Les manipulations du discours de séduction : éclairage pragmatique

Manipulative discourse can be described as a strategy that tries to derail the interpretative processes. Through the pragmatic theory of Context Selection Constraint, this article shows how a speaker/manipulator can bend the addressee's interpretation mechanisms. In particular, we see that some...

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Main Author: Didier MAILLAT
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Language:English
Published: Laboratoire d’Etudes et de Recherches sur le Monde Anglophone (LERMA) 2017-12-01
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Online Access:https://journals.openedition.org/erea/5970
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description Manipulative discourse can be described as a strategy that tries to derail the interpretative processes. Through the pragmatic theory of Context Selection Constraint, this article shows how a speaker/manipulator can bend the addressee's interpretation mechanisms. In particular, we see that some manipulative strategies rely on seduction in order to constrain effectively the interpretative processes of the addressee. The proposed analysis draws on the literature in cognitive psychology to argue that some well-known cognitive biases can be shown to be at work in seduction-based manipulation.
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spelling doaj-art-327bf322543846a3bdcc405f308bab3e2025-08-20T02:47:27ZengLaboratoire d’Etudes et de Recherches sur le Monde Anglophone (LERMA)E-REA1638-17182017-12-0115110.4000/erea.5970Les manipulations du discours de séduction : éclairage pragmatiqueDidier MAILLATManipulative discourse can be described as a strategy that tries to derail the interpretative processes. Through the pragmatic theory of Context Selection Constraint, this article shows how a speaker/manipulator can bend the addressee's interpretation mechanisms. In particular, we see that some manipulative strategies rely on seduction in order to constrain effectively the interpretative processes of the addressee. The proposed analysis draws on the literature in cognitive psychology to argue that some well-known cognitive biases can be shown to be at work in seduction-based manipulation.https://journals.openedition.org/erea/5970pragmaticsmanipulationseductionfallaciescognitive biases
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title Les manipulations du discours de séduction : éclairage pragmatique
title_full Les manipulations du discours de séduction : éclairage pragmatique
title_fullStr Les manipulations du discours de séduction : éclairage pragmatique
title_full_unstemmed Les manipulations du discours de séduction : éclairage pragmatique
title_short Les manipulations du discours de séduction : éclairage pragmatique
title_sort les manipulations du discours de seduction eclairage pragmatique
topic pragmatics
manipulation
seduction
fallacies
cognitive biases
url https://journals.openedition.org/erea/5970
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