FAIS Journal of Humanities’ 2011. Vol.5 (1), (pp121-130). Cultural Scripts: The Analysis of Kunya in Hausa Isa Yusuf Chamo Centre for the Study of Nigerian Languages iychamo@yahoo.com This paper study the concept of Kunya in Hausa through the use of f conventional methods of given description and Cultural Scripts approach as against the traditional method of using only one perspective of analysis. The concept and it associated terms were explained and some social hierarchies where kunya exists in Hausa society, also the significant of maintaining it among the Hausa people is highlighted. Introduction Cultural scripts is about the representations of cultural norms held in a given society and reflected in language. “The term cultural scripts refers to a powerful new technique for articulating cultural norms, values, and practices in terms which are clear, precise, and accessible to cultural insiders and to cultural outsiders alike. This result is only possible because cultural scripts are formulated in a tightly constrained, yet expressively flexible, metalanguage consisting of simple words and grammatical patterns which have equivalents in all languages. “ Goddard and Wierzbicka, (2004:153). Also Wierzbicka, (2002:1) has made a lucid explanation about the cultural scripts theory as she said: "Cultural scripts" are representations of cultural norms which are widely held in a given society and which are reflected in language. The notion of "cultural scripts" can be regarded as an extension of the idea of a "naïve picture of the world", put forward thirty years ago by the Russian semanticist Jurij Apresjan (1974): as shown by Apresjan, the lexicon of any given language reflects a certain