18.853, Diss: Discourse Analysis/Ling & Lit/Text&Corpus Ling: Dargnat: 'L'o...'

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Date: 18-Mar-2007
From: Mathilde Dargnat < mathilde.dargnat at free.fr >
Subject: L'oral comme fiction / Orality as fiction 

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Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2007 10:37:27
From: Mathilde Dargnat < mathilde.dargnat at free.fr >
Subject: L'oral comme fiction / Orality as fiction 

Institution: University of Provence (F) and University of Montreal (CA) 
Program: Linguistics and Literary Studies 
Dissertation Status: Completed 
Degree Date: 2006 

Author: Mathilde Dargnat

Dissertation Title: L'oral comme fiction / Orality as fiction 

Dissertation URL:  http://mathilde.dargnat.free.fr/index_fichiers/pageaccueilthese.html

Linguistic Field(s): Discourse Analysis
                     Ling & Literature
                     Text/Corpus Linguistics
                     Writing Systems

Dissertation Director(s):
Lise Gauvin
Marie-Christine Hazaël-Massieux

Dissertation Abstract:

How do people construct a representation of spoken language in linguistic
transcriptions and dramatic art? Is that representation stable? These two
questions underlie the present dissertation.

Specifically, I offer a comparison between the images of spoken language
conveyed by a particular dramatic work (five plays by the Quebecois writer
Michel Tremblay) and by a linguistic transcription (the Sankoff-Cedergren
and Montreal 84 corpora). Two conclusions are drawn. First, systematically
comparing the linguistic and literary corpora allows one to highlight the
different constraints that shape the coding of orality, e.g. in the
graphical, syntactic and discourse dimensions. Second, in the literary
corpus, orality is more than a socio-linguistic parameter. It plays a rôle
in the organization of narrative fiction. This shows that orality is doubly
fictional, as a piece of social imagination about language and as a part of
a given narrative and emotional universe.

Methodologically, I used the Weblex software
(http://weblex.ens-lsh.fr/wlx/), which allows one to compare the various
transcriptions of words and idioms typically found in spoken language and
to uncover the technical or aesthetical choices of transcribers or writers.
Moreover, the software and two non parametrical statistical tests (Welch
and Fisher tests) help extracting the linguistic profiles of characters and
the stylistic changes in the intertwining of language and narrative fiction
over thirty years (1968-1998).

Theoretically, the main question is what «filters» are used in representing
spoken language. The present work argues that two requirements have to be
met. (a) Linguistic categories have to be defined in a precise way, in
order for researchers to build and exploit non-standard language corpora,
be they transcriptions or literary works. (b) Linguistic description should
be connected to a study of cultural and emotional factors, for a better
understanding of the three components (linguistic, symbolic and aesthetic)
that make up orality. 

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