Teaching French Conjunction and Text Grammar

Abstract

The intention of this paper is modest. It aims to demonstrate a possibility of characterizing a connector "et" in French in a logical and semantic point of view and to make a modest contribution to teaching French conjunction. The sentences or propositions are connected when the coherence is assured in the sequence of sentences in which they take part as an element. The most general restriction on the linear coherence. connexion, is that facts denoted by propositions be chained such that the antecedent constitutes a condition for the consequent. This relation of dependence is a crucial factor for the conjunction to

hold true. Of course. this truth is relative and valid in a given universe of credence. What is true for one is not necessarily true for another. The truth itself being relative. the truth condition for the relation of dependence has general validity; one proposition is a condition for

another when they are connected to the same topiC of discourse. This topic determines the semantic range in which the conjunction can be valid and its connexton is thereby assured.