Legitimation and Perception in Moroccan Women Discourse

Résumé

The objective of this article is to scrutinize how the discourse of Moroccan women subjected to marital violence in a Moroccan talk show was perceived by the online commentators and the way media impacted the different perceptions negatively at the national level. To reach our objective, we covered all the shows that dealt with marital violence in a Moroccan talk show (Qesset Nnas “the story of people”) in a Moroccan TV channel (Medi I TV) from September 4, 2013 to October 2, 2015 and all the comments written by the Moroccan online audience in the channel’s website and in YouTube. All the negative comments collected were classified according to the themes they displayed and explained with the framework of Critical Discourse Analysis, which studies the relationship between all parties of the discourse and focuses on the political, social and economic conditions that affect the comments by paying close attention to notions like power, language and social constructs.