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Prosody and N’zassa Writing Style in Jean-Marie Adiaffi’s Novels
Dr. Bosson Bra
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DOI:10.17265/1539-8080/2016.03.006
Félix Houphouët Boigny University, Cocody-Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire
This paper investigates the pragmatic function of prosody in two novels Silence, on développe and Les naufragés de l’intelligence by Jean-Marie Adiaffi. The study is based on poetic excerpts from the novels. On the basis of a pragmatic analysis of concrete examples, we show that the meaning in discourse can also be built up out of prosody which is essentially composed of rhythm, sounds, tones, and intonations. Our basic assumption is that the N’zassa aesthetics, conceived of as the mix of genres or as “a genre without genre” and to which Adiaffi’s writing identifies, proceeds from meaning, on the basis of a prosodic apparatus that the author sets up. Indeed, N’zassa meaning in Anyi language a fabric resulting from the arrangement of several pieces of loincloths of various patterns and colors, it therefore appears as “a fragmented writing style” that makes use of a virulent language where valuable and trivial words mingle with sounds, rhythms, colors, tones, and intonations to denounce moral degradation, violence, and African doubtful independences. In short terms, prosody appears to constitute a powerful lever for the Ivorian writer’s both poetic and political commitment.
prosody, pragmatics, N’zassa, discourse prosody patterns
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