MLR, I02.3, 2007 849 them to a traditional published form as was done inEngler's critical edition. This gives readers amuch more immediate sense of connection with Saussure's thought, as well as providing some inkling ofwhat it is like towork with theoriginal manuscript materials. The textproper ends on page 240, with 87 pages given over to the bibliography of secondary literatureon Saussure since I970. It isa very fulland useful listingcovering awide range ofworks coming from linguists and literarycritics, and while some omis sions are inevitable, nothing can detract from the fact that this volume marks a true watershed in thedevelopment of Saussurean studies in theEnglish-speaking world. UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH JOHN E. JOSEPH La Langue, lestyle,lesens: etudesoffertes aAnne-Marie Garagnon. By CLAIRE BADIOU MONFERRAN, FRiED1ERIC CALAS, JULIEN PIAT, and CHRISTELLE REGGIANI. Paris: L'Improviste. 2005. 383pp. E28. ISBN978-2-913764-27-9. The titleof thevolume, a collection of articles inhonour ofAnne-Marie Garagnon, indicates the threemain themes explored. There are fourmain sections which reflect the interestsboth of the dedicatee and of her colleagues and formerpupils. The first section, entitled 'La langue entre histoire et systeme', isparticularly rich and inter esting. It examines what the editors call 'l'heritage conceptuel etmethodologique du xxe siecle' (p. 7), opening up interesting questions in the history of French linguis tic thought and of the French language, and in linguistic theory and ideologies of language. The second part, 'Faits de langue et faitsde style', includes articles which discuss and analyse particular lexical and semantic features of the French language from the Renaissance to the present day. The third part, 'Effets de style et effets de discours', offers insights into current trends in stylistic analysis, which inFrance is particularly marked by theories of 'enonciation'. Notable in the final part, en titled 'Stylistique et hermeneutique des formes', are the articles byGeorges Molinie and Thomas Clerc, which aim to present the epistemological basis ofAnne-Marie Garagnon's stylistic approach; other contributors explore certain stylisticmotifs in literary texts ranging fromLa Princesse de Cleves to Proust. It is impossible in the space of a review to do justice to all the articles and I propose to focus on a num ber of papers which seem to reflectwell the overall quality of the volume. Gilles Siouffi's excellent article, for example, reviews the notion of 'langue classique' and considers how a stylistic and grammatical analysis of its features can enable us better tounderstand it.He challenges the paradoxical notion of classical French as at once forming the norm forcontemporary French and being considered as 'radicalement autre' (p. i). A number of contributions treat the analysis of proper names fromdif ferentperspectives. Delphine Denis provides an interesting discussion of the status of the proper name in the seventeenth century. She shows how in this period there gradually emerges a theoryof proper nouns 'plus ou moins rapprochee du nom com mun' (p. 33). She notes how thegrammars and volumes ofobservations on theFrench language elaborate an opposition between common and proper nouns, but, with the possible exception of thePort-Royal logic,never discuss thecomplex nature ofproper nouns or the nature of theirmeaning. Adopting a stylistic approach, Van Dung Le Flanchec uses an analysis ofMaurice Sceve's 'Mon Orphee' toquestion modern ana lyses of proper names in terms of antonomasia, which should in her view rather be considered a stylisticquestion. Adopting a similar stylistic approach, Claire Badiou Monferran looks at different types of anaphora in a corpus of seventeenth-century nouvelles galantes; once again she sees the repeated use of anaphoric demonstrative pronouns as being a stylistic traitrather than an inherent feature of theFrench of the 85o Reviews period. Notable among the articleswhich adopt an approach associated with theories of 'enonciation' is the article by Frederic Calas. Starting froman analysis of an extract from Marivaux's Yournaux and fromLesage's Gil Blas de Santillane, he demonstrates thatepanorthosis isnot simply a rhetorical figurebut also gives thediscourse an ironic effect,therebycriticizing 'l'hypocrisiemondaine' (p. 247). In short, thevolume offers insights into a wide range of perspectives which are currently being applied to the study of French language and literature.What theyperhaps all have in common is the desire to reflecton 'legeste hermeneutique' (p. i). UNIVERSITY...