Having spent over 20 years under house arrest fighting for democracy in Myanmar, Aung San Suu Kyi has been a bastion for peace for decades. She has received many international awards, including the Nobel Peace Prize in 1991, which she accepted in person in 2012. The plight of the Rohingya, a Muslim minority in Myanmar, has marred Suu Kyi’s reputation as a bastion of peace, leading to calls for her to lose her Peace Prize. Why is it that Suu Kyi’s image as the future of peace so different from reality? That question is what this research attempts to answer. Through a rhetorical analysis of Suu Kyi’s Nobel lecture and the media coverage that followed it, the impact of the use of tropes becomes evident. Metonymy, synecdoche, and narrative emerge in both the lecture and media coverage. Suu Kyi’s use of tropes heavily influences public perception of her.

L’objectif de ce travail est la description et l’étude des dynamiques de sens en jeu dans la constructionde la forme sémantique « amour ». L’étude s’inscrit dans une démarche phénoménologique visantl’émergence du sens en tant que produit d’une activité de conceptualisation marquée par l’expérienceperceptive et affective. Trois strates de sens entrelacées apparaissent dans la sémantique du mot etparticipent de la construction globale de la forme par « motivation », « profilage » et « thématisation ».Ces notions permettent l’ouverture de l’espace de création du sens qui provient de l’entrelacs de laperception, du langage et des modalités d’appropriation du phénomène surgissant dans / et par lediscours sur l’amour et le discours amoureux. Le mot amour polarise une dynamique de mouvementau sein des discours amoureux. Sa valeur s’ancre dans le motif composite d’une force propre àdépasser le procès qui le lie à un objet et vecteur de propriétés esthésiques, axiologiques etpraxéologiques. La phénoménologie du mot amour se déploie essentiellement sur un fond de« figures » qualitatives et de constructions métaphorisantes et poétiques qui tendent à unir champsperceptifs et thématiques, et permettent au locuteur la saisie, en partie, de son expérience amoureuse,et l’expression de ses impressions et sentiments. / Construction of the semantic form “amour”. The core of this work is a phenomenological endeavourtargeting the emergence of meaning considered as the result of a conceptualizing process rooted inaffective and perceptual experience. Three intertwined strata of meaning can be observed in thesemantics of the word. These take an active part in the global construction of the form via each ofthese strata, namely the germ-motif stratum, the profiling-unfolding process stratum and the thematicdiscursiveone. The latter notions make it possible to open the creative space of meaning in a trulyoriginal fashion. This creative space results from the intertwining of perception, language and thevarious modalities of self-appropriation of the phenomenon arising in /and through a discourse on loveand the amorous discourse. The word amour polarizes a movement dynamics within the amorousdiscourse. This word is anchored to the heterogeneous “motif” of a dynamic power liable to surpassthe process per se such as linked to its object. It is a vehicle for aesthesic, axiological andpraxeological properties. The phenomenology of the word amour mostly expands in the domain ofqualitative and poetic figures as well as metaphorizing constructions. In the latter domain, figures andconstructions aim at uniting the perceptive and thematic fields, thus enabling the speaker, thoughpartially only, to grasp his amorous experience as well as to express his own impressions andfeelings.