Strength and scope of the direct address in the travel story

Fundamentally heterogeneous and highly involving potential or actual reader as co-utterer, the travel story provides a fertile ground for the analysis of dialogical aspects (speaker / hearer) of the text. The interlocutor dialogue conducted between the author and the reader facilitates the phatic function and brings the reader to make judgments and to react following the issue or the speaker’s interpellation. In this study, the issues of the phenomenon of interpellation are considered using the approaches proposed by Bronckart and Charaudeau. Also, the conative function and the question of performativity in the travel story will be studied. Knowing that the tropic and pragmatic rhetoric of the statement are part of the tricks used by travelers to circumvent or disguise the informativeness of some pragmatic reference data, our study treats the question based on the concepts of " illocutionary trope " and " informativeness law" and the issue of preterition developed by Ducrot . Our corpus covers the five stories of French travelers (randomly selected) written during their stay in Iran in the first half of the nineteenth century.