Une forme d'humour contestataire au Burundi : les wellérismes

Authors :: Francis M. Rodegen
Source :: Cahiers d’études africaines. 14:521-542
Publication Year :: 1974
Publisher :: PERSEE Program, 1974.
Abstract: F. M. Rodegem — Social Protest and Humour: Wellerisms in Burundi. While court literature in Burundi is completely devoid of humour, the lower strata of society tend to express themselves through stereotyped jokes and allusive humourous formulae. Those analysed in this paper follow the Sam Weller's 'as X said to Y' pattern, with special linguistic characteristics at the syntaxic level and a high degree of elaborateness. They expound a world view and philosophy and have a kind of cathartic function.<br />Rodegen Francis M. Une forme d'humour contestataire au Burundi : les wellérismes.. In: Cahiers d'études africaines, vol. 14, n°55, 1974. pp. 521-542.