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E Mensah

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ID57750
NOMBREE Mensah
NOMBRESE
APELLIDOMensah
FIRMAMENSAH E
AFILIACIONESUniversity of Calabar
ORCID0000-0001-5838-0462
VERIFICADOSí
TOTAL DE OBRAS58
TOTAL DE CITAS199
TOTAL COMO AUTOR58
TOTAL COMO EDITOR0
PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN2012
AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN2026
ÍNDICE H8
  • Gender ideologies and stereotypes in personal naming practices in Nigeria

    Open Access•E Mensah, Queendaline Iloh et al.•ARTICLE•Language Sciences•2026

  • The Crown Gathers Wealth

    Open Access•E Mensah, Nancy Irek et al.•ARTICLE•Genealogy•2026•Citada por: 1•Referencias: 24

    The crown conveys a rich tapestry of history and deep cultural resonances among the Yoruba people of South-western Nigeria, beyond its representation as an emblem of leadership, royalty, and nobility. This article explores layers of the meaning of crown in the Yoruba personal naming system. It relies on an ethnopragmatic theory to analyse the cultural significance and symbolic impact of crown-related names among the Yoruba. Drawing on a qualitati…

  • Egg of an eagle

    Akumjika C Michael, E Mensah et al.•ARTICLE•African Identities•2026•Referencias: 25

    In the Igbo cultural context, a pet name is a special term used between marital partners, family members, friends, and loved ones to express intimacy, affection, and familiarity. It is loaded with enormous affective meanings and subjectivities that evoke a sense of fondness and playfulness. Drawing on the socio-onomastic theory, this study examines the socio-cultural significance of pet-naming practices among the Igbo people, with particular refe…

  • Child of an outcast

    Open Access•Akumjika C Michael, E Mensah•ARTICLE•Cogent Arts and Humanities•2025

    Among the Igbo people in South-eastern Nigeria, personal names are bestowed based on requirements of customs and traditions as a mark of identity to individuate its bearers and confer unique personhood on them. Naming is a source of cultural expression that communicates values, worldview and emotions in the Igbo cultural semantics. This article examines the social functions of personal names among the Nsirimo people in Umuahia South, Abia State, …

  • Won't You Come Home? Women's Linguistic Strategies in Negotiating Sexual Engagements in a Rural Context in Nigeria

    Open Access•R Aboh, Jonas Akung et al.•ARTICLE•Personal Relationships•2025

    Although there are studies that have investigated how urban women negotiate sexual intimacy, pleasure, and positions, how rural women negotiate sexual intimacy remains understudied. In an attempt to contribute to scholarship on African women's sexual experiences, this article examines how Bette‐Obudu women in northern Cross River State, southeastern Nigeria, negotiate sexual intimacy with their partners in romantic relationships. The ethnographic…

  • War Is Fearful

    Open Access•E Mensah, Ngozika Anthonia Obi-Ani et al.•ARTICLE•Genealogy•2025•Citada por: 1•Referencias: 22

    The Nigeria–Biafra war (1967–1970) has been regarded as the first major civil war in post-colonial Africa, with an attendant and colossal loss of lives, property, and infrastructure. There are many representations of memories of the war in fiction, non-fiction, symbols, memoires, and post-war relics (usually found in museums) but the role of personal naming practices has been largely neglected in the literature and social narratives of the war hi…

  • Shut up! you are not God

    Open Access•E Mensah, Kevin Egbo•ARTICLE•Language and Semiotic Studies•2025•Referencias: 9

    This article adopts methods and principles of thematic analysis to examine spatial street wisdom related to religious identity, values and beliefs which are inscribed on commercial tricycles in Uyo metropolis, Akwa Ibom State, South-South geo-political zone of Nigeria. Drawing on ethnographic research approach involving 25 participants who were selected through purposive sampling and snow ball sampling, and using participant observation and semi-…

  • Eco-cultural identity construction through personal naming practices

    E Mensah•ARTICLE•Critical African Studies•2025•Citada por: 4•Referencias: 9

  • It May Be Unhealthy but It’s Really Cool

    E Mensah, Asa John Ghevolor et al.•ARTICLE•Sociological Focus•2025•Referencias: 10

  • She contracted eight

    Open Access•E Mensah, Eyo O Mensah•ARTICLE•Language Culture and Society•2025•Referencias: 39

