ENUNCIATION, REPORTED SPEECH AND DISCURSIVE STRATEGIES IN FRANCOPHONE AFRICAN FICTION

This article develops an exploratory comparative account of enunciation and reported speech in four works of Francophone African fiction: Une si longue lettre, Les Soleils des indépendances, La Vie et demie and Petit Bodiel. Drawing on enunciative linguistics and literary discourse analysis, it examines how reporting forms interact with narrative framing to organize voice, viewpoint and attributed authority. The discussion considers retrospective self-positioning, proverbial legitimacy, dictatorial speech and the distribution of knowledge in the tale. It argues that neither direct quotation nor indirect reformulation has a fixed ideological effect: interpretation requires attention to attribution, evaluation and narrative context. The article proposes grammar activities combining formal analysis, rewriting and evidence-based interpretation. The corpus is purposive, the readings are exploratory, and the pedagogical proposals have not been tested in a classroom study.