LAÏCITÉ : DE L’IMPARTIALITÉ DICTIONNAIRIQUE AUX STÉRÉOTYPES SOCIAUX

Abstract

This work attempts to understand the relationship of French to the lexeme and then to the concept « Laïcité2 ». Through a lexical-semantic study, we question the impartiality of the lexeme and the process of construction of the partialities of interpretations and appropriations of the concept «Laïcité ». The survey submits the entry in the PETIT ROBERT dictionary to a group of French people, and this in order to define its knowledge, its understanding, the dynamics set up in its interpretation then the graft of new semantic loads to the lexeme. We thus explore the interdependent relationships between the lexicon, the corpus of analysis and society.