La prédication : approche de la théorie des opérations prédicatives et énonciatives

Predication is defined here as an enunciative operation structuring utterances (§ 1), along with enunciative modalities. The issue of illocutionary status is addressed here in the framework of plurimodality (§ 2). Three different approaches of predication are presented in this paper. Then two peculiar types of predication (§ 3) are examined : bipredication, in a context of coordination ; and copredication, occurring with predicative adjuncts. Embedded (integrated) relative clauses – whether adjectival or nominal – are not predications (§ 4). The link between predication and adverbials is examined in § 5, and then in § 6, the case of predication with no predicative relation. Two typologies are sketched out in the next two sections : predication and types of discourse in § 7 ; types of predication in § 8. The last section (§ 9) is centred on five case studies.