Langages - Année 2006 - Volume 40 - Numéro 163 - Pages 71-85In Cohésion in English (1976), Halliday & Hasan gave a small part to lexical collocation, though emphasizing it as a programmatic priority. Referring to the récent debates within and on the edge of textual linguistics (Adam, Rastier) and to our own praxis in the matter of computerassisted and statistic approaches, we intend to show collocation (cooccurrence) as a central aspect of textuality. In this purpose it must be seized as a whole, which means statistically, and then invested back into the apparatus of textual analysis as a main way of expert browsing. Some instances and outlooks are given upon Balzac's Le Père Goriot. Depuis la création des Annales de géographie, en 1891, nos périodiques témoignent tous, dans leur discipline, des dernières avancées de la recherche et du mouvement des idées. 15 pages Source : Persée ; Ministère de la jeunesse, de l’éducation nationale et de la recherche, Direction de l’enseignement supérieur, Sous-direction des bibliothèques et de la documentation.