Analyse Linguistique du Discours de Presse Française : La Modalisation dans le Monde et Présent sur La Rencontre de Genève (1991)

Abstract

In this study, we make a comparative linguistic discours analysis of two political texts in two different French newspapers: Le Monde and Présent. Both texts deal with the same event that dates to (1991): “Geneva Meeting” before the first Gulf War. We seek, in effect, to highlight the similarities and differences found in the approaches of each newspaper. We will try, in one hand, to assess the linguistic mechanisms used to attract the public and convince this public and secondly to introduce topics and conditions of production of the discours. The linguistic discours analysis as we seek to build on throughout this paper will be developed around a major linguistic phenomenon: modalization developed by O. Galatanu (1999). We will see that every newspaper, specifically, text, has linguistic characteristics. So we try to update as much as common differences

In general, we will see that the concealment discursive mechanism of subjectivity is relatively stable in its dominance in both texts (newspapers). This can be explained by both the forms of words used and there values. The form of re (nominal / verbal labels and their modifiers)  dominate the forms of dicto (like modal verb or operator adjective of phrase where the modal subject (SM) is not  / is the I enunciator (Jeé) and impersonal subject; and modal adverbes).  About words values??, the axiological (moral, aesthetic, practical, intellectual and emotional hedonic) dominate overwhelmingly (51.6% on average), then the judgments of truth (epistmic and doxological:), the ontological (alethic and deontic) and the finalizing values (volitional and wishes).

Keywords: Modalization, Forms of re, Forms of dicto, Axiological values.