Étude des interactions verbales dans la tragédie du roi Christophe et une saison au Congo d’Aimé Césaire

Abstract

This research work focuses on verbal interactions. It analyzes all language devices and intrinsic rules of the communication process. After reading Aimé Césaire's theater, we noted his singularity in alternately mixing word and action, prose and verse, song and prayer. This alternative use of registers of expression complicates communication between the characters. Hence the scientific problem of conflictual interactions. This scientific problem allowed us to ask the following main question: to what extent can we identify verbal interactions as the spring of Aimé Césaire's theatrical poetics? Hence the following hypothesis: The verbal interactions in La Tragédie du roi Christophe and Une Saison au Congo are built around the linguistic behavior of the characters. The organization of the dramatic action, the relationships between characters and the dialogue between them, are in line with a discourse which arises in opposition. He agrees on the fact that political conflict is becoming widespread because of the communicative misery fueled by the interlocutive rupture, the threat, the false dialogue, the confidence through the aside, the monologue. These questions and hypotheses led us to the choice of Catherine Kerbrat-Orecchioni's theory of verbal interactions. It is supplemented by the theory of acts and that of the implicit. The present analysis aims to show that communicative misery is invested through actions which fail every time, giving free rein to the expression of subjective judgments and personal beliefs. Which forces the characters to resort to embellishing their words. This suggests that the communication strategies implemented in Aimé Césaire's theater contribute to highlighting the conflict of political interest at play there.