Des « bochonneries » qui font rire : les Allemands vus par les Poilus dans les journaux de tranchées
Journal Title: Argotica - Year 2013, Vol 0, Issue 1
Abstract
This article aims to analyze the image of the Germans, the Kaiser and the Crown Prince, as reflected in the trench newspapers published by French soldiers during the 1914-1918 period. We want to deal with the strategies used to build the ethos of fighters by systematic disqualification of the enemy. This disqualification is founded on an emotional basis that appeals to all the most negative feelings, that is the pathos. In these magazines, this binary opposition serves to reinforce the sense of belonging to the French nation and the dislike of the enemy. Besides the serious arguments offered to demonstrate French superiority against the German « Kultur », the Poilus excel in the art of devaluation of Boche by the comic and the absurd, which find their best expression in « dirty words ». After a general introduction about the origin of these newspapers, their distribution and objectives, about our corpus and the methodology of investigation, we’ll look at the idea of « dirty word » to see, by several examples (verbal and iconic), that it includes an insulting and ironic functions and it is not restricted to words that are considered as taboo, but also to pejorative axiology, where the combination of a neutral word with a negative adjective can take a rough connotation.
Authors and Affiliations
Loredana Trovato
Keywords
Related Articles
- EP ID EP199896
- DOI -
- Views 82
- Downloads 0
Jazzologue, argotologue et néologue : Boris Vian, passeur et créateur de mots du jazz
Jazzologist, argotologist and neologist: Boris Vian, transmitter and creator of jazz words Boris Vian is not just a writer. An accomplished musician and crazy jazz lover, he has contributed, thanks to his immense talent...
Violenza verbale ed ethos: le ingiurie di Umberto Bossi e Beppe Grillo
The studies on verbal violence have mostly focused on the argumentative function of the insult, both highlighting its role of “last resort” in the absence of other evidence and seeing it as a performative tool apt to per...
Benjamin Valliet, Lexique ta mère, Tournai (Belgique), Éditions Fortuna, 2018, 128 p.
Sur la quatrième de couverture, Benjamin Valliet se présente sobrement comme un « auteur-compositeur-interprète [qui] délaisse parfois ses chansons pour écrire des livres ».
Les Effets persuasifs de l’humiliation en argot camerounais : le cas des mots et expressions désignant les parias de la société
The purpose of this article is to study the persuasive effects of slang words on humiliation in Cameroon. We focus on five categories of people: widows, albinos, unmarried women, sterile women and homosexuals. Our work t...
Pratiques langagières des cités dans Un homme, ça ne pleure pas de Faïza Guène
The affirmation of a new linguistic identity in French suburbs, correlated with social identity of the multiethnic youth, seems to be felt as well in French literature with the publication of many novels characterized by...