The journal Mots. Les Langages du Politique falls within the scope of an interdisciplinary perspective between Language Sciences, Political Science, and Information and Communication Sciences.
Mots. Les Langages du Politique publishes thematic feature articles, articles under the heading of "Varia," research papers, and reviews. The articles are published in French and accompanied by abstracts with key words in French, English, and Spanish.
The journal is published with support from the CNRS, and the scientific support of the UMR CRAPE, ICAR, Triangle, the EA CEDITEC and the Société d'étude des langages du politique (SELP).
Les discours de la crise économique
The economic crisis discourses
Public discourse is rife with lay and expert talk on the economic crisis. A variety of narratives by politicians, journalists and citizens got woven into representations of "the economic crisis". This issue of Mots focuses on some of those narratives with the combined insights of linguistics, political science and sociology.
Paul Bacot, Dominique Desmarchelier, Sylvianne Rémi-Giraud
Discours d'autorité : des discours sans éclat(s) ?
Are authoritative discourses dull and consensual ?
This issue Mots, makes hypothesis that in every institution different types of discourse co-exist: in some of them the interaction looks like symmetric conversation, in others, such as debates, polemics and controversies.
Thèmes et thématiques dans le discours politique
Topics in Political Discourse Analysis
Topic identification and description is a central theme in political discourse analysis, whether to study the content of electoral programs, the agenda setting of media outlets, or to uncover the discursive strategies of key political players.
The purpose of this dossier is to analyse how collective identities (ethnic, political, social and gender identities) are constructed and displayed through the political and media discourse in Latin America.
Le geste, emblème politique
The gesture, political symbol
Instead gestures which are themselves "activist" – in their usage, their variations, their interpretations and the remarks they elicit – are the object of this dossier, as opposed to individual movements, fleeting, isolated, of particular political actors; even if the latter gestures have taken on a “symbolic” signification.
La confrontation d'idées sous la forme du dialogue dans la littérature médiévale et ses échos à la Renaissance
The confrontation of ideas in dialogical form in medieval literature and its echoes in the Renaissance
Collecter, archiver, exploiter des sources orales en histoire de l'éducation
Collecting, Archiving, and Reusing Oral Sources in the History of Education
Seconde Guerre mondiale et Résistance en Italie : histoire, usages publics, narrations (1989-2025)
The Second World War and the Resistance in Italy: History, Public Uses, Narratives (1989-2025)
Modèles didactiques et formation des enseignants : quelles fonctions ? quelles tensions ? (I)
Models in French language didactics and teacher training: What Functions? What tensions? (I)