L’autodialogisme temporellement bifurqué dans une chanson polyphonique – une analyse linguistique, énonciative et narratologique de « 手紙～拝啓 十五の君へ～ » (Tegami – Haikei Jûgo-no kimi-he) (Angela Aki, 2008) –
Résumé
One of the most famous J-pops of the new century, Angela Aki’s “手紙～拝啓 十五の君へ～” is a polyphonic song characterized by a temporally bifurcated autodialogism. Composed of two letters, one of which is attributed to a fifteen-year-old boy and the other to the same person in his adult age, this work carries a question-response structure: the-fifteen-year old boy asks his future self how he can best live his life. The latter finds the letter and provides advice to his younger self. In the song, these elements are intertwined and expressed in combination, with the melody comprising the following components: two couplets, a pre-refrain, three refrains, and an outro. The principal narrator’s status is ambiguous: it is presumed or virtual so that his voice melts into that of the secondary narrator, the hero-scribe appearing in the song. As with many songs, “手紙～拝啓 十五の君へ～” is based on the chiasmus relation between concrete and abstract knowledge and concrete and abstract lectors/auditors as activated by singers. That activation is especially evident in this song, as junior high school students participated in the 75th NHK (Nippon Hôsô Kyôkai) music contest for which the composer Angela Aki dedicated the song as a set piece, and Angela Aki herself sang it. By singing the song herself, the singer-songwriter becomes a meta-spokesperson of her own voice as songwriter and both principal and secondary narrators, in particular in the voice of the adult who gives advice to himself as a fifteen-year-old worried about his life. Therefore, this song constitutes a situation layered in its expressions, utterances, and narration, thereby accelerating the impact of the song in the world.