The Socio-culturel And Linguistics Significance Of Fe'efe'e Women's Song Performance: The Case Of Ko Cak Fhʉ̄ Ndak Hɑ̄
This paper attempts to shed light on how women use figurative language through songs and dances in the Fe’efe’e traditional community to speak out their cries and yearnings. With the example of the ngwe song and dance named Ko cak fhʉ̄ ndak, we demonstrate through ethnography of communication and s...
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This paper attempts to shed light on how women use figurative language through songs and dances in the Fe’efe’e traditional community to speak out their cries and yearnings. With the example of the ngwe song and dance named Ko cak fhʉ̄ ndak, we demonstrate through ethnography of communication and speech act theories that since time immemorial, in Africa, in order to maintain social harmony and stability, women have been using strategies to express their thoughts in public in contrary to what views from outside and from the West have been stating. The ngwe is a perfect illustration of women’s potency in the African society. This ngwe has been in Fe’efe’e women’s hands a strong weapon to curse, praise and criticise the shortcomings of their society through the use of vivid and rhetorical or poetic language known as stylistic devices. The ‘ngwe’ song used for illustration expresses the pragmatic use of language as it is geared toward performative acts aiming at influencing the audience or the listeners.
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| spelling | doaj-art-52d5ee45b0444ff0a343f85d44ae68d12025-08-20T03:56:04ZengUniversity of Bejaia Abderrahmane MiraThe Journal of Studies in Language, Culture and Society2716-91892676-17502024-10-0141The Socio-culturel And Linguistics Significance Of Fe'efe'e Women's Song Performance: The Case Of Ko Cak Fhʉ̄ Ndak Hɑ̄Gabriel Delmon Djomeni0Department of African Studies and Globalisation, University of Dschang, This paper attempts to shed light on how women use figurative language through songs and dances in the Fe’efe’e traditional community to speak out their cries and yearnings. With the example of the ngwe song and dance named Ko cak fhʉ̄ ndak, we demonstrate through ethnography of communication and speech act theories that since time immemorial, in Africa, in order to maintain social harmony and stability, women have been using strategies to express their thoughts in public in contrary to what views from outside and from the West have been stating. The ngwe is a perfect illustration of women’s potency in the African society. This ngwe has been in Fe’efe’e women’s hands a strong weapon to curse, praise and criticise the shortcomings of their society through the use of vivid and rhetorical or poetic language known as stylistic devices. The ‘ngwe’ song used for illustration expresses the pragmatic use of language as it is geared toward performative acts aiming at influencing the audience or the listeners. https://univ-bejaia.dz/revue/jslcs/article/view/306devicesdiscourselanguageinguisticngweperformance |
| spellingShingle | Gabriel Delmon Djomeni The Socio-culturel And Linguistics Significance Of Fe'efe'e Women's Song Performance: The Case Of Ko Cak Fhʉ̄ Ndak Hɑ̄ The Journal of Studies in Language, Culture and Society devices discourse language inguistic ngwe performance |
| title | The Socio-culturel And Linguistics Significance Of Fe'efe'e Women's Song Performance: The Case Of Ko Cak Fhʉ̄ Ndak Hɑ̄ |
| title_full | The Socio-culturel And Linguistics Significance Of Fe'efe'e Women's Song Performance: The Case Of Ko Cak Fhʉ̄ Ndak Hɑ̄ |
| title_fullStr | The Socio-culturel And Linguistics Significance Of Fe'efe'e Women's Song Performance: The Case Of Ko Cak Fhʉ̄ Ndak Hɑ̄ |
| title_full_unstemmed | The Socio-culturel And Linguistics Significance Of Fe'efe'e Women's Song Performance: The Case Of Ko Cak Fhʉ̄ Ndak Hɑ̄ |
| title_short | The Socio-culturel And Linguistics Significance Of Fe'efe'e Women's Song Performance: The Case Of Ko Cak Fhʉ̄ Ndak Hɑ̄ |
| title_sort | socio culturel and linguistics significance of fe efe e women s song performance the case of ko cak fhu ndak hɑ |
| topic | devices discourse language inguistic ngwe performance |
| url | https://univ-bejaia.dz/revue/jslcs/article/view/306 |
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