    Disease names are words that exist in the lexicon of a language, and constitute part of the native speaker’s linguistic intuition. In some African contexts, disease names are often constructed to reflect symptoms or conditions of diseases. This article explores the linguistic strategies of naming diseases among the Efik people of south-eastern Nigeria. The study is anchored on the socio-onomastic theory which focuses on the social, cultural and s…

  • Praise Names among Heterosexual Igbo Women in Nigeria

    Open Access•E Mensah, Edisua Yta et al.•ARTICLE•Africa Spectrum•2025•Citada por: 1•Referencias: 34

    Among heterosexual Igbo women in Southeastern Nigeria, the use of praise names is an essential aspect of their cultural socialisation, expression of feminine essence, and tranquil marital union. Relying on a social constructionist understanding of doing gender and socio-onomastic theory, this article investigates the motivations and layers of signification that married Igbo women ascribe to praise names in their varied communities of practice. Dr…

  • Methodological issues in African youth languages research

    Open Access•E Mensah•ARTICLE•Ethnography•2025•Referencias: 66

    Youth language research is an outgrowth of sociolinguistics and has contributed immensely to redefining and reconstructing youth-based identity, linguistic ideology and agency. Youth language practices are exoticized and othered as deviant, and speakers of youth languages are labelled as violent and street-based. This top-down view of youth language (speakers) poses problems and creates inequalities between researchers and their subjects of study…

  • The Gendered Urban Transportation Landscape in Nigeria

    Open Access•E Mensah•ARTICLE•Journal of Asian and African…•2025•Referencias: 28

    This qualitative study relies on the social constructionist notion of (un)doing gender to provide a nuanced understanding of the challenges female tricycle riders encounter in the public transport space in Lagos State, South-western Nigeria. The study identifies repressive gender norms as major barriers to the career progression of female riders and highlights patriarchal bargaining, adopting masculine behaviors and displaying resistance as key s…

  • Smash Her Calabash! The Metaphoric Construction of Phallic Masculinity in the Marketing of Herbal Aphrodisiacs in Nigeria

    Open Access•E Mensah, Utomobong Nsebot et al.•ARTICLE•The Journal of Men s Studies•2024•Citada por: 1•Referencias: 11

    Recently, there has been upsurge in the advertisement of various types of herbal aphrodisiacs targeted at Nigerian men in the market environment in Calabar metropolis, southeastern Nigeria. This article explores the metaphoric construction of male genitalia in the marketing of these products from the perspective of Lakoff and Johnson’s (1980, 2003) conceptual metaphor theory (CMT). Drawing on qualitative data sourced through semi-structured inter…

  • Name This Child

    Open Access•E Mensah•ARTICLE•Names•2024•Citada por: 3•Referencias: 4

    This article investigates the motivations and ideological foundations of religion-based personal names among a sampled population of the Tiv community who are predominantly found along the middle Benue Valley in Benue State, North-central Nigeria. The names bestowed by adherents of different religions (traditional Tiv, Christianity and Islam) reflect a personally determined system of representation based on a belief in spiritual practices and ico…

  • The Representation of People in the Ibibio Anthroponymic System

    Open Access•E Mensah, Kirsty Rowan et al.•ARTICLE•Languages•2024•Citada por: 13•Referencias: 35

    In the African cultural context and beyond, personal names are not just unique forms of identifying and individuating their bearers; they also provide relevant windows that resonate with the people's worldviews, values, and cosmology. From a socio-onomastic perspective, this article examines the representation of people and their description in the Ibibio cultural namescape, which is a source of their traditional epistemology. Personal names are …

  • Point-n-Kill

    Open Access•E Mensah•ARTICLE•Society•2024•Citada por: 1•Referencias: 34

  • Melting intestines, red hearts, and scattering eyes

    E Mensah, Vivian A Dzokoto•ARTICLE•Journal of African Languages and…•2023

    Languages feature labels used to name various feeling states, referred to as emotion lexica. Language-specific linguistic features patterned after culturally-shaped templates such as somatic referencing, make each emotion lexicon unique. This study investigates somatic referencing in the emotion lexicon of the Efik ethnolinguistic group obtained through ethnographic linguistic fieldwork in South-eastern Nigeria. Our analysis revealed that in the …

  • Women as Public Transport Providers

    Open Access•E Mensah, Offiong Erete Ebong et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Population and Social…•2023

