10.1017/s095926952100003x","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s095926952100003x","url":null,"abstract":"Résumé Cet article analyse, dans une perspective comparative, deux classes de marqueurs de reformulation en français et en russe. La première est construite autour d’un indéfini en autre (rus. inoj) : fr. autrement dit, en d’autres termes ; rus. inače govorja, inymi slovami ; la seconde est historiquement dérivée d’une clause verbale finie ce + est (rus. to + estʹ) : fr. c’est-à-dire, rus. to estʹ. Il sera démontré que le français et le russe partagent bon nombre de propriétés dans le fonctionnement de ces marqueurs, qu’il s’agisse de leur fonctionnement grammatical ou sémantico-pragmatique. Il sera aussi argumenté que les marqueurs de la deuxième classe font l’objet d’un stade de grammaticalisation, mais aussi de pragmaticalisation, plus avancé et sont, par conséquent, plus appropriés à des interactions spontanées que les marqueurs construits autour d’un indéfini en autre.","PeriodicalId":43930,"journal":{"name":"Journal of French Language Studies","volume":"31 1","pages":"338 - 362"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2021-09-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45892476","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Retour sur Les sons du français: la modernité de Passy","authors":"J. Durand, Chantal Lyche","doi":"10.1017/s0959269520000289","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s0959269520000289","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 Au sein de l’enseignement de l’oral, il est souvent difficile de convaincre les didacticiens du français qu’un recours à la phonologie et à la phonétique faisant place à la variation et la diversité des usages est possible et souhaitable. Pourtant, dès la fin du 19ème siècle, une autre pratique était défendue par des jeunes phonéticiens dont Paul Passy, auteur des Sons du français (1887) et coordinateur de la mise en place de l’API. Passy, à cause de ses engagements socio-politiques et religieux, de sa défense souvent mal comprise de l’API et de son combat pour la réforme de l’orthographe, est fréquemment relégué à une place relativement mineure dans l’histoire de la phonétique du français. Nous démontrons ici que les nombreuses révisions des Sons du français fourmillent de descriptions fines et de remarques sur des changements en cours qui, dans bien des cas, seront redécouverts dans la deuxième partie du 20ème siècle sans mention de son travail. Nous abordons alors la question de la norme et l’attachement de Passy à la variation et montrons sa modernité à travers son traitement de la prosodie, des unités distinctives, des réalisations allophoniques et de la transcription phonétique.","PeriodicalId":43930,"journal":{"name":"Journal of French Language Studies","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2021-09-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46892065","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Expressing prospective location in French: rethinking Vandeloise’s ‘principle of anticipation’","authors":"M. Tutton","doi":"10.1017/S0959269521000119","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/S0959269521000119","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Vandeloise’s (1987, 2017) principle of anticipation proposes that French verbs of motion can enable prospective readings of static locative prepositions. However, it has little to say about verbs of motion that do not have a prospective verbal reference place (VRP): that is, to what extent are verbs of initial polarity like partir and s’enfuir able to trigger prospective readings of prepositions? This article argues that each verb must be analysed individually and that prospective readings of prepositions depend on the interaction of verbal and prepositional semantics: for example, the movement away from a viewer expressed by partir favours a prospective reading of derrière but not of devant: this is due to differences regarding access to perception. The animacy of the Ground and its status as a material or spatial entity (Vandeloise, 2017) is also a key factor (e.g. partir près de + spatial entity). This suggests that verbs of initial polarity participate in synergistic verb/preposition/Ground interpretations that help to overcome their lack of a VRP. The prospective reading of the preposition depends on the choice of verb and Ground, thus supporting a distributed view of spatial semantics (Sinha and Kuteva, 1995; Zlatev, 1997, 2003, 2007; Evans and Tyler, 2004).","PeriodicalId":43930,"journal":{"name":"Journal of French Language Studies","volume":"32 1","pages":"48 - 75"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2021-09-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48269593","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"À nouveau and de nouveau in spoken and written French","authors":"Malte Rosemeyer","doi":"10.1017/S0959269521000120","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/S0959269521000120","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This paper analyzes the alternation between the near-synonymous French adverbials à nouveau and de nouveau ‘again’, which has received scarce attention in the literature. While previous descriptions assume that both adverbials are used to express that an eventuality is repeated, it is shown that de nouveau and à nouveau differ systematically with respect to their preferred usage contexts. On the basis of combined results from a questionnaire that tests speakers’ intuitions and a probabilistic analysis of the alternation between the two adverbials in corpus data, à nouveau is shown to be more likely to express a repetitive meaning, whereas de nouveau is more likely to express a restitutive meaning, i.e. the return to a previous state of affairs. The analysis also suggests that due to its status of an innovative variant that is gradually displacing de nouveau, à nouveau is less restricted regarding its usage contexts. Finally, a significant