«Nous multiplierons les chansons, les concerts, les spectacles». L’argumentation de François Hollande face aux attaques terroristes du 13 novembre
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- After the terrorist attacks on November 13th, the French public, the whole of Europe and many parts of the world were waiting for president François Hollande to address his fellow “citoyens”. Being the most important political figure – both by constitution and by influence on public discourse – the president’s words bear great importance for the subsequent debate and interpretation of the events. Therefore, the question arises: How did the president shape the debate in the hours and days after the attacks? To answer this question, we haveAfter the terrorist attacks on November 13th, the French public, the whole of Europe and many parts of the world were waiting for president François Hollande to address his fellow “citoyens”. Being the most important political figure – both by constitution and by influence on public discourse – the president’s words bear great importance for the subsequent debate and interpretation of the events. Therefore, the question arises: How did the president shape the debate in the hours and days after the attacks? To answer this question, we have identified typical structures in Hollande’s rhetorical reaction to the attacks, performing a topos as well as a keyword analysis of the speeches the president held within two weeks after November 13th. In a contrastive analysis we have compared Hollande’s speeches to the Europarl Corpus. Using the software programme sketch engine, we have filtered out the 100 most frequent keywords and classified them into semantic fields (data-driven approach). All in all, terrorism, action and nation/identity are the three predominant semantic fields, whereas references to victimhood barely appear. These findings are congruent with the results of our topos analysis that reveals a predominance of argumentative structures that form a strong main topos of resilience, emphasising the greatness of France and its people and culture, calling to action and avoiding any tendencies of resignation.…
Author: | Sandra Issel-Dombert, Aline Wieders-Lohéac |
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URN: | urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-161637 |
Document Type: | Journal article |
Faculties: | Philosophische Fakultät (Histor., philolog., Kultur- und geograph. Wissensch.) / Neuphilologisches Institut - Moderne Fremdsprachen |
Language: | French |
Parent Title (German): | promptus - Würzburger Beiträge zur Romanistik |
ISSN: | 2510-2613 |
Year of Completion: | 2016 |
Volume: | 2 |
Pagenumber: | 123-151 |
Source: | promptus 2 (2016), S. 123-151 |
Dewey Decimal Classification: | 8 Literatur / 84 Französische und verwandte Literaturen / 845 Französische Reden |
GND Keyword: | Hollande, François; Bataclan (Paris); Attentat; Meinungsbildung |
Tag: | Hollande, François; debate; influence; terrorist attack, Paris, 13th November 2015 |
Release Date: | 2018/05/07 |
Collections: | Zeitschriften (Journals) / promptus - Würzburger Beiträge zur Romanistik / Band 2 / Artikel / articles |
Licence (German): | CC BY: Creative-Commons-Lizenz: Namensnennung 4.0 International |