Revue semestrielle de linguistique et littératures romanes

Écho des études romanes 2012, 8(1):43-49 | DOI: 10.32725/eer.2012.003

Sur l’indice suggérant sémantique dans la perspective fonctionnelle de la phraseEnglish

Martin DRÁPELA
Masaryk University, Brno

Dans la lignée de l'approche de Brno sur la théorie de la perspective fonctionnelle de la phrase (FSP), quatre facteurs ont été identifiés pour travailler en coopération mutuelle avec l'objectif de restituer la perspective finale fonctionnelle d'un énoncé : le réel arrangement linéaire des éléments de la phrase, leurs fonctions sémantiques dynamiques (le facteur sémantique), le contexte, et - dans le discours parlé - les caractéristiques prosodiques. Dans une discussion sur le facteur sémantique, Jan Firbas décrit brièvement, dans sa monographie de 1992, le fonctionnement de ce qu'on appelle les indices sémantiques suggestifs. Depuis, ce terme n'a reçu que peu d'attention ailleurs, l'auteur du présent document tente de montrer qu'il représente un des concepts fondamentaux de l'analyse FSP en ce qu'il est non seulement étroitement attaché à la notion importante de l'homogénéité sémantique, mais également qu'il s'agit d'un signal FSP (ou un facteur FSP?) capable de contribuer de manière significative à la résolution correcte des fonctions communicatives des éléments de la phrase.

Schlüsselwörter: perspective fonctionnelle de la phrase (FSP); l’homogénéité sémantique; indices sémantiques suggestifs

On the suggestive semantic clue in functional sentence perspective

In the Brno approach to the theory of Functional Sentence Perspective (FSP), four factors have been identified to work in mutual cooperation in rendering the final functional perspective of an utterance: actual linear arrangement of sentence elements, their dynamic semantic functions (the semantic factor), context, and - in spoken discourse - prosodic features. In a discussion of the semantic factor, Jan Firbas briefly describes in his monograph of 1992 the operation of the so-called suggestive semantic clue. Since this term has received little attention elsewhere, the author of the present paper attempts to show that it represents one of the fundamental concepts in FSP analysis in that it is not only closely attached to the important concept of semantic homogeneity, but also an FSP signal (or an FSP factor?) capable of contributing significantly to the correct resolution of the communicative functions of sentence elements.

Keywords: Functional Sentence Perspective (FSP); semantic homogeneity; suggestive semantic clues

Published: June 11, 2012  Show citation

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