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Anchimbe, Eric A.:
Digital Narratives of Belonging as Anglophone or Francophone in a Cameroon Online News Forum.
In: Open Linguistics.
Bd. 2
(2016)
Heft 1
.
- S. 511-527.
ISSN 2300-9969
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/opli-2016-0027
Abstract
Using readers’ comments on an online news forum (The Post newspaper), this paper describes patterns of belonging to the historical (colonial) linguistic in-group anglophone and out-group francophone in Cameroon. These groups emerged from the British-French colonisation of the country after WW1, with anglophones representing the former British colony and francophones the French. My focus is on the use of eight plural pronouns and how they index in-group or out-group belonging. Four of the pronouns, we, our, us and ourselves are used inclusively to create a solid anglophone in-group through the narration of a common (colonial) history, linguistic background (the use of English) and experiences. The other four, they, them, their and themselves refer predominantly to francophones as an out-group that must be differentiated from the close-knit anglophone in-group. I illustrate how, in defending the boundaries of these groups, the commentators autobiographically narrate the life trajectories of their in-group, highlight its values and interrogate the moral stance of the out-group. They benefit from the digital space which provides anonymity and closes the geographical distances between them. Overall, the anglophone in-group narrative emerges as an autobiographical narrative within the bigger (national) autobiographical narrative of the country, into which it often opens and is sometimes integrated.
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| Publikationsform: | Artikel in einer Zeitschrift |
|---|---|
| Begutachteter Beitrag: | Ja |
| Zusätzliche Informationen: | In Dayter, Daria & Susanne Mühleisen (eds.): Personal Narrative Online. Special issue of Open Linguistics |
| Keywords: | narratives of belonging; inclusive pronouns; exclusive pronouns |
| Institutionen der Universität: | Fakultäten > Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaftliche Fakultät > Lehrstuhl Englische Sprachwissenschaft > Lehrstuhl Englische Sprachwissenschaft Univ.-Prof. Dr. Susanne Mühleisen Fakultäten Fakultäten > Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaftliche Fakultät Fakultäten > Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaftliche Fakultät > Lehrstuhl Englische Sprachwissenschaft |
| Titel an der UBT entstanden: | Ja |
| Themengebiete aus DDC: | 400 Sprache > 400 Sprachwissenschaft 400 Sprache > 410 Linguistik 400 Sprache > 420 Englisch, Altenglisch |
| Eingestellt am: | 15 Jan 2020 08:43 |
| Letzte Änderung: | 15 Jan 2020 08:43 |
| URI: | https://eref.uni-bayreuth.de/id/eprint/53734 |