Linguistic Violence in Moroccan Political Discourse

Abstract

Hammam tries to apply a theoretical model to violence in Moroccan political discourse. The model elicits a new conception of language, turning it from a mere tool transmitting information from the speaker to the hearer, or from the political leader to the public, into a means affecting the positions and beliefs of the speaker. It also pushes the speaker into adopting specific patterns of behaviour mandated by the forms of discourse used according to a set of recognized principles and rules in the environment of speakers and their areas of deliberation. The process of linguistic speaking in Moroccan political discourse is in fact the performance of acts, not simply the process of speech or the transfer of reality or ideas by means of sentences of words in the language.