Abstract

MAHOP MA MAHOP, Romuald-Achille. The Oral Epic of Ngombi Nliga Ngwan: between Literariness and Pragmatics. La Palabra [online]. 2022, n.43, pp.1-19.  Epub Apr 26, 2022. ISSN 0121-8530.  https://doi.org/10.19053/01218530.n43.2022.13776.

This paper studies an oral epic from the Cameroon's Basaa, translated into French and annotated recently for the first time (2019). Resorting to an interdisciplinary methodology, this research combines contributions from anthropology, stylistics, and literary pragmatics. The reflection attempts to underline the literariness on this epic, which not only brings the fundamental traits commonly accepted as literary ones of the genre, but also lends itself to the theories developed in recent decades within the framework of reception theory. Thus, the work is embedded in the context in which it is stated, and certain sociological and axiological values, typical of the Cameroonian Basaa socioculture are emphasized.

Keywords : Basaa people; Cameroonian traditional literature; literariness; oral epic; pragmatics.

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