This article aims to study the maneuvers of discursive influence that frame the partisan treatment of political information in the Ivorian print media. To achieve this objective, the article is based on the empirical results of the analysis of political discourse over two weeks deriving from four (4) national daily newspapers. They are: Fraternité Matin, L’Essor Ivoirien, Le Bélier and Le Temps. The analytical corpus is made up of twenty-four (24) issues published between February 1 and 14, 2021. The hypothesis of this study is as follows: the partisan treatment of political information is dependent on the influence maneuvers of the Ivorian print media. The textual data was processed with thematic content analysis, discourse analysis, the comprehensive method of Max Weber and the strategic analysis of Crozier and Friedberg. The main results from this analysis have made it possible to understand that semio-discursive constraints articulate the political positioning of newspapers. Then, the partisan treatment of information unfolds under several communicative aims and maneuvers of persuasion. Finally, the maneuvers of persuasion contribute to the promotion of the political party.
Keywords : Media, newspapers, Discourse analysis, Dialogism, Influence, Politics
