LA DESTITUTION D’AUTORITE : UNE HERMENEUTIQUE DE LA PRISE DE PAROLE
DESTITUTION OF AUTHORITY: A HERMENEUTICS OF SPEAKING

Summary/Abstract: Due to the expansion of social media and the growing credibility gap of academic institutions, new forms of authority have emerged. In the liberalized language market, each individual tries to build his/her own credibility and personal authority. One of the rhetoric tools for this project is the removal of an interlocutor’s verbal authority. With this new rhetoric device, the speaker accuses his/her interlocutor of not being the author of one’s own speech, of one’s own thought. Relieving someone of one’s personal verbal authority is a new form of violence in verbal interactions, a way to forcibly silence other speakers.

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