Phrases préfabriquées à fonction expressive dans les dialogues de romans contemporains
Résumé
This article focuses on expressive sentential phrases in French contemporary novels, such as c’est un comble ‘that is the last straw’ or c’est dommage ‘it’s a pity’. The corpus study shows that these expressions, while largely predominant in the dialogue sequences, are not completely absent from the narrative parts, where they play a specific role. A comparison with authentic spoken corpora (ORFEO spoken corpus) shows a strong stylisation of expressions in the corpus of novels, with an overuse of expressive colloquial expressions.