L’AFFRANCHISSEMENT DE LA FEMME AFRICAINE ENTRE FANTAISIE ET RÉALITÉ. LE CAS DU DISCOURS MILITANT IVOIRIEN
THE EMANCIPATION OF AFRICAN WOMEN: BETWEEN FANTASY AND REALITY. THE CASE OF IVORIAN MILITANT DISCOURSE

Summary/Abstract: The present study focuses on the feminine discourse campaigning for women's rights and equal opportunities and aims to investigate the emotional discursive arsenal where the expression of hope never ceases to prove that the emancipation of women can exceed the limits of fantasy. We envisage the range of a discursive analysis of emotional rhetoric, shining on affective linguistic rays such as hope, whose occurrences reflect optimism and the courage to aspire to change. Listed among the four positive emotions in Cicero: “hope, affection, pity, joy” (cf. Plantin, 2011), the notion of “hope” reigns over a discursive scenography constituting itself in a theatrical act whose actors never stop performing with the aim of touching the audience's affect and arousing in them their own feelings of optimism and encouragement. Through the analysis of the discourse at the level of feminine subjectivity generating pathemic states (Charaudeau, 2008) supposed to awaken in African women the feeling that they are capable of emancipation, it is an entire discursive panorama that we have in order to illustrate, a backdrop against which hope becomes an emotional modality linked to encouragement and constituting itself as a lever of determination and mobilization. This analysis aims to reveal the linguistic means illustrating the expression of the emancipation of women and will be carried out on the speech supported, on the occasion of MARCH 8, 2022, by the president of REFELA (Network of Local Elected Women of Africa), an Ivorian politician, Macoura Dao Coulibaly, a speech which seeks to glimmer the condition of women in African countries.

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