La rhétorique auto-victimiste comme stratégie argumentative dans la communication indépendantiste des panafricanistes du « Tout Sauf la France » The Self-Victimizing Rhetoric as an Argumentative Strategy in the Independentist Communication of Pan-Africanists from The "Anything but France" Movement
Main Article Content
Abstract
ABSTRACT: Among the features of the arguments of the Pan-Africanists who dedicate themselves body and soul to the Pan-African cause, there is one which is discreet, implicit or even unsuspected but which turns out to be conducive to capturing audiences in order to persuade them and to convince. This is the self-victimist rhetoric that not only intimately links the fate of Pan-Africanists to that of Africa, in a unique ethos of said and shown, but also turns out to be an effective strategy for the achievement of contact of the minds of speakers and their attendees so that the former can persuade and convince the latter. From there, the question arises for the analyst as to how does the claim of victim status by Pan-Africanists serve them as a communication strategy? How does it allow them to build a self-image for themselves and for Africa in order to attract the benevolence of their speakers and make them join their cause? It is therefore an analysis of the implications of this accusatory rhetoric of self-victimization that we will tackle in this reflection, which, for this, borrows its means of investigation from argumentative rhetoric and discourse analysis.
RÉSUMÉ : Parmi les traits de l’argumentaire des panafricanistes qui se vouent corps et âme à la cause panafricaine, il se trouve un qui est discret, implicite, voire insoupçonné mais qui s’avère propice à la captation des auditoires en vue de les persuader et les convaincre. Il s’agit de la rhétorique auto-victimiste qui lie intimement le destin des panafricanistes à celui de l’Afrique, dans un ethos unique du dit et du montré. Cette rhétorique s’avère être également une stratégie efficace pour la réalisation du contact des esprits des orateurs et de leurs allocutaires de sorte que les premiers puissent persuader et convaincre les seconds. De là, se pose pour l’analyste la question de savoir comment la revendication du statut de victime par les panafricanistes leur sert-elle de stratégie de communication ? Comment leur permet-elle de construire une image de soi pour eux et pour l’Afrique en vue de s’attirer la bienveillance de leurs allocutaires et les faire adhérer à leur cause ? C’est donc à une analyse des implications de cette rhétorique accusatrice de l’auto-victimisation que nous nous attèlerons dans la présente réflexion qui, pour cela, emprunte ses moyens d’investigation à la rhétorique argumentative et l’analyse du discours.
Article Details
All authors published in ALTRALANG Journal retain the copyright to their work and grant ALTRALANG Journal the right of first publication. Simultaneously, the work is licensed under an open-access Creative Commons CC BY 4.0 license meaning that anyone may download and read the article for free. In addition, the article may be reused and quoted, provided that the original published version is cited. Such terms facilitate extensive utilisation and visibility of the scholarly output while guaranteeing due recognition to the authors.
Authors sign a Copyright Agreement Form to provide the copyrights to ALTRALANG Journal needed to publish and disseminate the article in current and future formats, including migrating journals to new platforms and preserving journal content.
PROTECTING AUTHOR RIGHTS: Copyright aims to protect the specific way the article has been written to describe an experiment and the results. ALTRALANG Journal is committed to its authors to protect and defend their work and their reputation and takes allegations of infringement, plagiarism, ethic disputes, and fraud very seriously.
LICENSE: This work is licensed under a Creative Commons CC BY 4.0 license