Abstract:
This article 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. We presents the theoretical framework through definition of concepts and terms on which the study is based. Concerning the conclusion it has been dedicated to the analysis of three different texts including punctuation marks with semantic and enunciative functions. We have chosen a literary text written by the French writer Maupassant, a journalistic text edited by Anne Guingé from the French newspaper Le Figaro, a translated literary text of the same writer Maupassant to the Arabic language.
