Étude comparée du fonctionnement des parenthèses et des tirets
This study investigates the functional equivalence of brackets and dashes. Both signs seem to mark “the operation of typographic uncoupling” (Pétillon-Boucheron, 2003). Our corpus study clearly shows, however, that their uses differ. While brackets can always replace dashes, the reverse is not true....
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| description | This study investigates the functional equivalence of brackets and dashes. Both signs seem to mark “the operation of typographic uncoupling” (Pétillon-Boucheron, 2003). Our corpus study clearly shows, however, that their uses differ. While brackets can always replace dashes, the reverse is not true. Brackets have specific uses both on the enunciative level (marking someone else’s speech) and with respect to the semantics or syntax (marking items below the word, greater than or equal to the sentence). In addition, while brackets are always double, the closing dash is “erased” before a strong punctuation mark. We attempt to explain this difference in their operation by a difference in their positions in the punctuation system. We argue that dashes are sentential signs (whose scope is strictly below the sentence) while brackets are enunciation signs, i.e. signs that can range over all levels of textual organization (from characters to paragraphs). |
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| spelling | doaj-art-3b9f1c41f016499f80fd8c457bff8e3b2025-01-30T09:52:38ZengPresses universitaires de CaenDiscours1963-17232011-12-01910.4000/discours.8542Étude comparée du fonctionnement des parenthèses et des tiretsGuillaume FrançoisThis study investigates the functional equivalence of brackets and dashes. Both signs seem to mark “the operation of typographic uncoupling” (Pétillon-Boucheron, 2003). Our corpus study clearly shows, however, that their uses differ. While brackets can always replace dashes, the reverse is not true. Brackets have specific uses both on the enunciative level (marking someone else’s speech) and with respect to the semantics or syntax (marking items below the word, greater than or equal to the sentence). In addition, while brackets are always double, the closing dash is “erased” before a strong punctuation mark. We attempt to explain this difference in their operation by a difference in their positions in the punctuation system. We argue that dashes are sentential signs (whose scope is strictly below the sentence) while brackets are enunciation signs, i.e. signs that can range over all levels of textual organization (from characters to paragraphs).https://journals.openedition.org/discours/8542punctuationbracketsparenthetic dashmetadiscursive markinggraphic variants |
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| title | Étude comparée du fonctionnement des parenthèses et des tirets |
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| title_short | Étude comparée du fonctionnement des parenthèses et des tirets |
| title_sort | etude comparee du fonctionnement des parentheses et des tirets |
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