Phrasèmes pragmatiques en contextes énonciatifs fictionnels : l’exemple des motifs textuels argumentatifs et cohésifs dans le corpus cicéronien

Abstract

The Ciceronian texts belong to three different literary genres: speeches, dialogues and correspondence. Nevertheless, these texts present enunciation situations that are not totally distinct: they all correspond to oral productions, whether this orality is totally fictitious for the dialogues and the letters, or partially so for the speeches. The present study aims at studying, through the whole corpus, the use of some “pragmatic phrasemes” defined as “textual motifs” with a structuring or characterizing function. The objective is to determine to what extent the use of these “motifs” or their variants is conditioned by the genre of the texts or reflects the real or fictional character of the enunciation situation. After having specified the notion of “textual motifs” and indicated the means of analysis we used, the research will focus on phrasemes recognized by the philological tradition either as liaison formulas or as argumentation devices. Particular interest will be given to cases where a “motif” or one of its variants, while characteristic of a literary genre, is used occasionally in a text belonging to another genre.