THE CONVERSATIONAL ILLUSION IN THE DIDACTIC DIALOGUES OF FRENCH FOR SPANIARDS BETWEEN THE 16TH AND 19TH CENTURIES

This paper aims to study the representation of oral language in didactic dialogues written in French and intended to teach this language to an audience of Spanish speakers between the sixteenth and nineteenth centuries. After setting out the theoretical framework of German variational Linguistics originating in the Coserian ideas (Koch & Oesterreicher 2001) on which the study is based, the historical and format characteristics of didactic dialogues are presented, differentiating them from didactic texts in dialogical form, that is erotematic grammars. The work then focuses first on determining which model of spoken language was intended to be represented in the dialogues, and then on analyzing to what extent the authors of the dialogues sought to achieve a high degree of verisimilitude with respect to the real conversations, what elements acted as a brake on the conversational illusion, and what are the reasons for the differences in format that can be seen from one period to another.