French Literature Reviews - 2026

(Linguistics) Maingueneau, L'énonciation en linguistique française. 2nd edition
Literary Theory, Linguistics and Stylistics

Dominique Maingueneau

L'énonciation en linguistique française. 2e édition

Hachette
coll. "Les fondamentaux - Lettres"
2007
ISBN : 978-2-01-145721-9
155p
12€

Table of Contents:

PERSON AND DEIXIS

Person, Deictics, Shifters, and Discourse Typology

INDICATIVE TENSES
The Indicative; The Aspect; "Discourse" and "Narrative": Planes of Enunciation; The Present; Imperfect, Simple Past, Compound Past; The Future; The Conditional; "Tense" and Textuality
REPORTED SPEECH
Direct and Indirect Speech; Free Indirect Speech; From Reported Speech to Polyphony.

Dominique Maingueneau is a professor of French linguistics at the University of Paris XII-Val de Marne. An author of numerous textbooks, his publications in the same series include Syntaxe du français and Introduction à la linguistique française (2 volumes).

The study of enunciation focuses on the linguistic traces left by the speaker within an utterance, a field that gained significant traction in French linguistics during the late twentieth century. By examining how language structures the relationship between the speaker, the listener, and the context, researchers analyze the ways in which grammatical markers—such as personal pronouns and temporal indicators—anchor a text in a specific situation.

Dominique Maingueneau, a professor of French linguistics at the University of Paris XII-Val de Marne, covers topics including person and deixis, indicative tenses, and reported speech in L'énonciation en linguistique française. The text examines the function of deictics, the distinction between planes of enunciation, and the transition from direct to indirect speech. Readers interested in the structural properties of the French language and the mechanics of discourse may find this systematic presentation of enunciation theory relevant to their studies.