A dialogic speech act approach to ridiculing references in the French presidential debate of 2022
Affiliation:
1. “1 Decembrie 1918” University of Alba Iulia
Abstract
Abstract
The article proposes a dialogic approach to ridiculing in the French presidential debate of 2022, illustrating the
ridiculing act as representative of the core dynamics of political debates. The analysis enabled the configuration of a prototype
of the ridiculing act within a dialogic sequence of action and reaction, which shows that ridiculing most frequently occurs as an
immediate reaction or reactive chain to actions initiated in the free discussion sections of the dialogue. The selected dialogic
sequences are shaped by some particularities of ridiculing as a macro speech act of negative humour and the genre of the
presidential debate, such as the interplay of the different layers of meaning, as well as the fixed rules of turn-taking, the
front-staged nature of the talk and the participation framework.
Publisher
John Benjamins Publishing Company
Subject
Literature and Literary Theory,Linguistics and Language,Language and Linguistics,Cultural Studies