Vol. 4 No. 1 (2025): Sommaire et présentation

Editorial

This issue brings together nine articles written by different authors. The selected contributions cover several disciplines, such as grammar, stylistics and literature.  In his study, Fatou Gueye examines emotions in the addresses to the Nation of Senegalese Presidents.   Indeed, Charles Dossou Ligan analyzes the semantic values of the concept yòvó with a socioterminological approach and results highlighting that the term yòvó integrated several fields, such as anthroponymy, culture, plant and animal production and technology.  In addition, Masra Ngakoutou and Anatole Mbanga analyze enunciatives of speeches by Idriss Deby and Paul Biya on the issue of peace in Chad and Cameroon.  On their part, however, Brèche Pachel Nguiene Bilongo and Pierre Destain Ntsoua Ndombo examined both the syntactic constructions to be made, their functional values, their semantic and rhetorical uses and come to the conclusion that the proliferation of the use of doing depends on the choices of African Week journalists. 
For the contributions of literature, Ernest Bassane leads the reflection on the literary productions of the defense and security forces of Burkina Faso through the sociocriticism of Lucien Goldmann. For his part, Simbo-Apekou-Epozas examines the question of narrative and thematic references in the novelistic work of Henri Djombo. It analyzes, from the author’s novels, the different referential variations between real space and its fictional representation in order to evaluate the existing relationship between the real universe and the fictional universe. In his work, Ghislain Méliodore Mvoula-Massamba examines the anthroponymic attribution system used by Alain Mabanckou to name characters. These characters result from a writing in freedom that appears as the meticulous assembly of materials from diverse origins.  In his study, Guy Noé Ngoyi analyzes the intellectuals confronted with dictatorial powers in the works of fiction by Sylvain Bemba. 
     Finally, in a section of varia, Christian Kouadio Yao shows that Africa inherited ancient Egypt, the scriptural resources basing the beginnings of the civilization of humanity. This heritage was gradually lost, with the conquest of Alexander the Great in 330 BC, to the benefit of orality. Which had the effect of reterritorializing the cradle of civilization in the West and impoverishing Africa.
                                                                          Prof. Arsène Elongo, Marien Ngouabi University, Congo