Speech powers or poetic mutations of the word in the poem "Dead" in Fer de Lance (pp. 54 – 57) by Bottey Zadi Zaourou
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https://doi.org/10.55595/ytr67s66Keywords:
Speech, Word, Deaths, Mutation, Poetic, Stylistics serialAbstract
From the perspective of discourse analysis, according to the Saussurean and Hjelmslevian
perspectives, it appears evident that the word, as a sign, results from a sociocultural dynamic. Thus,
it remains, above all, a bearer of meaning and underlies a space of interaction between
communicators. Later, Éric Landowski (2005, pp. 64-71) admits the principles of sensitivity and
randomness as foundations of the regimes of meaning and interaction of the lexical unit. Such an
orientation stems from the vision of tensive rhetoric of Jacques Fontanille (2001, p.130) which
reassures on the value of the word as “a phenomenal space of feeling”. Nourished by these reflections
and especially by that of Roman Jakobson, In Fer de Lance, Bernard Zaourou Zadi develops a poetics
of the word. Through this approach, speech, in all its evocative power, becomes the vector of a quest
for peace and freedom. The poem entitled "Morts" (pp. 54–57) concentrates all its isotopic tentacles.
With this problematic aim in mind, it is necessary to rely on serial stylistics. Indeed, this method
allows us to characterize and interpret the poetic mechanisms by which the speaker articulates
significance and meaning to bring out an intense oratorical speech
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