TY - JOUR
AB -  LANGUAGE, VOLUME 57, NUMBER 1 (1981) ... que], comparative, the que ... que 'wh-ever' concessive, and indirect questions) than in others (temporal, final, causal, consecutive, conditional, the other concessive, and object clauses). 'Mots du discours' or 'argumentative morphemes' are here discussed in a collaboration between Ducrot and his students at the Hautes Études, written in the same vein as La preuve et le dire (1973). The first article is on Je trouve The relative length parameter is obvious. But the strength/weakness parameter, referred to as 'poids sémantique'--distinct from problems of topic and/or focus, and deriving from Firbas' fuzzy concept of 'communicative dynamism'-- is much more debatable. It is supposed to allow for a rather ad-hoc classification of verbs into que (published in 1975); the others are on four connectors, mais 'but', décidément (no exact homolog in English), eh bien 'well', and d'ailleurs 'besides'. The last two articles are here published for the first time. two groups. 'Weak' verbs, favoring inversion, refer to identification (A qu-est S), localization (A où est S), direction (A où va S, A d'où vient These studies are preceded by a long introduction by Ducrot, 'Analyse de textes et linguistique de renonciation', defining the 
TI - Les mots du discours By Oswald Ducrot et al. (review)
JF - Language
DA - 1981-04-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/linguistic-society-of-america/les-mots-du-discours-by-oswald-ducrot-et-al-review-IHzCpBonqe
SP - 238
EP - 239
VL - 57
IS - 1
DP - DeepDyve
ER -