Valeurs représentative et énonciative du « présentatif » c'est et marquage du point de vue

Alain Rabatel : C'est as a point of view marker in fictional narratives C'est has a double representational value in narratives: firstly because it signals the introduction a new object, secondly because it implies a perceiving or thinking "subject of consciousness" that validates the first representational value. This is why c'est is enough to introduce by itself a light point of view effect in the narrative and may become a full point of view marker, when coming along with a perfective to imperfective tense shift. All this is obviously of highest importance in the reading of narratives, since such linguistic devices strengthen the readers's referential illusion and identification with the character or narrator, hence legitimize possible interpretative inferences. effect in the narrative and may become a full point of view marker, when coming along with a perfective to imperfective tense shift. All this is obviously of highest importance in the reading of narratives, since such linguistic devices strengthen the readers's referential illusion and identification with the character or narrator, hence legitimize possible interpretative inferences.Rabatel Alain. Valeurs représentative et énonciative du « présentatif » c'est et marquage du point de vue. In: Langue française, n°128, 2000. L'ancrage énonciatif des récits de fiction. pp. 52-73