Publications

Publication details [#59164]

Drescher, Martina. 2014. La dimension pragmatico-discursive du français en contact. L’exemple des consultations à la radio camerounaise. [The pragmatic and discursive dimensions of French in contact. The example of Camerounian radio counseling.] Journal of language contact 7 (1) : 62–92.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

language contact | language variety | mediation | pragmatics | radio talk

Language as a subject

French, Cameroon | Languages, Cameroonian

Place, Publisher

Brill

Annotation

This paper advocates a more intense consideration of pragmatic and discourse levels in language contact and adds to Cameroonian French pragmatics. A case study of Cameroonian radio phone-ins where callers search for medical advice, shows how a mediating host provides quite straight counseling at a local plane.