difference between the two variants is found regarding modality, in that the use of à nouveau is more likely in written language, whereas the use of de nouveau is more likely in spoken language.","PeriodicalId":43930,"journal":{"name":"Journal of French Language Studies","volume":"32 1","pages":"76 - 104"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2021-09-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"57096273","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Perspectival usages of French past time verbal tenses: an experimental investigation","authors":"C. Grisot, Joanna Blochowiak","doi":"10.1017/S0959269520000307","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/S0959269520000307","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract In this paper, we carried out two experimental studies to investigate whether verbal tenses, in their perspectival usages, give access to the speaker’s perspective. Study 1 is an annotation study in which annotators evaluated corpus excerpts as expressing situations or narrating events in a subjective or objective way. We manipulated access to the verbal tense: half of the annotators saw the tense of the verbs, and half saw only infinitive forms of the verbs. Study 2 is a self-paced reading experiment in which we examined how native speakers of French process utterances with the Passé Simple when it is preceded by aujourd’hui (semantic incompatibility solved pragmatically by perspective-taking), hier (semantic and pragmatic compatibility) and en ce moment (semantic incompatibility which cannot be solved pragmatically). The results of Study 1 suggest that the subjective interpretation of an utterance is not triggered by its verbal tense. Study 2 questions the idea that perspective-taking is a component of speaker’s subjectivity. In general, our experimental findings do not support the hypothesis that verbal tenses give access to speaker’s subjectivity, a theoretical hypothesis which has never before been directly experimentally tested.","PeriodicalId":43930,"journal":{"name":"Journal of French Language Studies","volume":"31 1","pages":"294 - 317"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2021-08-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48402757","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"France Martineau, Annette Boudreau, Frenette, Françoise Yves et Gadet (dir.), Francophonies nord-américaines : langues, frontières et idéologies. (Les Voies du français) Québec : Presses de l’Université Laval, 2018, 540 pp. 978 2 7637 3909 0","authors":"B. Rea","doi":"10.1017/s0959269521000065","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s0959269521000065","url":null,"abstract":"Ager, D. (1999). Identity, insecurity and image: France and language. Clevedon: Multilingual Matters. Bell, D. A. (2001). The cult of the nation in France: Inventing nationalism, 1680-1800. Cambridge: Harvard University Press. Chernyavskaya, V. E. (2017). Towards methodological application of discourse analysis in corpus-driven linguistics. International Journal of Corpus Linguistics, 21.4: 465–498. https://doi.org/10.17223/ 19986645/50/9. Mautner, G. (2007). Mining large corpora for social information: The case of elderly. Language in Society, 36.1: 51–72. Pennycook, A. (2006). Postmodernism in language policy. In: T. Ricento (ed.), An introduction to language policy. Oxford: Blackwell, pp. 60–76.","PeriodicalId":43930,"journal":{"name":"Journal of French Language Studies","volume":"32 1","pages":"107 - 109"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2021-08-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"57096712","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"JFL volume 31 issue 2 Cover and Front matter","authors":"","doi":"10.1017/s0959269521000132","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s0959269521000132","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43930,"journal":{"name":"Journal of French Language Studies","volume":" ","pages":"f1 - f2"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2021-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46812299","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"JFL volume 31 issue 2 Cover and Back matter","authors":"","doi":"10.1017/s0959269521000144","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s0959269521000144","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43930,"journal":{"name":"Journal of French Language Studies","volume":"31 1","pages":"b1 - b5"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2021-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"57096361","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Les exclamatives en comment dans le cinéma de banlieue: une étude variationniste","authors":"Laurie Dekhissi","doi":"10.1017/s0959269521000028","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s0959269521000028","url":null,"abstract":"Résumé Dans cet article, nous analysons la variation dans l’emploi des exclamatives en QU-,1 qui ont pour marqueur exclamatif qu’est-ce que, ce que, comme et comment. Pour ce faire, nous adoptons l’approche variationniste et nous avons recours à un corpus de 45 films du cinéma de banlieue dont seulement 24 témoignent de la présence d’exclamatives en QU-. Ces 24 films couvrent la période de 1991 à 2019. Nous avons récolté 75 occurrences de phrases exclamatives correspondant à la variable étudiée, prononcées uniquement par des locuteurs vivant dans des cités HLM. Les résultats obtenus montrent la forte fréquence d’utilisation du marqueur comment (61 occurrences) par rapport aux autres marqueurs plus couramment rencontrés dans le français parlé du quotidien et qui est, par conséquent, au centre de notre attention dans cette étude.","PeriodicalId":43930,"journal":{"name":"Journal of French Language Studies","volume":"31 1","pages":"216 - 240"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2021-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48955327","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}