Instructions for authors
Plan
When submitting the final manuscript to the journal, please add a cover page with: the title of the article, followed by the name of the author (and/or editor in the case of a special issue), affiliation, postal and electronic addresses. If the article has several authors please supply the necessary information for each author and indicate the corresponding author.
Articles submitted for publication in the journal Discours should respect the guidelines provided below. Articles written in French should follow French typographical conventions (including French quotation marks, even for English references). Articles written in English should follow English typographical conventions (including English quotation marks, even for French references).
Style sheet
Please download the style sheet ‘feuille_de_style_Discours’ under the heading ‘Instructions for authors’ > ‘Style sheet’. To use the style sheet, open it, then open your own document, select the whole text, cut it and paste it into the style sheet. You then have at your disposal, besides the classical functions of text processing software, four tabs which will enable you to format your document. These tabs appear at the bottom of the toolbar.
NB: If the styles toolbar does not appear (on the left side of the screen), click on "Tools > Options > Style area width" and choose a width (e.g. 4 cm or 96 pt). If, on the contrary, you do not wish to see it appear, choose a width of 0.
In order to apply a given style to a paragraph, highlight the paragraph and apply the style. Please do not leave empty paragraphs. If it is necessary to begin a new line inside a paragraph, use the line-shift key (Shift + Enter). You should not add other styles, but it is possible to use the given styles with italics (e.g. Normal + italics).
On the whole, your document should contain as little formatting as possible. For articles in French, non-breaking spaces should be used before all double punctuation marks, percentage symbols and within numbers. Use French quotation marks.
It may seem that your document is not justified. Do not justify it yourself: it will be done automatically.
Title/abstract/author/keywords
Title (‘Titre’)
Use a capital letter only for the beginning of the title. The rest should be in small letters with period at the end.
Author (‘Auteur’)
Enter the first author’s name and affiliation, followed (if applicable) by that of the second author with his/her affiliation. Do not use footnotes.
The author’s affiliation should be formatted using the tabs ‘métadonnées complémentaires’ and ‘description de l'auteur’.
French abstract (‘Resumé’)
Do not skip a line. If it is necessary to begin a new one, use the line-shift key.
Keywords (‘Mots-clés’)
All keywords (including the first) should be in lower case. They should be separated by commas. Do not put a period at the end.
Abstract
All articles must be accompanied by a second abstract in English, formatted using the tab ‘abstract’. As with the French abstract, take care not to skip a line. If it is necessary to begin a new use the line-shift key.
Keywords
All articles must be accompanied by a list of keywords in English. This list is formatted using the tab ‘keywords’. As with the French keywords they should all be in lower case (even the first), and separated by commas. Do not put a period at the end.
Normal / bibliographical/ example mode
Use the tab ‘text’ for formatting the body of the article in ‘normal’ mode, the tab ‘bibliography’ for the bibliography and the tab ‘quotations’ for the examples.
References
References should be placed at the end of the article in alphabetical order (and chronologically in the case of several publications by the same author). Within the article, references can be indicated in one of several ways:
(Clahsen, 1991) // for one author
(Heine, Kuteva, 2002) // for two authors
(Brown et al., 1991) // for three authors or more
(Pottier, 1990a) // if the references contain several publications by one author in the same year.
The order surname, year, page is recommended:
Chomsky (1993: 32) claims that …
According to several authors (Gross, 1987; Pottier 1990).
Please make sure all the literature referred to in the text is listed in the References and vice versa.
It is important for references to be formatted consistently and according to specifications given in these guidelines.
Here are examples of the most common reference types:
Books
Jackendoff, R. 1972. Semantic Interpretation in Generative Grammar. Cambridge: MIT Press.
Lebart, L., Salem, A. 1994. Statistique textuelle. Paris: Dunod.
Benveniste, E. 1966-1974. Problèmes de linguistique générale. 2 vol. Paris: Gallimard Collection Tel.
Chapters or sections in books
Le Guern, M. 1973. Sémantique de la métaphore et de la métonymie. Paris: Larousse. Chapitre XII: Pour une analyse sémique. 114-118.
Books with several authors
Koster, J., Reuland, E. (eds). 1991. Long-distance anaphora.Cambridge: CUP.
Condamines, A. (éd.). 2005. Sémantique et Corpus. Londres: Hermès. 352 p.
Contribution to a collective work
Charolles, M. 2003. De la topicalité des adverbiaux détachés en tête de phrase.. M. Charolles, S. Prévost (éd.) Travaux de Linguistique : Adverbiaux et topiques 47. Louvain-la-Neuve: De Boeck Université. 11-51.
Adams, C.A., Dickinson, A. 1981. Actions and habits: Variation in associative representation during instrumental learning. Information Processing in Animals: Memory Mechanisms, N.E. Spear, R.R. Miller (eds). Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum. 143-186.
Journals
Langue française. 1969- . Larousse : Paris. Revue trimestrielle.
