Mots-phrases, phrasillons, locutions-énoncés : aux frontières de la grammaire et du lexique en français langue étrangère - article ; n°1 ; vol.131, pg 106-123

Langue française - Année 2001 - Volume 131 - Numéro 1 - Pages 106-123
Rémy Porquier : Mots-phrases, phrasillons, locutions-énoncés : aux frontières de la grammaire et du lexique en français langue étrangère This paper focuses on the specific status, both from linguistic and didactic points of view, of those short discourse units on the borders of grammar and lexis, often called in French « mots-phrases » [single-word sentences], and which we choose to call « locutions-énoncés » (allô, bonjour, au revoir, ça y est, attention, au secours) since they can function fundamentally as full discourse units, although many grammars include most of them within the category of interjections. According to various criteria, including their oral characteristics, they are shown to perform a wide variety of pragmatic and discourse functions (as already suggested by Tesnière in 1965) where the meanings are closely associated with specific prosodie patterns. Secondly, the place and the role of these units in the learning /teaching of French as a second or foreign language is considered, as a component of discursive competence in relation to oral interaction including intonation.
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