    The public transport sector in Nigeria has often been stereotyped as male-dominated. Over the years, the upsurge in the unemployment rate and the necessity of economic empowerment have pushed women to adopt commercial tricycle riding as a livelihood. This article explores the perception of women as tricycle riders by passengers and commuters in Ikeja, Lagos State, southwestern Nigeria. The study is anchored on the social role theory, which argues…

  • Sexual jokes in Nigerian stand-up comedy

    Open Access•E Mensah, Idom T Inyabri et al.•ARTICLE•European Journal of Humour Research•2023•Citada por: 1•Referencias: 29

    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…

  • Gender and sexuality in African discourses

    Daniel Yaw Fiaveh, E Mensah•ARTICLE•Sociolinguistic Studies•2023•Citada por: 4•Referencias: 11

    This issue examines the role of language and/or cultural expression in discourses around gender and sexuality. We explore the expressions used to describe people in relation to their gender and sexual configurations and practices. The contributions are from scholars writing from West and Eastern African perspectives, and the findings are useful for ongoing discourse and for informing policy direction. We first present an introduction to this issu…

  • Death is the cause of my predicament

    E Mensah•ARTICLE•Death Studies•2023•Citada por: 7•Referencias: 11

    This article explores the motivations, beliefs, and attitudes toward death-related names in some onomastic traditions in Nigeria: Ibibio, Igbo (south-east), and Owe (mid-west). The study is anchored theoretically on the ethnopragmatic framework which accounts for the locally interpretable meaning of discourse practices in terms of values and beliefs within particular cultural contexts. Drawing on ethnographic qualitative data sourced through part…

  • The Guy Was a Toxic Player

    E Mensah•ARTICLE•Sociological Focus•2023•Citada por: 4•Referencias: 14

    This article examines the subjective narratives and experiences of urban female youth in heterosexual-relationship breakups in the Calabar metropolis, southeastern Nigeria, where they “do gender” and reposition female heterosexuality in order to gain access to new social spaces. Drawing on ethnographic qualitative data sourced through purposive sampling and semi-structured interviews conducted with 30 participants who had unilaterally cut romanti…

  • Giving a Dog a Bad Name

    E Mensah, Samson Fabian Nzuanke et al.•ARTICLE•Communicatio•2022

    In Nigeria, political actors, especially those in the ruling and opposition political parties, utilise labelling as a rhetorical strategy to characterise each other in negative and face-threatening ways and achieve positive self-presentation before the public. The aim of this article is to contribute to existing literature on political communication through an investigation of labelling as a discursive political strategy and a mechanism for under…

  • King Shumba, Smiling Devil and Baby Doctor

    E Mensah, Eyo O Mensah et al.•ARTICLE•African Identities•2022

    This article explores the categories of nicknames which students in two Nigerian universities assign to lecturers. It interrogates the motivations behind lecturers’ nicknames and defines the socio-academic circumstances in which nicknames are given and used. The study is rooted in the socio-onomastic theory of nicknames which views nicknames as social actions that are bounded by social negotiations. Drawing on ethnographic data collected through …

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  • Frog, where are you

    E Mensah, Eyo Offiong Mensah•ARTICLE•Journal of African Cultural Studies•2015•Citada por: 31•Referencias: 19

    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…

  • Husband is a Priority

    Open Access•E Mensah•ARTICLE•Gender Issues•2022•Citada por: 20•Referencias: 21

    In onomastic practices of some traditional societies in Nigeria, stereotyped gender roles and patriarchy are deliberately perpetuated in the naming of female children, thus using naming traditions as weapons against girl-children. In these cultures, names are bestowed on female children to align with existing sexist norms and gender ideology in which the namer is dominant and the named is subservient. This article explores, from an ethnographic q…

  • The Representation of People in the Ibibio Anthroponymic System

    Open Access•E Mensah, Kirsty Rowan et al.•ARTICLE•Languages•2024•Citada por: 13•Referencias: 35

    In the African cultural context and beyond, personal names are not just unique forms of identifying and individuating their bearers; they also provide relevant windows that resonate with the people's worldviews, values, and cosmology. From a socio-onomastic perspective, this article examines the representation of people and their description in the Ibibio cultural namescape, which is a source of their traditional epistemology. Personal names are …

