Du langage à l'action : le fonctionnement des textes procéduraux

In this paper, we argue that procedural text processing (i.e., texts about procedures: leaflets, operating instructions, usable texts) must be studied by taking into account simultaneously theories and results of discourse psychology, psycholinguistics, psychology of learning and ergonomics. Two levels must be considered. At a global level, procedural text processing can be described as a social bipolar situated constrained process. At a local level, understanding and operating instructions can be viewed as a complex understanding-learning process, that is, as a knowledge transforming process in which an external declarative linguistic representation, the text, is transformed into procedural knowledge and /or actions.Heurley Laurent. Du langage à l'action : le fonctionnement des textes procéduraux. In: Langages, 35ᵉ année, n°141, 2001. Les discours procéduraux, sous la direction de Claudine Garcia-Debanc. pp. 64-78