« Frei Luís de Sous » a d’Almeida Garrett. Pour une approche pragmatique du texte dramatique

Abstract

Frei Luís de Sousa by Almeida Garrett: a pragmatic analysis of the theatre dialogue. In this article, we analyse, from a pragmatic point of view, the dialogue of the play Frei Luís de Sousa by Almeida Garrett and its translation made by Maxime Formont at the beginning of the 20^th century and published in Livourne. We focus on the strategies used by the participants in the theatre discourse in order to consolidate and sometimes even to renegotiate their interpersonal relationship. Our main interest concerns the use of nouns and pronouns in the 1^st Act. For a better understanding of the socio-historical context of this play, we propose a short introduction to the 19^th century, in Portugal. We also present and analyse some important para-textual pieces of information that accompany the translation made by Maxime Formont.