Pertinence d'une relecture de la Stylistique française de Charles Bally au XXIe siècle
ISSN: 1961-9359
Year of publication: 2013
Issue Title: Charles Bally: Moteur de Recherches en Sciences du Langage
Issue: 6
Pages: 79-90
Type: Article
More publications in: Synergies Espagne
Abstract
The aim of this study is a re-reading of Bally�s stylistics in connexion with the linguistics� contributions of the XXI century. In the first place, we present both Bally the man and his work as founder of Modern Stylistics at the beginning of the XX century. Saussure�s disciple was the first to break with classical rhetoric and its study of tropes. He opened a new path to analyse the effects of expressiveness in language. In the second place, we take up the problem of figurative language. For Bally, figurative language is linked with expressiveness and with the problem of choice. Therefore, Bally made a significant effort to establish a language�s stylistics whilst distancing himself from the stylistics of famous literary authors. In some ways, when he studied the classical stylistic figures such as metaphor, metonymy and synecdoche, he was prefiguring today�s works on linguistic meaning.