En démocratie, sommes-nous préservés de la propagande de guerre ? "Détrumpez-vous"

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Supervisors

Hambye, Philippe

Faculty

Faculté de philosophie, arts et lettres

Degree label

Master [120] en communication multilingue

Abstract

enThis thesis concerns the propagandist speech and more particularly war propaganda in a democracy. A theoretical framework defines and allows to understand more fully the concept itself. It includes an analysis of the complex link between war propaganda and democracy, discursive comparisons of other types of speech, and a reading grid based on ten basic principles of war propaganda. The illustrative part concerns the 2003 US state lie and the propaganda made for the invasion of Iraq during the second Gulf War. It is more a question of exemplifying how the ten invariants work and how the propaganda arguments of Bush administration have been constructed than of proving if there is indeed a war propaganda (this fact having already been proved). The last part of this work is an actual update of the reading grid to a recent case still not analysed from a propagandist point of view. US President Donald Trump and his tweets about North Korea is the chosen research topic. At the end of this study, it will be possible to say whether the Republican president is potentially using war propaganda against the hermit country on his Twitter account. The means of communication are refine, become more complex and begin to organize all social and professional life. Consequently, the link between the propaganda speech and the new technologies and communication channels raises questions. In a democratic and liberal system, where counter-speeches find their place, what form (s) does war propaganda take? Which role does it play ?