Abstract:
The study aims primarily defining the importance of
punctuation marks in French language and their role and
functions. These punctuation marks have fundamental and
essential role in understanding the message the writer wants to
transmit to the reader.
Secondly, the study focuses on the semantic role played by
these marks in understanding and interpreting of the
enunciative context where the discourse is produced. To realize
his objective, the researcher has adopted the analytical and
descriptive approach to define punctuation marks and present
their role and functions. The researcher has also presented the
theoretical framework through definition of concepts and
terms on which the study is based. All the above mentioned
items have been included in chapter I and II of the research.
Concerning chapter 111, it has been dedicated to the analysis
of three different texts including punctuation marks with
semantic and enunciative functions. The researcher has chosen
a literary text written by the French writer Maupassant, a
journalistic text edited by Anne Guingé from the newspaper
‘’Le Figaro’’, a translated literary text of the same writer
Maupassant to the Arabic language.
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The researcher has analyzed the way in which the translator
has transferred significance of the punctuation marks from the
original text to the translated text