Year: 2023
Type: article
Abstract: In Congolese electoral speeches, speakers do not use one language, but many. The communications are spontaneous, so the languages that result from these exchanges are from the linguistic repertoire of the speakers, but sometimes they are dictated by the interlocutors. In order to keep constant communicational contact, the candidates prefer to satisfy in their communications the speakers of all the national languages. Thus, these Congolese languages transcend their limits and their geolinguistic areas during the election campaign. Unlike lexical borrowing, code-switching appears to be a phenomenon that encompasses all the other phenomena that arise from multilingualism in Congo-Kinshasa.
Author: Alain ISHAMALANGENGE NYIMILONGO
Institution: University of Kinshasa
Language: English
Subfield: Linguistics and Language
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: hybrid
OpenAlex ID: W7221571024