L’étonnement linguistique chez Antoine Culioli, « linguiste philosophe »

Abstract

First, a connection is made between what is called “philosophical thaumazein” (astonishment/wonder) and Antoine Culioli’s various reads in philosophy. Then, the emphasis is laid on the claim that as “linguist and philosopher” (Ducard in Culioli 2018: 255, “un linguiste philosophe”) Antoine Culioli put into practice what can be called linguistic astonishment. The following case study deals with the language of astonishment, both lexically and syntactically – in particular with exclamative and interrogative constructions which convey the disqualification of the co-speaker as a subject worthy of stating his/her notional representations in dialogues.

Keywords

• philosophical astonishment
• linguistic astonishment
• language of astonishment
• exclamative and interrogative constructions
• disqualification