Les « adverbes d'opinion forte » selon moi, à mes yeux, à mon avis,... : point de vue subjectif et effet d'atténuation - article ; n°1 ; vol.142, pg 31-40

Andrée Borillo

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Langue française - Année 2004 - Volume 142 - Numéro 1 - Pages 31-40
Within the general class of modal epistemic adverbials, we separate a small group of expressions (about a dozen) that we identified as strong opinion Adverbs. In discourse, when such adverbials, appearing as parenthetical clauses in a sentence, include a I st person deictic element (i.e. in their direct use), their role is to express the speaker's subjective strong conviction about his utterance truth. But at the same time, they often fulfill a pragmatic function of attenuation: through them, the speaker explicitly assumes the responsibility of his affirmation - or of his appreciation — and by doing so, he demonstrates some kind of restraint that makes it easier for him eventually to adjust or to negotiate if a full agreement is not met with his addressee.
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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.

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• Publié par: LANGUE_FRANCAISE
• Publié le: 01 janvier 2004
• Nombre de lectures: 61
• Langue: Français

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Mme Andrée Borillo

Les « adverbes d'opinion forte » selon moi, à mes yeux, à mon

avis,... : point de vue subjectif et effet d'atténuation

In: Langue française. N°142, 2004. pp. 31-40.

Abstract

Within the general class of modal epistemic adverbials, we separate a small group of expressions (about a dozen) that we

identified as "strong opinion Adverbs". In discourse, when such adverbials, appearing as parenthetical clauses in a sentence,

include a I st person deictic element (i.e. in their "direct use"), their role is to express the speaker's subjective strong conviction

about his utterance truth. But at the same time, they often fulfill a pragmatic function of attenuation: through them, the speaker

explicitly assumes the responsibility of his affirmation - or of his appreciation — and by doing so, he demonstrates some kind of

restraint that makes it easier for him eventually to adjust or to negotiate if a full agreement is not met with his addressee.

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doi : 10.3406/lfr.2004.6790

http://www.persee.fr/web/revues/home/prescript/article/lfr_0023-8368_2004_num_142_1_6790