The 2015 Nigerian general elections represented the first attempt to use technology to prevent electoral fraud. Its adoption by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) was initially met ...with disapproval and during the elections its malfunctioning generated widespread voters’ resentment. This article examines the influence of the breakdown of smart card readers (SCR) onvoters’ reactions towards the 2015 general elections in Lagos. It used a quantitative method to collect data from 315 randomly selected respondents using a multi-stage sampling approach. Focus group discussion and in-depth interviews provided complementary qualitative data. Logistic regression analysis indicated that the breakdown of SCRs was significantly related to the use of offensive language. The study found that the INEC’s use of unskilled card handlers during the elections caused verbal violence. Hopefully the employment of skilled card handlers in future elections will reduce the breakdown and prevent the potential occurrence of violence.
En France, le vote du Mariage pour tous a permis au mouvement de la manif pour tous d’émerger. Ce mouvement continue d’exister comme mouvement d’action collective cherchant à exercer une pression ...normative sur les représentations sociales des identités sexuées et de la famille à travers une idéologisation de la langue. Nous nous intéressons ici à la violence verbale liée à ce phénomène ainsi qu’au processus de « re-signification » utilisé par les contre-discours. Force est de constater la manière dont les valeurs, les espaces, les discours semblent se répartir en fonction d’un système en opposition binaire, dichotomique. Ainsi, au discours de la manif pour tous qui procède par une focalisation sur certains termes pour en contrôler le sens, répondent des contre-discours, créatifs, anti-normatifs, qui tendent au contraire à ouvrir sur de nouveaux sens.
La communication interethnique au Cameroun se caractérise souvent par un discours dévalorisant l’identité ethnique de l’autre. Lequel discours apparaît généralement sous forme d’insultes, de vannes, ...railleries ou blagues, racontées, chantées, romancées, radiodiffusées et télévisées parfois, et colportées de génération en génération. Cet article rend compte de quelques stratégies employées pour dénigrer l’altérité ethnique au Cameroun. Les analyses menées à partir de données (questionnaires, observations participantes, interviews), collectées à Yaoundé et dans d’autres régions du pays, montrent comment les Camerounais utilisent les emprunts, compositions nominales, métaphores, glissements sémantiques, métonymies, entre autres, pour déprécier, déshumaniser, diaboliser les membres de certains groupes ethniques et/ou pour gommer, phagocyter ou contester l’identité ethnique d’autres groupes.
Interethnic communication in Cameroon is sometimes characterized by a derogatory discourse on the ethnicity of others. This discourse generally appears in the form of insults, jokes, teases, etc. built into narrations, songs, fiction and telecasts, and is transported from one generation to the other. This article describes some of the strategies used to denigrate the ethnic identity of others in Cameroon. The analyses, based on data (questionnaires, participant-observations, interviews) collected in Yaoundé and other regions of the country, show how Cameroonians use borrowings, nominal compositions, metaphors, semantic shifts, metonymies, etc. to denigrate, downgrade, dehumanize, or demonize members of certain ethnic groups and/or to erase, minimize or contest the ethnicity of others and their ethnic groups.
This paper aims at questioning the conditions under which verbal violence can appear as legitimate, and the description that is made of public spheres where it can appear as acceptable discourse. Our ...work builds on previous research about two types of corpora: controversies that received a lot of media coverage on the one hand, and books written by female politicians on the other hand, books that denounce the recourse to insults as a specific form taken by sexist violence in politics. Two different conceptions of the legitimate ethos in public debate underlie these types of discourse: on the one hand the debaters accept the recourse to offensive language as part of the rules of the political game, and on the other hand, verbal abuse is condemned as a form of symbolic violence. These conceptions are here confronted to a set of interdisciplinary publications, which can shed light on contexts in which insult can become acceptable or even legitimate. This paper particularly puts the emphasis on research dealing with the different models that underlie proceedings in public debate, and the place given to conflict or verbal violence within each of them.
This article investigates the conviction among many biblical scholars that Revelation is a nonviolent
book. It first analyses some of the major arguments to support this thesis by investigating the ...book’s
perspectives on martyrdom, on witness, its spiritualizing language, and its message of divine judgment. It
then analyses in more depth how the non-violent message of the book is embedded in and reflects violent
language, how its seemingly positive portrayal of women is in fact permeated by gender violence and how
it portrays divine violence. The article concludes with brief hermeneutical remarks that reflect on how the
offensive dimensions of Revelation’s violent non-violence can be interpreted.
Paroles à la dérive Barnett, R-l Etienne
Neohelicon (Budapest),
06/2014, Volume:
41, Issue:
1
Journal Article
Peer reviewed
The present study scrutinizes the multifocal manifestations and grotesque comportments of "monstrousness" in the narrative prose of Éric Chevillard (Scalps and Démolir Nisard). Focusing on and ...questioning "monstrous" instances and ghastly verbal episodes in the contemporary author's works and the compelling dynamic that drives such impulse (e.g., violence revealing a determinative performativity in the establishment of monstrous individuals), this text seeks to illuminate the problematics of displacement and subversion associated with linguistic virulence and "monster-speak" with which Chevillard imbues his narrative.PUBLICATION ABSTRACT
The aim of the study was to investigate students' verbal violence experiences, the effect of assertiveness on being subjected to violence, the behaviour of students after the violence and the ...experience of psychological distress during practical training. The study sample consisted of 274 students attending a school of nursing. A questionnaire form and the Rathus Assertiveness Schedule (RAS) were used for data collection. Percentages, means and the independent samples t-test were used for the evaluation of data. During practical training, the students suffered verbal violence from teachers, department nurses and doctors. The students had higher mean scores of RAS for most types of violence committed by the teachers and being reprimanded by the nurses and 69.3% had not responded to the violence. Students with a high level of assertiveness are subjected to violence more frequently. Being subjected to verbal violence and feeling psychological distress during practical training are a major problem among nursing students. Students should be supported in terms of assertiveness and dealing with violence effectively.
Because it is provocative and is based on the denigration of absent third parties, shock jock discourse stimulates reactions that go well beyond the initial circle of listeners. Trash radio ...supporters and detractors alike take up the hosts' deprecating remarks, reinterpret them and put them back into circulation. As the repetitions multiply, interweaving private speech and public speech, a complex web of circulation forms, attesting to the contagiousness of the discourse and the influence of the radio hosts. In order to capture and explain this mechanism of propagation, we propose a model of analysis that combines elements of linguistic, discursive and pragmatic description. The model is illustrated by a case study. We are led to observe that the extent and rate of propagation of deprecating remarks inevitably affect the image of the person targeted and, more fundamentally, tend to make an aggressive mode of expression part of the natural speechscape.
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