| Summary: | This study examines the conceptualization of events, and the organization of information to be transmitted, in oral narrative texts produced in French from France and from Quebec. When confronted with the same stimulus material (a series of images and a text-free film), speakers from France and Quebec focus their attention on different elements and organize the information in their stories differently. The analyses also reveal diversity in the linguistic choices of the Francophones of each group (verb types, active and passive structures, presentation of characters as being active or inactive, etc.) and show that, beyond the words they use, each group demonstrates a particular attitude with regard to the information presented by the supports, which points to different conceptualization in the two varieties of the language.
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