The purpose of this article is to contribute to the analysis of a genre, 'discourse about the dead', which has not been studied very much from the standpoints of rhetorical argumentation and discourse analysis. In particular, I shall focus on the obituaries published in the newspapers of the French trenches of World War 1 in an attempt to highlight their main characteristics in connection with the processes of constructing biographical memory. After presenting the corpus, I shall tackle the question of the writer-reader relationship and classify the obituaries into three specific types. Finally, I shall examine the particularities of these three categories and the ways in which these obituaries tell the story of each soldier's life and death.
Les nécrologies des Poilus dans les journaux de tranchées de la Grande Guerre
loredana trovato
2017-01-01
Abstract
The purpose of this article is to contribute to the analysis of a genre, 'discourse about the dead', which has not been studied very much from the standpoints of rhetorical argumentation and discourse analysis. In particular, I shall focus on the obituaries published in the newspapers of the French trenches of World War 1 in an attempt to highlight their main characteristics in connection with the processes of constructing biographical memory. After presenting the corpus, I shall tackle the question of the writer-reader relationship and classify the obituaries into three specific types. Finally, I shall examine the particularities of these three categories and the ways in which these obituaries tell the story of each soldier's life and death.Pubblicazioni consigliate
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