Resistance and Resilience: (De) Constructing a Language Ideology in Longue Longue’s ‘Ayo Africa’

IF 0.2 4区 文学 0 LANGUAGE & LINGUISTICS International Journal of American Linguistics Pub Date : 2023-10-16 DOI:10.5296/ijl.v15i5.21390
Tatang Banda
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This study intends to demonstrate by using the lyrics of ‘Ayo Africa’ by Longue Longue that indigenous languages and other voices are rising and asserting their relevance to singularise themselves and at the same time, questioning the ideology of the heretofore ‘dominant’ language and discourse by giving it a Cameroonian rendition. The fact that every language carries with it an ideology and owing to the fact that there exist an intimate link between language and literature – in both written and oral forms, this study also demonstrates that the Cameroonian singer-Longue Longue, through language appropriation and resilience to mother tongue evoke sentiments of nationalism that suggest a rethinking of what ideology and language should govern the Cameroonian postcolonial space in this globalised era. Resistance and deconstruction are dominant practices of colonial and postcolonial discourses with the one fighting to assert herself in the face of the other in the global context of today characterised by the collapse of national boundaries, challenges in governance, conflict, proliferation of languages and the unpopularity of the dominant language and discourse. New historicism is employed in this study because it transcends; cultural, sociological, linguistic and anthropological disciplines, and also because pop music is part of the culture of the people. This study through the observation and interview methods, will lean on the hypothetical contention that; in Longue Longue’s ‘Ayo Africa’, indigenous language(s) (pidgin and/ Douala) that singularises the Cameroonian person, is indispensable to govern the Cameroonian postcolonial space.
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抵抗与韧性:朗格《约非洲》中语言意识形态的建构
本研究旨在借由Longue Longue的“Ayo Africa”的歌词来证明,原住民语言和其他声音正在崛起,并主张它们与自己的独特性有关,同时,通过喀麦隆的演绎,质疑迄今为止“主导”语言和话语的意识形态。事实上,每一种语言都带有一种意识形态,并且由于语言与文学之间存在着密切的联系,无论是书面形式还是口头形式,这项研究还表明,喀麦隆歌手Longue Longue通过语言挪用和对母语的恢复,唤起了民族主义情绪,这表明在全球化时代,应该重新思考哪种意识形态和语言来统治喀麦隆的后殖民空间。抵抗和解构是殖民和后殖民话语的主要实践,在当今以国界崩溃、治理挑战、冲突、语言扩散和主导语言和话语的不受欢迎为特征的全球背景下,一个人在面对另一个人的时候努力维护自己。本研究采用新历史主义,因为它超越了;文化,社会学,语言学和人类学的学科,也因为流行音乐是人民文化的一部分。本研究通过观察法和访谈法,将依靠假设的论点认为;在Longue的《Ayo Africa》中,土著语言(皮钦语和杜阿拉语)是喀麦隆人的独特性,是治理喀麦隆后殖民空间不可或缺的语言。
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期刊介绍: International Journal of American Linguistics is a world forum for the study of all the languages native to North, Central, and South America. Inaugurated by Franz Boas in 1917, IJAL concentrates on the investigation of linguistic data and on the presentation of grammatical fragments and other documents relevant to Amerindian languages.
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