Article: Diapason de marqueurs miratifs en slovaque et en français
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2025
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Ráčková, Lucia
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Cette étude examine les marqueurs miratifs dans une perspective contrastive slovaque-française, en se basant sur un corpus parallèle : le roman Živý bič (Le fouet vivant) de Milo Urban. L’analyse s’appuie sur des exemples choisis afin d’identifier et de classer diverses expressions de sens miratifs dans les deux langues, selon la typologie proposée par Aikhenvald. L’hypothèse centrale est que, en slovaque, les notions de surprise et de contre-attente sont majoritairement véhiculées par des préfixes verbaux et des suffixes adverbiaux, tandis qu’en français, ces significations sont surtout exprimées par le subjonctif, les participes et les formes parfaites. Cela reste valable malgré l’absence en français d’une catégorie grammaticale d’aspect verbal, contrairement au slovaque, où des paires aspectuelles sont clairement établies. Par le biais d’une analyse comparative et contrastive, cette recherche explore également les questions d’équivalence formelle et sémantique dans la traduction littéraire. Les principaux résultats issus de ce corpus bilingue révèlent que : a) bien que la catégorie lexico-sémantique de la mirativité ne soit grammaticalisée ni en slovaque ni en français, la diversité des marqueurs miratifs reste large dans les deux langues ; b) l’expression de l’aspect verbal perfectif peut, dans les deux langues, fonctionner comme une stratégie mirative, c’est-à-dire une catégorie fondamentalement non mirative qui acquiert des nuances miratives dans des contextes spécifiques. Les conclusions de cette recherche pourraient avoir des applications pratiques dans le domaine des traductions slovaque-français et français-slovaque, en favorisant une compréhension plus fine de l’interaction entre les nuances miratives et les moyens lexico-grammaticaux mobilisés pour les exprimer dans ces langues indo-européennes.
Diapason of mirative markers in Slovak and French. This study examines mirative markers from a Slovak-French contrastive perspective, using a parallel corpus: the novel Živý bič – Le fouet vivant (The Living Whip) by Milo Urban. The analysis is based on selected examples in order to identify and classify various expressions of mirative meaning in the two languages, according to the typology proposed by Aikhenvald. The central hypothesis is that, in Slovak, the notions of surprise and counter-expectation are mostly conveyed by verbal prefixes and adverbial suffixes, whereas in French these meanings are mostly expressed by the subjunctive, participles, and perfect forms. This remains true despite the absence of a grammatical category of verbal aspect in French, in contrast to Slovak, where aspectual pairs are clearly established. Through comparative and contrastive analysis, this research also explores issues of formal and semantic equivalence in literary translation. The main results of this bilingual corpus reveal that: a) although the lexical-semantic category of mirativity is not grammaticalised in either Slovak or French, the diversity of mirative markers remains wide in both languages; b) the expression of the perfective verbal aspect can, in both languages, function as a mirative strategy, i.e. a fundamentally non-mirative category that acquires mirative nuances in specific contexts. The findings of this research could have practical applications in the field of Slovak-French and French-Slovak translations, by fostering a more detailed understanding of the interaction between mirative nuances and the lexico-grammatical means used to express them in these Indo-European languages.
Diapason of mirative markers in Slovak and French. This study examines mirative markers from a Slovak-French contrastive perspective, using a parallel corpus: the novel Živý bič – Le fouet vivant (The Living Whip) by Milo Urban. The analysis is based on selected examples in order to identify and classify various expressions of mirative meaning in the two languages, according to the typology proposed by Aikhenvald. The central hypothesis is that, in Slovak, the notions of surprise and counter-expectation are mostly conveyed by verbal prefixes and adverbial suffixes, whereas in French these meanings are mostly expressed by the subjunctive, participles, and perfect forms. This remains true despite the absence of a grammatical category of verbal aspect in French, in contrast to Slovak, where aspectual pairs are clearly established. Through comparative and contrastive analysis, this research also explores issues of formal and semantic equivalence in literary translation. The main results of this bilingual corpus reveal that: a) although the lexical-semantic category of mirativity is not grammaticalised in either Slovak or French, the diversity of mirative markers remains wide in both languages; b) the expression of the perfective verbal aspect can, in both languages, function as a mirative strategy, i.e. a fundamentally non-mirative category that acquires mirative nuances in specific contexts. The findings of this research could have practical applications in the field of Slovak-French and French-Slovak translations, by fostering a more detailed understanding of the interaction between mirative nuances and the lexico-grammatical means used to express them in these Indo-European languages.
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francouzština, slovenština, jazyk
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langue cible le français, langue source le slovaque, verbe préfixé, classification des nuances miratives d’Aikenvald, stratégie mirative, aspect verbal, target language French, source language Slovak, prefixed verb, Aikhenvald’s range of mirative meanings, mirative strategy, verbal aspect, francouzština,, slovenština, slovesa, slovesný vid
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10.15452/SR.2024.25.0007
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CC BY-NC 4.0
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Studia Romanistica 25(1), 2025, 95-107