1988
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Bernard Gardin, « Le dire difficile et le devoir dire », DRLAV. Documentation et Recherche en Linguistique Allemande Vincennes, ID : 10.3406/drlav.1988.1068
The difficulty to find the right wording is an experience that belongs as much to the writer as to the anonymous locutor. The writer reviews the various forms taken by this phenomenon (semiotic change, incompleteness, stammering, breaking-up, telescoping, language straining, saturation, cut) and draws up a list of causes, mainly based on Union's data. Referring to other descriptions of similar facts he tries to compactify this notion and to make it to a privileged object for the study of the processus of language.