DISCOURS COMIQUE CAMEROUNAIS ENTRE COLORATION CULTURELLE COMIQUE ET SARCASTIQUE
CAMEROONIAN COMIC DISCOURSE BETWEEN COMIC AND SARCASTIC CULTURAL COLOURING

Summary/Abstract: The aim of this paper is to analyze the discursive peculiarities of Cameroonian comic discourse and its meaning, based on lexico-semantic, morphological and semiolinguistic approaches. Cameroonian humour is characterised by its cultural colouring and the style of its authors. The comedians of this cultural area, particularly, Major Assé and Wakeu Fogaing, do not limit themselves to delighting their audience, but always set out to address the problems that undermine the Cameroonian society in particular and the world in general. Beyond the legitimacy conferred on them by their audience to say or do something, to denounce social ills, the authors have to forge their own style. This is how they manipulate the materiality of language, straddling wordplay, figures of speech, coinages, the implicit, etc. They also reveal, using subtlety, humour and sarcasm, their position on the situations depicted.

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