The discursive construction of identity in the editorial of the Cameroonian radio Crtv: a rhetoric of consensus in a situation of socio-political crisis

Abstract

It is argued that the discursive construction of identity participates in a rhetoric of consensus in a situation of sociopolitical crisis. To demonstrate this, we dwell on a corpus of editorials from Cameroon Radio Television (Crtv). The demonstration is based on the achievements of discourse analysis, both argumentative and communicational. In turn, therefore, and gradually, the article opens with a methodological and theoretical presentation (1), the main objects of which oscillate between definition of the corpus, presentation of the field of research and conceptualization of the notion of identity. Much later, we will question the content of the identity discourse (2), which will be broken down into journalist identities (2.1.), collective identities (2.2.) and affirmation of a national identity (2.3.).