Reading and Writing as Motifs in English and French General Fiction

2020 
The present contribution proposes a contrastive study of specific phraseology in general literature French and English novels from the 1950s to today. Our methodology is based on data extracted by the Lexicoscope text mining tool consisting of Recurrent Lexico-syntactic Trees (RLTs) whose statistical specificity is based on the analysis of syntactic dependency relationships that link their constituent elements. Studying the discursive realization of these RLTs in both corpora lets us identify recurrent phraseological units (Lexico-Syntactic Constructions or LSCs). We compare eight LSCs built around the verbs lire/read and ecrire/write (four in French and four in English), the paradigmatic and syntagmatic variations of their constituents, and their discursive functions to prove that these constructions are in fact motifs.
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