Aujourd’hui, il n’est pas rare de rebaptiser la politesse « politiquement correct » pour s’en affranchir. Mais l'abandon de la politesse dégrade la vie politique.

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International audience The aim of this article is to study the Spanish locution por fin as a mechanism of (im)politeness in persuasive discourse, with special attention to current speech on the Internet and to discourse related to the political sphere. From a theoretical perspective close to the pra...

Anxious over the hostility to the Hanoverian dynasty and over the growing politicisation of the lower ranks that prevailed in 1718, the Whig government commissioned the poet Ambrose Philips and other staunch defenders of the Glorious Revolution to start a bi-weekly essay periodical The Free-Thinker...

While admetting the general principle of politeness as assimilated to face-work, we think that we have to carry out some improvements to Brown and Levinson’s model in order to make it more efficient, such as: admitting the opposite notion of “Face flattering Acts” alongside the notion of Face Threat...

This article studies the nature of a disagreement expressed by some judges to their peers in a deliberative judgment, in a Brazilian court of appeal, where three magistrates analyse a legal affair involving a political media fact. The proposed analysis was to inspect linguistic structures where magi...

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International audience When Ambrose Philips issued his biweekly essay periodical, The Free Thinker (1718-1721), times were uncertain. The principles of the Glorious Revolution of 1688 were threatened by party factions, by rumours of a Jacobite landing, by the spread of atheism and the development of...

International audience; Anxious over the hostility to the Hanoverian dynasty and over the growing politicisation of the lower ranks that prevailed in 1718, the Whig government commissioned the poet Ambrose Philips and other staunch defenders of the Glorious Revolution to start a bi-weekly essay peri...

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L’article présente le passage en revue des marques modales qui jalonnent le discourse politique des candidates Traian Băsescu et Adrian Năstase lors de la campagne présidentielle de 2004. Le corpus est essentiellement constitué des discourse politiques présents dans l’émission televisée Seara preşed...

Sans une plume que serait nos viesDe savoir perdu le rempart de nos furiesPourquoi sommes-nous si l’on ne nous permet que de suivreAlors que nous aimons la liberté au point d’en être ivreCe monde ne nous sied-ilOu est-ce plutôt nous qui lui sommes hostilesOù trouver refuge loin des moules qui standa...

Während die Forschung in Äußerungslinguistik seit Benveniste (1966 : 260) der zweiten Person, die als prototypisches Anredepronomen angesehen wird, eine zentrale Rolle beimisst, untersucht dieser Artikel die Möglichkeit, dass die grammatikalische Kategorie der dritten Person im Diskurs nicht zu eine...

International audience Seduction occupies a fundamental place in the history of human relations, as it seems to have initiated ‘softer’ kinds of interaction with the other, sometimes superseding physical violence. This introduction attempts a theorisation of seductive discourse that goes beyond amor...

International audience Starting from the research framework developed on verbal violence by Auger et al. 2008, Moïse 2011, 2012, Fracchiolla et al. 2013b, the hypothesis developed here is that verbal violence and euphemism are today the two main discursive modalities of political function and are pa...

A côté du mensonge pernicieux (celui de l'escroquerie) figurent une série de mensonges officieux ou légitimes, qui vont du mensonge pieux (celui du savoir-vivre, de la politesse, de la bienséance... opérés comme lubrifiant social) aux mensonges d'attaque ou de défense, en passant par le "mentir vrai...

International audience Reflections on the development of an ethical charter of interdenterous relations: the case of university messaging Introduction Our first question was to understand and analyze the phenomena of verbal violence found in email exchanges between more than two people in institutio...

Currently estimated at about 8 million, the Fulani people make up a population spread over twenty-odd countries in sub-Saharan Africa. Sharing a commonly claimed origin said to be situated in Egypt, they are to have experienced several multiple migrations, while maintaining in all cases the desire t...

International audience The Invention of Diplomatic Standards, 1815-1961 : A Virtue of the KingsFrom the 1815 Congress of Vienna to the 1961 Conference of Vienna, the international community gradually developed by expanding, but also by establishing an international legal framework structured around...

International audience Anxious over the hostility to the Hanoverian dynasty and over the growing politicisation of the lower ranks that prevailed in 1718, the Whig government commissioned the poet Ambrose Philips and other staunch defenders of the Glorious Revolution to start a bi-weekly essay perio...

Based on the ethno-sociological studies conducted by Pierre Bourdieu between the late 1950s and the early sixties on war-driven Algeria, this article analyses critically the notion, widely held by both the media and academia, that Pierre Bourdieu's public interventions on the Algerian war date back...

In Book XIX of The Spirit of the Laws, the comparison between France and England suggested by Montesquieu partakes in the classical debate on the value of civility. Montesquieu shows the reasons why the English liberties cannot promote its most refined forms. He also considers French civility an exp...