Open AccessThe pragmatic and textual dimensions of French in Côte d'Ivoire: functions of ke in colloquial conversation
Author(s) -
Adama DRABO
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
addaiyan journal of arts humanaties and social sciences
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2581-8783
DOI - 10.36099/ajahss.3.8.5
Subject(s) - linguistics , appropriation , conversation , morpheme , perspective (graphical) , cote d ivoire , sociology , history , philosophy , computer science , humanities , artificial intelligence
By focusing on discourse markers, this article aims to show that the appropriation of French in Côte d'Ivoire is manifested from a pragmatic-textual perspective. It contributes to the extension of the tradition of work already done on French in this country. I argue that ke as a morpheme borrowed from African languages is a marker of intensification with different communicative values in Ivorian French. My analysis is based on a corpus of spontaneous oral data and on interactional approaches developed in the framework of contact linguistics.