Language Repertoire in the City of Ouagadougou: The Case of Working-Class Neighborhoods

Abstract

his study is interested to language and urbanization of Ouagadougou’s city. The proportion observed in the linguistics behavior of people of this city seems varied in each district. Is the lodged district influences the using of languages? By answer, the lodged district influences the using of languages. In the popular districts, some dissimilarities of language’s repertoire are indicated through at sociolinguistics’ level. The study intends to determinate linguistics’ behaviors of people of popular districts. It enters in urban sociolinguistics of Bulot (2003). It consists to analyze how the speech and space’s practical can remodel linguistics’ behavior of responsible. The information’s processes of picking are the questionnaire, interview and observation of linguistics behaviors. Keywords: Language Repertoire, Linguistics Behaviors, People, City, Popular Districts