Romanus Aboh
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 3613549 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Romanus Aboh |
| NOMBRES | Romanus |
| APELLIDO | Aboh |
| FIRMA | ABOH R |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Calabar |
| VERIFICADO | No |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 7 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 7 |
| OBRAS COMO AUTOR | 7 |
| OBRAS COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2013 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 2 |
My God is greater than the soothsayer
This article examines the ideological undertones embedded in religion-based personal names among Igbo-speaking Pentecostal Christians in Aba, Abia State, south-eastern Nigeria. Ethnographic data were generated by interviewing 20 purposively sampled participants. Data were analysed using Ainiala and Östman’s socio-onomastics theory, which studies names based on their sociocultural context. This investigation demonstrates how name giver’s Christian…
I Will Marry by Force’
Female-child naming represents a unique naming practice among women; yet, there are no current studies examining the interconnectedness between naming female children and gendering among married Bette-Obudu women. This study fills this gap in addition to exploring how Bette-Obudu women, southeastern Nigeria, use the names they assign to their daughters to dominate the “home space”. Ethnographic data were collected through semi-structured intervie…
They Do Not Eat a Wife's Beauty
Names and naming practices convey various nuances of meaning in the Bette sociocultural setting. Against this significant backdrop, this study examines proverbial names as figurative and overt communicative strategies among the Bette people of northern Cross River State in south-eastern Nigeria. The qualitative data were elicited through semi-structured interviews and informal interactions from purposively selected twenty name-givers and ten name…
(Un)doing Gender
Sexual jokes in Nigerian stand-up comedy
Nigerian stand-up comic artists explore emerging social, religious, and political issues as materials for comic entertainment within their performance space and community of practice. One of the resources for comic performance is the recourse to sexual contents which are deployed to reduce apprehension around stereotyped norms about sex and sexuality in the Nigerian sociocultural context. Drawing on ethnographic qualitative data using social medi…
It’s not all about spreading one’s legs’
This article explores the layers of signification and interpretive frames of female adolescents’ nuanced experiences of virginity loss in heterosexual relationships in Akpabuyo and Bakassi Local Government Areas of Cross River State in southeastern Nigeria. This study is theoretically anchored in the social constructionist perspective of doing gender, which conceptualises it as a routine accomplishment embedded in everyday interaction. Drawing on…
Proverbs and Euphemisms as Discourse Strategies in Joe Ushie's Poetry
Studies on proverbs and euphemisms, most especially from linguistic circles in African studies, have concentrated on traditional interpretations of the sub-generic verbal text. Proverbs and euphemisms, from this traditionalist perspective, are considered as given, that is, naturally known, and therefore do not require critical or thorough interpretations; and this tends to undermine the cathartic as well as revolutionary strength with which prove…
They Do Not Eat a Wife's Beauty
Names and naming practices convey various nuances of meaning in the Bette sociocultural setting. Against this significant backdrop, this study examines proverbial names as figurative and overt communicative strategies among the Bette people of northern Cross River State in south-eastern Nigeria. The qualitative data were elicited through semi-structured interviews and informal interactions from purposively selected twenty name-givers and ten name…
It’s not all about spreading one’s legs’
This article explores the layers of signification and interpretive frames of female adolescents’ nuanced experiences of virginity loss in heterosexual relationships in Akpabuyo and Bakassi Local Government Areas of Cross River State in southeastern Nigeria. This study is theoretically anchored in the social constructionist perspective of doing gender, which conceptualises it as a routine accomplishment embedded in everyday interaction. Drawing on…
(Un)doing Gender
Sexual jokes in Nigerian stand-up comedy
Nigerian stand-up comic artists explore emerging social, religious, and political issues as materials for comic entertainment within their performance space and community of practice. One of the resources for comic performance is the recourse to sexual contents which are deployed to reduce apprehension around stereotyped norms about sex and sexuality in the Nigerian sociocultural context. Drawing on ethnographic qualitative data using social medi…
Proverbs and Euphemisms as Discourse Strategies in Joe Ushie's Poetry
Studies on proverbs and euphemisms, most especially from linguistic circles in African studies, have concentrated on traditional interpretations of the sub-generic verbal text. Proverbs and euphemisms, from this traditionalist perspective, are considered as given, that is, naturally known, and therefore do not require critical or thorough interpretations; and this tends to undermine the cathartic as well as revolutionary strength with which prove…
Sexual jokes in Nigerian stand-up comedy
Nigerian stand-up comic artists explore emerging social, religious, and political issues as materials for comic entertainment within their performance space and community of practice. One of the resources for comic performance is the recourse to sexual contents which are deployed to reduce apprehension around stereotyped norms about sex and sexuality in the Nigerian sociocultural context. Drawing on ethnographic qualitative data using social medi…
It’s not all about spreading one’s legs’
This article explores the layers of signification and interpretive frames of female adolescents’ nuanced experiences of virginity loss in heterosexual relationships in Akpabuyo and Bakassi Local Government Areas of Cross River State in southeastern Nigeria. This study is theoretically anchored in the social constructionist perspective of doing gender, which conceptualises it as a routine accomplishment embedded in everyday interaction. Drawing on…
They Do Not Eat a Wife's Beauty
Names and naming practices convey various nuances of meaning in the Bette sociocultural setting. Against this significant backdrop, this study examines proverbial names as figurative and overt communicative strategies among the Bette people of northern Cross River State in south-eastern Nigeria. The qualitative data were elicited through semi-structured interviews and informal interactions from purposively selected twenty name-givers and ten name…
(Un)doing Gender
My God is greater than the soothsayer
This article examines the ideological undertones embedded in religion-based personal names among Igbo-speaking Pentecostal Christians in Aba, Abia State, south-eastern Nigeria. Ethnographic data were generated by interviewing 20 purposively sampled participants. Data were analysed using Ainiala and Östman’s socio-onomastics theory, which studies names based on their sociocultural context. This investigation demonstrates how name giver’s Christian…
I Will Marry by Force’
Female-child naming represents a unique naming practice among women; yet, there are no current studies examining the interconnectedness between naming female children and gendering among married Bette-Obudu women. This study fills this gap in addition to exploring how Bette-Obudu women, southeastern Nigeria, use the names they assign to their daughters to dominate the “home space”. Ethnographic data were collected through semi-structured intervie…
Sociology (4 obras) · Aesthetics (3 obras) · Art (3 obras) · Gender Studies (3 obras) · Gender Studies (3 obras) · Names, Identity, and Discrimination Research (3 obras) · Psychology (3 obras) · Ethnography (2 obras) · History (2 obras) · History (2 obras)