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Journal of Research in Social Sciences and Language, vol.3, no.2, pp.91-108, 2023 (Peer-Reviewed Journal)
This study handles the specific aspects of oral communication at various
linguistic dimensions within the
context of teaching
French as a
foreign language. Oral language is prone to a particular
organization at the prosodic, morphosyntactic, and discursivedimensions, which
interact once speech is brought into play. In order to delve into
orality in French,
as the problematic
of this study,
and to draw
its pedagogical implications, a
linguistic review of
some hypothetical utterances
was first carried out. Then, an interview-based video retrieved from an
open source was analyzed in terms
of its specific
oral aspects by
excluding lexical and
kinesic characteristics. The findings show the relevance of some oral
features which bear a close relationship with eachother. As far as the prosodic
aspects are concerned, it is found that
the filled pause,
the false start,
the contraction, the
syllable lengthening, and most
importantly the intonation,
which plays a
distinctive role when conveying
meaning, are utilized inoral communication in French. The relevant
morphosyntactic features of orality in the scope of French include the
thematization, the omission of
the first negative
adverbial particle, the
use of presentative structures, neutral
demonstrative pronouns as
well as that
of bivalent
indefinite/personal pronoun, and
the recourse to
direct speech or
to various
corrections/repetitions/reformulations.
Concerning the specific discursive aspects of
French, the findings
reveal the use
of phatic markers
as pragmatic discourse organizers. Lastly, based on the
findings, a communicative-linguistic activity in the form of a task was
proposed for didactic purposes.