FRONTIÈRES SUPRA-CATÉGORIELLES, CATÉGORIELLES, INFRA- ET TRANS- CATÉGORIELLES DE LA REFORMULATION
SUPRA-CATEGORY, CATEGORY, INFRA- AND TRANS-CATEGORY LIMITS OF THE REFORMULATION

Summary/Abstract: The article aims at providing a definition for the reformulation by stating what it is not or, in short, by starting from its limits. Firstly, it explains why reformulation has provoked such a keen interest as opposed to other notions starting with Re-, namely the notion of repetition, and highlights the necessity of conceptualizing these phenomena from a double point of view, semasiological and onomasiological, in intention and in extension, in order to describe as scientifically as possible closely related hybrid phenomena. Secondly, the paper describes a supra-category level of repetition of formulation, that needs to be considered as crucial information and could result in two categories of different phenomena: the repetition by reiteration of the same signifying forms, or the reformulation by changing the signifier and maintaining the ‘same’ signified for clarification purposes. Thirdly, the paper makes a clear distinction between the under-category characteristics of reformulations, according to their forms and functions with, at this level, a rising hybridism. Fourthly, it lists some trans-category characteristics based on semantic, pragmatic, textual and enunciative criteria that are useful for the analysis of both reformulations and affine forms.

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