Quelques pistes pour une étude diachronique des titres en français : "monsieur, monseigneur, milord"

This article focuses on the diachronic study of the French series of honorifics composed by the possessive adjective and a title (as in monseigneur). It first questions the morphological regularity of the whole series (comparing the masculine forms with the feminine nouns madame and mademoiselle) an...

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Published in:Langue française 2006-03 (149), p.92-112
Main Author: Lagorgette, Dominique
Format: Article
Language:fre
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Summary:This article focuses on the diachronic study of the French series of honorifics composed by the possessive adjective and a title (as in monseigneur). It first questions the morphological regularity of the whole series (comparing the masculine forms with the feminine nouns madame and mademoiselle) and their syntactical properties, in particular regarding the adjunction of articles (le monsieur / *la madame). It then concentrates on the masculine series (monsieur, monseigneur and milord) in order to underline how enunciative and pragmatic parameters seem to have governed its development during the middle ages: our hypothsesis is that the early possibility for those titles of respect (with the article) to show axiological judgements is linked to their use within the curial style and the anaphorical article ledit
ISSN:0023-8368
1957-7982