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as a particular manifestation of a more abstract one (this is not comparable to an
extensional relationship like, for instance, “inclusion” since what is at stake here is
not the elements of sets but connections between linguistic forms).

8.4.2.2 Comprehensive Reframing

In the first strategy we have analysed, the one we have called internal reframing ,
the replier maintains the frame proposed by his opponent, while in the one we have
just described, the replier's position is formed by giving to the opponent's position
a new frame. Because of the fact that the resulting highest level concept is set by
the replier, we qualify this strategy as an external reframing. We noted also that in
the case of the latter, the replier replaces the opponent's frame with her own frame,
and that is why this kind of external reframing can be named substitutive reframing .
If we need this detailed classification it is precisely because in this section we look
at another case of external reframing, which is perhaps a more complex strategy, in
which the replier reinterprets not only the most specific position but also its frame,
by adding a higher level frame. For this reason, this kind of external reframing is
called comprehensive reframing.
Let us consider Fragment 3. Some contextual elements are useful: the French
Interior Minister, Manuel Valls, said in a recent interview that Romani people
who are in France are destined to return to their countries of origin (Bulgaria and
Romania). The Ecology Minister, Cécile Duflot, strongly opposed this statement
by saying that it does not respect French republican values. After this, a highly
publicised poll said that two thirds of the French agreed with Valls. This is—roughly
speaking—the context of this brief interaction found on the forum of the website of
a well-known French magazine, Le Nouvel observateur.
Fragment 3
ALPHA 10 posted on 3-10-2013 at 09:57.
A CSA-BFM TV poll released Wednesday, October 3 said that two thirds of French are
closer to Valls than to Duflot. No! This is untrue! Totally untrue! The survey lies, the survey
does not tell the truth. The truth is that Valls is closer to 2/3 of the French than Duflot. If
tomorrow two thirds of the French were opposed to the “bougnats” who were intending to
take over all the bars in France again, Valls would be closer to that 2/3. Valls knows the laws
of populist mathematics very well. Regardless of the proposed axiom, if it is the axiom of
2/3 of the French, Valls will follow it [ ::: ] 11
BETA posted on 3-10-2013 at 11:00. (Reply to ALPHA's post)

10 The surnames of the participants have been changed.
11 Un sondage CSA-BFMTV publié mercredi 3 octobre dit que 2/3 des Français sont plus proches
de Valls que de Duflot. Non c'est faux !! archi faux !!! Le sondage ment, le sondage ne dit pas
la vérité. La vérité c'est que Valls est plus proche de 2/3 des Français que Duflot. Si demain
les Français étaient pour les 2/3 opposés aux bougnats qui se remettraient à accaparer tous les
bistrots de France, Valls serait plus proche de ces 2/3 là. Valls connaît par excellence les lois de la
mathématique populiste. Peu importe l'axiome proposé, si le chiffre de 2/3 le tient pour axiome,
Valls le suivra [ ::: ]