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This paper deals with the social meaning of Russia in the French Press Discourse. The particular aim is to examine the nature and the role of negation, which seems to be one of the mechanisms that have a considerable impact on the construction of the meaning of the Proper Name. We discuss, on the one hand, the role of negation that affects the reformulations of la Russie within attributive structures and, on the other hand, the negation in the conditional propositions of structure si A, B (if A, B). Corpus material is taken from the French national daily press and published in March 2014, at the time of the annexation of Crimea.
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The aim of this article is to examine the social meaning of two proper names – Russie and Pologne – in French press discourse. Assuming that the social meaning of a given concept is constructed in the nomination process, it seems justified to examine the ways proper names – traditionally considered to be associated with specific referents – receive their social meaning through the act of nomination. The study of social meaning seems possible with the reconstruction of the so-called designational paradigm, which is a list of reformulations of the initial word. This study deals with two kinds of reformulations of country names: those that derive from a geopolitical vocabulary and those that derive from a geographical vocabulary. Comparing the role and functioning of these, we can assume that they serve two different discursive strategies: the westernisation of Russia and the orientalisation of Poland. The observation of the role and the function of these reformulations shows that the social meaning of both geographical names is no more than a discursive construct.
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This study aims to show how the principle of otherness emerges in the discourse of the national written press in France. We  consider that in the media, the Other is Poland, whose social meaning, stored in the collective memory, embraces the extremely negative traits of difference and threat. The judgment of otherness relates to four components of this meaning. Firstly, Poland is perceived as an object whose location is indefinite and undecided. Secondly, it is strange due to its excessive, aggressive and dangerous Catholicism. Thirdly, it harms France and the common European project. Finally, it constitutes an economic threat.
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This paper is part of a broader study on the social meaning (sens social) of the proper name Pologne (Poland) created in the media production. The analysis of press discourse makes it possible to observe the recurrence of the adjective catholique (Catholic) in the co-occurrences of this toponym. The aim of this paper is, firstly, to examine the syntactic entourage of the name Pologne in which the adjective catholique appears and, secondly, to analyse, on the paradigmatic axis, reformulations of the toponym Pologne where this adjective appears (in the diaphoric network). This approach results in the description of the micro-field of the lexico-discursive profile of the name Pologne.
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The aim of this article is to describe the elements of social meaning given by the French news­papers to the phenomenon of jihad. In this purpose, we adopt the methods of the school of discourse analysis. We study the discursive moment of press production about jihad which emerged after the real event of November 13, 2015. The analysis of this production (in a defined time frame) makes it possible to establish a list of reformulations of the headword djihadistes in French and to observe semantic values which are attributed to them in the discourse although they do not appear in their common lexical definitions.
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The paper describes typography as one of the mechanisms contributing to the construction of social meanings.According to the French discourse analysis, we assume that social meaning results from the nomination activity, which involves multiple and diverse naming of one element of the real world. Obtaining social meaning is possible by recreating the so-called designational paradigm, i.e. establishing a list of regular reformulations of the initial word introduced by metalanguage (definitional sentences), coordination, diaphors and typography. This work mainly focuses on the latter. The subsequent parts of the article discuss the impact of the comma, colon, parentheses, double dash and quotation marks on meaning construction. The description of each of them is complemented by examples derived from the study on the social meaning of the proper name Pologne (Poland), created and disseminated by the French press. It turns out that the typographic symbols are not a simple visual representation of pauses or intonation. They also have a semantic and pragmatic role. Typography signals the reformulations (comma, colon, parenthesis, dash), introduces the secondary predicates (comma, dash) and allows a journalist to distance him/herself from the created meanings (quotation marks).
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The aim of this paper is to present my ongoing PhD research project concerning the social meaning construction in thanatological discourse. The project is in line with the research principles of the French school of discourse analysis, which places press discourse at the center of interest (cf. Moirand 2007, Veniard 2013). The representatives of this school of thought show that the mass media, being an intermediary of information for a given linguistic community, influence the way the community perceives the world. Therefore, the media, including mainstream press, by using certain nominations in repetitive way, imprint them in the discursive memory of a given community. The media name people, objects, phenomena and events in order to explain major crises and to assign them a place in the usual order of things (cf. Siblot 1997, 2001, Veniard 2013). The nomination takes place in an anaphoric network that ensures the coherence of the text. In our view, the contribution of anaphora, especially nominal anaphora, to the production of meaning in thanatological discourse is fundamental. We will show that anaphoric relations are not based on linguistic parameters (e.g. lexical relations), but on the discoursive memory of a given community.
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In this paper we analyse occurrences of the word Grexit in terms of syntagmatic and textual relations. We aim to show the semantic and pragma-discursive determinations of its social meaning, which appears to be vague and confounding. The study is based on the corpus of press texts published in Le Monde, Libération and Le Figaro between 6 July 2015 (the day after the Greek referendum) and 11 July 2015 (date of the agreement between Greece and its creditors).
Res Rhetorica
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2022
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vol. 9
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issue 3
43-62
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The article presents the results of the analysis of a corpus of 531 press texts taken from three French daily newspapers: "Le Monde", "Le Figaro", and "Libération", published in the first two months of 2020 and containing the expressions coronavirus and /or virus. The study was conducted using the methods of French discursive semantics. The analysis of the selected groups of nomination structures confirmed their persuasive character. The mechanisms of shaping the social significance of the coronavirus presented in the article served to reach a diverse media audience, construct (and deconstruct) the ethos of reliable media, as well as stigmatize, politicize and dramatize.
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W artykule przedstawiono wyniki analizy korpusu 531 tekstów prasowych zaczerpniętych z trzech francuskich dzienników: „Le Monde”, „Le Figaro”, „Libération”, opublikowanych w dwóch pierwszych miesiącach 2020 r., zawierających określenia coronavirus i/lub virus. Badanie przeprowadzono przy wykorzystaniu metod francuskiej semantyki dyskursywnej. Analiza wyróżnionych grup struktur nominacyjnych potwierdziła ich perswazyjny charakter. Przedstawione w artykule mechanizmy kształtowania społecznego znaczenia koronawirusa służyły dotarciu do zróżnicowanego audytorium mediów, konstruowaniu (i dekonstruowaniu) etosu rzetelnych mediów, a także stygmatyzacji, polityzacji i dramatyzacji.
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