LE CALEMBOUR : VECTEUR DE RIRE ET DE SATIRE DANS SILENCE, ON DÉVELOPPE DE JEAN-MARIE ADIAFFI
PUN: A TOOL FOR LAUGHTER AND SATIRE USED IN SILENCE, ON DÉVELOPPE, (A NOVEL) BY JEAN-MARIE ADIAFFI

Summary/Abstract: The Ivorian writer Jean-Marie Adiaffi is well known for his political and social commitment which he has brilliantly run through the workshop of Art. In Silence, on développe, to serve a humorous and fanciful linguistic form, the author's indiscreet language is fuelled by play on words, namely pun. That lexical device, which consists in using a word that can evoke two different things, is brilliantly used by Adiaffi, in Silence, on développe by means of homophony, polysemy, paronymy and other lexical figures peculiar to him. Beside some noun, adjective and verb materials used by the author, the above language features have, as a source, the acronymic shaping of some comic and critical material. In order to achieve that lexical formulations, the Ivorian word juggler has resorted to grammatical operations such as deletion, substitution and addition.

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