Abstract
Do narratives concern only narratology or can they interest linguistics? If we suppose that linguistics cannot consider any unit beyond the sentence, then narratives are not an object for linguistics. But if linguistics do not stop at the sentence, then narratives may be the object of what R. Barthes called, with É. Benveniste, a “linguistics of discourse” or “translinguistics”. Narratology limits investigation to narrativity and different forms of storytelling, whereas, text linguistics and discourse linguistics are not a specifically narrative theory but a theory that includes narrative as one of its objects. This essay shows that the move from a “classical” to a “postclassical narratology” is less a revolution than an evolution. R. Barthes’s anchoring in É. Benveniste’s linguistics of discourse showed the way to a distinctly French postclassical narratology.
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