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Mots. Les langages du politique, n°117/2018
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Mots. Les langages du politique
"Soundbites"
This dossier aims to study a recent phenomenon that is usually called "soundbites". In the wake of pioneer work on that multifaceted subject, we have opted for a transdisciplinary approach that includes the sciences of language and communication as well as social sciences. Irit Kornblit focuses on the rhetorics and argumentative aspects of the question when he studies the shifting use of "Culture is not a commodity" as soundbite or formula. Éric Treille for his part focuses on how the media and politics frame political discourse into soundbites. His fruitful research field was the televised debates for the French primaries of 2016 and 2017, which shed light on the strategic dimension of soundbites. That strategic dimension is a central concern for Romain Mathieu, who looks at pre-election negotiations between the parties of the French radical left: for political actors, soundbites are efficient as well as fragile ressources, insofar as they depend on media outreach, which politicians cannot control. The following two articles take contrasting approaches to the pejorative dimension of the phrase “soundbite”: Sarah Al-Matary and Chloé Gaboriaux question the supposed impoverishment of political language into soundbites, envisioning the latter in the light of current transformations of political polarization. Annabelle Seoane then adopts an enunciativist and pragmatic approach to investigate the “soundbite” label, which she sees as form of critical distance that devalues the publicized statement while valueing the publicizing media.
Chloé Gaboriaux
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Contributions:
Chloé Gaboriaux, Cédric Passard, Annabelle Seoane
Invoking "the Republic", calling oneself a "Republican"... Does the term Republic still have any meaning? The texts in this issue show that the polysemy of the word is less a reflection of the evanescence of its meaning than of a polymorphous debate on the definition of citizenship in a world marked by deepening individualism.
Laura Calabrese, Chloé Gaboriaux, Marie Veniard
This dossier focuses on the framing of migratory phenomena as a crisis, with a particular focus on what discourses of crisis do to reception. It brings together contributions from researchers from various disciplines, who investigate both the discursive constructions of the migration crisis and the crisis of discourses on migration.
Chloé Gaboriaux, Rachele Raus, Cécile Robert, Stefano Vicari
The choice of multilingualism in international organisations involves constant - and costly - translation and interpreting work, the political repercussions of which are still too often underestimated. This dossier aims to shed light on the political repercussions of this work, from a multidisciplinary perspective.
Chloé Gaboriaux, Camille Noûs
This dossier brings together contributions dealing with words at work. Coming from political science, sociology, anthropology or information and communication sciences, the authors examine the way in which the neo-managerial discourse is conveyed and imposed by private and public sector executives and the way in which employees respond to it.
Valérie Bonnet, Chloé Gaboriaux, Marie Plassart
Group formation in part happens through discourses that contribute to invent, sustain and transform our imagination of society. This collection of articles proposes an account of the discursive construction of groups, which is wider than the question of naming social or political groups.
Paul Bacot, Chloé Gaboriaux, Christian Le Bart, Damon Mayaffre
This Special issue of our journal will be entirely devoted to presidential speeches and presidential electoral campaigns.
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