L’image de la Guerre dans les manuels roumains de FLE
The Image of War in the Romanian FLE Textbooks

Summary/Abstract: Authentic document – model, the (non)literary text which can be found in the FFL textbooks (French as Foreign Language; FLE in original) accomplishes several functions and participates at the reconstruction of an interactive network around the discourses which support it. An analysis of French textbooks used in Romania during the communist regime will offer an image of the discourse building method at the interior of a vital institution of any society, namely the school.The main research question revolves around the image of War as illustrated in the textbooks chosen in the corpus. Several secondary questions are also tackled: (i) What is the role of the (non)literary text on the topic of War in the discursive complexity of Romanian FFL textbooks?(ii) Does the choice of a given small piece of (non)literary text illustrate the political realities of the respective historical period?The corpus which serves as a basis for our analysis is comprised of 6 FFL textbooks utilized during the communist regime, textbooks which were indispensable tools for the teachers at that time. The ending consists in a study of the image of War as illustrated in the FFL textbooks with a focus on the political orientation as well as its implications as to the content of the above-mentioned textbooks and, simultaneously, a study of the (discursive and textual) functioning of the (non) literary texts during the transition from one historical period to another.

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