Les « Blogs des indignés » ou la mise en scène de la colère de la Cité

• Main Author: Wojciech Prażuch
• Format: Article
• Language: Catalan
• Published: Adam Mickiewicz University 2015-12-01
• Series: Studia Romanica Posnaniensia
• Online Access: http://pressto.amu.edu.pl/index.php/srp/article/view/4305

The paper aims to discuss the means of expressing and inferring emotions using as an example the lexical and iconic layers of the blogosphere of the French Outraged movement. The analysis is based on a corpus of content taken from a dozen blogs written in France between 2010 and 2013. In the course of the analysis based on theoretical assumptions of modern discourse and argumentation analysis, the author concludes that the expression of outrage in the texts under investigation is a kind of emotional form which the active co-authors of the blogs actualize in their own manner and by doing so they create not so much pathos but rather ethos – both individual and communal, based on a system of shared values and beliefs. On the other hand, argumentation through emotions usually takes place indirectly, mostly by means of axiologically charged subjectification of discourse.