Les insultes « mots-doux » dans les échanges conversationnels dans l’espace public en Côte d’Ivoire

Abstract

Insults are speech acts that punctuate social life. They arise mostly in a conflicting environment. However, an anusual case of insult can occur especially in conversations between some socio-professional categories that share a certain connection. These types of insult do not cause any offence that may provoke the addressee’s anger, because it is done through "gentle words".

Keywords

• conversation
• public places
• insult
• gentle-words insults
• gentle-words