La polylexicalité en chinois: double perspective phonique et scripturale
Polylexicality in Chinese: a double phonic and scriptural perspective

Summary/Abstract: Our paper tackles the polylexicality which is based on data on the phonics and the writing of theChinese language. By dissociating the writing and phonics of Chinese, we have conducted formaland stratified analyses of these two aspects. By means of the triple articulation of language, we haveshown the interdependence of different articulations of language and the ambivalence of the Chineselexical unit in its form and function.We have revealed that the frozenness and the polylexicality are omnipresent in the Chinese language,from phonics to combinatorics, and that modern standard Chinese is doubly articulated inboth phonics and writing, which explains the gestalt perception of this language and the specificcontent of the mold which is the lexical unit. We have also drawn on the principle of linguisticeconomy to clarify certain basic linguistic concepts that are problematic for the Chinese language,such as morpheme, grapheme, word, etc.

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