Euphemizing, Taking Position, Opposing, Imposing: Some Attenuating Strategies on Fillon’s affaire

Abstract

The Fillon affair constituted a dysphemic media discourse in which each speaking price allows one to ask oneself, to oppose or to impose oneself, by the use of euphemistic devices. We will endeavor to show how euphemization works in discourse insofar as it outlines an interdiscursive and interlocutive movement of interpretation or re-appropriation, it becomes a factor of saying without saying and the place of crystallization of political and media issues.