Le jeu de l’alternance dans la vie quotidienne des jeunes scolarisés à Dakar et à Ziguinchor (Sénégal)

Dreyfus, Martine; Juillard, Caroline

doi:10.4000/etudesafricaines.115

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“…In cases where the two languages in question are a colonial language and a local language (whether majority or minority), the local language is the source of grammar, that is, of word order and functional morphology. Included among the authors who have adopted the Matrix Language Frame model are Haust (1995), Dreyfus and Juillard (2001), Amuzu (2005Amuzu ( , 2010, Essizewa (2007b), andBenítez-Torres (2009). Swigart, whose interest lies in the sociolinguistic aspects of codeswitching acknowledges that "a very interesting analysis could be made of the formal constraints that come into play in the production of Urban Wolof using Myers-Scotton's 'matrix language frame ' model" (1992, p. 154n).…”

Section: Grammatical Studies Of Codeswitchingmentioning

confidence: 99%

Codeswitching in West Africa

Amuzu

Singler

2014

International Journal of Bilingualism

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This introduction to the International Journal of Bilingualism special issue on “Codeswitching in West Africa” is divided into three parts. The first part presents an overview of West Africa, with particular attention paid to the linguistic diversity and multilingualism that characterize the region. Multilingualism in the region obtains at both the societal and the individual level: as Dakubu ((1997). Korle meets the sea: A sociolinguistic history of Accra. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press) observes, polyglotism is a longstanding characteristic of West African cities. Within this context, intense intrasentential codeswitching is widespread. A taxonomy is presented, with languages characterized as colonial, majority, or minority, and general patterns set forth as to the most common types of codeswitching dyad. The second part of the introduction provides an overview of the research that has been carried out on codeswitching in the region. Special attention is given to the earliest works. Works are divided according to whether their focus was sociolinguistic or structural, but it is to be noted that authors frequently paid crucial attention to both. Finally, in the third part, the introduction presents the five articles that make up the special issue.

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Section: Grammatical Studies Of Codeswitchingmentioning

confidence: 99%

Codeswitching in West Africa

Amuzu

Singler

2014

International Journal of Bilingualism

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“…Most of the theoretical perspectives elaborated in the study of UW are principally based on the presupposition of the existence of what is known as codes between which the urban Wolophone is supposed to switch. This is why many UW scholars saw the necessity to view UW through the lenses of codeswitching (Dreyfus & Juillard, 2001;NGom, 2006;Smith, 2019) or codemixing (Tramutoli, 2021). For the proponents of this theory, the French features in UW are seen as additions to the Wolof language, thereby looking at this mode of languaging as a mixture of two languages, much the same as in the phenomenon García and Li Wei (2014, p. 14) call "additive bilingualism".…”

Section: Theoretical Perspectives On Data Analyses the Dual View Of C...mentioning

confidence: 99%

“…I have endeavoured to focus on UW studies as it would be beyond the scope of this review to attempt to critique the plethora of works available in the field of multilingualism. From what precedes, it has emerged that UW has mostly been studied through the dual correspondence view of theories such as codeswitching (Smith, 2019;Swigart, 1994, p. 175;Dreyfus & Juillard, 2001;NGom, 2006), codemixing (Tramutoli, 2021) and borrowings (Poplack, 2018), etc. The analysis of UW almost always involved looking at the Senegalese urbanite as switching between pre-existing codes, principally Wolof and French.…”

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Research Methodologies in Urban Wolof Studies: A Critical Review of the Literature and Suggestion for New Analytical Perspectives

Dieng

2022

ESJ

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The aim of this review is to offer a reconceptualization of urban Wolof, the language of millions of Senegalese in Senegal and abroad, in the light of the translanguaging theory. Whereas most of the Urban Wolof literature is principally limited to how this languaging form is spoken in Senegal, the present study considers the effects of mobility on urban Wolof by establishing a correlation between transmigration and translanguaging. Going beyond the confines of Senegal, this investigation examines how the Senegalese diasporans engage in their daily translanguaging practices, as they move across borders, in their capacity as mobile multilingual transmigrants. The review offers a more speaker-centred stance, a sort of bottom-up approach to language, the objective being to move away from the a priori assumptions that the urban Wolophone shuttles between languages or codes, and away from the rigidity of code-based theoretical approaches through which scholars have thus far examined urban Wolof. As such, a more decolonised approach in terms of participatory data collection and analysis is now more than ever in order. And this endeavour should be facilitated by the affordances of the ethnographic gaze of an in-group member.

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“…Defined as "an individual's use of two or more language varieties in the same speech event or exchange" (Woolard 2004, 74), the phenomenon of code-switching has been studied by linguists and sociolinguists (Milroy and Wei 1995;Dreyfus and Juillard 2001), some of whom have been particularly interested in the description and characterization of grammatical constraints on code-switching (for example, Poplack 1980;Sankoff and Poplack 1981;Myers-Scotton 1995). For our part, we are interested in the relationship between code-switching and the linguistic ideology that appears to accompany it (Mertz 1993;Woolard 1998;Silverstein 1998b).…”

Section: The Status Of Variaminanana In the Chatsmentioning

confidence: 99%