{"id":16748,"date":"2026-11-13T20:29:44","date_gmt":"2026-11-13T19:29:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/labelettres\/?p=16748"},"modified":"2026-11-13T20:29:45","modified_gmt":"2026-11-13T19:29:45","slug":"la-melancolie-du-langage-perdu-de-lenfance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/labelettres\/la-melancolie-du-langage-perdu-de-lenfance\/","title":{"rendered":"La M\u00e9lancolie du langage perdu de l’enfance"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Pourquoi Jean-Bertrand Pontalis parle-t-il de \u00abm\u00e9lancolie du langage\u00bb?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

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S\u2019appuyant sur l\u2019origine latine (infans<\/em>, infantis<\/em>: \u00abqui ne parle pas\u00bb) du mot \u00abenfant\u00bb, Giorgio Agamben et Pascal Quignard insistent sur le fait que l\u2019\u00eatre humain \u00abn\u2019est pas toujours d\u00e9j\u00e0 parlant\u00bb. C\u2019est parce que le langage est socio-culturellement et cognitivement acquis que les petits humains ont besoin, pour se constituer comme sujet dans le langage, de sortir progressivement du stade de l\u2019infans<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Entre trois et douze ans, \u00e0 l\u2019occasion de la d\u00e9couverte des contraintes impos\u00e9es par les langues et leurs usages adultes, surgit la nostalgie d\u2019un paradis linguistique perdu. Jean-Bertrand Pontalis a donn\u00e9 le nom de \u00abm\u00e9lancolie du langage\u00bb \u00e0 ce sentiment douloureux de perte. Certains \u00e9crivains t\u00e9moignent de ces tourments du langage en leur donnant forme et en arrachant au passage des fragments du savoir linguistique oubli\u00e9 de l\u2019enfance. C\u2019est au seuil de ce langage oubli\u00e9 que le linguiste Jean-Michel Adam\u00a0 (Section de fran\u00e7ais<\/a>) nous m\u00e8ne en rassemblant des souvenirs d\u2019enfance linguistiques d’Octave Mannoni, Colette, Michel Leiris, Nathalie Sarraute, Albert Cohen et Pascal Quignard qui tous \u00e9clairent ce que le concept de Pontalis tentait de cerner.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jean-Michel Adam, La M\u00e9lancolie du langage perdu de l’enfance<\/a><\/em>, Paris, Classiques Garnier, 2026.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Souvent textes varient. G\u00e9n\u00e9tique, intertextualit\u00e9, \u00e9dition et traduction<\/a><\/h2>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t
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Genres de r\u00e9cits. Narrativit\u00e9 et g\u00e9n\u00e9ricit\u00e9 des textes<\/a><\/h2>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\t\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n\n
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