La semiotique de la resolution des conflits

Abstract

In this article the author highlights the exploratory force of semiotics in the aspect of its power to solve social conflicts. In this way, the objective of the author is the description of the symbolic imprints, whose facts and important events are fixed in the consciousness of the French. Following the example of national symbols and their histories (tricolor, Marianne, Joan of Arc, Charles de Gaulle, Napoleon I), the author shows how the semiotic component can manifest itself in some given conflicts: following a conflict without influencing by reproducing its forms, leveling with taboos or becoming the instrument of conflict resolution