Les corrigés des Annales du Brevet : un prêt-à-penser ou réflexions sur l'écrit argumentatif scolaire

摘要

Yvonne Touchard - Corrections of the Annales du Brevet : Ready-made thinking, or reflexions on how to argue a point in school. The study analyzes texts submitted by various publishers of the Annales du Brevet as "correct versions" of argumentative texts. Written by adults (teachers), these texts imitate the way pupils are supposed to write. The enunciative, discursive, syntaxic and lexical characteristics are studied. From the point of view of enunciation, they are polyphonic, since the writer adds his/her own adult voice to that of the pupil he is supposed to be imitating. They apply the rules usually taught in middle schools to argue a point, showing an expertise that makes these texts into "models", thus demonstrating what the ideal discursive norms are taken to be. The points chosen for the argument also inform us as to the values propounded by the school system.