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DHQ: Digital Humanities Quarterly
2018
Volume 12 Number 1
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Molière's Sganarelles: one name, several syntaxes?[fr]

Élodie Bénard <elodiebenard27_at_gmail_dot_com>, Université Paris-Sorbonne
Francesca Frontini <francesca_dot_frontini_at_univ-montp3_dot_fr>, Université Paul Valéry Montpellier

Abstract

Quantitative studies in the syntax of Molière are not very frequent. The present paper proposes a syntactic analysis of Molière’s characters that relies on the extraction of part of speech sequences and their filtering using correspondence analysis. In particular, the methodology is applied to the study of the evolution of the character of Sganarelle, appearing in several of Molière’s plays in prose and verse, and often reflecting the prototype of the “bourgeois de Paris”, who isn’t attuned to the new society of the young reign of Louis XIV, the “mondains”. The analysis of the results is carried out with a register perspective, with the aim of identifying syntactic patterns that characterize the different Sganarelles with respect to the type of context in which they find themselves in the different plays. The results show how the evolution of the character can be traced from his first appearance to his later uses by Molière.

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