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This article is all about the study of the different types of promise in the political communicat... more This article is all about the study of the different types of promise in the political communication in Black French speaking Africa. The work shows how the use of simple acts of speech has become a real communication policy able to help in interesting the various actors. Using a multidisciplinary and an experience-based approach, it covers particularly the period from 1980 to 2010 and indicates the emergence of three relevant kinds of promise according to the different exigencies of the socioeconomic trends
This article is all about the study of politeness in the conflicting communication of putschists ... more This article is all about the study of politeness in the conflicting communication of putschists in Black French Speaking Africa. Under a pragmatic point of view, the goal is to describe the cognitive effects of verbal processes of politeness and their function in the political efficiency. The specific interest is to determine how putschists use Face Flattering Acts (FFAs) and Face Threatening Acts to communicate and to remain or not in power. The article proposes finally a communication plan to harmonize the cognitive effects of politeness.
Acta Politica, 2021
Within this article, we aim at exploring the topic of clientelism in Cameroon as a species of a w... more Within this article, we aim at exploring the topic of clientelism in Cameroon as a species of a wider phenomenon affecting Central and Western Francophone Africa. Our argument is that, in spite of the repeated efforts of reinforcing the local power structures, we have witnessed a process of centralisation of clientelism: the new networks are shaped around the 'Creatures', who are the President Paul Biya's formal or informal appointees and play the role of nodal elements relying the rest of the chain to the central command. This happened on the expenses of the locally dispersed and more autonomous clientelistic groups that were either included in or smashed by the pyramidal Creatures' structured. In order to test our assumption, we analysed a specific body of literature on the theorization of clientelism and on its African and Cameroonian specificity and organized four focus groups with the actual and former members of the clientelistic chains at different levels (central, regional and local). If our main presupposition proved to be generally correct, one of the sub-arguments was only partially validated through this empirical component of our research.
Http Www Revue Signes Info, Jul 5, 2010
This article is all about the study of the different types of promise in the political communicat... more This article is all about the study of the different types of promise in the political communication in Black French speaking Africa. The work shows how the use of simple acts of speech has become a real communication policy able to help in interesting the various actors. Using a multidisciplinary and an experience-based approach, it covers particularly the period from 1980 to 2010 and indicates the emergence of three relevant kinds of promise according to the different exigencies of the socioeconomic trends
This article is all about the study of politeness in the conflicting communication of putschists ... more This article is all about the study of politeness in the conflicting communication of putschists in Black French Speaking Africa. Under a pragmatic point of view, the goal is to describe the cognitive effects of verbal processes of politeness and their function in the political efficiency. The specific interest is to determine how putschists use Face Flattering Acts (FFAs) and Face Threatening Acts to communicate and to remain or not in power. The article proposes finally a communication plan to harmonize the cognitive effects of politeness.
Acta Politica, 2021
Within this article, we aim at exploring the topic of clientelism in Cameroon as a species of a w... more Within this article, we aim at exploring the topic of clientelism in Cameroon as a species of a wider phenomenon affecting Central and Western Francophone Africa. Our argument is that, in spite of the repeated efforts of reinforcing the local power structures, we have witnessed a process of centralisation of clientelism: the new networks are shaped around the 'Creatures', who are the President Paul Biya's formal or informal appointees and play the role of nodal elements relying the rest of the chain to the central command. This happened on the expenses of the locally dispersed and more autonomous clientelistic groups that were either included in or smashed by the pyramidal Creatures' structured. In order to test our assumption, we analysed a specific body of literature on the theorization of clientelism and on its African and Cameroonian specificity and organized four focus groups with the actual and former members of the clientelistic chains at different levels (central, regional and local). If our main presupposition proved to be generally correct, one of the sub-arguments was only partially validated through this empirical component of our research.