Ces Mots qui ne vont pas de soi: Boucles reflexives et non-coincidences du dire

Jacqueline Authier-Revuz, Ces Mots qui ne vont pas de soi: Boudes reflexives et non-coincidences du dire, 2 vols. Sciences du langage. Paris: Larousse, 1995. 869 pp.

Jacqueline Authier's book is based on a doctoral thesis that received the Larousse Prize in language sciences in 1993, and is a great theoretical achievement in the study of utterances. The author analyzes the metadiscursive forms that accompany utterances, such as "so to speak," "as we say," "strictly speaking," and so on-in short,...