| Titre | L'imparfait, un temps inconséquent | |
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| Auteur | Patrick Caudal, Carl Vetters, Laurent Roussarie | |
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Revue | Langue française |
| Numéro | no 138, mai 2003 Temps et co(n)texte, sous la direction de Jacques Bres | |
| Page | 61-74 | |
| Résumé anglais |
Treating the French Imparfait as an inconsequent tense The goal of this paper is to provide a unified account of the different interpretations of the French imparfait. Capitalizing on the idea put forth in Caudal & Roussarie (2002a) that tenses should be viewed as illocutionary functions ('illocutionary viewpoints') because their aspectual, temporal and modal content reflect the speaker's attitude towards some propositional content, we will ascribe the imparfait a largely underspecified illocutionary force. In particular, we argue that the imparfait is not intrinsically related to assertion, as opposed to the passé simple. We show that such a move makes it possible to account for the entire range of interpretative effects associated with this tense. towards some propositional content, we will ascribe the imparfait a largely underspecified illocutionary force. In particular, we argue that the imparfait is not intrinsically related to assertion, as opposed to the passé simple. We show that such a move makes it possible to account for the entire range of interpretative effects associated with this tense. Source : Éditeur (via Persée) |
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| Article en ligne | http://www.persee.fr/doc/lfr_0023-8368_2003_num_138_1_6482 |
