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François Leimdorfer et al., « Légitimité sociologique et analyse de discours : Le parcours de la légitimité dans les textes de l'Unesco sur l'éducation de base », Langage & société, ID : 10.3406/lsoc.1986.2067
Leimdorfer François, Tessonneau Alex-Louise, "Sociological legitimacy and discourse analysis : How legitimacy is built up in UNESCO texts". The authors start reflecting upon the legitimacy concept in sociology (Weber, Habermas, Bourdieu), then proceed to analyzing UNESCO texts by trying to evince legitimizing operations as well as the presupposed legitimacy. This analysis is centered round reported speech, referenciation to discourse being external, the use of completives, relatives and infinitive sentences in a program pronouncement of the Executive Council, and the interplay on "on" ("one") and "nous" ("we") in a Director General report. The most important hypotheses in this analysis are, one, the strong relationship between implicit (not said) legitimacy, presupposed (i.e. present in the discourse) legitimacy, and its very enonciation ; two, the refering to the world and to an external "duty" as legitimizing operations.