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    Critique D'une Nouvelle Serie De Livrets Titre: Aventures en Francais
    (Faculty of Arts Kenyatta University, 1999-12) Nzunga, M.P.K.
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    Identite culturelle et linguistique: Etapes Et Consequences De Sa Transformation
    (Kenyatta University, 1999) Nzunga, M.P.K.
    L'existence d'une culture pure et totalement isolee d'autres semble pratiquement impossible. Au fait, les contacts sociaux, entre des peuples differents, furent connus meme avant l' Ere des Grands Voyages. Ceux-ci n' ont fait qu' accentuer et accelerer la domination (socio-politique, socioeconomique, socio-culturelle, socio-linguistique ...) des peuples colonises, par les Colons. Cream ainsi une situation dans laquelle les structures des institutions sociales, des premiers, ne pouvaient que se plier it la puissance des forces de la culture etrangeres. Cet article cherche it decrire les conditions qui declenchent et menent, inexorablement, it ces changements culturels et linguistiques. L' auteur s' efforcede montrer que, dans les cas extremes, la perte de l'identite culturelle et linguistique consequente pourrait mener it une crise socia Ie, qui est souvent accompagnee d' un retardement du developpement cognitif. On essaye aussi de caracteriser les trois etapes majeures (contact, conflit, addaptation), d'une transformation culturelle/linguistique totale.
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    Identite culturelle et linguistique: Etapes Et Consequences De Sa Transformation
    (Kenyatta University Faculty of Arts, 1999) Nzunga, M.P.K.
    The existence of a pure and isolated culture seems practically impossible. Even long before the era of the Great Voyages, social contacts between different peoples were frequent. These Voyages, however, marked a decisive step towards domination (socio-political, socio-economic, socio-cultural, socio-linguistic ...) of the colonized peoples, by the colonial masters. The situation created was one in which the structures of the institutions of the former simply had to align themselves to the forces of the culture of the foreign masters. This article attempts to show the conditions that provoke inevitable cultural and linguistic changes. The author goes on to show how, in extreme cases, loss of cultural and linguistic identity can lead to a social crisis, which could be accompanied by retarded cognitve development. Attempts are made to show the three main stages (contact, conflict, adaptation), of a complete cultural transformation. The article points out the social characteristics associated with each one of the three universally observed stages of transformation, and discusses suggested solutions to the subsequent cultural and linguistic crisis