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Challenging stereotypes about arabs and muslims in post 9/11 female american novels : the case of Lorraine Adams’ Harbor (2004), Lorrie Moore’s A Gate at the Stairs (2009), and Claire Messud’s The Woman Upstairs (2013)
(Université M'Hamed Bougara Boumerdès : Faculté des lettres et des langues, 2022) Benjaballah, Keltoum; Chouiten, Lynda(Directeur de thése)
The purpose of this thesis is to shed light on the positive representations of Arabs/Muslims in three post 9/11 female American novels: Claire Messud’s The Woman Upstairs (2013), Lorraine Adams’s Harbor (2004) and Lorrie Moore’s A Gate at the Stairs (2009).The 9/11 attacks in the United States have completely changed the world by drawing a strong connection between Islam and “terrorism.” The teachings of Islam are emphatically said to encourage bloodshed and violence and Muslims/Arabs are systematically called “terrorists” by Westerners. The post 9/11 has also been heavily marked by Orientalist discourse which extremely reinforces the superiority of the West and the inferiority of the East as Edward Said argues in his Orientalism. This period has witnessed harsh depictions of Arabs/Muslims or anyone who looks like them. More importantly, the stereotypical images about Arabs/Muslims have gone beyond the abusively disparaging speech or writing and have reached concrete violence and extreme discrimination in the United States. Post 9/11 American fiction reproduces and reinforces the stereotypical images about Arabs/Muslims. Post 9/11 novels such as Sherry Jones’s The Jewel Of Medina (2008), Homa Pourasgari’s The Dawn of Saudi (2009), John Updike’s Terrorist (2006), and Don Dellilo’s Falling Man (2007) provide an Orientalist depiction of Arabs/Muslims and take part in the vilification of these people and their religion: Islam is depicted as a source of violence and oppression for women and Muslims/Arabs are claimed to be the threatening “terrorist” Other whose presence among the American people is not only a threat to the national security but a source of personal trauma and psychic disturbance as well. In such a context, offering a startlingly positive portrayal of Arabs/Muslims in the aftermath of the 9/11 events seems to be a challenge. Messud, Adams, and Moore destabilize the demonization of the so-called “terrorist” Other and substitute to this stereotype portraits of peaceful Arab/Muslim characters who live with the American people without causing any harm to them, neither physical nor psychological. Their Arab/Muslim male characters treat women appropriately and lovingly without any kind of misogyny. Similarly, veiled/Muslim women in the selected novels appear to be positively portrayed. They are ordinary characters neither oppressed nor submissive. Unexpectedly, patriarchy which is associated with the East within the Orientalist discourse and is reinforced in post 9/11 American fiction, appears to be linked to the West in the post 9/11 novels under study. Messud, Adams and Moore extend the thread of their positive depiction of both Arab/Muslim males and females to their relationship with the American characters in the novels. This relationship is supposed to be fraught with psychological disturbance as portrayed in other post 9/11 American fiction; yet, the writers inject new positive images of peaceful coexistence, with an emphasis on the positive influence of the Muslim/Arab Other on the American Self.
Chinua achebe, robert penn warren, joseph conrad and henrik ibsen : literary affinities and influences
(2008) Maidi, Naïma
The following dissertation is a comparison of one of the most outstanding authors in modern African literature, Chinua Achebe and three other writers of world-wide acclaim; the American Robert Penn Warren, the British Joseph Conrad and the Norwegian Henrik Ibsen. At the basis of the research is a belief that a commonality of experience and interests can lead writers belonging to different cultural backgrounds and disparate geographic areas to write in a similar way and develop similar themes. A number of literary critics, inspired mainly by the ideologies of Negritude, the Black Arts movement and the notions allied to them, and convinced of the uniqueness of the African experience and the specific context of African writings, have very often compared Chinua Achebe’s novels with other works by African and Afro-American writers. Dwelling on these concepts (Negritude, the Black Arts movement) has blurred for them the cultural affinities that may exist between African and western writings. We have attempted to avoid the pitfalls of previous comparative criticism by establishing linkages between West African writing and Wstern literary traditions. This dissertation contains three chapters; the first chapter deals with the affinities between Achebe’s A Man of the People and Robert Penn Warren’s All the King’s Men in terms of their characterisation, narrative structure, themes and mode of writing. The second treats the intertextual relationships between Achebe’s A Man of the People and Conrad’s Nostromo. In the third chapter, we have further carried our analysis by drawing parallels between Achebe’s A Man of the People and Ibsen’s play An Enemy of the People. This chapter has considered the similarities in terms of characterisation, imagery and themes. The final conclusion that can be drawn from this comparison is that Achebe’s work can be read in the light of three distinct literary traditions: The American Southern literature, the Edwardian Literature of the turn of the 20th century and the Norwegian (Victorian) literature of the second half of the Nineteenth Century. This assumption has been more or less demonstrated in the present dissertation. The intertexts of Achebe’s A Man of the People are of three orders: literary affinity, influence difference and impact
