Linguistic And Cultural Hybriduty In Achebe’s Things Fall Apart: Proverbial Quoting Or The Art Of An Mbari House

Résumé: No doubt, those of you who have read Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart still remember this comment that Achebe’s narrator and mouthpiece throws in the process of reporting a conversation between Unoka and Okoyo in the first pages of the book. The latter is on the point of reclaiming a debt from the former who is an inveterate debtor, and of whom the central character Okonkwo is ashamed in a culture that highly values economic success. Instead of going straight to the point, the narrator tells us that Okoyo stopped

Publié dans la revue: الممارسات اللّغويّة