Contenu du sommaire : Restons groupés ! La construction discursive des relations sociales

‪This article examines the word nationality in nineteenth-century British parliamentary debates. It shows that for most of the nineteenth century, the word nationality and the associated phrase “principle of nationality” primarily featured in British parliamentary speeches concerned with international affairs as MPs formulated alternative conceptions of identity and allegiance that were more directly compatible with the more diverse ethnic, religious and national make-up of Great Britain. ‪

‪This article presents the polemical and normative uses of the root-word patriot in the United States of America prior to 1917. Studying a corpus of socialist and non socialist press articles and essays, it analyses the processes of designation of opinion groups at a time when the involvement of the United States in the First World War loomed large. The designation of “patriots” became an object of discord and a debating point between the promoters of military “preparedness” and their socialist opponents. The article offers a panorama of the new debating lines that were drawn in the United States as the war unfolded in Europe. It documents the socialists' relation to the national we and contributes a national case study to the international history of socialism and nationalism.‪

‪This article offers a linguistic analysis of the use of pronouns in the texts of Jean Genet that are in favour of the Black Panther Party. Focusing on the key role they play in the writer's strategies of inclusion and exclusion, we show how the inconsistency of their use not only reveals tensions intrinsic to J. Genet's activism, but also underlines much wider difficulties attached to the practical and theoretical constitution of political communities.‪

‪After the colonial period and the Algerian war of independence, the protagonists found themselves designated by denominations in France. Some have appropriated these terminologies to self-identify with these groups. But the appellations referred to have not always been shared by all the individuals who were thus designated. Social and familial development influenced these historical categorizations and reshaped limits between self-identified groups and designated groups.‪

‪This article aims to bring out the forms of the discursive work of connection between the different categories which are capable of constructing a collective ethos and of allowing the formation of a group. It does so by mobilizing a theoretical framework based on sociology, information and communication sciences and discourse analysis applied to a corpus of interviews conducted within the association Amnesty International France.‪