从《再也不得安宁》的语言探析非洲社会原貌

On the Original Appearance of African Society from the Language Features of “No Longer at Ease”

钦努阿·阿契贝著写的第二部作品《再也不得安宁》语言特色鲜明,运用英语、伊博语和尼日利亚皮钦语,展现伊博族的传统文化,呈现出传统文化与现代文化交锋带来的文化冲突,进而揭示了非洲本土社会与文化的真实面貌,是对欧洲作家笔下“失真的非洲”有力的反抗。三种语言相互交融,打破了英语作为主导语言的局面,文章将结合文本,具体阐释三种语言背后展现的尼日利亚独立前夕非洲的社会原貌。

Chinua Achebe’s second work “No Longer at Ease” has distinctive language characteristics by using three languages: English, Ibo and Nigerian Pidgin, which show the traditional culture of Ibo nationality and the cultural conflict brought by the confrontation between traditional culture and modern culture, and then describe the true face of African local society and culture. This method is a powerful resistance to the “distorted Africa” written by European writers. The three languages blend with each other, breaking the situation of English as the dominant language. Combined with the text, this paper will explain the social situation of Nigeria on the eve of independence behind the three languages.