Cette étude s'inscrit dans le champ de la didactique du français et porte sur l'analyse d'interactions langagières au cours de séances de révision de textes narratifs au CM2. Cette recherche se propose de réfléchir aux modalités d'une interaction qui favoriserait l'engagement des élèves dans la tâche. Elle se centre principalement sur l'activité du maître lors de séquences de "révisions interactives". La méthodologie s'appuie sur l'analyse de corpus oraux. Une étude empirique impliquant trois enseignantes ayant une ancienneté différente dans le métier nous permet de comparer les modes de communication pédagogique et d'examiner leur pertinence pour le développement de compétences évaluatives chez les élèves. Les résultats nous permettent de dégager quelques paramètres décisifs et d'esquisser un profil interactionnel des enseignantes lors de la révision de textes. L'étayage de l'enseignant est abordé sous différents angles : la posture assumée tout au long des échanges, les thèmes discutés, le degré d'adhésion par rapport aux propositions des élèves, la prise en compte des interventions par les reformulations mais aussi le rythme des échanges imposé. Nous prolongeons notre étude par l'analyse des stratégies inductrices de "bonnes réponses", c'est-à-dire tous les comportements verbaux du maître qui permettent d'influencer la réponse de l'élève et qui s'apparentent à une posture de contre-étayage. Cette étude permet de mettre en évidence la typicalité de l'expérience interactionnelle de l'enseignant dans le domaine de la révision de texte et d'ouvrir la voie à une didactique de l'écrit à l'école primaire fondée sur les interactions à l'oral. / This study belongs to the didactics of French and focuses on oral interactions analysis during revision sessions of narrative texts at the last year of primary school. The purpose of this study is to investigate how the oral interactions can improve pupils' commitment to the task. This research focuses more precisely on the activity of the teacher during interactive revision sessions. The methodological framework is based on oral resources. Our study implies three teachers at different levels of career and allows us to compare different modes of pedagogical communication in order to examine their pertinence for the development of the pupils' evaluative abilities. Results allow to bring out some decisive parameters and to suggest an interactional profile of teachers during texts revision. The teacher's scaffolding is approached from different points of view : the position held by the teacher throughout the exchanges, the discussed topics, the degree of joining to pupils' proposals, the consideration of pupils' interventions by reformulations and the interactional rhythm required by the teacher. The research will be extended by the analysis of the strategies which lead to the "right response" of the "expected response", in other words, all verbal communications which influence the response of the pupil and which correspond to wrong or inappropriate scaffolding. This study allows us to highlight the specificities of the interactional experience of the teacher in the field of the text revision and to pave the way to didactics of writing in primary school based on oral interactions.

“The relationship between the criminal and victim is much more complicated than the law would care to acknowledge. The criminal and his victim work on each other unconsciously. We can say that as the criminal shapes the victim, the victim also shapes the criminal. The law differentiates distinctly between the attacker and the victim. But their relationship may be, and often is, quite close, so that their roles are reversed and the victim becomes the determining person, while the [victimiser] in the end becomes his own victim.” (Abrahamsen, 1973:35). This research was directed at establishing whether narcissistic individuals will go to extreme levels of violence, specifically murder, if their self-image is threatened. The aim was to determine the extent of pre-existing narcissistic personality disorder (NPD) in these individuals and how this contributed to the murderous action they committed. Emphasis was placed on the psychological motivation of the perpetrator, as well as the relationship that existed between the perpetrator and the victim prior to the event. As the subject of the research was a relatively unknown phenomenon, a qualitative research approach was used. The research focused on analysing specific cases of murder, more particularly cases where rage-type murders were committed. It endeavoured to identify the underlying personality dynamics to determine whether an association between rage-type murder and NPD exists. Case studies illustrating rage-type murderers who had been admitted to Weskoppies Psychiatric Hospital for a 30-day observation period were identified and analysed. These cases were selected through reviewing the case history of each individual to determine whether the murder fitted the outlined definition of a rage-type murder. The cases that met the outlined requirements were deemed suitable for the purpose of the research, where after the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI-2) results of the selected cases were examined to determine the personality organisation of the individuals. This information was then used to determine the possible association between NPD and rage-type murder. The MMPI-2 was selected as the assessment tool as it is the most widely used personality assessment available. For the purposes of this research a two-point code type was used to indicate the presence of narcissistic personality traits. A two-point code type implies an elevation of two scales, for the purposes of this research specifically the Pd (Psychopathic deviance) scale and the Pa (Paranoia) scale, also referred to as the 4-6/6-4 code type. As interpretation based only on a two-scale elevation was considered to be overly simplistic, all the MMPI-2 clinical scales were interpreted independently, and a clinical interpretation provided in the context of each individual’s background. The 4-6/6-4 code type individual was used to indicate whether the individuals did have narcissistic personality traits, and thus were classified as having NPD. Nine cases were identified of individuals thought to be rage-type murderers, who were admitted for a 30-day period of psychiatric observation to Weskoppies Psychiatric Hospital in Pretoria. Only five cases were acknowledged as rage-type murders. All the cases selected were referred to Weskoppies Psychiatric Hospital by order of the court and involved males over the age of 20 years. The individuals involved were admitted to the Forensic Unit of the hospital and were subjected to standard psychiatric hospital observations, which included psychiatric interviews, psychological interviews, psychological testing, as well as general behavioural observations in the ward. All the information obtained during the standard psychiatric hospital observations is held in the clinical case files in the archives at the hospital. All the standard psychiatric hospital observation evaluations were completed prior to the initiation of the research, and the case records had been closed. Although more research is necessary, this research has established an association between the selected cases of rage-type murder and NPD and there is historic documented evidence suggesting that individuals with NPD will most likely react in a similar manner in similar circumstances, as a result of their underlying personality disorder. This suggests that incarceration in a correctional facility is not the most appropriate place to rehabilitate individuals. It also serves as support to why a person with NPD who commits a rage-type murder should be acquitted because of their personality disorder and subsequently be committed to a psychiatric facility as a patient of the state president. / Dissertation (MA)--University of Pretoria, 2010. / Social Work and Criminology / unrestricted