Relations de discours : la focalisation anaphorique, entre rapports paradigmatiques et syntagmatiques
Discursive Relations: Anaphoric Focalization, between Paradigmatic and Syntagmatic Rapports

Summary/Abstract: In order to be able to describe “discourse relations”, we are in favour of considering the co dependence between syntax and semantic : this dependence is to be seen as well in the structure of lexical forms –from an argumentative point of view (Ducrot, Galatanu) – which has to contain instructions to understand the discourse, as- which is more classical - in the construction of the interpretation of discourses. The argumentative point of view on the language enables us to describe specific forms found in professional discourses held by adults in training situations : we called these forms, “focalisation anaphoriques” (i.e. anaphoric focalization). We try to describe how certain kind of discourses, aiming at detailed explanation of social practices, succeed in fact in suggesting quite different definitions of given lexical items. The focalization on limited parts of the lexical meaning of these items by the discourse is actually a “deconstruction” of the lexical meaning, based on “discourses relation”, but also on the language itself, seen as basically argumentative.

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