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Achebe adds another twist in his creative use of language by incorporating a few examples of Pidgin English. Pidgin is a simplified form of language used for communicating between groups of people who normally speak different languages. Achebe uses only a few Pidgin words or phrases — tie-tie (to tie); kotma (a crude form of court messenger ...
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Jun 4, 2017 · Abstract. Achebe uses Nigerian Pidgin English in his fiction to focus the identity of a range of characters and to give their discourse a down-to-earth dimension. As a non-elite discourse, moreover, Pidgin underscores cultural and class tensions. In particular, it draws attention to the inequities that mark relations between several power ...
- Thomas Jay Lynn
- 2017
The nature of the modernity and the urban setting of the story is seen through Achebe's use of pidgin English, which is characteristic of urbanization in West Africa. (p. 7)
Aug 12, 2024 · The third variety of English used in Anthills of the Savannah is the lingua franca of the urban masses; it may be referred to as pidgin English, described by Brosnahan in 1958 as "spoken by those ...
Jun 4, 2017 · From now on, it is Gĩkũyũ and KiSwahili all the way” (qtd. in Owusu 1734). This and the other previous statements help explain why Achebe and Ngũgĩ came to be widely regarded as the dueling poles in the debate over language authenticity in African literature. Footnote 1. Achebe, Ngũgĩ, and others have contributed compelling arguments ...
- Thomas Jay Lynn
- 2017
Nigerian Pidgin English is the hybrid language with which Achebe creates some of the dialogue in all of his novels as well as in certain shorter fiction.1 As discussed in the previous chapter, the author states in“The African Writer and the English Language that English itself must adjust. ”. to the Anglophone African writers who are ...
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This essay examines the stylistic. one sociolinguistic phenomenon: pidginization. It is assumed the implications of the sociolinguistic definition of of great relevance in the study of style in African writing particularly when analyzing the stylistic use to which the pidgin spoken in West Africa is put in the writings of Chinua and Wole Soyinka.