A comparative study of formal and thematic responses to the representation of marriage in victorian literature in john fowles's postmodern novel the french lieutenant's woman and jeffery eugenides's metamodern novel the marriage plot
(Université M'Hamed Bougara : Faculté de Technologie, 2023) Aissa Dilmi, Sabrina; Chouiten, Lynda(Directeur de thèse); Benmezal, Farid(Directeur de thèse)
This thesis is a comparative study of literary responses to the representation of marriage in Victorian literature in John Fowles’s Postmodern novel The French Lieutenant’s Woman and Jeffery Eugenides’s Metamodern novel The Marriage Plot. It aims specifically to examine the different ways in which Fowles and Eugenides respond to the form and content of the Victorian novel in treating marriage in relation to the respective philosophical understanding of truth. In essence, both authors seek a literary tradition that is more fully responsive to the cultural and material impulses of their new worlds. To demonstrate Fowles’s deconstruction and Eugenides’s reconstruction of truth, this thesis draws its methodological foundations on form and content from Bakhtinian, Marxist, Feminist and Metamodern concepts. These theories are pertinent to this research because, despite using various methodologies, they all elicit the Postmodern and Metamodern textual implications that Fowles and Eugenides use to find a valid contemporary voice among the overpowering influence of the classic Victorian marriage plot. The results of this study show how the Postmodern and Metamodern texts reveal a deep crack in the traditional marriage in the Victorian novel. These texts create a rich and valid source from which to examine the development of form. This study simultaneously discusses content, and how its narratives connect to larger cultural narratives of class and gender. The multidisciplinary aspect of this research emphasizes the interconnection between nineteenth, twentieth and twenty-first century literary works and cultural history. Fowles turns to the Victorian novel to deconstruct the nineteenth-century fiction and marriage, rejecting its objective truth. Eugenides, however, oscillates towards both the Victorian and Postmodern fiction in an attempt to restore truth.
A counter-discourse against the failure of strikes in strike novels
(Université M'Hamed Bougara Boumerdès : Faculté des lettres et des langues, 2021) Bouadda, Farida; Amimour, Souad(Directeur de thèse)
This thesis is a study of workers’ exploitation and the possibility of the effectiveness of strikes to reduce labor exploitation. The work stoppage in Peter Abrahams’ Mine Boy (1946) is used as a counter-discourse against the failure and ineffectiveness of strikes in Emile Zola’s Germinal (1885) and John Steinbeck’s In Dubious Battle (1936). My aim is to use Mine Boy to scrutinize the way labor strikes can lower the exploitation of labor unlike what Zola and Steinbeck promote in their novels. Zola points out the shortcomings of the Marxists and anarchists and condemns labor strikes arguing that this social movement would spiral out of control. Instead, he calls for the role of the republican government to go for reform to preserve the rights of the workers. Steinbeck, as well, highly criticizes the communists. He argues against the strike that they instigate by emphasizing that it is a specter that must be crushed. He calls the liberal government to interfere to preserve the reputation of the US as a nation of justice. Both writers portray the radicals as hypocrites who care for their personal interests, and the strikers as an uncontrollable force that cannot be guided. For both novelists, reform within the capitalist system is the only right solution as the strike is a destructive and fearful social movement that leads to plight and affliction. Against this judgment, Abrahams exposes the way the South African government, which has a capitalist leaning, uses the system of segregation in order to take the non-whites and the poor whites as a cheap labor- force. In Mine Boy, he exposes the hypocrisy of the liberals and questions the legitimacy of the idea of the superiority of the white race arguing that it is fabricated in order to control the labor-power. Unlike Zola and Steinbeck who use their literature to solidify the capitalist narratives that help to exploit the labor-force, Abrahams bring them to light in order to dismantle them. Instead of relying on the role of the liberals, he shows the way labor strikes are the only method to fight against labor exploitation and work for equality. In order for this thesis to have a methodological base, the following theories are to be used: the Marxism of Georg Luk?cs and Antonio Gramsci, Emile Zola’s theory of naturalism, John Steinbeck’s argument of phalanx, and Noam Chomsky’s concept of Anarchism. These theories are relevant for this thesis because they all study the struggle between labor and capital and they all hold the context of the crowd and the rise of the mob against labor exploitation, the focal points that the three novelists build their novels upon
