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Pierre Lerat: descriptive study of utterances like Ça, les féministes protestentThe structure considered (NP, S) is a particuliar (oral) case of dislocation (see J. Deulofeu 1977 and 1979).This article draws attention to two semantic properties of utterances such as Ça, les féministes protestent:1) NP refers to a definite referential object (deictic, anaphoric, proper name, definite description);2) the typical interpretation of the structure is "concerning NP".