Manifestation linguistique du patriotisme dans les discours politiques : le cas de la conquête spatiale américaine et russo-soviétique

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Supervisors

Jandrain, Tiffany

Faculty

Faculté de philosophie, arts et lettres

Degree label

Master [120] en traduction, à finalité spécialisée: affaires internationales et européennes

Abstract

enThis thesis, written in French, offers a linguistic and emotional analysis of four political speeches related to the space race, two Russo-Soviet and two American. Through this work, we seek to explore whether and how language used in a political context can create and reinforce a sense of patriotism. The first part establishes the theoretical background by defining the concepts of patriotism and the space race, and by introducing the resources used for emotional analysis, including Plutchik’s Wheel of Emotions and the NRC Emotion Lexicon. The second part presents the methodology and the corpus, made up of speeches by Nikita Khrushchev and Sergei Lavrov on the Russian side, and John F. Kennedy and Barack Obama on the American side, and explains how emotional terms were identified and extracted using Python. The third part forms the core of the thesis, where each speech is analyzed before being compared, first within each geopolitical bloc and then between the two.