Cultivating EFL students’ intercultural communicative competence through cultural memes analysis : the case of third year students at the department of english, theuniversity of Guelma
(Université M'Hamed Bougara Boumerdès : Faculté des lettres et des langues, 2025) Sellami, Amina; Meftah, Yazid
At the dawn of the 21st century, intercultural competence is stressed more than ever before. Notwithstanding, intercultural education is found to be scarcely introduced to third year EFL learners at Guelma University, Algeria. Therefore, this research aims to cultivate Guelma University third year EFL learners' intercultural communicative competence through cultural memes analysis using multimodal discourse analysis. To attain this goal, quasi-experimental and mixed-methods designs were adopted. Two questionnaires were administered to EFL teachers and third year students at Guelma University as situational and needs assessment tools. Findings from the questionnaires revealed the absence of intercultural education in the aforementioned setting, students' low intercultural competence, and their positive attitudes towards memes-based learning. A quasi-experiment with two intact groups of third year EFL students at Guelma University was carried out. The quantitative findings from the pretest-posttests of the experiment using the Mann Whitney U and Wilcoxon Signed-ranks tests revealed that using cultural memes analysis has contributed to enhancing students' intercultural communicative competence in oral classes. A significant difference of p=0.00> 0.05 in favour of the experimental group, in contrast to the control one, was found. The qualitative findings from the experiment's classroom discussions, observation, students' reflection journals, and focus group discussion revealed that all dimensions of intercultural communicative competence, namely, knowledge, attitudes, skills and critical cultural awareness were cultivated. The treatment also revealed that memes-based learning increases participation, boosts motivation, and reduces anxiety and boredom. Eventually, the study outlined some pedagogical implications and recommendations to ameliorate intercultural education and memes-based learning in the Algerian EFL classes
Du contact aux conflits dans la gestion du plurilinguisme au sein des entreprises algériennes : cas de l'entreprise ENIEM
(2019) Mokrani, Lyla
Notre travail s’inscrit dans le cadre de la sociolinguistique. Il s’inscrit précisément dans le cadre de la sociolinguistique urbaine qui décrit la relation entre les langues et les villes ainsi que l’effet qu’ont les unes sur les autres. De ce fait, nous avons ambitionné d’analyser les pratiques langagières des employés de l’ENIEM de Tizi-Ouzou, afin de comprendre la gestion du plurilinguisme et les conflits de langues au sein de cette entreprise. Pour ce faire, nous avons posé la question centrale suivante : Quels contact et conflits de langues, les employés de l’ENIEM ont-ils dans la gestion de leur plurilinguisme au sein de leur entreprise ? Pour répondre à cette question, nous avons supposé que dans la gestion de leur plurilinguisme, les employés de l’ENIEM ont des contacts de langues qui conduisent aux conflits de langues. Notre étude a adopté une approche qualitative étant donné que nous avons recouru à une étude de contenu en analysant les données des enregistrements récoltés lors des entretiens non directifs et des questions ouvertes du questionnaire. Nous avons également fait appel à une approche quantitative pour analyser les données du questionnaire notamment les questions fermées et mi-ouvertes. Notre corpus est donc constitué de cent vingt questionnaires remplis par les employés de la direction générale de l’entreprise ENIEM de Tizi-Ouzou, cinq entretiens non directifs et de deux grilles d’observations : Une est destinée pour les directeurs et les dirigeants, et une autre pour les employés. Après vérification des résultats, nous sommes parvenue à conclure que, dans la gestion de leur plurilinguisme, les employés de l’ENIEM (ceux de notre échantillon) recourent à la langue première (appelée le zeddi mouh) et au français même en contexte formel. Ce qui exclut et minorise l’arabe standard (pourtant langue nationale et officiellement utilisé dans les administrations algériennes)
The empowered female character in the science fiction of black women writers
(Université M'hamad Bougara : Faculté des Sciences, 2022) Djeddai, Imen; Benabed, Fella(Directeur de thèse)
