Construction of Discursive and Collective Memories in the Cameroonian Regional Press During the Pre-Election Period The Case of Legislative and Municipal Elections in Ouest Echos and L’OEil du Sahel

Résumé

This reflection starts from the postulate that the Cameroonian regional press contributes to the construc-tion of discursive and collective memories through language formulas, the meaning of words and traces of previous constructions, which are implicitly or explicitly part of the discourse of the media information. The corpus of study, made up of two regional newspapers (Ouest Echos and L’OEil du Sahel), makes it possi-ble to understand that the discourse of media information is both the site of the circulation of discursive memories and the construction of collective memories.