Apposition et métonymie adjectivales, figures d’une sous-énonciation ?
Within the framework of a study of linguistic anthropomorphisms that apply an adjectival predicate from the subclass of psychological adjectives to an animal-referring noun, two configurations are scrutinised here: appositive constructions and metonymy. The corpus under analysis is drawn from the fi...
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| description | Within the framework of a study of linguistic anthropomorphisms that apply an adjectival predicate from the subclass of psychological adjectives to an animal-referring noun, two configurations are scrutinised here: appositive constructions and metonymy. The corpus under analysis is drawn from the fictional works of Marie Darrieussecq. The hypothesis being tested is that these constructions involve a form of enunciative disengagement, of which they may even be markers. These instances of under-enunciation may elicit a euphemising reading interpretable in terms of an ethos of moderation, but equally they authorize a litotic reading (say less to suggest more). It can therefore be argued that we are dealing here not with a position but a posture of under-enunciation, a strategy of understatement that forces across an underlying point of view - animals are indeed the seat of emotions -, and that under-enunciative distancing combined with humour is designed only to pre-empt the anticipated accusation of anthropomorphism. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-af3a181ce09c4ee8a84512874f6d2fc62024-02-13T13:52:05ZengCercle linguistique du Centre et de l'Ouest - CerLICOCorela1638-573X3210.4000/corela.12206Apposition et métonymie adjectivales, figures d’une sous-énonciation ?Sophie Milcent-LawsonWithin the framework of a study of linguistic anthropomorphisms that apply an adjectival predicate from the subclass of psychological adjectives to an animal-referring noun, two configurations are scrutinised here: appositive constructions and metonymy. The corpus under analysis is drawn from the fictional works of Marie Darrieussecq. The hypothesis being tested is that these constructions involve a form of enunciative disengagement, of which they may even be markers. These instances of under-enunciation may elicit a euphemising reading interpretable in terms of an ethos of moderation, but equally they authorize a litotic reading (say less to suggest more). It can therefore be argued that we are dealing here not with a position but a posture of under-enunciation, a strategy of understatement that forces across an underlying point of view - animals are indeed the seat of emotions -, and that under-enunciative distancing combined with humour is designed only to pre-empt the anticipated accusation of anthropomorphism.https://journals.openedition.org/corela/12206Enunciative PosturesUnder-enunciationAppositionMetonymyPsychological AdjectivesEuphemism |
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| title | Apposition et métonymie adjectivales, figures d’une sous-énonciation ? |
| title_full | Apposition et métonymie adjectivales, figures d’une sous-énonciation ? |
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| title_short | Apposition et métonymie adjectivales, figures d’une sous-énonciation ? |
| title_sort | apposition et metonymie adjectivales figures d une sous enonciation |
| topic | Enunciative Postures Under-enunciation Apposition Metonymy Psychological Adjectives Euphemism |
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