L’EXPRESSION DU SUBJONCTIF ET DE L’INTERROGATION INDIRECTE DANS LE FRANÇAIS EN CÔTE D’IVOIRE : DÉFI OU INCAPACITÉ
THE EXPRESSION OF THE SUBJUNCTIVE AND INDIRECT QUESTION IN FRENCH IN CÔTE D'IVOIRE: CHALLENGE OR INCAPACITY

Summary/Abstract: The aspect of the subjunctive and the indirect querying in Côte d'Ivoire falls within the general framework of the problem of the appropriation of the French language in French-speaking Africa. The observation of an obvious difference in some aspects of local French, relative to standard French, has been made for a few decades already which was first based on a problem of linguistic incompetence before tending, today, towards a manifest desire for freedom vis-à-vis standard French. The use of the normative structure of the two modalities in standard French on the one hand and on the other to descriptive linguistics to situate them in local French has made it possible to observe indeed changes in the local form that appear today as the manifestation of a sense of identity and an assumed appropriation. This article therefore shows that the morphosyntactic differences observed between Standard French and Local French and, in particular, the nonconformity of the subjunctive and the indirect querying in local French in relation to the norm far from being considered as a disability must be perceived as a challenge which encourages the search for autonomous ways in French expression in Africa.

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