Des marqueurs métalinguistiques en réunion de travail : des clés pour interagir

Abstract

This article focuses on the metalinguistic markers used in authentic work meetings collected in different professional or associative contexts. The use of language in the workplace has been increasing steadily and now concerns a variety of occupations, whatever the level of academic qualification. Language is used to organise work, to transmit and share information and knowledge about the job itself or about the various people involved, to solve problems or to propose solutions and improvements. Although markers are frequently used during these different interactions, their meaning is not self-evident because of their polysemous nature, their association with other markers which can modify their meaning (mais bon, un peu trop…), the prosody with which they are formulated or the gazes, the facial expressions or the gestures which accompany them. To document these uses and their lexical and multimodal variety, we offer teachers and trainers sequences of excerpts from ecological work meetings explaining the interactional characteristics in context and accompanied by multimedia activities. These resources are aimed at different audiences: learners of French, people undergoing professional retraining, beginners in the working world, people with language insecurity, native or non-native speakers.