Les valeurs illocutoires de quelques interjections littéraires et leurs usages dans les SMS téléphoniques

Every utterance consists of accompanying an illocutionary act; speech act theorists will say that language is a form of intentional behavior. It is therefore useful for the speaker to reassure himself that the message he intends to convey is being properly received in order to achieve the desired effect. The digitalization of habits calls for a new style of communication, messaging. It requires that the recipient find the necessary resources to decode the meaning. In literary works, the use of interjections is a bridge that can be used to mark meaningful pauses. They not only indicate emotions but also accompany the message emphasized by the work in question. It is in this way that interjections acquire illocutionary values essential to the understanding of the statement. For John SEARLE, any utterance consists of accompanying an illocutionary act. The speaker, in the production of an utterance, intends to act on his environment. This ability to act on the environment is called, according to the theory of speech acts, illocutionary force. From this illocutionary force, arise several intentions, several values such as affirming, asking a question, giving an order, promising, describing, apologizing, thanking, criticizing, accusing, congratulating, suggesting, threatening, begging, etc. Based on this state of affairs, what could be the intentions of the use of literary interjections? The present study is based on an average corpus resulting from the reading of four (4) literary short stories, with the objective of studying the graphic, semantic and discursive particularity of these interjections. We analyze, on a corpus of French-speaking SMS, with the aim of understanding how the form of the interjections modulates their illocutionary values. We combine primary, secondary, onomatopoeic, ideophone typology and pragmatic coding based on assertive, directive, expressive, declarative, etc. in order to describe regularities of use.