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Jean-Claude Coquet

French linguist (1928–2023)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionFeb 28, 2026
Entity authorityQ3164917 ↗
Source-derived summary

Jean-Claude Coquet (29 March 1928 – 16 January 2023) was a French linguist and semiotician.

Publications

Sémiotique littéraire. Contribution à l'analyse sémantique du discours (1973)

Le discours et son sujet I. Essai de grammaire modale (1984)

Le discours et son sujet II. Pratique de la grammaire modale (1985)

La Quête du sens. Le Langage en question (1997)

Phusis et Logos.

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“Jean-Claude Coquet” enters the record as french linguist (1928–2023). Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Jean-Claude, Coquet and French can confirm, complicate or overturn.

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This entry incorporates text from “Jean-Claude Coquet” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.