Construction and attempts to deconstruct a simulated language in Zaïre (Congo) under the Second Republic

Abstract

The analysis of enunciation phenomena uses concepts including simulation, masking and connivance. Since the coup of November 24, 1965 and the institutionalization of the MPR, sociopolitical unification was accompanied by language standardization. Speakers distanced themselves from this unanimous language, notably by using irony as a means of deconstruction.