UNE ETUDE QUANTITATIVE DES PHRASES DANS LA JALOUSIE D’ALAIN ROBBE-GRILLET
UNE ETUDE QUANTITATIVE DES PHRASES DANS LA JALOUSIE D’ALAIN ROBBE-GRILLET
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2007-10
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BASSI, MADU MUSA
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Abstract
This study takes a critical look at the language technique of Alain Robbe-Grillet in
his novel La Jalousie. The novel shows certain interesting cases of syntactic deviations in
French language. However, syntactic deviations are sentence structures that do not conform
strictly to the standard norms of language. In the concept of the New Novel, it is the human
conscience that speaks, that is, it is the imagination of the character. Based on the concept,
we discussed language and thought because the two are linked together. The objective of
the study is to appreciate the enormous linguistic particularities characterizing the language
complexity of Robbe-Grillet, as seen through his characters. In order to carry out this
research, we adopted the structuralist approach and the generative approach precisely to
analyse the work. This approach, created by Chomsky, discusses the generation of
sentences through intuition. We were able to identify elliptic and interrupted kind of
sentences in the novel. We equally identified the use of the “pre-verbal pronoun”, which
could not have existed in French language. This study shows how a writer could manipulate
the use of language for a particular purpose. From our analysis, is pertinent to note that
language is surely not static and it could be used in different forms to express individual
thought. Robbe-Grillet in La Jalousie frowns at the awesome destruction of lives and
property during the time of the world wars, which, not only destroyed all the existing
structures put in place by the bourgeoisie of the 18th and 19th centuries but also the literary
works. These destructions are reflected by the author’s particular use of the negative
sentences which do not confirm with the standard norms of French language.
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A THESIS SUBMITTED TO THE POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL, AHMADU BELLO
UNIVERSITY, ZARIA IN PARTIAL FULFILLMENT FOR THE AWARD OF
MASTER OF ARTS DEGREE.
FACULTY OF ARTS
DEPARTMENT OF FRENCH
AHMADU BELLO UNIVERSITY, ZARIA.
OCTOBER, 2007
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UNE ETUDE, QUANTITATIVE DES PHRASES, DANS LA JALOUSIE D’ALAIN, DANS LA JALOUSIE D’ALAIN