作者: B. Mulo Farenkia
DOI: 10.1016/J.PRAGMA.2010.08.017
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摘要: Interethnic communication in Cameroon is sometimes characterized by a derogatory discourse on the ethnicity of others. This generally appears form insults, jokes, teases, etc. built into narrations, songs, fiction and telecasts, transported from one generation to other. article describes some strategies used denigrate ethnic identity others Cameroon. The analyses, based data (questionnaires, participant-observations, interviews) collected Yaounde other regions country, show how Cameroonians use borrowings, nominal compositions, metaphors, semantic shifts, metonymies, denigrate, downgrade, dehumanize, or demonize members certain groups and/or erase, minimize contest their groups.