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This paper deals with a “strange case of topicalization” in the poem Idylle Moderne by Alphonse Allais. On the one hand we can find, at the very beginning of the text, an accentuated form of the “pronoun”, that is to say a nominal substitute; on the other hand, it seems that the comma of the first line has disappeared, while it is maintained in the latter. Between a “false” double-marking and a zero anaphora, we try to describe the syntactical and the informational organization of the first sentences in terms of a hybrid form of operation, where (and when) a topic plays a focal part too..

In this paper, I want to present the personality of Robert Martin, whose works are not well known outside France, and analyse the important role he played in the early eighties for the revival of linguistics – considering at the same time the rising influence of his colleagues Bernard Combettes, Jean-Michel Adam and Michel Charolles, that is to say the influence they had on the introduction of text linguistics in France, specifically thanks to the creation in Metz of a new journal in the second part of the seventies: Pratiques. If Robert Martin first wanted to introduce natural logics in formal semantics, he was not insensible to the Prague School’s legacy either; but for him, the manner to introduce a discursive dimension or level in his linguistic model, that is to say a textual one between sentence and utterance, finally was a way to affirm and preserve the independence of semantics from pragmatics – the growing part of pragmatics in linguistics or the so called “language sciences” at the beginning of the same decade.

In questo articolo SI ESPONE l’influenza della Scuola di Praga sulla linguistica testuale francese, più o meno trent’anni fa. Due tendenze sono emerse: la prima incentrata sulla dinamica del testo, grazie a la sua progressione tematica; la seconda, di tradizione logica, ma anche in direzione della pragmatica, sui presupposti della frase.

In this paper, my goal is to present the problematic notion of what I call conceptual realities, as they appear and "behave" from a linguistic point of view in space and time. After having analysed the positions - and contradictory propositions - of Strawson and Quine, about the four dimensions of the objects or particulars in space and time, I introduce what, on the one hand, the French Historians call le temps long (long time), and, on the other one, Elias calls "the fifth dimension", which is conferred by collective memory or results from experiences as they are lived by cultural communities.