Sémiotique et linguistique de corpus

Abstract

Can general semiotics escape philosophical universality? That remains possible, if it is based on linguistics, defined as the semiotics of languages. Linguistics, which attained scientific status/only two centuries ago, is now, through the study of digital corpora, renewing its relationship with the empirical, as much through its historical and comparative methodology as through its critical epistemology. Its instrumentation provides it with crucial access to the experimental method. In particular, the duality between language and speech is generalized into a duality between norms and corpora, which concerns all aspects of semiotics. Even as cultural studies run the risk of being dismembered and having their remains shared out between cognition and communication, corpus analysis can federate, both methodologically and epistemologically, the descriptive and critical programmes of cultural studies.

Keywords

• corpus linguistics
• norms
• cultural sciences