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Some pioneering lexicographic research, notably that published in Volume IV of the Dictionnaire Explicatif et combinatoire (Mel'čuk et al. 1999), proposed a formalized treatment of some prefabricated polylexical units frequently mobilized in informal exchanges. In the same way, our paper focuses on expressive formulae commonly used in conversation and aims in particular to examine their illocutionary functions and their interactional roles, by specifying the type of clues (lexical co-occurrents, syntactic structures) allowing disambiguation. The formulae have been selected based on a frequency criterion, in the ORFEO oral database, with the addition of examples found on social media. We first look at the problems posed by pragmatic disambiguation, and then present – through the examples of bon courage and tu m'étonnes – a methodological approach, based on the notion of pragmatic framework. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]