TUPURISME LEXICAL AU SERVICE D’UN COMMERCE FLORISSANT À MAROUA: LA VENTE DU BIL-BIL

• Main Author: Jean Paul BALGA
• Format: Article
• Language: deu
• Published: Editura Muzeul National al Literaturii Romane 2012-05-01
• Series: Diversitate si Identitate Culturala in Europa
• Subjects: French; tupurism; Tupuri; bil-bil; North Cameroon
• Online Access: http://www.diversite.eu/pdf/09_1/DICE_09.1_Full_Text_p100-p117-Jean-Paul-BALGA.pdf

Adamawa-Ubangi language spoken in south-western Chad and north-east of Cameroon, with nearly one million speakers, the Tupuri is in close cohabitation with the French in the border region of Central Africa (Ruelland, 2003: 127). The use of French in the bilingual context does not live smoothly. The resulting linguistic consequences, which modify its configuration syntax and semantics. This article is from a classic sociolinguistic survey, to describe some aspects of language vitality of French spoken in the pubs in Maroua. In other words, it comes to analyzing the vocabulary used by sellers of consumer bil-bil to attract customers and improve the quality of the atmosphere in the stores. This vocabulary derives in particular the contact between the French and the language Tupuri.