Thierry Ponchon

• Université de Reims Champagne-Ardenne

This article analyzes the slang linguistic elements of Faïza Guène's entire fictional work. The writer inscribes her creations in the literary genre "beur" (literature of generations born of Algerian immigration) and urban (suburban) literature, two connected areas of modern French prose. It also studies the phenomenon of « contemporary French in c...

This article aims to bring on some enlightenment on the specifics of an experimental base formation for the creation of web maps dedicated to the French common youth slang. The relevance of the article is due to the pervasive nature of the French youth's “argotization” over the past two decades. The proposed study is devoted to the specifics of the...

The ability to use verbal modes and tenses in spoken French differently from standard French is undeniably aphenomenon that is part of social usage, especially among young people. Indeed, faced with a great variety and complexity of modes and tenses in written French, the speaker will tend to use in his speech only grammatical forms strictly necess...

The ability to use verbal modes and tenses in spoken French differently from standard French is undeniably a phenomenon that is part of social usage, especially among young people. Indeed, faced with a great variety and complexity of modes and tenses in written French, the speaker will tend to use in his speech only grammatical forms strictly neces...

L'ouvrage est structuré en trois grandes parties : la première - Psychomécanique et actualisation - est consacrée à la définition de la notion, à son rôle dans le système théorique de la psychomécanique, ainsi qu'à sa place dans l'articulation langue / discours. La deuxième partie - Actualisation, système(s) linguistique(s), sujet - développe sur q...

This paper attempts to explore the specific uses of com(e) followed by an adjective in medieval French with the aim of understanding the entire microsystem of “comme”. The proposed analysis of the com(e) ADJ complex syntagm relies on the hypothesis of a dual incidence of com(e). We assume these internal and external incidences are tightly related a...

Le présent ouvrage est constitué des communications présentées lors du XIe colloque international de psychomécanique du langage (Montpellier, 8-10 juin 2006) sur le thème Psychomécanique et linguistiques cognitives. La psychomécanique est-elle une linguistique pré-cognitive ? Est-elle la première linguistique cognitive ? Comment évaluer sa démarche...