TY - CHAP A1 - Hamlaoui, Fatima A1 - Roussarie, Laurent T1 - #Je suis Charlie : Semantic and prosodic anatomy of an empathic copular sentence T2 - Byproducts and side effects : Nebenprodukte und Nebeneffekte N2 - "Je suis Charlie" was used over 619.000 times in the two days that have followed the attack of the editorial team of Charlie Hebdo (Le Progrès, The Huffington Post) and has regularly been taken up in both written and spoken form since. In this paper, we argue that the structure of this sentence actually clashes with its meaning. More specifically, whereas its word order and default rightmost sentence stress are compatible either with an all-focus reading or a narrow focusing of Charlie, the context of use of this sentence as well as the solidarity/empathy message it intends to communicate suggest that its subject is narrowly focused. We will propose that two strategies have emerged to solve this conflict: (i) various alternative forms have appeared that allow proper subject focusing and (ii) speakers have reinterpreted the structure so as to pragmatically retrieve the (additive) focused nature of the subject. KW - Semantik KW - Intonation KW - Je suis Charlie KW - Kopulasatz Y1 - 2015 UR - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/38231 UR - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-382314 UR - http://www.zas.gwz-berlin.de/zaspil.html SN - 1435-9588 SN - 0947-7055 VL - 58 SP - 1 EP - 14 PB - Zentrum für Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft CY - Berlin ER -