Black women writers are deemed as newcomers to the realm of science fiction since this genre is historically associated with white male writers. In an alternative future, Octavia E. Butler, Nalo Hopkinson, Nnedi Okorafor, and Sherri L. Smith depict the interlocking elements of oppression, such as race, gender, and class. Therefore, I argue that, although white male writers have had their deep influence on science fiction throughout history, the African American and Caribbean women authors, that I have chosen in this study, subvert the interlocking elements of oppression, such as racism, sexism, and classism; they represent empowered Afrofuturist protagonists through their novels: Fledgling, Midnight Robber, the Binti trilogy, and Orleans. The aim of this thesis is to study black feminist science fiction and its relationship to issues that affect the lives of black women in twenty-first century America. In this thesis, I use black feminism, Afrofuturism, and the “Cyborg Manifesto” as theoret ical frameworks to analyze the aforementioned novels. The female protagonists, Shori Matthews, Tan Tan, Binti, and Fen de la Guerre use their own strategies to cope with oppression and marginalization, and they struggle in a male dominated world to become strong women. Consequently, Butler, Hopkinson, Okorafor, and Smith succeed in creating utopian societies that challenge the notions of racism, sexism, and classism in their imagined Afrofuturist worlds
Existentialism as humanism in philip larkin’s poetry
(2012) Omar, Kamel
This study explores the notions of Existentialism and Humanism in Philip Larkin's poetry. Relying on Jean Paul Sartre's idea that "Existentialism is Humanism", it aims at demonstrating that Larkin incorporated existentialist thought in his poems, which contributed to reinforce the humanist perspective in his poetry. Existentialism and Humanism are thus discussed in the light of Larkin's supposed negativist view of life. Consequently, his pessimism is taken as the starting point of the argument to show that beyond his potentially pessimistic view lies the belief in humanity's potential for transcendence and regeneration. This binary perception of life, which is only one aspect of Larkin's dualistic perspective, is rendered here through the discussion of existentialism, first, and then of humanism. This dichotomous structure of this thesis stems from --but is also intended to shed more light on-- the tension that characterizes Larkin's texts. Larkin employed thus existentialism to show that in order to be 'human', Man needs to confront difficulties, his flaws, his contradictions, his predicament, and even his barbarity. This work assumes that Larkin's dwelling on the negative side of life in general, contributes to highlight what is positive in it. Consequently, pessimism and optimism are examined together in order to allow the exploration of the philosophical view behind this dualistic perception
The faustian reincarnation in rick riordan's the lightning thief and the last olympian, michael dobbs' house of cards and the final cut and joe hill's horns
(Université M’hamed Bougara-Boumerdès: Faculté des Lettres et des Langues Etrangères, 2021) Cheraifia, Djihed; Bouhassoun, Azzeddine(Dircteur de thèse)
Many studies have discussed the archetypical story of Faust, a dissatisfied scholar who sold his soul to the devil tracing it back the Germanic tribes and Biblical stories. This story inspires many writers, authors, poets and playwrights in both classical and modern literature. The Faustian archetype has reincarnated in postmodern literature in a new form that is characterized by a humanized devil whose humanization manifests itself in different ways, a Faustian quest for power and the acceptance of Faust’s reincarnations within the different levels of identity. This new form is present in Rick Riordan’s The Lightning Thief and The Last Olympian, Michael Dobbs’ House of Cards and the Final Cut and Joe Hill’s Horns. The thesis examines the three major elements of the Faustian myth: Faust, the devil and the relationship between them. The research questions are answered by conducting a comparative analytical study of the chosen postmodern literary works with reference to Goethe’s Faust as one of the archetype’s early reincarnation. This research aims to identify the archetype in the chosen postmodern works and to inspect and explain the shift in attitude toward its major elements. It depends on three theories: the infrahumanization theory proposed by Layens and his colleagues, Nietzsche’s Will to Power and the Self-Categorization Theory by Turner and his colleagues. While the thesis provides many new insights into the subject of the Faustian archetype and archetypes in general, it also opens new scopes in literature by highlighting new possibilities in the field
Frederick Douglass’s Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass (1845) and Harriet Jacobs’s Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (1861) : Twentieth-Century Perspectives
(2011) Boucetha, Nassira
Gender and the nation in the novels of ahlam mosteghanemi and ahdaf soueif
(2019) Khireddine, Amel
