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This paper presents a study of participants’ use of direct reported speech (DRS) in storytelling during dinner table conversation in French. Focusing on reported dialogues, the analysis corroborates earlier conversation analytic findings showing that speakers regularly use linguistic, prosodic and paralinguistic resources to stage the characters whose speech is being reported; thereby speakers display their stance on behalf of those characters and their conduct. Additionally, the analysis documents that speakers use DRS within reported dialogues as a powerful means for depicting their own adequate conduct in the face of a purportedly “deviant” conduct of a third party. In the specific context of our data, in which an au-pair interacts with her host family, such direct reported dialogues are used both by the mother and the au pair as a means to enact shared expectations about the appropriateness of a caregiver’s conduct in the face of the “deviant” conduct of a child. In light of these findings, the representation of past dialogues by means of DRS appears as a practical resource by means of which participants enact identities such as mother and caregiver and thereby reflexively construct and negotiate the related epistemic entitlements.

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Cet article s’intéresse au récit dans la conversation ordinaire en français. Si le récit est un objet d’étude privilégié des sciences humaines et sociales, notre attention se porte ici sur la contribution de l’Analyse Conversationnelle. Les travaux en AC ont mis en évidence la nature interactionnelle des récits, qui sont accomplis à travers les ajustements mutuels des participants tour-après-tour. Après un aperçu des principaux résultats de cette approche, nous présentons une étude sur les ouvertures de récit. Nous y examinons les tours informatifs projetant un récit à divers degrés. L’étude montre que la ‘racontabilité’ d’un récit à venir est établie interactionnellement à travers le formatage du tour informatif et les manifestations verbales et non-verbales d’alignement et d’affiliation de l’interlocuteur.

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