Verbaliser les situations de bifurcation: les noms propres évènementiels dans les discours médiatiques

Rodríguez Pedreira, Nuria ^[1] ; Konowska, Agnieszka ^[2]
1. [1] Universidade de Santiago de Compostela
  
  Universidade de Santiago de Compostela
  
  Santiago de Compostela, España
2. [2] Université de Łódź
Localización: L'art de vivre, de survivre, de revivre. Approches linguistiques: 50e anniversaire des études romanes à l’Université de Łódź / coord. por Magdalena Lipińska, Magdalena Szeflinska Baran, 2022, ISBN 978-83-8220-879-5, págs. 211-226
Idioma: francés
Títulos paralelos:
- Verbalizing bifurcation situations : proper names referring to events in media discourse
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- The COVID-19 pandemic has created a situation of bifurcation within societies: we are talking about a world before and after the coronavirus. The name of the city of Wuhan, its “cradle”, has become a fatal symbol. This contribution examines the discursive functioning of proper names referring to events of this type (Wuhan, Chernobyl, 9/11) and how they meet certain needs of speakers at times of “rupture”. We speak about them as about proper denominations (Bosredon and Tamba 1995), words-events (Moirand 2007) orproper names referring to events (Krieg-Planque 2009) because they cover both some typical features of common names and proper names. We first ask about the activity of nomination through the designations used, often concurrent, and on their functioning in their relation to the co(n)text, but also to previous discourses (Moirand and Reboul-Touré 2015). To name something from an enunciative point of view is to select a designation among othersavailable, and this with an essentially intentional aim. This is what we focus on in a second step, by identifying the role of the proper names of events in argumentative euphemization and dysphemization, through the analysis of a few examples from our corpus.