Léonard Jean-Léo and Maria-Beatriz Pinheiro - Enunciation and non-verbal aspects of linguistic cohesion in an oral narrative from the Poitou region. The aim of this research is to propose a model for the linguistic analysis of an oral narrative, by confronting enunciation, syntaxe and the non-verbal in a short stretch of viedo material (2mn 26s). Performance is considered live in the complexity of its make-up, from the point of view of creative processes, staging, and the cohesiveness of the narrative. A grid for analysis concentrates on the periodisation (recentering), and the body movements linked to the narrative and the argument (head and hand movements, imitations or quotations), allowing us to approach nonverbal content in direct relation to the text . Through an analysis of a corpus hardly two-and-a-half minutes long, the authors attempt to describe the complexity and the diversity of the processes involved and the signs/ signals thrown out in face-to-face communication by that vital hot-rod, the human being.