Interférences linguistiques et culturelles françaises en Afrique

Flavia Aiello; Mari Centrella; Anna Maria Di Tolla; Sarah Pinto

doi:10.6093/978-88-6719-292-2

Interférences linguistiques et culturelles françaises en Afrique

Authors

Flavia Aiello

University of Naples L'Orientale

Mari Centrella

University of Naples L'Orientale

Anna Maria Di Tolla

University of Naples L'Orientale

Sarah Pinto

Università of Naples L'Oriantale

DOI: https://doi.org/10.6093/978-88-6719-292-2

Keywords:

cultural interferences, language contact, multilingualism, education, literature, sociolinguistics, French in Africa, Berber studies, African studies

Synopsis

Publisher: UniorPress

Series: Studi Africanistici

Pages: 484

Language: Francese

NBN:

Abstract: French, which entered and spread throughout Africa as the language of the colonisers, is now part of the continent’s linguistic and cultural mosaic. From Maghreb, where it coexists with Berber, Arabic dialects and classical Arabic, to sub-Saharan Africa, where it is one of the vehicular languages (along with Hausa, Mandingo, Swahili and other European languages of colonial heritage), French, and with it French and Francophone culture, is now in daily contact with a wide variety of languages and cultures. The aim is not to draw up an overview of the vitality or decline of French in Africa, but rather to observe and question the ‘interferences’ of French in the fields of activity where the language is at stake, in a dynamic context of emancipation, hybridity, appropriation and renewal of identity at all levels.

The volume Interférences linguistiques et culturelles françaises en Afrique is the result of the International Study Days organised by the University of Naples L’Orientale, from 11 to 13 November 2021, and contains 26 articles. In keeping with the spirit of this university, whose deep-rooted vocation has always been interlinguistic and intercultural dialogue, this symposium provided an opportunity to pool work on contemporary forms of French cultural and linguistic interference in Africa, and in particular in the Berber world.

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Author Biographies

Flavia Aiello, University of Naples L'Orientale

Flavia Aiello is Associate Professor of Swahili Language and Literature at the University of Naples L’Orientale. She is the author of numerous publications on Swahili language and literature, as well as literary translations, and has collaborated on several transdisciplinary projects on contemporary Africa, including the PRIN 2017-20 ‘Mobility-stabilisation. Congolese representations and social dynamics, in Congo and in global space’, coordinated by Prof. R. Giordano (Univ. of Calabria).

Mari Centrella, University of Naples L'Orientale

Maria Centrella is an associate professor of French Language and Linguistics at the University of Naples L’Orientale. Her research focuses on lexicology and lexicography, terminology and discourse analysis. Among her publications : François Malaval, mystique du XVIIe siècle. Ethos et construction argumentative dans la Lettre de M. Malaval à M. l’abbé de Foresta-Colongue (2023), Marine Le Pen en 140 caractères (2020), Le vocabulaire de l’informatique : de la norme à l’usage (2012).

Anna Maria Di Tolla, University of Naples L'Orientale

Anna Maria Di Tolla (PhD at the University of Naples L’Orientale) is full professor of Language, Literature and Contemporary History of Amazigh at the University of Naples L’Orientale. Visiting Professor at EHESS in Paris and at the University of Fez in Morocco, her research areas focus on oral literature and Amazigh history. She has written numerous articles on topics such as oral literature, Amazigh identity politics, Ibadism, Contemporary history in the Maghreb. She also has edited and translated some Amazigh grammars (kabyle, tachelhit, nefusi). She is director of the journal Quaderni di Studi Berberi e Libico-Berberi and president of the Center of Amazigh Studies.

Sarah Pinto, Università of Naples L'Oriantale

Sarah Pinto is a tenured lecturer in French Language and Translation at L’Orientale University, where she teaches syntax and speech analysis. As part of her doctorate she studied the morphosemantic evolution of the terminology of photography and published a book and several papers on the subject. She mainly deals with specialty lexicons (biology, photography) and applied linguistics (meta-lessicography, scientific terminology, digital didactics) and contemporary French literature (Irène Némirovsky, Chloé Delaume). His current research interests focus on the textual genre of song lyrics, for which she proposes a linguistic-pragmatic analysis.