An annotated corpus of new storytelling in French.

在当代法国，“新”讲故事（或néo contage）的活动正在蓬勃发展。传统的讲故事是一种越来越罕见的活动，涉及少数人，他们是口头传统的一部分，通常深深扎根于当地社区，与此不同，新的讲故事者是当代的演讲者，他们在很大程度上学会了讲故事的艺术，并为各种各样的观众讲述故事。他们的来源通常是书面的，而不是口头的，故事是由讲故事的人加工和重新加工的，以便产生一种口头表演，然后在观众面前“自发”地传递。这些新故事讲述者在法国三大口述故事中心之一（Chevilly-Larue、Vendôme和Grenoble）接受培训，讲述来自各大洲和各时代的故事。从语言学的角度来看，这些故事很吸引人。它们代表了一种“边缘”语篇类型，书面来源和文学训练对语言特征产生了重要影响，但最终产品在很大程度上是口头表演。关于口头叙述，特别是非正式的谈话轶事和故事，已经发表了很多文章，有人认为，这种故事中的表演特征的存在可以与更正式的表演品种进行比较，如中世纪的“叙事”。在最近出版的专着，我探讨了在口头讲故事，传统的和新的紧张和时间结构的问题，并发现了“边界”的话语的性质是至关重要的，在后者的情况下。然而，新故事的语言结构的许多其他领域仍然完全未被探索，例如词序和言语模式以及思想呈现的方面，我的初步观察表明，在这些方面发现了非常有趣的特征。该项目建议创建一个法语新故事的注释语料库。我获得了在旺多姆的口头文学中心保存的故事录音，并选择了一些内容纳入语料库，该语料库旨在传播不同类型的故事，来自不同地区和不同性别的故事讲述者在不同的表演环境中表演。在转录阶段（由一名研究助理进行）之后，该项目的目的是使用文本编码倡议设计的一套国际商定的编码对语料库进行注释。在实践中，这意味着除了使用TEI代码存储的关于讲故事者、上下文和方法的信息之外，还将对一些关键语言结构进行编码，以便任何研究这些结构的研究人员都可以随时访问。结构的选择是基于那些已被证明是特别有趣的，在以前的研究法语口语。此外，使用TEI代码，其他学者可以通过编码更多感兴趣的结构来扩展语料库的使用。TEI编码的美妙之处在于，其他研究人员可以在国际上搜索语料库。它将存放在牛津文本档案馆。在最基本的层面上，任何文学、语言或人类学学者都可以访问语料库并使用元数据中的信息。然而，它最大的用途将是为语言学家工作的口头叙述或口语法语一般，谁将能够询问语料库使用TEI分析代码。我计划对语料库进行编码和查询，以获得一组特定的结构，我将在未来出版关于新内容的语言结构的出版物。《法语语言研究杂志》的委托文章将讨论在注释语料库时遇到的问题。

In contemporary France, the activity of 'new' storytelling (or néo contage) is flourishing. Unlike traditional storytelling, which is an increasingly rare activity involving small numbers of individuals who are part of an oral tradition which is generally firmly rooted in a local community, new storytellers are contemporary speakers who have, for the most part, learnt the art of storytelling and who recount for a wide variety of audiences. Their sources are normally written rather than oral, and the stories are worked and re-worked by the storyteller so as to produce an oral performance which is then delivered 'spontaneously' in front of the audience. The néo-conteurs are trained in one of the three main centres for oral storytelling in France (Chevilly-Larue, Vendôme and Grenoble) and recount stories from every continent and age. From a linguistic point of view, these stories are fascinating. They represent a 'borderline' type of discourse, where written sources and literary training exert an important influence on linguistic features, but where, nonetheless, the final product is very much an oral performance. Much has already been published on oral narration, especially on informal conversational anecdotes and stories, and the case has been argued that the presence of performance features in such stories allows comparisons to be made with more formally performed varieties such as medieval 'narratives'. In a recently published monograph, I explore the question of tense and temporal structures in oral storytelling, both traditional and new, and have found the 'borderline' nature of the discourse to be crucial in the case of the latter. However, many other areas of the linguistic structure of new storytelling remain totally unexplored, such as aspects of word order and patterns of speech and thought presentation, where my initial observations suggest that extremely interesting features are found. Research which would inform a linguistic study of new storytelling requires authentic data, i.e. a corpus. This project proposes to create an annotated corpus of new storytelling in French. I have been given access to the recordings of stories held in the Centre de littérature orale in Vendôme and have made a selection for inclusion in the corpus which is designed to give a spread of types of story, with storytellers from different regions and both genders, performing in different performance contexts. After the transcription stage (being carried out by a research assistant), the purpose of this project is to annotate the corpus using a set of internationally agreed codes designed by the Text Encoding Initiative. In practice, this means that in addition to information about the storyteller, the context and the methodology which will be stored using the TEI codes, a selection of key linguistic structures will be coded in such a way as to be readily accessible to any researcher working on those structures. The choice of structures is based on those which have proved particularly interesting in previous research on oral French. Moreover, using the TEI codes, other scholars could expand the use of the corpus by encoding more structures of interest. The beauty of the TEI coding is that the corpus will be internationally searchable by other researchers. It will be deposited in the Oxford Text Archive. At the most basic level, any scholar of literature, language or anthropology could access the corpus and use the information held in the metadata. However, its greatest use will be for linguists working on oral narration or oral French in general, who will be able to interrogate the corpus using the TEI analysis codes. I plan to code and interrogate the corpus for a particular set of constructions on which I will base future publications about the linguistic structure of the néo-conte. The commissioned article for the Journal of FrenchLanguage Studies will discuss the problematic issues encountered in annotating the corpus.