La Déclaration Universelle des Droits de l’Homme comme l’expression d’une vision du monde : une approche topique et génétique
In this contribution, I analyze the text of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights from a rhetorical and genetic perspective. Starting from the summary reports of the Declaration Drafting Committee, I try to show that what lies at the background of the text is the feeling that the sufferings of W...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | fra |
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University of Tel-Aviv
2010-04-01
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| Series: | Argumentation et Analyse du Discours |
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| Online Access: | http://journals.openedition.org/aad/956 |
| Summary: | In this contribution, I analyze the text of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights from a rhetorical and genetic perspective. Starting from the summary reports of the Declaration Drafting Committee, I try to show that what lies at the background of the text is the feeling that the sufferings of WWII never can be reproduced. The drafters thus founded a new “vision of the world” that has shaped our values since then. I concentrate specifically on the first two lines of the preamble of the Declaration in order to analyze how the values are expressed linguistically in these paragraphs. |
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| ISSN: | 1565-8961 |