Dirk Siepmann

A Web of Analogies: Depictive and Reaction Object Constructions in Modern English and French Fiction

This paper looks at the cross-linguistic complexity of two fiction-specific English-language constructions involving descriptive key words, viz. (a) depictive constructions and (b) reaction object constructions (ROCs). The English constructions in question were subjected to a detailed, corpus-based analysis in terms of their lexical realizations and complementation patterns. A comparison was then made (a) with French constructional equivalents in literary texts written by French authors and (b) with translations of literary texts from English into French and vice versa. The results show that, compared to English, French literary style has limited options for expressing descriptivity. However, whilst there is an almost total absence of full equivalents of depictives in French novels, the situation is more varied in the case of ROCs, with some types being fairly productive in French (e.g. hurler, murmurer) but others non-existent.

Corpus, base de données, cartes mentales pour l’enseignement – Cristelle Cavalla/Mathieu Loiseau/Valérie Lascombe/Joanna Socha

As part of an ANR project aimed at the linguistic description of the lexicon of emotions in five European languages, we developed an interface for querying a database (EmoProf) and proposed a sequence for teaching collocations of emotions in an FFL classroom. In this chapter, we will describe the tools and justify our use of “mind maps” to teach FFL. Résumé Dans le cadre d’une ANR visant la description linguistique du lexique des émotions dans cinq langues européennes, nous avons développé une interface (EmoProf) pour interroger une base de données et proposer des séquences didactiques pour l’enseignement des collocations d’affect auprès d’un public FLE. Nous décrirons ici les outils et les possibilités d’interrogations ainsi que le choix didactique d’insertion de cartes mentales dans une classe de langue.