Decoding Marine Le Pen's Rhetoric is the parent website for the book Marine Le Pen prise aux mots. Décryptage du nouveau discours frontiste (Seuil, 2014).
In October 2015, documentary film maker Elise Le Guevel and her crew flew in from Paris to visit Stanford. Their goal: to understand better how Marine Le Pen has reformed her discourse by interviewing the team behind Marine Le Pen prise aux mots and the vast corpus of texts and analysis they produced.
Word Cloud of Marine Le Pen's speech on January 16, 2015, following the Charlie Hebdo and Hypercasher terrorist attacks.
The lexical field is dominated by Islamism, fundamentalism and creates a network of guilt by association: "communautarisme", "immigration", "étrangère" are linked by lexical proximity to the pejorative "radical", "terroriste", "fundamentaliste", "djhiadiste".
An interview with RAdio Television Suisse on the choice by the media and political figures to use the words "migrants" or "refugees" to describe those who are fleeing Syria, Irak or Afghanistan and are attempting to reach Europe.
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A Tribune of sociologist Michel Wieviorka on the "rise" of the National Front and its coverage in the media:
"Généralement, les médias amplifient les processus sociaux ou politiques en phase ascendante, et ils en accélèrent la décrue en phase descendante.
Arthur Goldhammer (Harvard). “Explaining the Rise of the Front National: Political Rhetoric or Cultural Insecurity?” French Politics, Culture, & Society, vol. 33, Issue 22 (Summer 2015): 145-147.
A Review of:
Laurent Bouvet, L’Insécurité culturelle (Paris: Fayard, 2015).
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Cécile Alduy and Stéphane Wahnich, Marine Le Pen prise aux mots: Décryptage du nouveau discours frontiste (Paris: Seuil, 2015).
He won’t be ousted, but he will be silenced.
At least that’s what many members of the French National Front (FN) hope will happen to Jean-Marie Le Pen next week, when the executive board of the party he himself founded in 1972 is to decide on disciplinary action for his latest inflammatory remark — his declaration that the Holocaust was “a detail” of history.
A pioneering textual analysis of French political speeches led by Stanford Professor of French Cécile Alduy reveals how Marine Le Pen, leader of France's surging far-right National Front, has made extremism palatable in a land of republican values.
French politician Marine Le Pen carried her father's right-wing fringe political party to first place in the country's latest elections for European Parliament.
«Ce n’est peut-être pas la victoire escomptée pour le FN, mais pour Marine Le Pen, c’est encore un coup gagnant qui valide dans les urnes ses choix opérés depuis qu’elle a accédé à la présidence du parti en 2011.» Jean-Yves Camus, spécialiste du Front national (FN), décortique avec soin les résultats du 1er tour des élections départementales.
A detailed review of Marine Le Pen prise aux mots:
In an interview for L'Opinion, Cécile Alduy explains what the latest family feud in the Le Pen family is really about.
«Marine Le Pen normalise le discours du parti pour le rendre présentable». Interview in newspaper 20minutes, 18.03.2015. Article and Questions by Anne-Laëtitia Béraud:
