L’argumentation dans le débat télévisé

Abstract

The present research aims to characterize the argumentation in the televised French-speaking debate; through a study conducted on the debate ""Criminal Court, the reform,"" presented by Ahmed Lahri and difused on December 6, 2010, on Canal Algeria, by the program ""Questions d'Actu. The whole of the interventions of the speakers of this debate constitutes our corpus. In this study which is inscribed, at the same time, in the analysis of the discourse and the conversational analysis, we proceeded to a general description of the argumentative dynamics, while we are particularly interested in the use of arguments by the speakers. This led us to classify the arguments according to the type of influence they exert, using several typologies, essentially that of P. Breton. Our study allowed us, among other things, to make a confrontation between the speakers' arguments and to note their similarities and divergences, to see the impact of the theme of the day on the exchange and to appreciate the dual role of the 'journalistfacilitator' of the debate.