L’article interroge le potentiel interprétatif et le fonctionnement discursif d’une série de slogans comportant au moins un élément à référence vague ou indéfinie, à l’instar de « Ensemble, tout devient possible ». Se situant dans une perspective de traitement incrémental qui reconnaît l’impact… read more
We sought to determine the role of verbless sentences across the writing process. We compared two corpora: a longitudinal corpus of social reports and a transversal corpus of diary entries and letters. An examination of successive draft reports revealed that verbless sentences were present in… read more
In the present study, we adopt a cognitive-discursive approach to analyse the linguistic structures of bursts of production in a corpus of reports by social workers about children at-risk. Bursts were identified as periods of fluent writing between pauses of at least two seconds, and were coupled… read more
The aim of this paper is to propose a detailed analysis of allocentric emotional expressions (AEE) like I am happy for you; She worries for him in English, French, Romanian and Russian. Joy, sadness, fear, and shame are the four emotional domains concerned by these constructions. The formal… read more