Interaction verbale en différé – la lettre de rappel

Résumé (en anglais)

This article is a starting point in the process of considering the relations of textual paraphrasing between reminders as directive business letters. My study is based on a hundred and fifty authentic business letters in which directive speech acts occupy the most important place. I divided my corpus into sections of three consecutive reminders and a formal notice. In each section, I examined the following parameters: the participants, the contact, the message, the physical setting and the psychological setting, the code. The reminders are based on the same abstract pattern or speech acts, the same categories of time deixis and a similar operation of logical connectors and anaphoric and cataphoric discourse articulators. The last part of the article describes the different parts of the reminder from the point of view of the sender's more or less polite or firm attitude in spite of the predictable structure of these letters. The details of this analysis can be used as pre-pedagogical file to teach several economic texts reception and production techniques with a view to improve students' reading and writing.