Un faire-part de décès galant, ou la rupture entre cohésion et cohérence dans une lettre de Vincent Voiture

Rollin, Sophie

Abstract

Gallant irony in a letter written by Voiture : This letter takes the form of a gallant announcement of death since Voiture tells Mademoiselle de Rambouillet that he has “died owing to (her) absence”. A breach can be seen between the perfect syntactic and textual cohesion of the speech and its lack of coherence: the organisation of information and the use of the conjuncts reveal an overmarking of the cohesion signs, whereas the inconsistencies of modalisation, the reductio ad absurdum and a pragmatic discrepancy prevent speech coherence. In fact, it is only thanks to some seductive irony aiming at attracting the addressee that the speech can find its coherence again as a literary text.

Citation

Rollin, S. (2005). Un faire-part de décès galant, ou la rupture entre cohésion et cohérence dans une lettre de Vincent Voiture. In A. Jaubert (Ed.), Cohésion et cohérence : études de linguistique textuelle (145-155). ENS-LSH Editions

• Publication Date: Sep 1, 2005
• Deposit Date: Jul 24, 2007
• Pages: 145-155
• Book Title: Cohésion et cohérence : études de linguistique textuelle.
• Publisher URL: http://editions.ens-lsh.fr/simclient/consultation/fiche/view.asp?INSTANCE=ENSEDITIONS&EID=CATALOGUE_180&FORM=0#ancre_SOMMAIRE