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use of a word to govern two or more words though agreeing in number or case etc

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Sa these de doctorat sera publiee aux editions Syllepse en mars 2019.
An Interdisciplinary Approach of << Activist Technologies >>: The Case of the Leaflets of the Mobilization << Against-CPE >> Of 2006/POUR UNE APPROCHE INTERDISCIPLINAIRE DE L'ETUDE DES << TECHNOLOGIES MILITANTES >>: L'EXEMPLE DES TRACTS DU MOUVEMENT << ANTI-CPE >> DE 2006
Nous relevons deux importantes syllepses par metaphore a forte charge semantique dont la premiere se situe d'emblee dans l'intitule du roman: Beni ou le Paradis Prive: il y a syllepse au niveau du terme << paradis >> dont le sens primitif est << Lieu ou les ames des justes jouissent de la beatitude eternelle >>.
Lecture stylistique de Beni ou le paradis prive d'Azouz Begag
One often observes similar syllepses elsewhere, as in the title and the text of Les Miserables (materially or morally wretched-the former state does not necessarily presuppose the latter), or when Azelma, as a hired bacchante, observes Cosette and Marius's wedding procession and comments to her father "[there's a noce, but] c'est nous qui sommes la vraie!"
Raser, Timothy. The Simplest of Signs: Victor Hugo and the Language of Images in France, 1850-1950
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