Le langage métaphonologique dans le dialogue littéraire

There are in the language oppositive relations which are based on the timbric oppositions giving different phonemes and are motivated by changes in non-timbric components (height, volume, duration) of the acoustic elements involved. These suprasegmental variations are not less systematic, though less systematized, than segmental phonetic differences and therefore they are meaningful in the same way. Written language, tough less flexible than oral language, translates these differences by means of metaphonological language. We shall try to demonstrate how this particular language is used in order to express the general process of a dialogue, but also the different pragmatic functions and argumentative parts of dialogical replies, through the analysis of some dialogues drawn from literary texts.