Discourse on climate change denial draws on a wide variety of topics: the aim of the present paper is to study the links between climate change denialism and discourse on anti-veganism. This study is based on a corpus of articles and comments that have been collected from online media. This corpus i...
In this paper, we present some results of a recent longitudinal and comparative study about the discursive construction of national identities conducted at the University of Vienna. We focus on the years 1995, 2005 and 2015, and illustrate developments (continuities and discontinuities) across that...
At the end of the 2000s, some institutions that used to produce sceptical discourse about climate change, began to endorse research into climate engineering. This article investigates this argumentative transition through an analysis of the discourse of a US think tank (the American Enterprise Insti...
Even if it remains quite marginal, climate denialism is gaining momentum in the United Kingdom. The recent victory of the Leave camp in the 2016 EU referendum seems to have encouraged those who question the fact that climate change is man-made. Through the linguistic analysis of several examples, th...
The article studies the discursivity of the climate scepticism phenomenon from the perspective of media metadiscourse (francophone written press, in France and Belgium) and therefore focuses on the circulation of the lexeme climatosceptique and its morphosyntactic variations through the notion of “f...
Civic service is not only a political citizenship project offered to youth, but also a social laboratory for experimenting with new work activities. How can commitment work be characterized in this context? Based on the analysis of a large corpus of mission offers, this article focuses both on the w...
This article examines the expression “we are not fools” used in reaction to the universe of meaning designed by managerial and neoliberal discourses. It combines discourse analysis and clinical sociology to question its enunciation and repetition. It also questions the controversial scene associated...
This paper analyses a published corpus of first-person accounts, in which female nursing home employees relate how they became whistleblowers. The detailed narrative accounts of their working conditions shed light on the development of abusive situations suffered by the residents, and by the employe...
The term ‘innovation’ is widely used today in both the private and public sectors. There are multiple definitions. This article focuses on the term ‘innovation’ and its use in the economic field. Innovation in companies materializes in different discourses. Innovation managers are responsible for sp...
Based on an analysis of the discourse on parity within the Fédération syndicale unitaire (FSU) and two of its affiliated teachers’ unions, this paper proposes to study the way in which feminist struggles are perceived by activists and taken up by trade union organizations. This contribution is based...
Based on the qualitative study of 18 speeches delivered by senior magistrates of the Court of Cassation during the solemn re-entry hearings between 1980 and 2020, this study wishes to show that making tradition coexist in discourse with the innovations induced by the penetration of a managerial logi...
This article studies the linguistic and discursive cues of homophobia in a YouTube discussion related to a documentary on homophobia. The analysis of argumentative and syntactic structures aims to identify the linguistic manifestations of homophobia in an online discussion forum. Based on the result...
This paper discusses the “Ligue du LOL” affair that erupted in French media in 2019. The case involved a group of young journalists and communications professionals who were accused of harassment by users of the Twitter social network. We will look at the conditions that led to the possibility of th...
On the basis of two corpora comprised of far-right speech and comments, we study the discursive strategies that are deployed to convince people of the New World Order and the Great Replacement theory in online debates in Cyprus and Italy. We examine in particular how hate speech foregrounds such tra...
This article seeks to contextualise hate speech as developed by critical race theory in order to show how universities, which have broadly regulated free speech on campus, have paradoxically contributed to the emergence of a culture of hate speech in social media that has led to attacks on the insti...
This interview is devoted to issues and strategies aimed at the updating of rhetoric. It explores ways to counteract the phenomena of post-truth, radicalism and conspiracy and questions the complicated links between persuasion and criticism. In addition to epistemological questions, it explores the...
This research studies hate speech against journalists and news media based on a corpus of tweets containing three emblematic insults against them in the form of portmanteau words: “merdia” (a blend of the French terms “média” [news media] and “merde” [shit]), “journalope” (a combination of the Frenc...
This article aims to provide a general overview of the great number of anthems, marching songs and regimental songs which can be found in First World War trench newspapers, through an analysis of their extralinguistic and linguistic elements. First of all, we will highlight the conditions of their e...