Les Idéologues et le style

Jean-Claude Chevalier

pp. 93-97

in: Les idéologues et les sciences du langage, Histoire Épistémologie Langage 4 (1), 1982.

Abstract

Le style (J.-Cl. Chevalier) For the Ideologists, scientific discourse, judged to be simple and trude, is the stylistic model for the new society which should be based on reason. Idealistically, then, rhetoric merges with grammar, and grammatical analysis merges with stylistic analysis. But the disorder in social relations, the expression of emotions troubles the transparent link between signs and ideas; therefore a perfect language appears impossible. Nevertheless, thanks to its proper characteristics and above all to the dynamic reform of French society, the French language is more likely to lend itself to the pure and efficient style of scientific discourse.