Le statut de l'exemple dans les Synonymes françois de l'abbé Girard

Abstract

Françoise Berlan : The status of the example in Abbé Girard's Synonymes françois. The articles in abbé Girard's Synonymes françois (1736) reveal constant characteristics of the microstructure of a dictionary : the order of succession definition /example, the paired statements in opposition, and the italics reserved for the key-words, all constitute a stable organisation. Nevertheless, the unique enunciative source at times weakens the frontier between usage and mention, explication of meaning and discourse about the world. Definition and example are in fact in close cooperation : the example, heuristic and differentiating, although coming after in the article, is at the source of the gloss that has the status of definition.