Antoine Culioli Research Articles

Creación de herramientas de traducción. Sobre la traslación de culturemas en español

This study draws on the enunciative semantic theory of notional domain proposed by Antoine Culioli, enriched with the concept of semiotic complex by Claude Delmas. The approach considers a lexical item as a set of semes that determine its admissible extension conditions within a specific culture, activable in accordance with the situation of utterance. The aim of this research is to develop translation tools for transposing culturemes (Fernando Poyatos) to another cultural-linguistic system. These culturemes represent expressions that hold significant cultural relevance within a speech community. The proposed tools involve extracting the notional and semiotic features of a notional domain and selecting the most relevant ones according to the ongoing enunciative situation. This selection process takes into account specific parameters of the communicative act and the presumed intention of the discourse. The chosen features are then explicitly incorporated into the target text, aiming to create an illocutionarily equivalent product to the source text. This approach is necessary as direct manipulation of the lexical item itself at a global level is impossible due to the absence of an equivalent notional domain in the target language. This contribution is part of a project that aims to establish a theoretical model for translation, based on the metaoperational enunciative theory.

La particule énonciative o en ikwere

The purpose of this article is to outline the invariant property of the sentence final particle o in Ikwere. To achieve this aim, I consider how it operates in the various sentences in which it occurs and examine the specific part it plays in the construction of meaning of such sentences while hinging on syntactic, semantic and pragmatic constraints associated with its use in a given situation. This article is realized based on the theory of linguistic markers within the framework of enunciative and predicative operations (in French: TOPE for Théorie des Opérations Prédicatives et Enonciatives) elaborated by Antoine Culioli and his research associates. It turns out that the use of the sentence final particle o constantly involves asserting the p value of a given notional domain while disqualifying the alternative p' value previously introduced.

USOS DO VERBO “FICAR” NO PORTUGUÊS BRASILEIRO SOB A ÓTICA DA SEMÂNTICA-ENUNCIATIVA

Based on the notes of the Theory of Predicative and Enunciative Operations (TPEO), by Antoine Culioli (1999), this article aims to observe, describe and analyze, from a enunciative-semantic perspective, the uses of the verb “ficar” (‘to stay’) in ten statements extracted and adapted from the “Curso Vila Brasil” website. For Culioli (1999), the form of the meanings of the statements takes place at the moment of interaction between the interlocutors, in which the cotext, the context and the subjects are essential pieces for this enunciation activity. In addition to the TPEO presuppositions, the theoretical background of the article is based on studies by Silva (2016) and by Franckel (2011). These studies suggest the presentation of the identity of a lexeme analyzed based on the verification of meaning variations in different enunciation contexts. The results obtained show the semantic identities constructed through the variation of the meaning of the verb “to stay” in occurrences analyzed from the enunciative-semantic perspective.

La construction linguistique de la durée en anglais et en français par Agnès Leroux

Reviewed by: La construction linguistique de la durée en anglais et en français par Agnès Leroux Jeff Tennant Leroux, Agnès. La construction linguistique de la durée en anglais et en français. Peter Lang, 2018. ISBN 978-2-8076-0700-2. Pp. 274. Writing primarily for an audience of specialists in enunciation theory and English language teaching, the author presents a fine-grained analysis of expressions of duration in French (pendant, pour) and English (for). The discussion is situated within the framework of Antoine Culioli's Theory of Predicative and Enunciative Operations (TOPE, in French). Working with the two languages in parallel, the study is situated within a contrastive linguistics perspective. The data are drawn from written-language corpora: the Corpus of Contemporary American (COCA) and British National Corpus (BNC) for English; Lextutor and Frantext for French, as well as the Corpus de littérature contemporaine (CODEXT). The primary goal is to contribute to the teaching of these expressions by addressing the specific challenges they pose to French L1 learners of English L2. The introduction gives a general overview. Chapter 1 presents the [End Page 284] theoretical perspective, the concepts of markers and structures within the TOPE framework, and the notions of language pedagogy that motivate the study, as well as the methodology. Chapters 2 to 5 delve into the details of the analysis: typology of referential expressions in English and French: constructions or markers? (chapter 2); operational schemata of for, pendant and depuis (chapter 3); target, scope and construction of durational meaning, from the temporal to the subjective (chapter 4); construction of durational meaning and intersubjectivity: diversification of relational expressions in French (chapter 5). Categories of duration expressions in English and French are presented in several tables, with table 5 in the concluding chapter summing up the core classification. The classification distinguishes different types of processes viewed from the angle of their duration (discrete, dense, or compact), showing correspondences between the two languages for various combinations of verb tenses with the prepositions pendant and depuis in French, and for in English. Chapter 6 focuses on language instruction. Following a discussion of the competing priorities of action-based versus reflection-based approaches, of learning based on usage or explicit study of language forms, the treatment of duration expressions in three published grammars of English for Francophones is analyzed critically, their key shortcoming being the presentation of correspondences in forms between the two languages without the interface of an analysis of the expression of duration in English. Findings are presented from an exploratory teaching experiment based on written productions of quatrième (eighth grade) students who were provided, following an exercise serving as a pre-test, instruction focusing their attention on the expression of duration with for. Results of the post-test show a lower error rate than in the pre-test, thus illustrating the promise for successful application of the findings to teaching. The concluding chapter sums up key findings and offers liminary reflections on teaching applications through guided reflection and an interface appropriate to learners' level. The presentation is highly technical and thus a reader lacking a solid background in Culioli's theory will struggle to follow the detailed, rigorous presentation and discussion of examples. However, curriculum designers for English language instruction can glean core findings from the introduction, chapter 6 and the concluding chapter. Jeff Tennant University of Western Ontario Copyright © 2020 American Association of Teachers of French

