Metalinguistic Operators with Reference to French

The Author: T. Nyan is lecturer in French Linguistics and Pragmatics at the University of Manchester. Her research background includes teamwork on a number of research projects on French pragmatic expressions with Oswald Ducrot, at the Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris, a research post in Pragmatics at the Centre National pour la Recherche Scientifique, also in Paris, and a research fellowship in Philosophy of Language and of Mind at Pembroke College, Oxford. She has published extensively in this area of study.

Contents: What are metalinguistic operators? - Anscombre and Ducrot's Argumentation Theory - Argumentation Theory, Cognitive Linguistics and Speech Act Theory - Argumentation Theory and metalinguistic operators - Case study 1: maintenant - Case study 2: ceci dit .