Des « bochonneries » qui font rire : les Allemands vus par les Poilus dans les journaux de tranchées

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Des « bochonneries » qui font rire : les Allemands vus par les Poilus dans les journaux de tranchées

Journal Title: Argotica - Year 2013, Vol 0, Issue 1

Abstract

This article aims to analyze the image of the Germans, the Kaiser and the Crown Prince, as reflected in the trench newspapers published by French soldiers during the 1914-1918 period. We want to deal with the strategies used to build the ethos of fighters by systematic disqualification of the enemy. This disqualification is founded on an emotional basis that appeals to all the most negative feelings, that is the pathos. In these magazines, this binary opposition serves to reinforce the sense of belonging to the French nation and the dislike of the enemy. Besides the serious arguments offered to demonstrate French superiority against the German « Kultur », the Poilus excel in the art of devaluation of Boche by the comic and the absurd, which find their best expression in « dirty words ». After a general introduction about the origin of these newspapers, their distribution and objectives, about our corpus and the methodology of investigation, we’ll look at the idea of « dirty word » to see, by several examples (verbal and iconic), that it includes an insulting and ironic functions and it is not restricted to words that are considered as taboo, but also to pejorative axiology, where the combination of a neutral word with a negative adjective can take a rough connotation.

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Loredana Trovato

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EP ID EP199896
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