Abstract:
The present research aims to characterize the argumentation in the televised
French-speaking debate; through a study conducted on the debate ""Criminal Court, the
reform,"" presented by Ahmed Lahri and difused on December 6, 2010, on Canal Algeria,
by the program ""Questions d'Actu. The whole of the interventions of the speakers of this
debate constitutes our corpus.
In this study which is inscribed, at the same time, in the analysis of the discourse
and the conversational analysis, we proceeded to a general description of the
argumentative dynamics, while we are particularly interested in the use of arguments by
the speakers. This led us to classify the arguments according to the type of influence they
exert, using several typologies, essentially that of P. Breton.
Our study allowed us, among other things, to make a confrontation between the
speakers' arguments and to note their similarities and divergences, to see the impact of
the theme of the day on the exchange and to appreciate the dual role of the 'journalistfacilitator' of the debate.
