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Cette étude s’intéresse au rôle des routines discursives dans le parcours diachronique de l’interrogative partielle in situ . On examine les emplois de deux routines, issus de la base de données frantext . La première routine, initialement d’ordre macro-syntaxique, fonctionne pragmatiquement comme la question ‹retardée› qui introduit, dans un premier temps, un objet-de-discours lexicalement sous-spécifié et laisse attendre, dans un second temps, sa détermination. Le fonctionnement pragmatique de la seconde routine s’appuie sur la question à valeur d’information explicitement ancienne : le mot qu - ayant le statut d’un complément interne a pour instruction de spécifier les traits d’un objet-de-discours validé antérieurement dans le discours. Les deux routines, qui se montrent propices aux emplois de qu - postposé ou in situ en diachronie, ont favorisé l’émergence d’une structure interrogative in situ en français.

In classical sociolinguistic studies, the variety in French interrogative structures is accounted for in terms of the different socio-stylistic values that they express. However the study of SMS data provides us with evidence that this approach needs to be challenged. This paper argues in favor of an alternative approach, which views various interrogative structures as "multiple forms in concurrence" (Quillard 2000) with their own structural and functional particularities, instead of viewing various interrogative structures as alternative ways of expressing the same thing. In line with this position we will discuss some methodological issues and the design of this approach, leading us through the article from the annotation of linguistic data to some preliminary results of the study.

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This chapter explores in a theoretical manner the potential correlations, previously suggested by Heine et al. (2015), between hemispheric specialization in neurolinguistics and a dual organization of discourse. The dual processing of language is represented here by the pragma-syntax, the level at which grammatical units manifest shared mental representations in discursive memory and generate inferences. While it is widely accepted that the left hemisphere of the brain is of utmost importance for morphosyntactic structuring of discourse, we will argue that the right hemisphere is crucial in processing operations at the pragma-syntactic level. Following a review of the questions surrounding hemispheric specialization, and of the language phenomena it can affect, we will present the pragma-syntactic model of human grammar. This paper will then suggest how it can effectively describe the phenomena whose comprehension has been previously reported in a number of studies as being dependent on the intact activity of the right brain, notably: irony, indirect speech acts and connectives.