Langage de la répression versus rhétorique de la révolte : énonciation(s), argumentation(s) et implication(s) du discours menaçant à l’aube de la présidentielle camerounaise (2025)

Language of repression versus rhetoric of revolt: enunction(s), argumentation(s) and implication(s) of threatening discourse at the dawn of the Cameroonian presidential election (2025)

Abstract

This research explores the "war of words" between power and opposition on the eve of the Cameroonian presidential election of 2025. Drawing on the qualitative approach to discourse (Amélie Seignour), this study analyzes the system of enunciation and argumentation, and identifies the implications of the language of repression and the rhetoric of revolt. By examining the strategic and performative stakes of these two polarities of comminatory language in this sensitive political context, it sheds light on the games of power and influence that take place in the run-up to the election of the President of Cameroon.