Les discours de présentation dans la lexicographie québécoise

This article analyses the preliminary texts introducing French Canadian lexicographic works published between 1841 and 1930. It focuses on the relevance of their metalinguistic content, emerging in the considerations about the endogenous variety of French. This topic is developed across three main subjects, regarding the question of norm, the situation of French Canadian language and the evaluation of its linguistic peculiarities. Finally, this research shows that the arguments treated in these texts allows to approach them to other types of discourse, such as linguistics chronicles.