La rhétorique oraculaire dans les chroniques anciennes de la Chine. Une étude des discours prédictifs dans le Zuozhuan

摘要

The oracular rhetoric of the Zuo Chronicle This article is a study of predictive discourse in the Zuo Chronicle attached to the Spring and Autumn Annals (ca. fourth century B.C.). After ascertaining features of this type of discourse that place it as a literary genre halfway between the discursive arguments of counsellors and the oracular pronouncements in divinatory consultations, the author analyses its bearing on the composition of the work as a whole. Then, he examines the links between the oracular rhetoric of the Chronicle and the role of scribes in pre-imperial China on one side, and the intellectual trends during the Warring States period on the other.