World Modelling in French Discourse Analysis

The article analyses the theoretical foundations underlying the concept of the ‘picture of the world’ in the discourse analysis in French linguistics. The analysis of discourse emphasizes the dependence of the meaning of a word on the subject of communication which leads to the accentuation of the problem of correlation between the cognitive subject and the world and the formation of epistemological concepts, the most important concepts being the subject of the utterance, the cultural conditioning of the utterance, etc. Such concepts require an awareness of the nature of their embeddedness in the problems of linguistics.