Coignard – Pension reform: beware, slippery language


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CHRONIC. The government has multiplied “reassuring” statements to defend its disputed pension reform. Beware of inconsistencies!




Through Sophie Coignard

Bruno Le Maire and Elisabeth Borne, during the presentation of the pension reform bill, Tuesday January 10, 2023.
Bruno Le Maire and Élisabeth Borne, during the presentation of the pension reform bill, Tuesday January 10, 2023.
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Dyears The Seventh Function of Language, published in 2015, the novelist Laurent Binet evokes the performative nature of the verb, which would give it the power to convince and even to bring about what it affirms. A real dream for all communication professionals. But only a dream! The Prime Minister, and with her all the members of the government as well as the parliamentarians of the majority responsible for “selling” the pension reform project, tirelessly repeats the same elements of language: it is a reform of ” justice” and “progress”.

Elisabeth Borne has spared no effort, for almost a week, to highlight the “social advances” on long careers, “difficult jobs”, and the revaluation of small pensions. E…


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