Ajustement, affordance : l’altérité comme clé pour la variation
Two forms of alterity (or otherness) are distinguished which both call for adjustment and adaptation: intersubjective alterity between locutors and co-locutors on the one hand, and discursive alterity between what we want to say and what we say, on the other. Adjustment and adaptation prompt diaphas...
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| الحاوية / القاعدة: | URI:https://journals.openedition.org/ranam, |
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| التنسيق: | Article ou chapitre numérique |
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Recherches anglaises et nord-américaines
2024
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| الوصول للمادة أونلاين: | Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM |
| الملخص: | Two forms of alterity (or otherness) are distinguished which both call for adjustment and adaptation: intersubjective alterity between locutors and co-locutors on the one hand, and discursive alterity between what we want to say and what we say, on the other. Adjustment and adaptation prompt diaphasic variation according to situation and discourse genres, but they also induce diatopic and diastratic variation, according to the more or less local and more or less excluding significance that discourse is given; and in so doing they account for important aspects of diachronic variation. On the adjustment side, this corresponds to the development of analytical formulas that serve explanatory functions (illustrated through the three examples of the perfect, the conditional, and of forms of politeness), but also of implicit formulas that serve to voice something. On the side of the adaptation to the audience, we can find the mechanisms for standardization and normalization, which are argued to belong to the more dynamic concept of affordance, which is meant to facilitate reception. This concept is applied to account for the written word rather than utterances, as the former is distinguished not so much by its normative character, as by the type of units involved: words on the blank of a page. |
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