La revue LINX, créée en 1978, est une revue animée par des linguistes de l’Université Paris Ouest Nanterre La Défense (ex-Paris X). Elle aborde les thèmes les plus variés des Sciences du langage : syntaxe, sémantique, pragmatique, analyse du discours, lexicologie, histoire et épistémologie de la linguistique, langage et cognition, linguistique de l’oral, linguistique de l’écrit, acquisition du langage et des langues, didactique des langues, traitement automatique des langues et linguistique informatique, diachronie des langues etc.
For epistemological reasons, problems related to the use of a grammatical metalanguage seem ineradicable, whether we are dealing with a theorical metalanguage or a meta-lexis used for pedagogical purposes. It is therefore necessary to examine the extent to which certain aspects of grammar teaching m...
I propose a reflexion on : -the possible link between language biography of the learners of a foreign language and the characteristics of their metalinguistic representations ; -the use, by a goal-driven language didactics, of the metalinguistic representations brought to light. Then, activities aim...
This study shows how 9 years old children (third year primary education- CE2) use metalanguage taught in class to justify their graphic choices. They attempt, with some logic, to generalise a morpho-graphic representation partially rule-based, instead of using already acquired practical knowledge ba...
Panckhurst Rachel. Claire Gardent et Karine Baschung, Techniques d'analyse et de génération pour la langue naturelle (1995). In: Linx, n°36, 1997. Métadiscours… Langues Actes du colloque international du Groupe Recherche Jan Comenuis en Linguistiques et Didactique des Langues (2-3 octobre 96) sous l...
Tisset Carole. Préambule. In: Linx, n°37, 1997. Métadiscours… Langues. Actes du colloque international du Groupe Recherche Jan Comenuis en Linguistiques et Didactique des Langues (2-3 octobre 96) sous la direction de Carol Tisset. p. 11.
In this paper, we try to find out whether the distinction between mothertongue teaching and second language teaching is visible or not through the official curricula in the secondary education after the institution of foreign languages. The comparative analysis of official texts in fact shows that F...
Attal Pierre. Marie-Odile Junker, Syntaxe et sémantique des quantifieurs flottants tous et chacun. Distributivité en sémantique conceptuelle (1995). In: Linx, n°36, 1997. Métadiscours… Langues Actes du colloque international du Groupe Recherche Jan Comenuis en Linguistiques et Didactique des Langues...
We submit conclusions about a developmental research which tries to show how children recognize verbs. We know three years are necessary to get 50% of children recognizing this category. The first two years they inefficaciously use semantical tests. Then they use morphological tests as far as those...
Petit Gérard. G.E. Sarfati, Dire, agir, définir (Coll. Logiques Sociales, 1994) . In: Linx, n°36, 1997. Métadiscours… Langues Actes du colloque international du Groupe Recherche Jan Comenuis en Linguistiques et Didactique des Langues (2-3 octobre 96) sous la direction de Carole Tisset. pp. 210-214.
On the bases of the age-old différenciation between a priori and a posteriori languages (as volapuk, esperanto, etc.), we will contrast those artefacts with fancy languages (as Rabelais' lanternois, Swift's Lilliputian). Then, we will try to define the status of an artificial, fancy but really spoke...
Problems that learners have to face in grammar-oriented language teaching are not necessarily caused by metalinguistic vocabulary. When languages in contact are closely related or when linguistical descriptions of mother-tongue and target-language have the same matrix, this could be the case. But it...
The grammatical metalanguage status in the Brasilian school system seems to be one of the causes of the failure of the Portuguese Mother Tongue (PMT). That is why we will try to see in this paper to what extent and how an integrated PMT- and- French- as- a- Foreign- Language pragmatic approach can p...
The necessity for including the study of stress and intonation in the teaching of English is officially recognized. However, certain terms, such as stress (often confused with "insistence"), rising intonation (when the tone in fact falls, and only rises at the end), weak forms (implying inferiority)...
Tisset Carole. Présentation. In: Linx, n°37, 1997. Métadiscours… Langues. Actes du colloque international du Groupe Recherche Jan Comenuis en Linguistiques et Didactique des Langues (2-3 octobre 96) sous la direction de Carol Tisset. pp. 13-20.
This study is based on the observation of the verbal behaviour of two native French speakers, adolescents with a good academic background, in the process of negociating the production of a written text. The analysis of the corpus shows the scarcity of "functional" metalinguistic oral productions. On...
Tisset Carole. Présentation. In: Linx, n°36, 1997. Métadiscours… Langues Actes du colloque international du Groupe Recherche Jan Comenuis en Linguistiques et Didactique des Langues (2-3 octobre 96) sous la direction de Carole Tisset. pp. 13-19.
Montaut Annie. Anvitta Abbi, Reduplication in South Asian Languages : An Areal, Typological and Historical Study (1992, préface de Colin Masica). In: Linx, n°36, 1997. Métadiscours… Langues Actes du colloque international du Groupe Recherche Jan Comenuis en Linguistiques et Didactique des Langues (2...
Inspired by the semantic-pragmatic theory of polyphony, the article investigates the dynamics of indirect speech acts. A methodological approach within the framework of catastrophe theory makes it possible to overcome some difficulties formulated by O. Ducrot in his elaboration of the theory of poly...
when students first approach derivational morphology, the pre- theoretic terminology they use constitutes an obstacle to their progress, for it is intrinsically founded on history, chronology and the notion of event. This paper intends to explain why this language of description is always readily av...
The paper presents a semiotic analysis of how the zero sign works, by studying the case of a character in two ways fictional of a Russian novel by Tynianov, Lieutenant Kijé. Kijé did not exist ever ; he was engendered by a copist's writing mistake. On the basis of assumptions inspired by Jakobson, B...
In Dutchspeaking Belgium, the school and reference grammars of Dutch have gradually departed from a Latin grammar type framework. Correlatively, the French teachers of this country have observed that their pupils tend to conjugate French verbs through direct translation of Dutch. Using a corpus base...
Once the difference between several uses of the term metalanguage is briefly exhibited, the author of the paper gets on two questions : (a) what are the requirements the notion of metalanguage is based on (functional requirements : to mention, to name domains, to name operations ; pragmatical requir...
In this article, I analyze the treatment of shall and will jon a set of grammars and text books used to teach English to the French, and published in France between 1740 and 1967. After 1870, the importance attached to the use of paraphrases or to discursive and pragmatic variations declines and the...
I will examine the problem at beginner level in French secondary schools. I will define the three aspects in a psychomechanical perspective. I will then consider the necessary metalinguistic analysis inside English and thus the metalanguage needed for the learner to properly assimilate the English a...
The denomination, classification and interpretation of n'importe quel in grammar books and linguistics publications is indeed many fold. N'importe quel is presented sometimes as an indefinite, sometimes as one item of universal quantifiers, or again as a quantifying prédéterminant ; it may, accordin...