Dire la période classique : analyse prosodique de l’enregistrement par Ferdinand Brunot d’un sermon de Bossuet

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This paper discusses the way in which the classical period, such as presented in a passage from Bossuet’s Sermon sur la mort (1662), may be orally expressed. To do so, it relies on the recorded testimony left to us by Ferdinand Brunot in 1912. The first part of the paper presents the problem of sequentiality and segmentation in the classical period. The second part comments on the various manuscripts and edited versions available of the basic text. The last part of the paper compares Brunot’s analysis of his own recordings in rhetorical terms with a prosodic analysis with today’s tools. Brunot’s oralization reveals a management of pauses that favors the use of frequent and relatively long pauses, which do not allow the closing of sets, a mode of segmentation quite different from today’s practice.

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