Language variation as an aspect of cultural disintegration in chinua achebe's no longer at ease

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This article is interested in studying Chinua Achebe's use of language variation in his novel No Longer at Ease as a literary device to communicate the theme of cultural disintegration.

For the writer employs language shifts at the level of characters' dialogues to reveal how the literary aesthetic can reflect cultural conflicts through language tensions.

The article will conclude that the novel displays a visible interplay between language and the major theme it conveys.

This issue will be examined through Bakhtin's notion of language in the novel's discourse, a notion which locates the novel in particular linguistic situations.