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They continuously construe and re-negotiate meanings, which are woven throughout the discourse that is employed as part of the social activity of deliberation in which they participate. A pragma-functional analysis therefore seemed most appropriate, as it links social constructs, such as neo-colonialism, for example, to how the French language functions ideationally and interpersonally and to how the arguments on both sides are structured. By integrating this linguistic, quantitative evidence into an overall Critical Discourse Analysis, the study allows for a qualitative evaluation of the independence issue, especially in terms of the ideologies or Foucauldian discourse formations that are obfuscated in the discourse of New Caledonian nationalism(s). A closer investigation of some of the significant historical events and their impact on the discursive acts, as produced by the main stakeholders, however, still proved useful, which is why a description of the contextual situations of the discourse was included at the beginning of the analysis of each of the