"Arab Nationalism" and "National Identity" have long been chief concerns in the Arab world. It goes without doubt that Western colonisation, which plagued most Arab nation-states, has the greatest impact on bolstering Arabs' nationalist sentiments and reformulation of national and communal identity. Although every Arab nation-state sets its own denominators for its foundation, shared history, religious moral values, and the Arabic language remain the indisputably revered national unifiers and signifiers of the Arab identity. Arab national discourse, outstandingly male-dominated, applauds these constituents which are supposed to stand for a homogeneous authentic Arab identity. Yet, while projecting man as the unsurpassed national hero, this discourse looks at women merely as the nation's boundary markers, as symbols or, at best, bearers and transmitters of national culture. However, with the advent of a feminist trend in the Arab world- a trend which coincided with the rise of nationalist resistance movements- iconic female figures staggeringly inscribed their names in the contemporary male-led Arab literary agenda. While being concerned with giving a voice to the silenced subaltern women, some of those postcolonial feminist Arab women writers go further towards reimagining a new construction of the national identity and community which undoubtedly disrupts the conventional definition of an Arab "imagined community". On those grounds, the present thesis, entitled Gender and the Nation in the Novels of Ahlam Mosteghanemi and Ahdaf Soueif, attempts to offer two different alternative feminist narrations of the nation which, in a way or another, counteract the Arab hegemonic patriarchal national discourses. By comparing and contrasting the writers' novels: Dhakirat al-Jasad and Fawda al-Hawas by the Algerian writer Ahlam Mosteghanemi and In the Eye of the Sun and The Map of Love by the Egyptian writer Ahdaf Soueif, I aim at demonstrating the extent to which those writers are conformists or not to the Arab conventional conception of national identity and community in its relation to gender politics. Though in her novels, Mosteghanemi seeks to reclaim a pure Algerian Muslim Arab national identity, she is certainly intent to speak out her heroine's female-self and cultural agency and hence her conformism is partial. Conversely, Soueif, in her artistic output, pushes aside all historical, moral and linguistic frontiers deemed to mark Arab national identity. Unlike her Algerian contemporary, Soueif's national map incorporates the Western Other while her pen draws unconventional scenes relating to Arab woman's sexuality
George Bernard shaw's feminist vision in Mrs. Warren's profession, man and superman and pygmalion
(2012) Temouh, Ouahiba
The purpose of this dissertation is to assess the development, consistency and comprehensiveness of George Bernard Shaw's feminist vision. To this end, this study proposes to explore the playwright's feminist stance in three plays which represent different periods in his dramatic career: Mrs. Warren's Profession, Man and Superman and Pygmalion. Such works are analysed in the light of three poetics: the Marxist Feminist Theory, The Gynoecocentric Theory and the Socialist Feminist Theory. This research work is divided into five chapters. The first two set the scene for a better understanding of the dramatist's feminist thinking as they shed light on the social, cultural and literary backgrounds of the plays discussed. The first chapter in particular examines the social, economic, legal and political status of Victorian women. It highlights the central role played by the feminist movement in the struggle for the dismantling of the patriarchal system. The second chapter surveys the representation of the woman question by Shaw's predecessors and contemporaries. Furthermore, it discusses the position of Victorian women in the theatre as dramatists, actresses and actor manageresses. It also marks the role they played in the emergence of an English feminist drama by the late- nineteenth and the early twentieth centuries. The chapters that follow are devoted to a thematic and textual study of the plays. The third provides a Marxist feminist analysis of Mrs. Warren's Profession. It reveals that, by the early 1890s, as a Fabian feminist, Bernard Shaw was concerned mainly with the economic dimension of woman's oppression. His feminist comitment was part of his reformist socialist project. The fourth chapter offers a feminist reading of Man and Superman in the light of L. F. Ward's Gynoecocentric Theory. The study of this play underscores the development of the Shavian feminist vision. It shows how, by the early twentieth century, apart from his interest in woman's economic independence, the playwright asserted her superiority over man, a superiority which stems from her reproductive power. This power is, in his view, the prime mover of creative evolution. Therefore the chapter explains how Shaw's vitalist philosophy was centred on his feminist convictions. Pygmalion, the last play in this dissertation, is discussed from a Socialist Feminist standpoint in the fifth chapter. The study of this work brings to light Shaw's ability to provide a more comprehensive analysis of the woman question by the second decade of the twentieth century. By this time, he argued that the overthrow of patriarchal dominance would result, not only from outer reforms such as the establishment of Socialism, but from women's inner revolt against oppression as well; in other words, from their psychological development. Hence the analysis of Pygmalion highlights the fact that in this period Shaw's feminist engagement transcended his socialist concern. Finally, in the conclusion I assert that the three plays, i.e. Mrs. Warren's Profession, Man and Superman and Pygmalion, dramatise a comprehensive, consistent, and developing feminist vision. Such characteristic features confirm Shaw's longstanding commitment to the cause of woman's liberation and his repudiation of the dominant phallocentric theatrical tradition
