Abstract
The present study investigates human live announcements performed on board of French fast trains TGV. On closer examination, they appear to be highly conventionalised preconstructed texts (text models as described in Gülich & Krafft, 1997). Firstly, the analysis focuses on lexical prefabicated chunks (mostly collocations) embedded in recurrent syntactic patterns the announcements are composed of. Hence, we assume that they should be considered phraseological units at discourse, as well as at syntactic and lexical levels. Further, preconstructed entails constructed: as a matter of fact, these announcements have been built up by institutional authors on purpose, to serve as tools, when uttered by the speaker in professional interactions. Secondly, it is possible to relate particular preconstructed elements to directive speech acts that the speakers have to perform as frontline workers. Given the transactional situation they are involved in, they can hardly use only overt directives, such as imperative constructions or performative verbs. Consequently, preconstructed elements are designed with the aim, on the one hand, of providing the hearer with maximal relevance to quickly grasp implicatures, and on the other, that of improving the relational parameters between interlocutors.
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