Le détournement de nature humoristique en tant que marqueur freinant ou accélérant la circulation du discours

Abstract

Through two types of diversion of sentence patterns: one surname and the other semantic-interdiscursive excerpts from television programs (Les Deschiens, Canal+), it is shown that it is a discursive category not only limited to produce a humorous perlocutionary effect by super-posing two realities (one goes in one di-rection and the second in another) with a clear intention to focus on the second one in the given situation of communication. By covering a gap a wide spectrum of possible interpretations, diversion creates a stylistic effect and helps accelerate the flow of discourse in creating connivance with the receiver if it is perceived or to stop at best the flow of discourse by creating a sense of indifference and at worst, rejec-tion.