Karabétian, É.S. (éd.). 1999. Phrase, texte, discours. Langue française121. Paris: Larousse.
Journal articles
Charolles, M., Combettes, B. 1999. Contribution pour une histoire récente de l'analyse du discours. Langue française 121: 76-116.
Rabatel, A. 2004a. L’effacement énonciatif dans les discours rapportés et ses effets pragmatiques. Langages 156: 3-17.
Rabatel, A. 2004b. La déliaison des énonciateurs et des locuteurs dans la presse satirique. Langage et Société 110: 7-23.
Rayson, P., Leech, G., Hodges, M. 1997. Social differentiation in the use of English vocabulary: Some analyses of the conversational component of the British National Corpus. International Journal of Corpus Linguistics 2: 120-132.Thomas, A. R. 1987. A spoken standard for Welsh: Description and pedagogy. International Journal of the Sociology of Language 66 (4): 99-113.
Jacques M.-P. 2005. Structure matérielle et contenu sémantique du texte écrit.Revue Corela 3 (2). Accessible en ligne sur <http://edel.univ-poitiers.fr/corela/document.php?id=769>. Consulté le 5.12.2007.
Conference proceedings
Péry-Woodley, M-P., Enjalbert, P., Gaio, M. (eds). 2006. ISDD'06: International Symposium on Discourse and Document / Colloque international: Discours et Document. 15-16 juin 2006. Caen: Université de Caen.
Articles in Conference Proceedings
Muller, N., Hulk, A., Jakubowicz, C. 1999. Object Omissions in Bilingual Children: Evidence for Crosslinguistic Influence. Proceedings of the 23rd Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development. Somerville: MA: Cascadilla Press. 482-494.
Thesis or dissertation
Cuxac, C. 1996. Fonctions et structures de l’iconicité des langues des signes. Thèse de Doctorat d’État. Paris: Université Paris V.
Levin, J. 1985. A Metrical Theory of Syllabicity. Ph.D.Diss. MIT.
Section of thesis or dissertation
Bilhaut, F. 2006. Analyse automatique de structures thématiques discursives - Application à la recherche d'information. Thèse de doctorat en Informatique. Caen: Université de Caen. Partie III: La plate-forme LinguaStream.191-238.
Research or technical reports
Cayol, B. 1997. Environnement de conception d'automatismes discrets basé sur le langage KWLX. Rapport de recherche 1124. Paris: Université de Paris-Sorbonne. 54 p.
Forthcoming
Marchello-Nizia, C. à paraître. Modéliser le changement linguistique. Romanische Forschungen.
Asher, N. forthcoming. Reference to abstract objects in English: a philosophical semantics for Natural Language metaphysics.
Reprints
Saussure, F., de 1878. Mémoire sur le système primitif des voyelles dans les langues indo-européennes. Réédition Georg Olms Hildesheim, 1968.
Quotations
Quotations within the body of the text should be placed within French quotation marks if the quotation is in French and within English (double) quotation marks if it is in English. Do not skip a line within the quotation. If it is necessary to begin a new line, use the line-shift key.
Examples and glosses
Examples should be numbered with Arabic numerals (1, 2, 3, etc.) in square brackets and formatted using the tab ‘citation bis’.
References to examples in the body of the text should be made as follows:
« In example [1], … » or « In [1],… »
[1] He didn’t sleep all night.
Examples in linguistics generally have three lines:
[2] ta zuotian bu mang
he yesterday Neg be busy
‘yesterday he wasn’t busy’
Take care to line up the breakdown in morphemes in line 2 above the phrase in line 1 (using non-breaking spaces and not tabulations).
Make line shifts without skipping lines. Avoid italics in the gloss (line 3) which should be between single speech marks.
Additional levels within an example should should be indicated as follows:
[3a] ta mingtian bu mang
he tomorrow Neg be busy
‘tormorrow he won’t be busy.’[3b] ta xianzai bu mang
he now Neg be susy
‘now he isn’t busy.’
Lists with bullet points
Use the tab ‘liste à puce’ (list with bullet points) in the ‘text’ menu. Failing this, do not use other listing modes. Do not use indentation or any special format.
1...................... or a........................
2...................... or b........................
Notes
Footnotes formatted in the initial text are automatically retrieved in the document model. Take care not to introduce any additional formatting.
Tables and graphics
Each table or graphic should be submitted in a separate file in image format.
Files should be named as follows: Name of corresponding author _figure_n°1.jpeg.
Please indicate the preferred position of the table or graphic in the article:
e.g. Insert table 3 here.
…
Plan of the article
The ‘plan’ tab allows titles to be ordered from 1 to 9.
Note: the title of the article is formatted with the tab ‘title’, in the menu ‘métadonnées Dublin Core’. Sub-titles however are formatted with the ‘plan’ tab
Titles (as in the examples) must be numbered manually (no automatic numbering) and as follows: 1., 1.1., 2., etc.. Do not use tabulations (prefer non-breaking spaces).
