Abstract EN:

Our research aims at a better understanding of the concept of « lexical colloquiality », and more generally of what is a register of language, through the analysis of informal verbs taken from a dictionary corpus. Our goal is to highlight the sociolinguistic, morphological, semantic and syntaxic criteria that cause these linguistic structures to be perceived as non-conventional creations. Correlatively, our aim is to deconstruct the (extra-)linguistic mechanisms that are likely to cause a « colloquial effect », ie to induce a reduction of the interlocutive distance. To reveal the full complexity and understand a non-standard lexical object, the use of various approaches was necessary. Our general hypothesis is that, beyond a strictly sociolinguistic conceptualization of the issue, the « registral » variation has a linguistic function within the system. Indeed, it fills the gaps authorized by the norm, which states that you cannot say everything and that some things cannot be said.