Pour une étude linguistique du sens en discours - Jacques Bres, Aleksandra Nowakowska, Jean-Marc Sarale, Petite grammaire alphabétique du dialogisme (2019).Éditions Classiques Garnier Paris, Collection Domaines Linguistiques, 420 pages

The work presented by Jacques Bres, Aleksandra Nowakowska and Jean-Marc Sarale entitled Petite grammaire alphabétique du dialogisme, published in 2019 by Éditions Classiques Garnier, is in line with so-called praxematic research. The praxematics developed in France in the end of the 1970s following a critical analysis of structuralist approaches. Inspired by enunciative research applauded in France, she questioned the fundamental Saussurian dichotomies: langue/parole (language / speech), signifié/signifiant (signifier / signified), synchronie/diachronie (synchrony / diachrony), as well as the principle of language autonomy in relation to its conditions of production. Praxematic research focuses on meaning understood as a conflicting, historical and dynamic social production leading to conceptual shifts. La Petite grammaire... has a clear, operative and convenient alphabetical presentation. The publication fills a gap in the field of discourse analysis, offering a reference tool in research which is, by the nature of things, very large and heterogeneous. In addition, while the concept of “dialogism” has been very popular in different disciplines for years, it is for the first time, in the presented publication of the PRAXILING laboratory, when its functioning is analysed in linguistic details.