Aux sources du roman colonial (1863-1914)

Seillan, Jean-Marie

doi:10.3917/kart.seill.2006.01

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“…‘bad’) French variety ready-to-use in fast-produced written material and easily recognizable, understood, and remembered by poorly educated and inexperienced readers. As argued by Seillan (2006:18) regarding reading practices in the nineteenth century, ‘very early, the reader wants to find what he thinks he knows, thus what he already knows’ 2 . The pleasure of reading was therefore derived not from the discovery of the unknown but from the iteration of the known.…”

Section: Mediated Encounter With the African Other: From Seeing To Hementioning

confidence: 99%

The discursive pathway of two centuries of raciolinguistic stereotyping: ‘Africans as incapable of speaking French’

Vigouroux

2017

Lang. Soc.

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This article is about the discursive pathway of grammatical structures such as y'a bon ‘there's good’, documenting how, in Hexagonal France, it has become an ‘enregistered emblem’ for indexing sub-Saharan Africans and, by extension, any African as allegedly incapable of speaking French competently. I argue that tracing pathways makes it possible to unveil the intricacy of the historicities of production, circulation, and interpretations of such racially based linguistic stereotypes. One of the central questions addressed in this article is: What are the sociohistorical conditions of the emergence and maintenance of these linguistic stereotypes? I show that these are grounded in long-standing linguistic ideologies of French as an exceptional language and of African languages and, therefore, their speakers, as primitive. I demonstrate how the rise of first age mass culture in the nineteenth century contributed to both the entextualization and the circulation of these stereotypical representations. (Stereotypes, mediatization, enregisterment, language ideology, France, Africa)*

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Section: Mediated Encounter With the African Other: From Seeing To Hementioning

confidence: 99%