Magana N'zassa or the plural speech: The Power of words

Linguistique

Authors

  • Hilaire Bohui Djedje Université Félix Houphouët-Boigny Auteur·e

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.55595/r47vz279

Keywords:

Power, Words, Ordinary communication, Presuppositions, Religion

Abstract

Through its vector power of human being’s social experience, speech tells and makes the world that configures it in return. As such, it unfolds in diverse operational modalities that question its status(es). The purpose of this paper is to share some speech experiences in interaction situations. In so doing, it reminds us that, under the prism of its phenomenology, speech is infinitely plural and always linked to challenges, even where there seem to be none a priori. Meta-religious speech, speech dedicated to libation, profane speech and public speech are the “case studies” of this communication.

Author Biography

  • Hilaire Bohui Djedje, Université Félix Houphouët-Boigny

    Hilaire Bohui Djedje, research professor in the Department of Modern Literature (University Félix Houphouët-Boigny), Hilaire Bohui Djedje is a University Professor. With a grammarian and enunciative training, he is a specialist in Discourse Analysis and Pragmatics oriented on the issues of interaction and argumentation. Since 2007, he has been the initiator of the teaching of enunciation linguistics at the Department of Modern Literature, after having given for several years courses in normative grammar, phonetics and phonology. Since 2008, he has been the scientific director of the Department of Modern Literature. He is also: Head of the UP Grammar and Linguistics of French in the Department of Modern Literature since 2006; Responsible for the Course Languages, Theories and Literary Discourse since 2014; Director of the Scientific Council of the Dynamic Laboratory of Languages and Discourse (LADYLAD) since its creation and founding member of the African Network for Discourse Analysis (R2AD) Essayist and poet, Petit recueil d'ivoirismes and A life of mopping are these two latest publications in these fields. Moreover, he is the author of a story under edition. Author of several scientific articles, he is also the coordinator of numerous collective works, the latest of which, on Covid 19, is titled "The coronavirus disease: discourse on a pandemic, lessons from a lockdown". In terms of research, Professor BOHUI is interested in establishing an endogenous approach to speech facts in an African context. He almost develops an addiction to the need for renewal or at least, for the enrichment of the paradigm in the approach to the facts of discourse produced in an African context. In other words, the implementation of an endogenous approach in discourse analysis where the Culture, the way of thinking, the being-in-the world of the African exert a pressure on the saying which, in turn, translates the producing society. It is in this that he has been developing the theory of African communicative warning systems (ACA) for a few years.

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Published

2025-12-05

Data Availability Statement

The primary data come from sacred texts and writings of African writers.

How to Cite

Magana N’zassa or the plural speech: The Power of words: Linguistique. (2025). African Notebooks of Rhetoric , 4(02), 31-43. https://doi.org/10.55595/r47vz279

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