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Teil eines Buches
Que fais, Adam?
Que fais, Adam?
Questions and Seduction in the Jeu d’Adam
Abstract
In order to apply the principles of dialogue analysis to questions and their linguistic realisations in Old French I have chosen as a textual basis the “Jeu d’Adam”, because this play views the well-known story of the Fall of Man also as a dialogic play with the seductive power of questions. Thus, the “Jeu d’Adam” seems a good field of examination for a linguist who wants to ask some questions about the forms and functions of interrogatives. A study of questions implies on the one hand the specific formal type of interrogative sentences and on the other hand, the interrogative act as the illocution of asking a question. The crucial point in a linguistic analysis is here to model the relations between interrogative sentences and interrogative acts, separating both levels methodically, then bringing them together again in a synthesis when describing the illocutionary potential of certain interrogative sentence types.
In the following analysis, I will limit myself to certain types of interrogative acts which occur with a high frequency and which in my opinion express basic communicative needs. In a next step, I will illustrate the verbal realisations of these illocutionary acts with examples taken from the “Jeu d’Adam”, putting my emphasis on interrogative sentence types. In the first paragraphs, I will expose some special characteristics of the adjacency pair of question and answer and try to formulate a definition of the illocutionary act of asking a question. Then I shall turn to a presentation of various types of interrogative acts described as typical illocutions, which I will try to illustrate with examples from the “Jeu d’Adam”, i. e., the method applied will be onomasiologic, focusing on the contextual function of the interrogative act. In a synoptic view, I will then summarise and link the results to the dialogue types used in the play and concentrate on their possible roots in historical circumstances.
In the following analysis, I will limit myself to certain types of interrogative acts which occur with a high frequency and which in my opinion express basic communicative needs. In a next step, I will illustrate the verbal realisations of these illocutionary acts with examples taken from the “Jeu d’Adam”, putting my emphasis on interrogative sentence types. In the first paragraphs, I will expose some special characteristics of the adjacency pair of question and answer and try to formulate a definition of the illocutionary act of asking a question. Then I shall turn to a presentation of various types of interrogative acts described as typical illocutions, which I will try to illustrate with examples from the “Jeu d’Adam”, i. e., the method applied will be onomasiologic, focusing on the contextual function of the interrogative act. In a synoptic view, I will then summarise and link the results to the dialogue types used in the play and concentrate on their possible roots in historical circumstances.
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