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Sylvie Garnier and Frédérique Sitri question the characterization of certes as a « dialogical discourse marker ». After demonstrating the difficulty that most polyphonic descriptions of certes have in describing the different usages of the adverb in a unified manner, they show that certes, in marking the clause it refers to as containing a “certain” point of view as compared to other points of view, carries an aspect of alterity. In discourse, and particularly in the concessive constructions, this alterity is capable of making an altered discourse heard, and of producing effects of interdiscursive and interlocutive dialogism, or autodialogism that they attempt to characterize in various discursive genres.