Ce que la revue fait à ses articles. Réflexions génétiques et linguistiques

Abstract

The paper discusses the notion of places of power considering the successive rewriting of the scientific article, from its original version submitted to the publisher to its final stance authorized with its ready for press. During this phase, the article becomes the object of negociation; the research looses her authority on her writing and must compose with readers who amend her text. Drawing on the deciphering of graphic codes, on the one hand, and rhetoric norms on the other, the paper analyzes to what extent these corrections may reveal the conditions of acceptability of the writtent text, and with them, the existence of an editorial norm that is not fully explicit.

Keywords

• scientific writing
• linguistics of writinglinguistic
• textual genetics
• verbal interactions
• publishing practices