Imperialism in kipling's kim and forster's a passage to India
(2008) Kechida, Nawal
Kenyan and Algerian literary connections : dissertation submittedin partial fulfilment of the requirements
(2006) Gada, Nadia
The Following dissertation is a comparison of two outstanding authors in modern African literature; Ngugi Wa Thiong’O from Kenya, East Africa and Kateb Yacine from Algeria, North Africa. At the basis of the research is a belief that a commonality of experience and interests can lead writers belonging to different cultural backgrounds and geographic areas to write in a similar way and about similar themes. Indeed, colonial policies are such that contacts between East Africa and North Africa were scarce if not totally impossible during the Colonial Period. In the literary field, these contacts were short-circuited by a colonialist criticism that has continued to deal with African literature within “zones of influence” marked off during the Colonial Period. We have attempted to break away from these “zones of influence” by establishing linkages between a North African writing in French and an East African writing in English. This dissertation contains four chapters; the first chapter deals with the similarities of the contexts. The second treats personal histories that gave birth to literary affinities between Ngugi and Kateb the novelists. In the third chapter, we have carried further our analysis by drawing parallels between the two novels in terms of their narrative structure, characterisation, plot and themes. One of our conclusions is that these novels are modernist in the sense that both writers are involved in a quest for a personal style, a style that is most evident in the deployment of some modernist techniques such as flashbacks and interior monologues. In addition, the two novels contain some elements from the oral tradition. The fourth chapter is devoted to the analysis of Ngugi’s and Kateb’s shift to drama. Two stages are distinguished in the careers of Ngugi and Kateb as playwrights. In the first stage, Kateb and Ngugi abided to some extent by the principles of the Aristotelian tragedy but they also introduced new elements that made of Kateb’s Le Cacdavre encerclé, a lyrical tragedy, and Ngugi’s The Trial of Dedan Kimathi, a heroic tragedy. In the second stage of their dramatic careers, Ngugi and Kateb moved to Brechtian epic theatre still in response to the need to keep in touch with the people. The two works studied in this part of our dissertation are Ngugi’s I Will Marry When I Want and Kateb’s Mohamed, prends ta valise. The final conclusion that can be drawn from this comparison is that “zones of influence” that Eurocentric literary criticism has maintained after the departure of colonial powers should be blasted. We hope that this dissertation has contributed in a way to this breaking of literary barricades
L'euphémisation et l'hyperbolisation dans le discours journalistique sportif : cas de le quotidien d'Oran et d'El moudjahid
(Université M'Hamed Bougara Boumerdès : Faculté des Sciences, 2025) Mokrani, Farah; Bektache, Mourad(Directeur de thèse)
Le discours journalistique a été depuis plusieurs années au centre d'intérêt des chercheurs dans le domaine de l'analyse du discours. Dans le cadre de cette recherche, nous nous intéressons, justement au discours produit dans le domaine de la presse écrite. Partant du postulat selon lequel l'énonciateur (le journaliste dans le cas de notre étude) emploie l'euphémisme et l'hyperbole dans le discours journalistique comme stratégie de communication, l'euphémisme est utilisé comme procédé d'atténuation dans des contextes bien précis, tandis que l'hyperbole est employée comme procédé d'amplification dans des situations bien déterminées. Pour mener cette étude, nous avons choisi de travailler sur deux rubriques, l'éditorial et la rubrique sport du fait qu'ils soient très riches en figures de styles. Notre corpus est puisé dans deux journaux différents : El Moudjahid et le Quotidien d'Oran. Ce choix est motivé par l'appartenance du premier journal au secteur publique (étatique) et le second au secteur privé. Ces deux journaux présentent des lignes éditoriales opposées. En s'appuyant sur les méthodes d'analyse du discours, nous avons essayé de déterminer une typologie des figures de styles employées par les journalistes dans les rubriques éditoriale et sport. Cette étude a permis également de démontrer que le recours à l'emploi des figures de style (hyperbole/euphémisme) répond à une stratégie de discours entreprise par le journaliste. Le recours à l'euphémisme est beaucoup plus marqué dans les éditoriaux, tandis que l'hyperbole est beaucoup plus utilisée dans les articles de sport. L'euphémisme répond à une stratégie d'atténuation. Par contre, l'hyperbole est utilisée à des fins d'amplification dans le discours
