LE PASSÉ COMPOSÉ DANS LE DISCOURS SPORTIF: REMARQUES ÉNONCIATIVES ET CONSIDÉRATIONS PSYCHOLINGUISTIQUES
THE ‘PASSÉ COMPOSÉ’ IN SPORTS DISCOURSE, WITH EMPHASIS ON ENUNCIATION AND SOME PSYCHOLINGUISTIC CONSIDERATIONS

Summary/Abstract: The ‘Passé Composé’ in Sports Discourse, with Emphasis on Enunciation and Some Psycholinguistic Considerations. Temporal semantics is often interpreted from a referential point of view, but tenses also convey the position of the speaker: context and its psycholinguistic dimension are important in order to assess the relationship between the speaker and the receiver of the message. This analysis of interactive units within French sports articles mainly reveals how the speaker using the passé composé weighs his/her own implication in the events he/she has experienced and how he/she expresses not only his/her relation to lived experience, but also his/her degree of « consciousness » of time. Moreover, Weinrich’s notion of tension is revisited in terms of communicative effectiveness.

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