Ellipse and tolerance dans le discours
Ellipsis and Tolerance in the Discourse

Summary/Abstract: In this paper, we argue that tolerance and intolerance are elliptical terms because they have the same referent but one can have a different vision towards it, and because tolerance and intolerance are sometimes interchangeable terms. The recovery of the ellipsis is possible only by a dual approach to the same referent, sometimes perceived as a negative aspect, sometimes as a positive one. We envisage the reading of the novels in which intolerance is the main topic, as a possibility of learning to be tolerant but, again, this is an elliptical possibility because the borders between these aspects are still maintained, Tahar Ben Jelloun introducing only a part of what tolerance-intolerance is. We believe that consensus is the key and that learning about how we can recover what is missing by reading novels about intolerance can lead us to recover what is missing in our own discourse, which we consider coherent.

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