INSCRIPTION DU DIALOGUE DANS UN DISCOURS MONOLOGAL
INSCRIPTION OF THE DIALOGUE IN A MONOLOGICAL DISCOURSE

Linguistic and pragmatic analysis of a literary text

Summary/Abstract: This paper tries to examine the linguistic and pragmatic mechanisms of dialogue construction in a monologic literary text: La chute, a novel by A.Camus. After defining the concept of interpellation first as a speech act, then as a conversational unit, the author describes the discursive and textual function of interpellation, its role in the construction of a fictious interlocutor as a projection of the reader. The text creates a complex connection between interpellation and dialogism, which gives the interlocutor an effective presence in the fiction. The fact that the allocutive marks are organically associated with a marked dialogism assigns a structure of exchange to the novel text, thus involving a traditionally monologic discourse in an interlocutive relation associated to an interactive space. Insofar as it leads to a flattened verbal interaction, as based mainly on the crosstalk and the designed recipient, the interpellation produces a textual-discursive structure which serves as a release mechanism and scenic setting that is a staging of the narrative discourse itself.

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