LES EMPLOIS MODAUX COMME EFFETS DE PERSPECTIVE TEMPORELLE
MODALITY AS A TEMPORAL PERSPECTIVE EFFECT
Author(s): Ligia Stela FloreaSubject(s): Language and Literature Studies
Published by: Studia Universitatis Babes-Bolyai
Keywords: temps verbaux/verbal tenses; signifié virtuel/virtual signifier; usage dérivé/derivative use; image/image; perspective/perspective; transfert mental/mental transfer; réalité connue/known reality vs réalité inconnue/ unknown reality.
Summary/Abstract: Modality as a Temporal Perspective Effect. This article deals with some special uses of tenses in French, whose referential interpretation in discourse is quite different from their basic virtual meaning. French grammars call theese “modal uses of tenses”: imparfait d’imminence manquée, imparfait ludique et hypocoristique, futur d’hypothèse, de rétrospection et d’atténuation, etc. The author tries to reconsider these questions by means of cognitive grammar concepts in order to determine the relations between modality and perspective.
Journal: Studia Universitatis Babes-Bolyai - Philologia
- Issue Year: 54/2009
- Issue No: 4
- Page Range: 47-64
- Page Count: 18
- Language: French
