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"Supplément au Voyage de Cook" de Jean Giraudoux ou un voyage au pays du langage

Translated title of the contribution: [Autom. eng. transl.] "Supplement to Cook's Journey" by Jean Giraudoux or a trip to the land of language
  • Mariacristina Pedrazzini*
  • *Corresponding author

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Abstract

Giraudoux's "Supplément" can be interpreted as an additional, metaphorical journey within the realm of language. There are three stages. First, the English colonizer must label--or relabel--the world for the benefit of the Tahitians through definition, paraphrase, antonomasia, and axiology. Next, he must escape linguistic dead ends, expanding the possibilities of language through syllepsis and antanaclasis. Lastly, he must free himself from the fixity of language by deconstructing proverbs and reinterpreting existing famous quotations.
Translated title of the contribution[Autom. eng. transl.] "Supplement to Cook's Journey" by Jean Giraudoux or a trip to the land of language
Original languageFrench
Pages (from-to)117-130
Number of pages14
JournalCAHIERS JEAN GIRAUDOUX
Volume2020
Publication statusPublished - 2020

Keywords

  • Giraudoux, Supplément, metaphorical journey, language, doctrine, deconstruction, reinterpretation, allusion
  • Giraudoux, Supplément, voyage métaphorique, langage, doxa, défigement, détournement, allusion

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