Formes et pratiques de la manipulation discursive
Forms and practices of discursive manipulation

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Summary/Abstract: The article begins with a short historical perspective of “manipulation” inFrench culture, at formal, notional and practical levels. On the sameoccasion, we have distinguished between cognitive manipulation andaffective one, as well as between manipulation and self-manipulation. Thelast distinction proves to be useful, the hidden action of the selfmanipulationfacilitating frequently the success of the manipulation.The analysis continues with the presentation of some manipulative formsand practices (especially flattery and seduction), which nowadays covervarious areas (media, politics, organizations, business, etc.).The notional network, which is (re)built from this theoretical way, will belater used for interpreting Rameau’s Nephew (Diderot), within an approachin accordance with the double view of manipulation: one inter-subjective,and other, intra-subjective.

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