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Proceedings/Recueil Des Communications Année : 2024

Circulation des terminologies en contexte de crise De la diffusion des savoirs au « contrôle » social

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Since 2020, terminology related to Covid-19 has flourished at lightning speed on the world stage. International and national organizations have disseminated it as part of their prerogatives: informing and disseminating recommendations or even providing regulatory texts to States. In order to constitute a basis for common dialogue, this terminology has been listed in multilingual dictionaries. This regulatory work was updated as the epidemic progressed rapidly and scientific contributions were made: more than five hundred terms thus appeared in the terminological universe of the pandemic, and came to feed various discourses and effects of connection. Medical terminology rubs shoulders with more popular terms associated with mortality and comorbidity indicators. This terminological approach experienced a semantic break when it was appropriated by power and its media machine: terminology was then diverted from its primary value in order to create social control. States, anxious to control the behavior of citizens, began to communicate vertically by imposing a certain technolect. During real communication campaigns, statistics become the starting point for instrumental discourse: it is no longer a question of creating knowledge but of standardizing behavior. The communicative stakes of Terminology in social context appear here clearly: if the latter plays an essential role in the construction and transfer of knowledge and, beyond, in the progress of the different stages of specialized communication, it can be instrumentalized in the aim of inducing new social behaviors on a large scale where a whole editology can be used for propaganda and behavioral control issues.

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Linguistique
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hal-04608571 , version 1 (11-06-2024)

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Rosa Maria Frejaville, Raphaèle Dumont. Circulation des terminologies en contexte de crise De la diffusion des savoirs au « contrôle » social. La terminologie dans la dimension sociale de la communication, 2024. ⟨hal-04608571⟩
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