« Nous sommes amazighes » : le parcours d’un syntagme entre marqueur identitaire et revendication sociopolitique

Abstract

In this contribution, we would like to study the discourse held on a collective identity through the phrase “Nous sommes amazighes” as it unfolds in the discourses of the Algerian media sphere. We propose to revisit how this sentence mobilizes work on the consolidation and re-definition of an Amazigh identity. Our study is to highlight a semantics of the meaning of the sentence studied through the linguistic categories identified, notably in terms of enunciation, and the processes of disfiguring, pre-construction and nominalization to study the nature of identity discourse. By studying the trajectory of this sentence, we can identify the foundations of a denominational exercise in relation to the requirements of a context(s) of use of this sentence.

Keywords

• discourse analysis
• identity discourse
• collective identity
• syntagm
• polemic