La référence à la personne en français parlé : le cas de "on"

Abstract

Boutet Josiane, The reference to persons in spoken French : the case of "on". French personnal pronouns have the property of refering to various persons. Those referential shifts have been described in rhetoric, historical and descriptive grammar. Recently, Laberge and Sankoff analyse the competition between "on" and "tu, vous" in oral French within the frame of variationist linguistics. We examine the fact that the principle of referential equivalence is applied to the syntax of pronouns and we raise arguments in favour of an enunciative representation of their functionning. We insist upon the importance of ambiguity, indecidability and indétermination in interpreting "on".

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