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C'est une terrible nouvelle

Liane Foly, phone call during a television broadcast, 2018

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  • Affinity
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    Occurs when one form of speech contaminates another. Affinity refers to ways of speaking, intonation, accents, or turns of phrase that are transmitted and propagated from one speaker to another.

  • Alternation
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    Occurs when a speaker alternates between two or several styles, registers, forms of speech, or linguistic. Alternation enables to deal with contexts of multiactivity, to take into account several partners, to switch between specific ranges of action.

  • Chorality
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    The quality of speech being organized by multiple parties. Depending on whether its form is plural or unified, organized or spontaneous, chorality can either constitute subordination to a norm or the live creation of a subject for collective enunciation.

  • Combinations
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    Characteristic of speech that moves forward by recomposing and reorganizing its constituent elements. Both a form of repetition and variation, of resumption and declension, a scheme and a combinatorics, combination is as much a poetic resource as it is a rhetorical one

  • Compression
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    Practice that aims to reduce, shorten, compress, or contract speech. Compression allows one to save time or catch their breath. It creates impressions of speed, blurring, mush, or encryption.

  • Focalization
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    Occurs when speech plays with the focal point of its address. Focalization is a means of switching between interlocutors, of opening or limiting one’s target, of distributing one’s words among various recipients, or of speaking to multiple parties at once.

  • Fold
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    Deviations in the course of speech that make use of digression, detour, parentheses, or citation, allowing one to play with a range of qualities and registers. Folds produce tacking movements that twist discursive threads without breaking them.

  • Indexation
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    The quality of speech being linked to an external event that it follows, points to, comments, supports, or orders, and from which it draws its formal properties, notably rhythmic ones.

  • Melody
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    Remarkable modulations in tone that make speech tend toward song, chanting, or litany. At times uneven, repetitive, contrasted, or monotonous, melody is what gives speech its expressiveness.

  • Overemphasis
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    Occurs when speech puts itself on display, exposes or listens to itself, puts on a show. Overemphasis, which can be restrained or theatrical, is produced by making use of a certain number of speech parameters including intonation, articulation, accentuation, rhythm, vocabulary, and spacing.

  • Pacing
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    Occurs when speech distributes its tonic accents into regular patterns. Pacing is a rhythmic process that supports a speaker and allows them to clarify what they are saying, to speak longer or more quickly, or to rally another’s backing or enthusiasm.

  • Projection
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    Occurs when speech is addressed to an absent interlocutor. Lacking any response, the speaker builds their speech around a projected image of the recipient in more or less intimate, generic, real, or stereotyped ways.

  • Punctuation
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    Ways in which speech is organized, cut up, or articulated. In a given context, punctuation refers to the group of occurrences by which speech reveals its syntax, distributes its semantic effects, and allows its recipients to participate (or not) in what is being said.

  • Repetition
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    Emphasized reiteration of a word, phrase, or even syllable. Repetition involves a slowing down, a stopping, or a stand-still of speech, but it also arouses the listener’s interest and produces numerous poetic and rhetorical effects.

  • Residue
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    Speech elements seen as superfluous or secondary, such as hesitation, stuttering, grumbling, mouth noises, tongue clicks, or breathing—though one can also see residue as a form of resistance and a mark of singularity in speech.

  • Responsibility
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    Occurs when a person speaks in another’s name or place. This can include more or less legitimate ways of speaking on behalf of another, presenting oneself as representative of a group or social category, or even of appropriating another’s speech.

  • Saturation
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    Occurs when speech is pushed to a threshold or breaking point. Speech can be saturated by screams, emotion, information, or even silence. Saturation is a way of pushing past the established framework of speech, of disrupting or reinvigorating the flow of discourse.

  • Series
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    Sequence of more or less complex discursive elements that appear to belong to a similar level, class, or movement—lists, inventories, enumerations—and whose linearity can be used to support rhetorical and aesthetic agendas.

  • Spacing
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    Occurs when speech gives way to silence or absence. Spacing can refer to the gaps formed by accidental interruptions, by the indexation of speech to an external event, or to rhetorical strategies used to cut up, establish, and strengthen one’s discourse.

  • Timbre
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    The physical properties which give a voice its grain or singularity, and the ways in which these properties are used, in various contexts, to seduce, inform, sell, convince, reassure, terrorize, imitate or mask oneself.

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