%0 Journal Article
%T Insulte, injure et diffamation : de la linguistique au code p¨¦nal ? Insults, Abuse and Libel: From Linguistics to Penal Code?
%A Dominique Lagorgette
%J Argumentation et Analyse du Discours
%D 2012
%I University of Tel-Aviv
%X alors que la plupart des ¨¦tudes de linguistique fran aise sur l¡¯insulte soulignent la confusion terminologique et th¨¦orique qui caract¨¦rise les d¨¦finitions de ces deux actes de langage, la notion purement juridique de diffamation peut-elle ¨¦clairer ce long d¨¦bat ? Le c ur du probl¨¨me semble ¨ºtre, outre l¡¯¨¦tymologie des termes, le statut de fait pr¨¦cis prouvable. L¨¤ o¨´ la linguistique r¨¦fute l¡¯id¨¦e d¡¯une valeur de v¨¦rit¨¦ de l¡¯insulte / injure, c¡¯est au contraire pour la loi l¡¯un des crit¨¨res les plus probants pour analyser et ¨¦ventuellement punir. Dans le cadre particulier du discours pol¨¦mique humoristique, cette notion prend une densit¨¦ particuli¨¨re puisque ce qui fait rire est subjectif, mais aussi parce que ce type de discours pol¨¦mique n¨¦cessite en soi une transgression afin de pouvoir op¨¦rer pleinement, comme l¡¯illustrera le proc¨¨s d¡¯un groupe punk dont on ¨¦tudiera les plaintes, les strat¨¦gies et les jugements. Considering that the terminological and theoretical confusion characterising the definitions of insults and the associated speech acts is underlined by most of French linguistics studies, to what extend could a concept such as ¡°libel¡±, coming from a different research field (law studies), enlighten the debate? The core of the problem seems to be about providing evidence about particular facts, so that the linguistic offense can be named as such. While linguistics rejects the truth-conditionality of insults, the French law on the contrary bases its criteria on this very notion. When polemical humour is involved, these nuances become crucial, since laughter is clearly based on subjective perceptions, but also because this type of discourse needs to transgress in order to become effective, as a case study based on the trial of a punk band will illustrate..
%K humour
%K denigration
%K transgression
%K truth
%K injure
%K outrage
%K diffamation
%K humour
%K satire
%U http://aad.revues.org/1312