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Titre Une forme d'humour contestataire au Burundi : les wellérismes.
Auteur Francis M. Rodegem
Mir@bel Revue Cahiers d'études africaines
Numéro Vol. 14, no 55, 1974
Rubrique / Thématique
Études et essais
Page 521-542
Résumé anglais 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.
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