L'analyse stylistique est l'un des exercices essentiels des premières années de licence de lettres jusqu'aux concours. Cet ouvrage expose en détail la démarche pour élaborer puis rédiger une analyse stylistique à partir de tout type de texte. Il propose des plans détaillés et une version rédigée de ces plans. Des encadrés fournissent des mises au point théoriques, une bibliographie en fin de chaque chapitre et un glossaire complètent l'ouvrage. Cette nouvelle édition présente des commentaires ajustés aux nouvelles exigences de l'épreuve aux concours de lettres.Frédéric Calas est professeur des Universités à l'Université Blaise Pascal de Clermont-Ferrand, où il enseigne la langue et la littérature françaises.

L’analyse stylistique est l’examen des procédés linguistiques mis en œuvre par un écrivain. Elle emprunte à la grammaire, à la linguistique, à la rhétorique, à la poétique et à la sémiotique leurs outils et leurs approches pour décrire l’utilisation qu’un auteur fait de tel ou tel élément langagier. L’ouvrage se divise en 5 chapitres de la méthodologie du commentaire à l’entraînement en passant par l’étude des grands genres. Les applications aux textes proposent un parcours à l’étudiant allant de l’analyse au plan détaillé. Corrigés, mises au point théorique, bibliographies sélectives et glossaire accompagnent le travail de l’étudiant.

The essays in this volume, offered to Dr. Jenny Read-Heimerdinger on the occasion of her 70th birthday, cover subjects in New Testament textual criticism that are central to her research. In particular, the volume contains text critical studies of the four Gospels, the Acts of the Apostles, the early testimony of New Testament Greek and Coptic manuscripts, scribal tendencies in the first centuries, and linguistic approaches to textual criticism.

It is widely believed by historians of linguistics that the 19th-century was largely devoted to historical and comparative studies, with the main emphasis on the discovery of soundlaws. Syntax is typically portrayed as a mere sideline of these studies, while semantics is seldom even mentioned. If it comes into view at all, it is usually assumed to have been confined to diachronic lexical semantics and the construction of some (mostly ill-conceived) typologies of semantic change. This book aims to destroy some of these prejudices and to show that in Europe semantics was an important, although controversial, area at that time. Synchronic mechanisms of semantic change were discovered and increasing attention was paid to the context of the sentence, to the speech situation and the users of the language. From being a semantics of transformations', a child of the biological-geological paradigm of historical linguistics with its close links to etymology and lexicography, the field matured into a semantics of comprehension and communication, set within a general linguistics and closely related to the emerging fields of psychology and sociology.

This advanced level course book teaches stylistic variations of modern French grammar using examples from films and interviews as well as other authentic texts. Written entirely in French, it focuses on the most difficult grammar points and their usage, rather than on their formation. Variations stylistiques includes an abundance of oral and written exercises that are practical, relevant, creative, and fun, encouraging students to use the grammar in meaningful contexts. By highlighting the many linguistic variants employed by native speakers, Dansereau provides an engaging alternative to traditional French grammar textbooks. An ancillary Web site features quizzes and other valuable resources for instructors.

This book presents in a single volume a comprehensive history of the language sciences, from ancient times through to the twentieth century. While there has been a concentration on those traditions that have the greatest international relevance, a particular effort has been made to go beyond traditional Eurocentric accounts, and to cover a broad geographical spread. For the twentieth century a section has been devoted to the various trends, schools, and theoretical framework developed in Europe, North America and Australasia over the past seventy years. There has also been a concentration on those approaches in linguistic theory which can be expected to have some direct relevance to work being done at the beginning of the twenty-first century or those of which a knowledge is needed for the full understanding of the history of linguistic sciences through the last half of this century. The last section of this book reviews the applications of some of these findings. Based on the foundation provided by the award winning Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics this volume provides an excellent focal point of reference for anyone interested in the history of the language sciences.

Que ce soit par son œuvre de comparatiste sur la généalogie du groupe des langues voltaïques ou par son approche du français d'Afrique et des créoles, Gabriel Manessy aura marqué la réflexion de son temps. Une certaine `posture' scientifique exigeante, l'analyse de concepts tels ceux de véhicularisation, de vernacularisation, d'appropriation ainsi que l'élaboration de notions comme celle de `sémantaxe' tracent ce cheminement. Ces Leçons d'Afrique qui lui sont dédiées, soulignent certaines des perspectives dans lesquelles son questionnement s'insère.