TY - JOUR
T1 - French television talk: what tenses for past time?
T2 - What tenses for past time?
AU - Labeau, Emannuelle
PY - 2006
Y1 - 2006
N2 - On the basis of a transcribed French television corpus made of two news bulletins, two chat shows and one literary programme recorded in February 2003, this paper explores the claim that passé simple (PS) may still be used in prepared oral discourse (Pfister 1974). The corpus does not provide support for that use on television, but it seems to suggest a shift from temporal to aspectual features in French television talk: a perfective presentation prevails on a past presentation. This trend would need to be confirmed by a larger television corpus, tested in other types of oral discourse and tested on written corpora.
AB - On the basis of a transcribed French television corpus made of two news bulletins, two chat shows and one literary programme recorded in February 2003, this paper explores the claim that passé simple (PS) may still be used in prepared oral discourse (Pfister 1974). The corpus does not provide support for that use on television, but it seems to suggest a shift from temporal to aspectual features in French television talk: a perfective presentation prevails on a past presentation. This trend would need to be confirmed by a larger television corpus, tested in other types of oral discourse and tested on written corpora.
KW - French past tenses
KW - oral French
KW - perfective aspect
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U2 - 10.1075/ijcl.11.1.02lab
DO - 10.1075/ijcl.11.1.02lab
M3 - Article
SN - 1384-6655
VL - 11
SP - 1
EP - 28
JO - International Journal of Corpus Linguistics
JF - International Journal of Corpus Linguistics
IS - 1
ER -