Axe 2 : Conflicts and disputes

The “Conflicts and Disputes” research area uses a socio–semiotic approach to explore the issue of conflictuality in social discourse. Members of the laboratory working on this theme seek to construct a “rhetoric” of politics based on the recurring semiotic and semiological ‘motifs’ and figures that organize it and give it meaning. This field of research concerns subjects of study with a strong social and political impact, such as “security and surveillance mechanisms and discourse,” the relationship between legal discourse and political discourse, conflicts and misunderstandings between public administration communication and that of its users, new forms of work and management, and socio-political engagement and the engagement of researchers and scientific distance. This research area is also part of the Paris International Seminar on Semiotics and organizes the Doctoral Workshop on Fundamental Texts in Semiotics.