Relações intersubjetivas e marcas modais na produção textual

Neste presente artigo, discutimos as relações entre as possíveis formas de argumentação que se constituem por meio de relações intersubjetivas resultantes da presença, no texto, de noções modais veiculadas por diferentes marcas léxico-gramaticais-enunciativas. Nossas observações pautam-se em narrativas produzidas por alunos do 6º ano de Ensino Fundamental, tendo em vista apontar questões enunciativas a serem trabalhadas nas práticas de produções textuais. O quadro teórico adotado é a Teoria das Operações Enunciativas e Predicativas, de autoria de Antoine Culioli, que considera a articulação entre linguagem e a pluralidade das linguagens naturais no estudo e análise dos textos. A opção teórica justifica-se pela relevância de se observarem os processos geradores de linguagem no exercício de produção textual desenvolvido no ensino de língua, o que implica colocar em relação as atividades epilinguística, linguística e metalinguística.

Uma abordagem enunciativa das relações antonímicas entre cobrir e des-cobrir

This article discusses the relationship of opposition between cover and discovery from the perspective of Antoine Culioli 's theory of Enunciative Operations, within a line of investigation that considers that the senses of the lexical or morfolexical units are constructed and not previously established. Although our study involves the prefixes whose tradition judges that they have ready senses coming from other languages, we understand that such units go through the same criteria of construction of sense of the units considered simple. For this we analyze the factors that propitiate or prevent the opposition of these units, considering the characteristics of the base and the prefix in question, in addition to other factors that interfere in the construction of a unit sense. We note that there is an oppositional relationship between cover and discovery, however, the operating parameters for the emergence of this opposition are specific and insightful, in order to restrict a single sense that accepts such opposition. In this way, we were able to confirm that units as des- do not only carry out an opposition when they are associated to the base and that the senses of their occurrences are constructed in the textual environment in which they occur.

Fire away! Suggestions pour une caractérisation énonciative de la particule adverbiale anglaise AWAY

In common with some prepositions, AWAY may have at first sight contradictory aspectual consequences on the accompanying verb, including both perfective and imperfective aspectual determinations. The present study posits a schematic form for AWAY which will enable us to derive these values, as well as the values of spatial distance more usually associated with the marker. The theoretical framework used is that of Antoine Culioli's Theory of Enunciative Operations. Examples are drawn from the BNC.

Disambiguierung deutschsprachiger Diskursmarker: Eine Pilot-Studie

Framed within Antoine Culioli's Enunciative Model of language, this article suggests a new analysis regarding the semantic properties of the suffix -esque and argues that this suffix refers to an alterity expressed within a typical property. Moreover this article reassesses earlier findings made about the suffix -esque, namely its low productivity in creation of neologisms and its apparent usage limited to literary and journalistic styles. The alleged constraint for all its bases to be referring to a human being is also reconsidered and our semantic analysis questions the value of "extreme" supposedly added by -esque to the nominal basis. Indeed, its usage in French shows that if this suffix is no longer typically associated to a nominal basis referring to the people of a country (see mauresque or arabesque), the human dimension associated to the nominal basis such as in la soldatesque, is not always found either (see TV-esque). Rather, this suffix seems to have lost its role as a simple identifier towards a referential domain as found in expressions such as une oeuvre molièresque which could be glossed over as "une oeuvre typique de Molière". This identification is most of the time linked to a laudatory or negative appreciation on the part of the enunciator, as found in examples such as gargantuesque. Besides, the contemporary dynamism of the -esque flexion enables the creation of neologisms. These neologisms are derived from proper nouns (mitterrandesque) or from acronyms (rmiesque) that do not exhibit standard properties. This begs the question of whether the value which seemed to be added to the composite [noun + esque] is determined by the suffix itself or whether it is partially connected to the atypical notional value of the root's semantic value.

Modalité, dialogisme et stratégies discursives

This article studies the dialogic effects of the various uses of the modal auxiliary MAY within American presidential debates. Firstly, we adopt the analytic framework of Antoine Culioli (1990) called Theorie des Operations Enonciatives and show that these dialogic effects are generated by some fundamental metalinguistic operations among which the construction of notional alterity. As a consequence, it seems possible to define MAY as a dialogic marker (Bres et Mellet 2009) since it is its intrinsic properties (and not the context) that cause dialogic effects. Secondly, we suggest that the framework developed here sheds new light on some of the discursive strategies employed by the candidates; in particular, it helps provide a linguistic account of manipulative discourse. Finally, the study considers the relations between the notions of alterity and dialogism.

Assessing Apparently Equivalent Translations in the News Media

This essay represents a preliminary attempt to devise a method for examining words and their apparently equivalent translations as they appear in the news media. Taking Walter Benjamin’s essay on the task of the translator as a starting point and drawing on Edmund Husserl’s phenomenology and Antoine Culioli’s and Paul Laurendeau’s enunciative linguistics, the author argues that this appearance of equivalence is deceptive, for at least two reasons: first, because differing, culturally specific assumptions underlie the interpretations of these words and their translations; and second, because as the implications of these words and their translations are reported upon and contested (by political actors, by reporters, by editorialists), their meanings effectively change.

Les doubles signes de ponctuation et l’inclusion du discours en anglais

This article aims at defining the relationship between the use of double punctuation signs — the double comma, the double parenthesis and the double dash — and the concept of location developed by Antoine Culioli within the framework of his utterer-centered theory. We posit that the use of commas is related to a location in identification, that the use of parentheses is related to a location in disconnection, and finally that the use of dashes is related to a location in differentiation. Prior to examining how this hypothesis can be applied to the use of these linguistic signs, this article analyses the relationship between notions such as aside, commentary and explanation and these signs. It appears that the notion of inclusion stems from the relationship between the use of the double punctuation signs and the type of location considered. The examples examined here are sufficiently diverse as to suggest that this hypothesis might well apply to just any text.

Semantic invariance, locating process and alterity: a TOPE-based analysis of the verbal prefix z- in Ikwere

This article first outlines the theory of the predicative and enunciative operations (TOPE) developed by Antoine Culioli and his associates. It then shows how this theory enables one to analyse such linguistic units as the verbal prefix z- in Ikwere, spoken in Nigeria, and, more precisely, the way they operate in the language. We find that behind the various uses of z- is an invariant meaning element which consists of introducing a ranking between p and p′, i.e., two constituent values of a given unorganized notional domain, such that the domain is finally organized. It is further argued that the TAM (Tense-Aspect-Modality) category, which z- is related to, is constructed by the utterance in which z- occurs.

The Quantification / Qualification Operation in NPs (Quantificação / Qualificação em Sintagmas Nominais)

This dissertation has the main goal of describing the nominal determination system of European Portuguese. It is developed under the proposals of “Théorie Formelle Énonciative”, proposed by Antoine Culioli.

À propos de même

Antoine Culioli : À propos de même An analysis of the various uses of même, including a special consideration for its position in the utterance, is brought out within the framework of a "schematic form", considered as an abstract (metalinguistic) form, liable to lay the foundation of a reasoning on the variation of the value of the word, and, thus, to simulate what is bound to remain moving, unsteady and inaccessible in itself.

Tentative de définition du domaine textuel

The objective of such a definition will be to clarify the notion of text, in order to lead to an unlinear and diverse reading of literary texts. The approach, inspired by Antoine Culioli's teaching and his topological representation of the notional domain, should throw light upon three different textual areas : the extratextual area (or textual exterior), diversely taken into account by non-literary approaches ; the paratextual area (or textual boundary) ; the intratextual area (or textual interior) whose polyphonic and polysémie contents develop along a syntagmatic and a paradigmatic axis. This dynamic conception should enable stylisticians to 1) determine the limits of textual analysis 2) demonstrate how the inner organization of the literary text — a verbal aesthetic object — makes it almost infinitely meaningful.

On Antoine Culioli's theory of enunciative operations

Abstract Antoine Culioli began elaborating his Theory of Enunciative Operations in the sixties and has never stopped improving and extending it ever since. He appears as the follower of those European linguists like Roman Jakobson and Emile Benveniste among others who considered linguistics could not be anything else than the search for meaning through forms. Central elements in the theory are, first, the topological model of the notion and notional domain as constructed round the organizing centre or typical occurrence, second, the operation of location as the basic operation at all stages of the construction of utterances, third, the part played in the construction of the referential values of utterances by the abstract coordinates of the Situation of uttering i.e. the enunciator, co-enunciator and moment of uttering. Culioli's theory has a cognitive dimension and his formalization uses concepts adapted from logics and mathematics but he has always been particularly anxious to stress the irreducible specificity and autonomy as a science of linguistics which should not be taken for an extension either of cognitive psychology or of mathematics.

Aspects de la théorie d'Antoine Culioli

This paper presents the epistemological foundations of the theory developped by Antoine Culioli and his team, underlying three main aspects: 1) the operations of enunciation (grounding on the inner organization of the utterances); 2) the operation of location, as the origin of the constituent operations of an utterance; and 3) invariance and variation, dealing with the diversity of natural languages on the one hand, and with the identity and the variation of morpho-lexical items on the other hand. This presentation leads to an understanding of the main trends now developping within the framework of this theory.