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).
The present collection of articles sheds light on the vibrant research field of discourse analysis on ecological and environmental controversies, which includes studies of lexicon, discourse and argument. The articles analyze several controversies (on fracking, geothermics or planning projects) as well as the citizens' perception of the future.
The terror attacks of 2015-2016 in France occasioned a lot of commentary. This dossier aims to analyse the unfolding of post-terror attack discourse with perspective. Articles discuss the place given to emotions, the framing modalities of terrorist events and the degree of consensus expressed in post-terror attack discourse
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.
Dire ou ne pas dire la « race » en France aujourd'hui
The R-word: talking/not talking about race in France today
The use of "race", which spans labelling and identification processes, is debated in France today, whether the term race is used or when the concept is activated. This dossier examines the derms of the debate and analyses how “race” is being talked about or not in some political or media discourses.
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.
Equal rights for men and women, regularly reaffirmed by the regulations and feminist demands, requires a political speech, involving a balanced gender representation. How concretely put into practice, in France, in the absence of strong institutional recommendations?
Paul Bacot, Chloé Gaboriaux, Christian Le Bart, Damon Mayaffre
Normes et usages de la langue en politique
Standards and practices of the language in politics
This issue deals with the connections between linguistic variation in political and media discourses and the judgement this variation from the standard french may imply.
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)