Eyo Offiong Mensah
Biographic Data
| ID | 642191 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Eyo Offiong Mensah |
| GIVEN NAMES | Eyo Offiong |
| FAMILY NAME | Mensah |
| SIGNATURE | MENSAH E O |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Calabar |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 51 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 6 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
What’s in the Stomach is Used to Carry What’s on the Head
Food and foodways are essential components of the Efik biocultural system, as the Efik people of Southern Cross River State, Southeastern Nigeria, are famous for their rich dietary history and cuisine tradition. Food and foodways are, therefore, quintessential aspects of the Efik cultural history and social structure, which are intergenerational. This article explores the use of food symbolisms (embedded in rich metaphors) in Efik proverbs, which…
When You Open Your Legs, You Eat
Frog, where are you
This article investigates death prevention names among the Ibibio in south-eastern Nigeria from ethnographic and ethnopragmatic perspectives. Ibibio death prevention names can generate and maintain some level of assurance and security that is vital for a child's survival given the implicit assumption that some kind of spiritual forces are at work. These names are believed to link the name bearer to his/her past, ancestors and spirituality. The ar…
Youth language in Nigeria
This paper examines the sociolinguistic import of an emerging hybrid street language by a group known as the Ágábá Boys in Calabar South, Cross River State, South-eastern Nigeria. The paper explores the lexically and contextually driven ingroup code of the Ágábá Boys which is manifested in slang, metaphors and a variety of taboo expressions embodied in expletives, profanities, insults, curses and swear words. The group uses its peculiar language …
Proverbs in Nigerian Pidgin
The cross-currents of language and culture can be depicted in the use of oral performances such as proverbs, which are forms of "deeper" communication and means of constructing reality in every speech community. Pidgin languages the world over are said to be linguistically "undernourished" or inferior, even regarded as "children [born] out of wedlock" (Mufwene 2007). I argue in this paper that proverbs in Nigerian Pidgin (NP) offer more creative …
Grammaticalization in Nigerian Pidgin
Nigerian Pidgin (hereafter NP) has assumed elaborated roles and functions, gaining new grounds in different sociolinguistic domains as a result of its sustained social expansion process. One of the consequences of this increased dynamism of NP is the development of lexical items into grammatical markers which is an expected natural process. In this paper, we examine language-internal mechanisms that transform lexical items into morphosyntactic it…
Frog, where are you
This article investigates death prevention names among the Ibibio in south-eastern Nigeria from ethnographic and ethnopragmatic perspectives. Ibibio death prevention names can generate and maintain some level of assurance and security that is vital for a child's survival given the implicit assumption that some kind of spiritual forces are at work. These names are believed to link the name bearer to his/her past, ancestors and spirituality. The ar…
When You Open Your Legs, You Eat
Proverbs in Nigerian Pidgin
The cross-currents of language and culture can be depicted in the use of oral performances such as proverbs, which are forms of "deeper" communication and means of constructing reality in every speech community. Pidgin languages the world over are said to be linguistically "undernourished" or inferior, even regarded as "children [born] out of wedlock" (Mufwene 2007). I argue in this paper that proverbs in Nigerian Pidgin (NP) offer more creative …
Youth language in Nigeria
This paper examines the sociolinguistic import of an emerging hybrid street language by a group known as the Ágábá Boys in Calabar South, Cross River State, South-eastern Nigeria. The paper explores the lexically and contextually driven ingroup code of the Ágábá Boys which is manifested in slang, metaphors and a variety of taboo expressions embodied in expletives, profanities, insults, curses and swear words. The group uses its peculiar language …
Grammaticalization in Nigerian Pidgin
Nigerian Pidgin (hereafter NP) has assumed elaborated roles and functions, gaining new grounds in different sociolinguistic domains as a result of its sustained social expansion process. One of the consequences of this increased dynamism of NP is the development of lexical items into grammatical markers which is an expected natural process. In this paper, we examine language-internal mechanisms that transform lexical items into morphosyntactic it…
Youth language in Nigeria
This paper examines the sociolinguistic import of an emerging hybrid street language by a group known as the Ágábá Boys in Calabar South, Cross River State, South-eastern Nigeria. The paper explores the lexically and contextually driven ingroup code of the Ágábá Boys which is manifested in slang, metaphors and a variety of taboo expressions embodied in expletives, profanities, insults, curses and swear words. The group uses its peculiar language …
Proverbs in Nigerian Pidgin
The cross-currents of language and culture can be depicted in the use of oral performances such as proverbs, which are forms of "deeper" communication and means of constructing reality in every speech community. Pidgin languages the world over are said to be linguistically "undernourished" or inferior, even regarded as "children [born] out of wedlock" (Mufwene 2007). I argue in this paper that proverbs in Nigerian Pidgin (NP) offer more creative …
Frog, where are you
This article investigates death prevention names among the Ibibio in south-eastern Nigeria from ethnographic and ethnopragmatic perspectives. Ibibio death prevention names can generate and maintain some level of assurance and security that is vital for a child's survival given the implicit assumption that some kind of spiritual forces are at work. These names are believed to link the name bearer to his/her past, ancestors and spirituality. The ar…
What’s in the Stomach is Used to Carry What’s on the Head
Food and foodways are essential components of the Efik biocultural system, as the Efik people of Southern Cross River State, Southeastern Nigeria, are famous for their rich dietary history and cuisine tradition. Food and foodways are, therefore, quintessential aspects of the Efik cultural history and social structure, which are intergenerational. This article explores the use of food symbolisms (embedded in rich metaphors) in Efik proverbs, which…
When You Open Your Legs, You Eat
Sociology (5 works) · Linguistics (4 works) · Aesthetics (3 works) · Anthropology (3 works) · Epistemology (3 works) · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Psychology (3 works) · Creole language (2 works) · Ethnography (2 works)