IBO INTERFERENCE IN ENGLISH AS A CASE OF ENUNCIATIVE NECESSITY IN CHINUA ACHEBE’S NO LONGER AT EASE

Author: 
Zorobi Philippe TOH
Country: 
Côte d'Ivoire
Abstract: 

The recourse to Ibo language in English is a necessity resulting from the insufficiency of English to convey faithfully the inner conviction of the discourse participants in Chinua Achebe’s No Langer at Ease.Thus, african languages can be compared to a stubborn child who will advance whenever he is asked to go away. Understanding this amounts to saying that though numbers of decisions have been taken to smother or even unexaggerately to kill african languages, they do resist. They rather impose themselves as unavoidable in Africans’ daily life. Thus the topic ″Ibo Interference in English as a Case of Enunciative Necessity in Chinua Achebe’s No Longer at Ease″. With this work, we are expecting to state that african languages’ position can arguably comply with the quest for objectivity in conveying one’s mind, displaying by the same token, insufficiencies of so-called modern, powerful and perfect languages escaping thereby their dictatorship

KeyWords: 

African languages, enunciation, Ibo, interference, objectivity, necessity
 

Volume & Issue: 
Vol. 2, Issue 06
Pages: 
380-386
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