THE ANAPHORIC ADVERBIAL PRONOUNS
EN AND Y: FROM THE TRANSGRESSION OF A RULE TO CONFLICTUAL REFERENTIAL REPRESENTATION IN CLASSICAL FRENCH Cover Image

LES PRONOMS ANAPHORIQUES ADVERBIAUX EN ET Y : DE LA TRANSGRESSION D’UNE RÈGLE À UNE REPRÉSENTATION RÉFÉRENTIELLE CONFLICTUELLE EN FRANÇAIS CLASSIQUE
THE ANAPHORIC ADVERBIAL PRONOUNS EN AND Y: FROM THE TRANSGRESSION OF A RULE TO CONFLICTUAL REFERENTIAL REPRESENTATION IN CLASSICAL FRENCH

Author(s): Ben Arbia Achraf
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies
Published by: Editura Universităţii din Piteşti
Keywords: anaphora. pronoun anaphoric. referential ambiguity. semantic opposition. semantic feature. antecedent. transgression. conflict.

Summary/Abstract: Pronominal reference always constituted one of the most notable features of the language of the XVIIth century. Studies on pronouns anaphoric representatives concern principally the report which joins the anaphoric with its contextual antecedent. This report is not always easy to establish given that in some situations ambiguous the unification of anaphoric pronominal expression with the aimed, present antecedent in immediate linguistic context, poses problem and intervenes directly on the intelligibility of swording and on the coherence of the whole text. It is especially in this sense that will articulate our job concerning the referential functioning of pronouns there and there in French classic. We will try to show that these two pronouns, in their anaphoric acceptation, avoid the categorisation at which remarqueurs aims at instituting within the usage limiting their rather free referential functioning. In other words, we will show that the categorisation of pronouns anaphoriques adverbial there and there, who according to the rules established have to consult the inanimate exclusively, am not applied in the usage and which these two pronouns return indifferently to an antecedent having semantic feature [Human being] or [Non-human being]. This opposition governing the referential functioning of the majority of the pronouns anaphoric, between others terms there qu-, confers on these two pronouns a specific functional feature within the classical texts. Our purpose, in this job, will consist in proving that the transgression of the linguistic rule, supposed to regulate the referential functioning free from adverbial pronouns there and there, institutes diversions unduly in usage and conflicts as for the referential interpretation of the report anaphoric joining pronoun and antecedent

  • Issue Year: 2017
  • Issue No: 16
  • Page Range: 8-17
  • Page Count: 10
  • Language: French
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