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1	Variation et variétés morphosyntaxiques du français parlé au Gabon / Variation and morphosyntactic varieties of French spoken to the Gabon Italia, Magali 03 December 2011 (has links) La thèse consiste en une comparaison entre deux types de français parlé par des locuteurs gabonais ayant le français comme langue seconde (d’ailleurs unique langue officielle du Gabon) : des locuteurs âgés et peu ou non scolarisés et des jeunes gens entre 17 et 25 ans, avec un niveau scolaire de troisième. La différence du nombre d’années de scolarisation des locuteurs induirait des compétences différentes en langue française. Le niveau sociolinguistique conditionnerait le niveau linguistique des locuteurs, ce qui les classerait dans des catégories clivées et imperméables, aux pôles inférieur et médian, selon la répartition sociolinguistique des locuteurs communément admise. Cette comparaison étudiée à partir de la morphologie du verbe et de l’utilisation du matériau morphologique à travers les concepts de personne, d’époque et d’aspect va permettre de vérifier cette hypothèse. Elle mettra également en avant les différentes variétés de français en présence, rendra compte du degré de la variation du français pour chaque locuteur et tentera d’établir des liens linguistiques entre les locuteurs sur le continuum linguistique. / The thesis consists of a comparison between two types of French spoken by native speakers of Gabon with French as a Second Language (besides sole official language of Gabon): older speakers and little or no education and young people between 17 and 25 with a third grade level. The difference in the number of years of schooling of the speakers would induce different skills in French. Sociolinguistic level would imply the language level of the speakers, which the classification into cleaved and hermetic, the lower and middle poles, according to sociolinguistic distribution of the speakers generally accepted. This comparison study from the morphology of the verb and the use of the material through morphological concepts of person, period and aspect will help to verify this hypothesis. It will also highlight the different varieties of French presence, will report on the degree of variation in French for each speaker and attempt to link language between speakers of the linguistic continuum. Gabon Variété Variation Français parlé Verbe Morphosyntaxe Formes anomales Formes standard Continuum Scolarisation Fréquence Personne sujet Époque Aspect Périphrases verbales Structures sérielles Basilecte Mésolecte Gabon Variety Variation Spoken French Verb Morphosyntax Anomalous forms Standard forms Continuum Education Frequency Person subject Period Aspect Verbal circumlocutions Serial structures Basilecte Mesolecte
2	Challenging the hegemony of English in post-independence Africa : an evolutionist approach Charamba, Tyanai 02 1900 (has links) This study discusses the evolutionist approach to African history as an action plan for challenging the hegemony of English in university education and in the teaching and writing of literature in post-independence Africa. The researcher selected Zimbabwe’s university education and literary practice as the microcosm case studies whilst Africa’s university education and literary practice in general, were used as macrocosmic case studies for the study. Some two universities: the Midlands State University and the Great Zimbabwe State University and some six academic departments from the two universities were on target. The researcher used questionnaires to access data from university students and lecturers and he used interviews to gather data from university departmental Chairpersons, scholars, fiction writers and stakeholders in organizations that deal with language growth and development in Zimbabwe. Data from questionnaires was analysed on the basis of numerical scores and percentage of responses. By virtue of its not being easily quantified, data from interviews was presented through capturing what each of the thirteen key informants said and was then analysed on the basis of the hegemonic theory that is proposed in this study. The research findings were discussed using: the evolutionist approach to the history of Africa; data from document analysis; information gathered through the use of the participant and observer technique and using examples from what happened and/or is still happening in the different African countries. The study established that the approaches which have so far been used to challenge the hegemony of English in post-independence Africa are not effective. The approaches are six in total. They are the essentialist, the assimilationist, the developmentalist, the code-switch, the multilingualist and the syncretic. They are ineffective since they are used in a wrong era: That era, is the era of Neocolonialism (Americanization of the world). Therefore, the researcher has recommended the use of the evolutionist approach to African history as a strategy for challenging the hegemony in question. The approach lobbies that, for Africa to successfully challenge that hegemony, she should first of all move her history from the era of Neocolonialism as she enters the era of Nationalism. / African Languages / D. Lit. et Phil. (African Languages) Hegemonic theory Essentialist approach Multilingualist approach Developmentalist approach Postnationalism Hegemony of English Superpower Superpower politics Medium of instruction Medium of academic essay writing Standard English Non-standard forms of English Code-switching Code-mixing Indigenous Zimbabwean languages Assimilationist approach The code-switch/switch-code approach Syncretist approach Pre-national/pre-colonial era Colonial era Neocolonial era Era of Nationalism Era of Postnationalism Transnationalism Internationalism Globalization 808.04207116891 Authorship Hegemony Scholarly publishing College students -- Zimbabwe -- Language Multilingualism -- Zimbabwe

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Variation et variétés morphosyntaxiques du français parlé au Gabon / Variation and morphosyntactic varieties of French spoken to the Gabon

Challenging the hegemony of English in post-independence Africa : an evolutionist approach