| Summary: | The search of an agreement over values leads the speaker to define his standpoint and to orient his discourse. But, far from being clearly identified and immediately available, the axiological data are often left implicite. In front of a claim for justification, they may be explicited or built up gradually : the epistolary genre draws on a suitable cooperative frame to explore such a situation. This paper deals with a private electronic correspondence (2002- 2003) between a young man working in a public library near Lyon and a well-known sociologist, which has been published later on as an account of the situation of the stigmatized, suburban youth (sufferings, dilemmas and wishes). What is mainly examined here, from a pragmatic point of view, is the intertwining relations of the axiological verbal ressources and the valuation of the different elements of the communication (participants, objects, behavior, and verbal attitudes).
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