L’écrit universitaire de Littérature africaine contemporaine Entre épistémologie et communication

Résumé

The value judgements and other destabilizing prejudices which, even today, are bringing back
to the forefront the relevance of academic scientific writing in the eyes of the layman, remain a
cause for concern for those who wish to define its true purpose and intrinsic motivations which
justify its production. Consequently, how is the said writing conceived in the light of Science as
a whole with regard to the assets it presents in terms of research, when it is circumscribed in the
field of contemporary African literature? The aim of this study, which is divided into two main
parts, is to respond to this heuristic concern in order to show that academic writing plays many
roles in terms of its deep discursive orientations. If we look at its context and revisit the
objectives that it conveys through the hybrid forms that it deploys, we are forced to position it
between epistemology and communication. In order to reach this conclusion, we bundle together
the springs of analytical pragmatics which are locutionary, illocutionary and perlocutionary.