L'apport des textes de la pratique pour l'étude des marqueurs d'oralité en moyen français
This article critically reflects on the overwhelming presence of literary texts in French diachronic linguistics, especially concerning medieval discourse markers and orality. After an attempt to linguistically define orality markers and to distinguish them from discourse markers, the question of...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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University of Graz
2019-11-01
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| Series: | Studia Linguistica Romanica |
| Online Access: | https://unipub.uni-graz.at/slr/periodical/titleinfo/4550549 |
| Summary: | This article critically reflects on the overwhelming presence of literary texts in French
diachronic linguistics, especially concerning medieval discourse markers and orality. After an attempt to linguistically define orality markers and to distinguish them from discourse markers, the
question of why 'practical' non-literary documents (such as parliamentary records, trials or remission letters) have received little attention in linguistics will be discussed. We will then briefly
present some of these documents, which could be studied together with literary texts, pointing out
interesting meta-linguistic (status of swear-words, reception of these documents) and linguistic
(pragmatic use of coordinators, 'oral' syntactic phenomena) aspects. This paper does not to seek to
criticize prior studies on medieval orality in literature but rather to review the various sources
available for the examination of medieval orality as well as to suggest new ways to deal with the
problem of data. |
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| ISSN: | 2663-9815 2663-9815 |