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La nomination des enfants décédés en bas-âge et de leurs parents

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This paper sets out to investigate the designation of deceased babies and of their parents in the French language, which lacks a specific term to refer to either of them. Such ontological issue triggers a political and moral problem. This lexical gap can translate into forms of oppression (i.e. not acknowledging the deceased baby means depriving their mother and father of their status as parents), or even lead to the emergence of stigmatizing designating terms, for instance in medico-legal discourse. Our paper intends to encourage a new designation policy that is based on the fruitful involvement of all the actors concerned in the relevant discursive and lexicological discussion. Our approach is couched in the double theoretical framework of discourse analysis and intersectionality. The first part of the study is devoted to the metadiscourse of bereaved parents through an inventory of the self-designating terms they use. We will also observe how some of them are attempting to make their voice heard via petitions or by encouraging a public terminological debate. The second stage of our research foregrounds the speakers’ metalinguistic activity in their search for an appropriate term to designate their status. The innovative aspect of this work lies in the collaboration between the authors and the actors directly concerned by perinatal death, who are sources of situated viewpoints, with the final aim of creating or validating a designating term that is deemed acceptable.
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hal-04545315 , version 1 (13-04-2024)

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Giuditta Caliendo, Catherine Ruchon. La nomination des enfants décédés en bas-âge et de leurs parents. SHS Web of Conferences, 2020, 78 (01019), pp.1-26. ⟨10.1051/shsconf /20207801019⟩. ⟨hal-04545315⟩
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