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Catherine Kerbrat-Orecchioni is a French linguist, born in 1943, known among other things for her work on enunciation (description of "subjectivemes", "relationemes" and other "taxemes"), implicature, verbal interactions (with a particular interest for the functioning of politeness within an intercultural approach) as well as the analysis of political discourse.

Career paths and areas of work
After secondary school in Rennes, Catherine Kerbrat was admitted to the preparatory classes at the Lycée Fénelon in Paris. In 1963 she entered the École normale supérieure de jeunes filles (Bd Jourdan).

She took the grammar agrégation in 1966 and was awarded first place, she at was recruited the following year as an assistant in French philology at the University of Lyon (now Lumière-Lyon-II University) where she taught semiotics, semantics, pragmatics and analysis of verbal interactions throughout her career (as a lecturer and then as a professor). During this time, she was a visiting professor at Columbia University (NYC, 1981 and 1994), at the University of Geneva (1983 and 1991) and at the University of California at Santa Barbara (2006 and 2008). She has also given seminars in more than thirty countries.

She defended her doctoral thesis entitled De la sémantique lexicale à la sémantique de l'énonciation in Lyon in 1977.

From 2000 to 2005, she held the Chair of Interactional Linguistics at the Institut Universitaire de France.

Her research activities are characterised by a constant attempt to build bridges between different branches of linguistics - for example, between semantics, rhetoric and pragmatics (see her work on irony, or her extended conception of tropes, including different "pragmatic tropes" such as illocutionary, presuppositional, fictional and communicative tropes); or between conversational analysis and discourse analysis (see her analyses of presidential debates). C. Kerbrat-Orecchioni played an important role in the establishment of the interactionist approach in France (she founded and directed until 1999 the GRIC, "Groupe de Recherches sur les Interactions Conversationnelles", a laboratory attached to the CNRS in 1983 and which became, after a number of reorganisations, ICAR in 2003, where she is still a research associate). She has always insisted on the specificity of oral exchanges (without ceasing to be interested in literary dialogue), she considers conversations and other types of "discourse in interaction" as particular forms of language production, the description of which must mobilise tools from different sectors of linguistics (her so-called "eclectic" approach).

Beyond its versatility, C. Kerbrat-Orecchioni's research is characterised by a constant concernfor the way language works in situ, in various communicative situations, with a particular interest in highlighting the complexity of interpretative mechanisms.

In 1998, C. Kerbrat-Orecchioni was awarded the Légion d'honneur by the President of the Université Lumière-Lyon-II, Bruno Gelas.

She has recently become interested in the animal issue, initially from a linguistic perspective (lexicon, discourse, argumentation). In October 2021, she published Nous et les autres animaux, a book of more than 600 pages, with numerous scientific, philosophical and literary references on the animal issue. The book analyses its foundations, forms and implications, and proposes an exploration of the animal condition, and ends with a pledge to support the animal cause.

Individual work

 * 1977 : La Connotation, PUL : Lyon. [Spanish translation : La Conotación, Buenos Aires : Hachette 1993].
 * 1980 : L'Énonciation. De la subjectivité dans le langage, Paris : A. Colin. [reissue. 1999, 2002, 2009] [Spanish translation : La Enunciación, Buenos Aires : Hachette 1986].
 * 1986 : L’Implicite, Paris : A. Colin. [Arabic translation, Beyrouth : Arab Organization for translation, 2008] [read online]
 * 1990 : Les Interactions verbales, t. I, Paris : A. Colin.
 * 1992 : Les Interactions verbales, t. II, Paris : A. Colin.
 * 1994 : Les Interactions verbales, t. III, Paris : A. Colin.
 * 1996 : La Conversation, Paris : Seuil (“Mémo”). [Portuguese translation : Analise da conversaçao, Principios e metodos, Sao Paulo : Parabola Editorial, 2006].
 * 2001 : Les Actes de langage dans le discours, Paris : Nathan [reissue. A. Colin, 2008, 2010, 2016] [Portuguese translation : Os Atos de Linguagem no Discurso, Niteroi : edUFF, 2005].
 * 2005 : Le Discours en interaction, Paris : A. Colin.
 * 2017 : Les Débats de l'entre-deux-tours des élections présidentielles françaises. Constantes et évolutions d'un genre, Paris : L'Harmattan.
 * 2019 : (in collaboration with Domitille Caillat et Hugues Constantin de Chanay) : Le Débat Le Pen/Macron : un débat “disruptif” ?, Paris : L’Harmattan.
 * 2021 : Nous et les autres animaux, Limoges : Lambert-Lucas

Editing or co-editing of collective publications

 * 1976 : L'isotopie, Lyon : PUL.
 * 1978 (with A. Berrendonner) : Stratégies discursives, Lyon : PUL.
 * 1979 : L'ironie, Lyon : PUL.
 * 1980 : Le discours polémique, Lyon : PUL.
 * 1981 : L'illocutoire, Lyon : PUL.
 * 1984 (with M. Mouillaud) : Le discours politique, Lyon : PUL.
 * 1987 (with J. Cosnier) : Décrire la conversation, Lyon : PUL.
 * 1988 (with J. Cosnier & N. Gelas) : Échanges sur la conversation, Paris : Éditions du CNRS.
 * 1991 : La question, Lyon : PUL.
 * 1995 (with C. Plantin) : Le trilogue, Lyon : PUL.
 * 1998 (with N. Gelas) : La dicharazione d'amore - La déclaration d'amour, Genova : Erga edizioni.
 * 2004 : Polylogues, numéro spécial de la revue Journal of Pragmatics.
 * 2007 (withV. Traverso) : Confidence/Dévoilement de soi dans l’interaction, Tübingen : Max Niemeyer.
 * 2008 (with V. Traverso) : Les interactions en site commercial : invariants et variations, Lyon : ENS Éditions.
 * 2010 : S’adresser à autrui. Vol. 1 : Les Formes Nominales d’adresse dans les interactions orales en français, Chambéry : Université de Savoie.
 * 2014 : S’adresser à autrui. Vol. 2 : Les Formes Nominales d’Adresse dans une perspective interculturelle, Chambéry : Université de Savoie.

Encyclopaedia entries

 * 1985 : « Sémantique », in Encyclopædia Universalis (Corpus 16).
 * 1990 : « Connotation », « Implicite », « Sémantique linguistique », « Trope », in Encyclopédie philosophique universelle, Paris : PUF (vol. II, « Les notions philosophiques »).
 * 1993 : « Implicite », « Pragmatique », in L. Sfez (éd.) Dictionnaire critique de la communication vol. 1, Paris : PUF.
 * 1996 : « Sémantique » (nouvelle édition), in Encyclopaedia Universalis, t. 20, 873-9.
 * 2002 : Responsabilité du secteur « Interactions » du Dictionnaire d’Analyse du Discours (P. Charaudeau & D. Maingueneau éds), Paris : Seuil. Rédaction des articles “Acte de langage”, “Acte de langage indirect”, “Adoucisseur”, “Adresse”, “Connotation”, “Contexte”, “Dialogue”, “Double contrainte”, “Euphémisme”, “Face”, “Figure”, “Hyperbole”, “Implicite”, “Litote”, “Maximes conversationnelles”, “Monologue”, “Négociation”, “Politesse”, “Présupposé/présupposition”, “Relation interpersonnelle”, “Rituel”, “Subjectif”, “Trope”.