Anglais LLCE

The present article analyzes the copular realization of GET in relation to its lexical transitive, intransitive motion and passive realizations. The change-of-state construction was previously defined by the author as X CHANGES TO Ystate. If COME, GO, TURN… copular realizations were proved to be constrained (Bonnefille, 2001 and 2004; Bonnefille & McMichael, 2001) by X MOVES TO Ylocation (Goldberg, 1995), the search for real-world constraints at work in this construction when used with GET leads us to the conclusion that the copular realization of GET is constrained by the blending of two constructions, i.e. X MOVES TO Ylocation and either X EXPERIENCES Y (with the meaning “receiving an object”) or X ACTS ON Y (with the meaning “obtaining/possessing an object”), depending on the degree of agenthood of X.

This paper pioneers a new field of research as its aim is to apply the cognitive linguistic tools to the analysis of green rhetoric. The corpus data is composed of President G. W. Bush’s eight State of the Union Addresses (SOTUA). Through a statistical analysis, the paper throws light on the importance attached to environmental issues and climate change in comparison with the text dedicated to the War on Terror theme. The paper then champions that Bush’s green rhetoric is based on narrative structures and a process of storytelling (Poletta, 2006) which allow the Bush Administration to strategically frame, in Lakoff’s sense (2004), climate change in order to influence the way the issue is then conceptualized by the American people. The concept of greenwash (Greer and Bruno, 1996) –or how posing as environmentally friendly can be used as a way of promoting another type of a not so eco-friendly reality– is finally called upon to highlight what those actual framing processes wishes to o...

Based on a cognitive-rhetorical approach, the author pursues her line of research as defined in past publications, i.e. applying the tools of cognitive linguistics to analyze the main rhetorical devices at work in American environmental policy discourse (BONNEFILLE, 2012, 2011, 2009, 2008). This article undertakes a discourse analysis of four official documents, in order to shed light on the strategies called upon by official sources to keep the American citizens, as well as the rest of the world, informed about the 2010 oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico and its aftermath. An official site, RestoretheGulf.gov, was created by the Environmental Protection Agency soon after the catastrophe occurred and three of its postings are analyzed here. The fourth document of the corpus corresponds to a confidential email written in May 2010 by Marcia McNutt, head of the scientific team which was dispatched to the Gulf of Mexico by the Department of Interior to evaluate the damage caused by the 201...

D ans la Rome antique, la damnatio memoriae (la condamnation de la mémoire) effaçait tout souvenir et toute trace de personnes considérées comme ayant porté atteinte à l'honneur de la cité et condamnées à mort : comme si elles n'avaient jamais existé. Dans l'Union Européenne (UE) aujourd'hui, il se passe quelque chose de comparable, avec l'acceptation tacite de la mort de milliers de migrants aux portes de l'Europe, perdus corps et biens, sans laisser de trace : comme s'ils n'avaient jamais existé. Comment cet effacement est-il possible, moralement et politiquement ? Par quelles médiations et par quelles interprétations cet effacement est-il produit ? 1 Le lieu emblématique de ce drame et de cet effacement est une petite île italienne, Lampedusa, perdue au milieu de la Méditerranée centrale, entre 1. Cette recherche a bénéficié de la collaboration de Stéphanie Bonnefille (maîtresse de conférences en linguistique cognitive, Climas, Université Bordeaux 3) qui a effectué une analyse linguistique des principaux discours publics tenus à propos de cet événement. Elle a aussi complété notre fonds iconographique par un reportage photographique à Lampedusa. Je tiens à remercier, pour leur apport à cette réflexion, Paolo Cuttitta, Mathias Delori, Bachir Khalef, les membres de l'équipe Médimurs, ainsi que mes relecteurs anonymes.