Transculturalism and feminist ideology in Ama Ata Aidoo's The dilemma of a ghost

This paper examines how linguistic choices and interactional strategies in the play under study transmit socio-cultural and ideological identity. As a feminist sociolinguistic study, the paper analyzes some conversations in the play in order to determine how women’s discourse translates to either an acceptable or unacceptable feminist ideology in Ghana (The African country in which the play is set). The paper also examines how deviant feminist discourse engenders ideological miscommunication amongst women. It further reveals that a multiplex of sociological factors such as ethnicity, education, socio-economic status, environment and the socio-cultural norms of a given society influence women’s ideology. This paper concludes that the feminist identity and ideology communicated in conversations is not merely a quality of individuals but entails socio-communal expectations that define the meaning of ideology which is systematically taught to individuals within their communities, and that a deviant ideological practice creates a rift which hampers unicultural feminist communication thereby, disallowing transculturalism amongst women which makes feminist practice multicultural and pluralist.