The unique stylistic particularity of the novel as a literary form is that it is the presentation of the speaking human and his words (Bakhtine, 1978). The speaker in a novel is an exponent of a specific ideology and his words serve to express this ideology. For all its ideological components, the novel's dialogues form the characteristic feature of the narrative gender. The characters fill concrete social roles and they speak from within the limits of those roles, their speech emerging from different social languages. Prosper Merimee's short story, Arsene Guillot (1927: 85-145), offers an ensemble of character's constrained voices, of speakers imprisoned by their own social positions. The novel is developed as a sequence of carnivalesque reversals. Paradoxically, the text establishes a prostitute as an admirable figure (Arsene Guillot) and deposits a pious French bourgeoise from her social acknowledgements. Philippe Hamon, in his book Texte et Ideologie (1984), presents a theory of the semiotic of character's normative knowledge. This factorisation of the ideology notion, in separated normative elements, form a group of knowledges composing the text's ideology-effect. With the assistance of the critical concepts of speech universe, power and position struggle, discourse insignia and speaker's desire of fulfillment elaborated by Francois Flahault (1978), we apply the ideas of Hamon to the non-exclusive study of the dialogues in Arsene Guillot. Our pragmatic analysis emphasizes on how the dialogue contributes to the construction of the novel's ideology-effect.

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Zugl.: Potsdam, Univ., Diss., 2005

Inaug.-Diss.--Basel. / Curriculum vitae. "Literaturverzeichnis": p. 93-97.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Wisconsin--Madison, 1931. / Typescript. eContent provider-neutral record in process. Description based on print version record. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 185-191).

Inaug.-Diss.--Basel. / Curriculum vitae. "Literaturverzeichnis": p. 93-97.

Inaug.-diss.--München. / Lebenslauf.

Inaug.-diss.--Bonn. / Lebenslauf. Pub. also as 1.hft., 1.bd. of Abhandlungen aus dem staats-verwaltungs-und völkerrecht ... "Verzeichnis der angeführten schriften": p. vii-viii.

Thesis (doctoral)--Albert-Ludwigs-Universität zu Freiburg im Breisgau. / Description based on print version record.

Th.--Litt. fr.--Paris 3, 1986.