Text typology, political language and rhetoric at the Elysèe: a case study

Political texts are told to be different: as we know every linguistic message can have different ways of realizations. Which has an influence not only on the contents, but also on the way that message is receipted and analyzed. Given their complexity, the texts we define as “political” can hardly be clustered in mutually exclusive classes. Nevertheless, it doesn’t mean that we don’t need to reflect upon some forms of typifying. This article aims at analyzing textuality through a theoretical approach which also influences a methodological one. The analysis will be focused on issues concerning both discourse and rhetoric dimension. Within contemporary democracies the case study of the Fifth French Republic President is outstanding because it shows how the political-institutional prerogatives can affect the nature of the text and its classification.