LA POLÉMIQUE – UNE FORME PARTICULIÈRE DE COMMUNICATION CONFLICTUELLE
POLEMICS – A PARTICULAR FORM OF CONFLICTING COMMUNICATION

Summary/Abstract: Polemics – a particular form of conflicting communication. Our aim is to describe polemics as a particular form of conflicting interaction that has an intellectual stake. We show that its actors disagree on a certain question that they envisage in two irreconcilable manners. We deal with the various pragmatic and rhetorical aspects of polemics such as: its dialogical character; the nature of the disagreement that opposes its protagonists, that may concern a content, a lexical choice, the enunciation act or a behaviour of the adversary; the interpersonal relationship that the opponents build in the interaction; the role that argumentation takes in polemics. We finally show that polemics is a dynamic phenomenon that has a beginning, a course and an end and that it may move towards other objects or even degenerate as a result of the radicalisation of the conflict.

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