Chemins de traverse – Voies de travers
In this article, I use and analyze the notion of extravagance in the sense of its etymological composition, “extra-vagance”, in exploring a domain, between literature and linguistics, constituted by a corpus of stories telling metamorphosis, that is to say by texts or narrations which refer to uncon...
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| Language: | English |
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Association Portugaise d'Etudes Françaises
2012-01-01
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| Series: | Carnets |
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| Online Access: | https://journals.openedition.org/carnets/7132 |
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| Summary: | In this article, I use and analyze the notion of extravagance in the sense of its etymological composition, “extra-vagance”, in exploring a domain, between literature and linguistics, constituted by a corpus of stories telling metamorphosis, that is to say by texts or narrations which refer to unconventional, counterfactual cases or phenomena; but as a linguist, I observe and, I hope, I demonstrate that the language is able to represent them, sometimes with ambiguity. Nevertheless, I do make a great difference, even if they appear in the same context, between a metamorphosis, which is a process de re, and a metaphor, which is a procedure de dicto. |
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| ISSN: | 1646-7698 |