Ahmadou Kourouma et la transposition de la parole malinké

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dc.identifier	ECF_article_1064
dc.title	Ahmadou Kourouma et la transposition de la parole malinké. Analyse de la représentation langagière et du projet de légitimation linguistique dans Allah n’est pas obligé
dc.contributor.author	Boraso Silvia
dc.publisher	Edizioni Ca’ Foscari - Digital Publishing
dc.type	Research Article
dc.language.iso	fr
dc.identifier.uri	http://edizionicafoscari.it/en/edizioni4/riviste/il-tolomeo/2017/1/ahmadou-kourouma-et-la-transposition-de-la-parole/
dc.description.abstract	In his novel Allah n’est pas obligé the Ivorian writer Ahmadou Kourouma tries to convey his Malinké identity in the French language through a process of malinkisation – he interlaces Malinké words, syntactic structures and rhythm with French, playing with the two codes that he masters and portraying a fresh linguistic atmosphere. Kourouma exploits the potentiality, the richness of French linguistic varieties and thus legitimises their value. In the first part, this paper tries to analyse Kourouma’s linguistic play by focusing mainly on the language of the narrator, the child soldier Birahima. The second part of the paper attempts at proving how Kourouma’s malinkisation is part of a broader and more general project of legitimisation as regards his language(s), culture, and work as a writer.
dc.relation.ispartof	Il Tolomeo
dc.relation.ispartof	Vol. 19 \| December 2017
dc.issued	2017-12-21
dc.dateAccepted	2017-10-10
dc.dateSubmitted	2017-07-16
dc.identifier.issn
dc.identifier.eissn	2499-5975
dc.rights	Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
dc.identifier.doi	10.14277/2499-5975/Tol-19-17-12
dc.peer-review	yes
dc.subject	Ahmadou Kourouma
dc.subject	Ahmadou Kourouma
dc.subject	Legitimisation
dc.subject	Legitimisation
dc.subject	Linguistic insecurity
dc.subject	Linguistic insecurity
dc.subject	Malinkisation
dc.subject	Malinkisation
dc.subject	Orality
dc.subject	Orality

Research Article
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Analyse de la représentation langagière et du projet de légitimation linguistique dans Allah n’est pas obligé

Silvia Boraso Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia, Italia; Université Paris-Est Créteil, France

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In his novel Allah n’est pas obligé the Ivorian writer Ahmadou Kourouma tries to convey his Malinké identity in the French language through a process of malinkisation – he interlaces Malinké words, syntactic structures and rhythm with French, playing with the two codes that he masters and portraying a fresh linguistic atmosphere. Kourouma exploits the potentiality, the richness of French linguistic varieties and thus legitimises their value. In the first part, this paper tries to analyse Kourouma’s linguistic play by focusing mainly on the language of the narrator, the child soldier Birahima. The second part of the paper attempts at proving how Kourouma’s malinkisation is part of a broader and more general project of legitimisation as regards his language(s), culture, and work as a writer.

Published

Dec. 21, 2017

Accepted

Oct. 10, 2017

Submitted

July 16, 2017

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Keywords: Malinkisation • Ahmadou Kourouma • Legitimisation • Linguistic insecurity • Orality

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