2009
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Jean-Marc Sarale, « Potentialités dialogiques du déterminant possessif », Langue française, ID : 10670/1.ymboew
In this paper, Jean-Marc Sarale describes various occurrences of possessive noun phrases which take a dialogical meaning in context, such as “your N” meaning “the N you spoke of” or “the thing you call N “. This kind of enunciative splitting can happen in proper noun as well as in common noun phrases, at all persons (my/your/his...), regardless of syntactic function. It is suggested that the personal indicator implied in the possessive adjective may contextually point at another source than the main speaker, when interacting with a subjective indicator or a dialogical marker. The possessive adjective doesn’t seem to be a marker of dialogism in itself, but rather a dialogical signal in context – some of his contextual interactions are described.