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Communication Dans Un Congrès Année : 2007

Women, Power and the Media - The Royal-Sarkozy 2007 Presidential debate

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This contribution will examine the debate that opposed Ségolène Royal and Nicolas Sarkozy, which took place the 2nd of may just a few days before the French President was elected. It was the first time, in France, that a women arrived as far in the Presidential competition as the 2nd « round », which has always opposed two leaders in the French 5th Republic. In this sense, it was historical. However, even after the election of Nicolas Sarkozy, it appears that Ségolène Royal, as a woman, keeps on to be fiercely criticized and attacked for her « incompetence », attitudes, and expressions, mostly by men, but also by some women. As a matter of fact, the minister of defence, Michèle Aliot Marie, who ran for Nicolas Sarkozy, attacked her, saying that « Ségolène Royal changes her ideas the same way she changes her skirts » (meaning, quite often, and in a futile manner). This sexist sentence hasn’t been pointed out so much as sexist by the media as it should have been, as if the « sexist » characterization, which is punishable by law since the 12/30/2004, had suddenly disappeared, because the debate was supposed to be at "another level". Or was it because another woman pronounced it? However, it is interesting enough to notice that the sentence sends back to a very sexist thought and saying, which has been around for many centuries since the king François the 1st, « Souvent femme varie, bien fol est qui s’y fie ». This is why our hypothesis is that Ségolène Royal did have a specific discourse, and way to address people, as a woman, and that her specific way did reflect her project of change for the French society, because it was a woman’s way. However, this modern « new type of speech », addressing emotions and feelings more than it used in political debates, is not well accepted by industrialized societies following liberal money aspects of power, which are incompatible with feelings and emotions. At the same time that men, in these societies, are raised to reject these same values of feelings and emotions as being a sign of weakness, and trained to hide them as much as they can. This is why our proposal wants to focus first on they way each of the leader addresses the Other during the 2 hours debate that opposed them, especially on the use of pronouns. At the same time we will propose a focus on the two discourses in order to show their differences, in matters of vocabulary and tone. Our study will be based on the results obtained with the Statistical Analyses of texts software Lexico3, developed by the SYLED- CLA2t at Paris 3 university. Bibliography - Dupuy, Pierre-Olicvier, et Marchand, Pascal : mai 2006. D’ébats lexicométriques, équipe PSYchologie de la Communication, LERASS/IUT Information et communication, Toulouse, 3 pages. - Bonnafous, S., Tournier, M., « Analyse du discours, lexicométrie, communication et politique », in Langages, n° 117, mars 1995, p. 69-70. - Fracchiolla, B., Kuncova, A., Maisondieu, A., Manuel d’utilisation de Lexico3. Outils de statistique textuelle (Lamalle, C., Martinez, W., Fleury, S., Salem, A.). Version 3.41, SYLED – CLA2T, Université de la Sorbonne Nouvelle – Paris 3, février 2003. - Kerbrat-Orecchioni, C., L’Enonciation, Paris, Armand Colin, 1999. - Le Bart, C., Le discours politique, Paris, PUF, Que Sais-Je ?, 1998. - Maingueneau, D., L’Enonciation en linguistique française, Paris, Hachette, 1999 - Marchand, P., L’Analyse du Discours Assisté par Ordinateur, Paris, Armand Colin, 1998. - Lebart, Salem, A., Statistique textuelle, Paris, Dunod, 1994. - Pisier, E., Le droit des femmes, Varese, Dalloz, 2007. - Les cahiers du griff, « Le langage des femmes », Bruxelles, éditions complexe, 1992.
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Béatrice Fracchiolla. Women, Power and the Media - The Royal-Sarkozy 2007 Presidential debate. Women Power and the Media, Aston University, Birmingham, Sep 2007, Birmingham, United Kingdom. ⟨halshs-03168234⟩
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