Se faire entendre construction — lines of research in the corpus of fantasy texts Cover Image

La construction se faire entendre — quelques pistes de recherches dans le corpus des textes fantastiques
Se faire entendre construction — lines of research in the corpus of fantasy texts

Author(s): Małgorzata Niziołek
Subject(s): Language studies, Language and Literature Studies, Theoretical Linguistics, Applied Linguistics, Studies of Literature, Comparative Study of Literature
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego
Keywords: se faire entendre; impersonal; fantasy literature; causative structure; inchoative structure

Summary/Abstract: The purpose of this article is the contextual analysis of the se faire entendre construction. The choice of the corpus of fantasy texts is not coincidental. Conducted studies have clearly shown that the functioning of the structure depends on the type of text in which it appears. The same se faire entendre construction gives complete causative structure in the corpus of press, while in the corpus of fantasy texts dominating options are consecutive and inchoative, which block the agent. Unexpressed reason becomes the source of a disturbing result. This syntactic and semantic procedure creates stylistic effect, which intensifies fear and builds what is called fantasy atmosphere. The present research forms part of the work to create lexical and syntactic matrix of fantasy literature.

  • Issue Year: 2016
  • Issue No: 28
  • Page Range: 208-219
  • Page Count: 12
  • Language: French