La représentation de l’oral à l’écrit et la diachronie du français Un nouveau projet de recherche

The aim of this contribution is to show how the analysis of written dialogues can help us better understand medieval spoken French. After a brief presentation of a new corpus of French dramas (13th–16th centuries), this article gives a few examples drawn from the corpus. Some morpho-phonetical items, dislocation and a special use of the future tense have been chosen here to demonstrate the importance of these texts for a better understanding of spoken interactions of the past and for diachronic linguistics in general.