Les compétences interactionnelles des candidats à l’entretien d’embauche : le cas des enseignants universitaires d’UMBB 2017/2018
(Université M'Hamed Bougara Boumerdes : Faculté des Sciences, 2022) Aissi, Hadjer; Benaouda, Habiba(Directeur de thèse)
Produire des actes interactionnels corrects en montrant les compétences et les capacités adéquates au poste à pourvoir constituent un moyen de présentation de soi efficace dans le contexte de l’entretien d’embauche universitaire. En effet, l’objectif de la présente recherche consiste à observer et à relever les mécanismes stratégiques interactionnels déployés par les entretenus afin de surmonter les difficultés rencontrées et de réparer les pannes communicatives lors de l’entretien d’embauche universitaire. De ce fait, nous avons amorcé notre travail par une question centrale : Les candidats aux entretiens d’embauche d’enseignants à l’université M.B de Boumerdès, adoptent-ils des stratégies interactionnelles relevant de la compétence interactionnelle aux entretiens de l’année 2017/2018 ? Et deux questions secondaires : Quelles sont les stratégies interactionnelles utilisées par les candidats aux entretiens universitaires ? Ces stratégies sont-elles suffisantes pour prouver des compétences interactionnelles lors des entretiens d’embauche ? Pour répondre à ces questions de recherche, nous nous sommes inscrite dans le cadre de la linguistique interactionnelle d’orientation ethnométhodologique en utilisant des outils d’analyse puisés chez plusieurs auteurs. Les résultats de ce modeste travail révèlent que les candidats de l’université M’hamed Bougara Boumerdès année 2016/2017 lors des entretiens d’embauche universitaires, déploient des procédures stratégiques interactionnelles relevant de leurs compétences de communication dans le but d’achever leurs interventions et donner une bonne impression d’eux-mêmes aux recruteurs. En fait, la majorité des entretenus a recours à la substitution pour compenser les lacunes lexicales et surmonter les instants de blocages communicatifs en entretien d’embauche. Nous avons remarqué également la mobilisation des stratégies d’évitements et d’abandon des buts de communication pour éviter tous les savoirs incertains qui peuvent amener le candidat à commettre des erreurs lexicales ou sociales en interaction avec les embaucheurs. Par ailleurs, nous avons constaté l’utilisation de quelques plans potentiels de stratégies de réalisation des buts de communication à savoir : la création lexicale. A travers cette recherche, nous avons voulu mettre en évidence la puissance des compétences stratégiques interactionnelles des candidats comme compétences- clés permettant de produire des interventions efficaces valorisant les compétences pertinentes pour le poste à pourvoir
Les pratiques langagières des enseignants de français du cycle primaire diplômés de l'université d'El-Oued
(2019) Miloudi, Mounir
Cette étude met l'accent sur les conjonctures sociolinguistiques ayant un impact sur les pratiques langagières des enseignants de français du cycle primaire diplômés de l'université d'El-Oued exerçant dans la même région. Pour ce faire, nous nous sommes basés sur le questionnaire, la biographie langagière et l'entretien semi-directif comme outils d'investigations auprès dudit public enquêté. De cette étude, il s'est avéré que notre terrain d'enquête est un conglomérat de facteurs très hétérogènes et d'ordres divers : historique, géographique, culturel, psychologique, etc. Ces conjonctures sont intervenues et interviennent encore dans la structuration des pratiques langagières dans ledit milieu caractérisé essentiellement par une domination de l'arabe dialectal ; ce qui ne favorise pas une pratique langagière correcte en français et ce même pour les enseignants de cette langue dont les pratiques sont marquées par la valorisation d'une langue et la dévalorisation d'une autre
Les stratégies de persuasion des opérateurs téléphoniques dans les publicités télévisuelles algériennes diffusées entre 2010 et 2016 : cas de l'opérateur Ooredoo
(Université M'hamad Bougara : Faculté des Sciences, 2021) Taguemout, Sabrina; Benaouda, Habiba( Directeur de thèse)
" Secrets de la persuasion ", " L'art de maîtriser ses gestes ", " Dix méthodes infaillibles pour persuader "… autant de titres qui ne sauraient tarder à conquérir avant de trouver preneur car la persuasion fascine, captive et attise la curiosité ; elle est un savoir-faire qui profite à divers domaines. De l'antiquité grecque aux investigations les plus récentes, l'intérêt des chercheurs ne cesse de s'accroitre pour l'étude de l'argumentation avec ses deux modes : la conviction et la persuasion, ce qui prouve que la persuasion n'a pas encore livré tous ses secrets. Nous avons ainsi tenté, dans ce modeste travail, de déceler les stratégies de persuasion utilisées en publicité, plus précisément, dans le domaine de la téléphonie mobile. Pour cela, nous avons amorcé notre travail par deux questions générales, la première étant : " Quelles sont les stratégies de persuasion utilisées par l'opérateur téléphonique Ooredoo dans ses publicités télévisuelles diffusées entre 2010 et 2016 ? " et la seconde : " Pourquoi ces stratégies sont-elles déployées ? " Nous nous sommes alors intéressés à la typologie argumentative empruntée par l'opérateur " Ooredoo ", aux messages non verbaux sous-jacents et à leur enjeu, ce qui a suscité le recours à l'analyse du discours, à la sémiotique et au marketing afin d'élucider notre problématique. Les résultats de notre recherche révèlent que l'opérateur " Ooredoo " s'inspire de la psychanalyse et de la sociologie pour échafauder son argumentation. Il recourt majoritairement à des stratégies suggestives et projectives, tentant de titiller le subconscient des utilisateurs en jouant sur le registre émotionnel et le plaire. Notre échantillon favorise la publicité de marque à celle des produits et essaye de conférer à ses marques des symboles étrangers à leurs produits dans le but de leur inoculer de fortes images psychiques. L'objectif de cette démarche consiste à créer une relation singulière entre l'entreprise et le client allant jusqu'à faire de la marque une entité sociale
Modernism in james joyce's ulysses and wole soyinka's the interpreters : a comparative study
(2008) Bourahla, Djelloul
The purpose of this dissertation is to challenge the orthodox view of Modernism as an art dismissive of politics, history and social commitment and as exclusively oriented towards style, technique and cosmopolitanism. By comparing James Joyce's Ulysses and Wole Soyinka's The Interpreters, we aim at redefining European and African modernism through taking the colonial and postcolonial contexts into account and employing a neo-Marxist critical approach to assess the political implications of the Modernist mode of writing. The first chapter is a review of the traditional and contemporary perspectives on Modernism as a mode of writing and as a worldview. The second chapter deals with the historical, social, cultural and personal backgrounds of James Joyce and Wole Soyinka. In the third chapter, we discuss the form of Joyce's Ulysses. We find that the different innovative techniques in the novel evince a subversive political vision. The fourth chapter studies the content of Joyce's Ulysses. We discuss those aspects of Ulysses that can be read as a diagnosis and critique of the social ills brought to Ireland by British imperialism, capitalism and the Catholic Church. The fifth chapter is concerned with the form of Soyinka's The Interpreters. We contend the salient features of Soyinka's style are motivated by context. We explore Soyinka's language as part of his critique of 'late capitalism' and neo-colonialism in Africa. In the sixth chapter, we analyse the content of The Interpreters. We find that Soyinka is highly concerned with the socio-historical background of post-independence Nigeria, essentially through capturing the state of disillusionment that characterizes his society. In the conclusion, we find that the Modernist mode of writing is quite capable of producing powerful subversive political statements through its form and content, but that this subversion can have its limitations and little political impact as the ordinary reader is not equipped to appreciate it and as the two writers fail to suggest alternatives to the order they undermine.
Musical aesthetics in the poetry of T.S eliot and wallace stevens
(Université M'Hamed Bougara Boumerdès : Faculté des lettres et des langues, 2022) Belleili, Hicham Ali; Chouiten, Lynda(Directeur de thèse)
This study demonstrates Eliot’s and Stevens’ use of musical aesthetics in poetry.Previous critics demonstrated to an extent the interdisciplinary experimental musical turn Eliot and Stevens took with regards to the music of poetry. Nevertheless, those same critics limited their investigations to questions of forms and structures, and disregarded the impact such musico- poetical assimilations have in the formulation of themes and poetical meaning. In this thesis, I attempt to go beyond the set of formal analogies already covered by previous critics, in order to consider the thematic and poetical impact musical aesthetics plays in Stevens’ and Eliot’s poetry. To achieve this aim, this study considers Eliot’s and Stevens’ use of musical aesthetics in poetry as a process of literary defamiliarization, as a process of literary misreading, as well as an interdisciplinary process of musico poetical assimilation. Following those different approaches of analysis, this study demonstrates Eliot’s and Stevens’ defamiliarization of musical metaphors, and soundscape descriptions from the Romantics, as an expression of their modernist skepticism. Furthermore, as it concentrates on Eliot’s and Stevens’ misreading of Dante’s use of music in The Divine comedy, this thesis demonstrates Eliot’s and Stevens’ use of music as an expression of their distinct religious sensibilities. In conjunction to the textual analysis of musical metaphors, and soundscape descriptions, this study considers Eliot’s and Stevens’ interdisciplinary use of musical techniques of composition in poetry. As it illustrates logical connections between metaphorical representations of music in poetry, and the interdisciplinary use of music in poetry, this thesis demonstrates that music, under its interdisciplinary and poetical forms, communicates Eliot’s and Stevens’ thematic preoccupations as modernist poets.