L’emploi d’expressions métalangagières : phénomènes de saillance et travail interprétatif

This paper examines the phenomena of textual salience as well as the interpretative mechanisms linked to the use of metalinguistic expressions. It focuses on the expressions “so to speak”, “I almost said X” and “what we might call X”.Since these expressions both show a reflexive approach to one’s ow...

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Main Author: Blandine Pennec
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Presses Universitaires du Midi 2014-10-01
Series:Anglophonia
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Online Access:http://journals.openedition.org/anglophonia/258