Linguistic acculturation: representation of Igbo cultural traditions and folklore in Chinua Achebe’s novels

Abstract EN

This research paper aims at examining cultural traditions, and folklore as represented in Chinua Achebe’s novels things fall apart, no longer at ease, and arrow of God.

Its main purpose is to demonstrate how well Achebe uses his linguistic and communicative competences in the presentation of cultural traditions, socio-ethnic dimensions and communal values; and exposing them to the Western world by giving them new dimensions via linguistic acculturation.

For the analysis of the selected primary selected texts; descriptive and analytical method is adopted to sort out all the different aspect under investigation.

Thus, from the analyses of the texted, it’s concluded that Achebe’s use of language for the representation of cultural traditions and folklore show that art literature does not exist in a vacuum, it states the experiences, moral intensions, and guidelines for people.