Les stratégies émotives d’un repentir public offensif

Abstract

This paper analyses Dominique Strauss-Kahn’s strategies of remorse in his interview to TF1 in September 2011, after the withdrawal of charges in the Dominique Strauss-Kahn vs Nafissatou Diallo case. The paper relates the expression of offensive remorse, which recognizes a mistake, but not guilt, to a series of emotions that are self-assigned or assigned to the other(s). It then examines the markers and indicators of the semiotisation modes of emotions (said, showed and supported emotions). Finally, it proposes the notion of showed emotion 2 to describe emotions that are assigned to the other(s) through empathy, and underlines the plurivalence of markers which explains the fact that they can, in a given context, be used in several semiotisation modes.

Keywords

• showed 2
• supported emotion; self-assigned emotions; emotions assigned to the other(s); speaker/enunciator disjunction.
• remorse
• said emotion
• showed 2 emotion
• supported emotion
• self-assigned emotions
• emotions assigned to the other(s)
• speaker/enunciator disjunction