Dominique Maingueneau, Full Professor of Linguistics at the School of language French at the University Paris-La Sorbonne, will give on March 16, 2017 the IV ICS Lecture on Humanities and Social Sciences of the Institute for Culture and Society (ICS), funded by Obra Social "La Caixa" and Fundación Bancaria Caja Navarra.    

The discussion paper is entitled 'Dead word, living word: sentences without text' and will delve into a phenomenon that is becoming increasingly important in the media: the circulation of sentences detached from a text and, therefore, also from their context.

The ICS lectures are a series of conferences organized by the Institute for Culture and Society on an annual basis and given by internationally renowned researchers. The goal of these lectures is to present to the whole University of Navarra some of the topics that are being researched in the different ICS projects. This year, the discussion paper is framed in the project 'Public discourse'.

On the speaker

Dominique Maingueneau is Full Professor of Linguistics at the School of language French at the University Paris-La Sorbonne, member of the group of research STIH ('Sense, Text, Informatics, History'), researcher of the Center for the Study of Discourses, Images, Texts, Writings and Communications (CEDITEC) and member of the high school University of France.

His research, which began in the 1970s, has focused primarily on French linguistics and the analysis of speech. He is one of the authors of reference letter in the latter area.

Recently, his interests have shifted towards the analysis of the political speech and the so-called "constituent discourses" (philosophical, religious, scientific or literary discourses), i.e. the discourses that, in the end written request, legitimize the set of social practices.