Les agressions à Cologne au prisme des discours politiques identitaires : traitement de l’événement et imaginaires politiques

Abstract

This paper analyses the Cologne attacks through identity discourses: a reaction from M. Le Pen, the extreme right-wing candidate; a speech of the member of Parliament V. Boyer and member of the right-wing party Les Républicains; two scholars who react on the media (A. Finkielkraut and D. Stoecklin); and one journalist (E. Levy), editing manager of the French on line journal Causeur. It isolates three means to interpret the event (serial data processing, predictive data processing, sequential data processing) through three linguistic phenomena: the Place Tahrir precedent, ab auctoritate quotation and phrases. These interpretations linked with political and competition issues also reveal the fictions about the migrants, the otherness and the self.

Keywords

• Cologne attacks
• identity political discourse
• political imagination
• contemporary precedent
• ab auctoritate quotation
• phrases