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Le sens contextuel des « actes de langage stéréotypés »
The contextual meaning of "stereotypical speech acts"

Author(s): Maurice Kauffer
Subject(s): Language studies, Lexis, Semantics, Pragmatics
Published by: Wydawnictwo Naukowe Uniwersytetu Marii Curie-Sklodowskiej
Keywords: context; contextual meaning; pragmatic phraseologism; pragmateme; stereotypical speech act;

Summary/Abstract: This contribution focuses on the contextual meaning of pragmatic phraseologisms, and especially what we call “stereotypical speech acts” in French, e.g. la belle affaire (big deal) or tu parles (you must be joking). We will first present the theoretical and methodological issues related to the notion of (linguistic or situational) context, and then analyze the relations between co(n)text and the meaning of “stereotypical speech acts”.

  • Issue Year: 42/2018
  • Issue No: 4
  • Page Range: 39-59
  • Page Count: 21
  • Language: French