Logiques catalogales et formes généalogiques

Kernos 19:23-29 (2006)
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Abstract

Attachée par Jack Goody à l’usage de l’écriture, la liste se révèle, dans une confrontation avec différentes traditions orales africaines, appartenir en fait à différentes formes de mémoire. Moyen mnémotechnique mis en forme selon différentes logiques d’ordre verbal autant que d’ordre sémantique, la liste devient alors, dans la mise en discours, un catalogue, avec sa pragmatique. Parmi ces logiques catalogales on compte la narration généalogique, privilégiée par les poètes animateurs de la mémoire de la communauté. Les logiques catalogales fournissent donc un instrument idéal pour penser les formes et les fonctions des genres mythologiques et mythographiques pratiquées par Grecs et Romains.Jack Goody has put into relation the list and the use of writing. Different types of oral tradition, especially in Western Africa, show that the list is actually a privileged form of memory. As such, the list is organised into different sequences according to different logic, on the verbal level as well as on the semantic one. Through these different formal organisations, the list becomes a catalogue with its pragmatics. Genealogical narration is one of these principles of discursive logic, often used by the poets, masters of the memory of the community. The logic of the catalogues is an ideal mechanism for thinking about the forms and genres of mythology and of mythography in Greece and Rome

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