Excuse, politesse et euphémisme dans le débat d'entre tours aux présidentielles 2017 : un exemple de violence verbale détournée autour de la radicalisation des jeunes en France
International audience ; Starting from the research framework developed on verbal violence by Auger et al. 2008, Moïse 2011, 2012, Fracchiolla et al. 2013b, the hypothesis developed here is that verbal violence and euphemism are today the two main discursive modalities of political function and are part of the same continuum articulated on the notion of indirection. This is based on the commonly shared implicit assumption that what one says indirectly would be less violent. However, indirect structures can also carry verbal violence in a less visible way, and are very present in political language-insofar as it would be inappropriate for politicians to insult each other publicly and frontally, without harming their ethos (image), and therefore their probability of being elected (Amossy 2010; Auchlin 2000). The corpus studied to illustrate this consists of exchanges on terrorism and radicalization between minutes 57 and 82 during the debate inbetween two rounds of the presidential elections in 2017, between Emmanuel Macron and Marine Le Pen. The study endeavors to analyze the elements of indirection and more particularly the euphemisms and the implicit and ironic expressions with value of direct or defensive attack on this subject which aim, simultaneously, to disqualify the adversary in his capacities to assume the highest responsibilities; and to counter his attacks without ever apologizing - which would immediately mean electoral defeat. We will explain from this distinction, how a continuum exists between verbal violence and euphemism, to conclude on the relationships between euphemism and excuse. The theoretical framework is here, within the language sciences, that of pragmatics and philosophy of language articulated with performativity (Austin 1962). Language is considered here more generally from the perspective of the promise and the "word given" and its taking into account in an interactional interactional perspective (Allouch et al. 2010; Fracchiolla 2013b; Kerbrat-Orecchioni 1992; Vion 1999). ; En ...