Usages du marqueur dɛ dans le français en Côte d’Ivoire

Abstract

The interest on French in sub-Saharan Africa is certainly related to the fact that it differs in many ways from French in France. The appropriation of French as a second language by African speakers has fostered the birth of endogenous norms with peculiarities that affect phonetic-phonological, lexical, morphological, syntactic and, also pragmatic-textual levels. However, research on the latter aspect remains at an embryonic stage. Concerning Côte d'Ivoire and its complex linguistic landscape consisting of some sixty languages, it often occurs that French serves both as vehicular and vernacular. While its phonetic, lexical and morpho-syntactic features have already been extensively researched, this is not the case for the pragmatic and textual aspects. This work intends to fill in the gap by focusing on the uses of the borrowed discourse marker dɛ in Ivorian popular French.

Keywords

• ivorian popular french
• discursive approaches
• variation approaches
• endogenous norms
• pragmatic and textual aspects
• borrowed discourse marker
• the appropriation
• linguistic landscape
• côte d’ivoire
• sub- saharan africa