Les parlers urbains africains au prisme du plurilinguisme : description sociolinguistique Tome I
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2019-03-13
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LA REVUE DE L’OBSERVATOIRE DU PLURILINGUISME EUROPÉEN
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Postcolonial African novels are essentially characterized by the presence of an indigenous flavor, resulting from an African popular speech commonly known as urban-speaking. These dialects-urban long taxed by French "petit-negre" by the colonists are now the pride of not only users but also novelists who see these urbanlanguages an identity that unites and singles them. This is the case of Camfranglais in Cameroon or Nouchi in Côte d'Ivoire, to name just a few. The present article, which examines the use of nouchi in Jean Marie Adiaffi's identity card, aims to highlight the sociolinguistic effects of this use on the basis of sociolinguistic theory. She concludes that nouchi is no longer a form of pidginization of French that meets the everyday needs of the marginalized, but a language of national unity that is now imposed on all levels of society.
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fiction, nouchi, identity card, Adiaffi, urban youth language