« POURQUOI LES MÉDIAS EN PARLENT AINSI  ? » : ENJEUX IDENTITAIRES, SOCIOPOLITIQUES ET FORMES DE DISCURSIVITÉS DANS L’ÉCRITURE DE PRESSE AU CAMEROUN
"WHY DO THE MEDIA TALK ABOUT IT THIS WAY? “: IDENTITY, SOCIOPOLITICAL ISSUES AND FORMS OF DISCURSIVENESS IN PRESS WRITING IN CAMEROON

Summary/Abstract: In Cameroon, behind a press headline, a report, an interview, two main frames of interpretation of the news intersect, which this research highlights: the framing of "mapartism" favourable to linguistic (Anglophone/Francophone), ethnopolitical partisan interests, and the framing of the unified nation, favourable to the emergence of a Cameroonian nation turned towards republican ideals and the causes of national interests. How do these frameworks for interpreting current events appear? And what do they reveal about the functioning of socio-political and power issues in Cameroon? The problem posed here is that of the role of ethnotribal/regional and linguistic (Francophone/English-speaking) identities in the editorial orientation of press events in Cameroon. To answer this question, this study combines the analysis of press discourse and the sociology of the production of journalistic work in Cameroon. It puts into perspective the informative framing of newspapers through the designation of actors and events and their relationship to the devices of which they are the effect. Our corpus is composed of 158 articles taken from 5 Cameroonian newspapers published between 1 January and 30 June 2015 and 15 semi-comprehensive interviews.

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