Les effets rhétoriques des procédés inversifs : l’exemple de Germinal, Le Rouge et Le Noir et Les liaisons dangereuses

This paper examines the rhetorical effects of interrogative inversion constructions in Germinal by Emile Zola, The Red and the Black by Stendhal, and Dangerous Liaisons by Laclos. The analysis is based on three complementary approaches: syntactic, semantic, and pragmatic. Syntactically, the insertion of words or groups of words into interrogative constructions gives them a rhetorical character. We conclude that rhetorical interrogative constructions are polyphonic and represent a highly stylistic linguistic phenomenon.