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The juxtaposition of habitat, a product of architecture, and speech, a product of language, enables the perception of a double orientation of what could be called "architexture". It is this dual position that the articles in this collection aim to occupy.

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The juxtaposition of habitat, a product of architecture, and speech, a product of language, enables us to envisage a dual orientation for what could be called "architexture". The architectural text focuses on the analysis of architects´ discourse, architectural metaphors or spatial markers and prepositions. Textual architecture, meanwhile, explores composition, syntactic ordering, text structure or "construction" grammars. Through verbalisation or spatialization, through verbal or architectural communication, the speaker and the architect are subjected to numerous constraints despite a certain freedom of speech and freedom of construction. Both this constructed speech and this spoken construction summon the architect-speaker to his or her language domus . It is this dual position that the articles in this collection aim to occupy.

La mise en regard de l´habitat, produit de l´architecture, et du discours, produit de la langue, permet d´envisager une double orientation de ce que l´on pourrait nommer l´" architexture ". Le texte de l´architecture traite de l´analyse de discours d´architectes, de métaphores architecturales ou de marqueurs spatiaux et prépositions spatiales, tandis que l´architecture du texte investit la composition, l´agencement syntaxique, la structure d´un texte ou encore les grammaires dites " de construction ". D´une mise en discours ou en espace, à travers une communication verbale ou architecturale, l´énonciateur et l´architecte sont soumis à de nombreuses contraintes en dépit d´une liberté de parole et de construction. Cette parole construite autant que cette construction parlée convoquent l´énonciateur-architecte dans sa domus langagière. C´est cette double posture qui fait l´objet des contributions de cet ouvrage collectif.

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Contents: Zoltán Kövecses: Nation-building through Metaphor - Katrina Brannon: Inhabiting Metaphorical Space. The Role of Prepositions in John Keats´s Conceptual Metaphors for Emotion - Andrew McMichael: How did we Get "Upstairs"? Constructionalization in Adverb Formation and Other Issues - Aurélie Barnabé: The Language of Space. A Linguistic Space? - Stephen A. Noble: Dwelling in Language. The World and the Speaking Subject - Mathilde Pinson: "Instead ay a view ay the castle, she´s goat a vieway the gasworks". Language and Representation of the City in the Trainspotting Trilogy - Rémi Digonnet: The Language of the Architect. Le Corbusier´s "Archilect" - Anne Béchard-Léauté : L´approche spatiale de l´architecture chez Nikolaus Pevsner - Christian Lagarde : Un habitat collectif pour la langue. Écolinguistique, codification et aménagement linguistique.

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