  • When You Open Your Legs, You Eat

    Open Access•E Mensah, Eyo Offiong Mensah•ARTICLE•Sexuality & Culture•2019•Citada por: 10•Referencias: 16

  • Satire, Agency and the Contestation of Patriarchy in Ibibio Women's Songs

    Idom T Inyabri, Imeobong J Offong et al.•ARTICLE•African Studies•2022•Citada por: 9•Referencias: 27

    The article explores the way Ibibio women in Akwa Ibom State, South-eastern Nigeria use satirical songs to challenge (or endorse) conservative gender ideologies and stereotypes in a bid to access power and agency within their patriarchal society. Drawing on ethnographic qualitative data sourced through participant observations, semi-structured interviews and metalinguistic conversations with twenty participants, and analysing a corpus of fifteen …

  • Wealth is King

    E Mensah, Eyo O Mensah et al.•ARTICLE•Anthropological Quarterly•2021•Citada por: 9

    Personal names among the Igbo people of South-eastern Nigeria can also be understood and contextualized within the fringes of their cultural values, worldviews, emotions, and economic resources. This article explores the conceptualization of wealth in Igbo personal naming practices from an ethnopragmatic paradigm, which uncovers the hidden meanings underlying the interpretation of language. Drawing on ethnographic data sourced through participant…

  • Name This Child

    Open Access•E Mensah•ARTICLE•Names•2020•Citada por: 9•Referencias: 6

    This article investigates the motivations and ideological foundations of religion-based personal names among a sampled population of the Tiv community who are predominantly found along the middle Benue Valley in Benue State, North-central Nigeria. The names bestowed by adherents of different religions (traditional Tiv, Christianity and Islam) reflect a personally determined system of representation based on a belief in spiritual practices and ico…

  • Proverbial Nicknames among Rural Youth in Nigeria

    E Mensah•ARTICLE•Anthropological linguistics•2017•Citada por: 8

    Among rural youth in southern Cross River State, southeastern Nigeria, proverbial nicknames foreground dimensions of power relations, especially hegemonic masculinity, tell stories about past exploits, and accentuate locally relevant values that emphasize conformity to societal norms. Indexical and emblematic meanings of nicknames in the social contexts where they are given and used are investigated, as are the sources, social significance, and p…

  • Proverbs in Nigerian Pidgin

    E Mensah, Eyo Offiong Mensah•ARTICLE•Journal of Anthropological Research•2013•Citada por: 8•Referencias: 10

    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 …

  • Death is the cause of my predicament

    E Mensah•ARTICLE•Death Studies•2023•Citada por: 7•Referencias: 11

    This article explores the motivations, beliefs, and attitudes toward death-related names in some onomastic traditions in Nigeria: Ibibio, Igbo (south-east), and Owe (mid-west). The study is anchored theoretically on the ethnopragmatic framework which accounts for the locally interpretable meaning of discourse practices in terms of values and beliefs within particular cultural contexts. Drawing on ethnographic qualitative data sourced through part…

  • When Sugar is no Longer Sweet

    Open Access•E Mensah, R Aboh et al.•ARTICLE•Sexuality & Culture•2022•Citada por: 7•Referencias: 11

  • The communicative significance of Ngə̂mbà personal names

    E Mensah, Solange Mekamgoum•ARTICLE•African Identities•2017•Citada por: 7•Referencias: 12

    Among the Ngə̂mbà, a Bantu-Grassfields people of Western Cameroon, personal names are alternative forms of narratives that represent past experiences and conflicts encountered by the name giver. These are central to the self-definition and future expectations of the name bearer as well as in re-negotiating locally relevant principles of values. This article explores Ngə̂mbà personal names as communicative acts that mirror a wide range of human ex…

  • All I want is your waist

    E Mensah, Linda Chinelo Nkamigbo et al.•ARTICLE•Sociolinguistic Studies•2016•Citada por: 7

    This paper explores the use of sexual metaphors as slang as spoken by youths in Nigeria, with a particular focus on these speakers in the Calabar metropolis in the Cross River State of South-eastern Nigeria. These metaphors are used to express the mechanics of sexual activities and their gratifying appeal. Young people utilize lexically and contextually driven sexually explicit codes to reconceptualize and reconstruct sex and sexual relations wit…

  • To be a Man is Not a Day’s Job

    Open Access•E Mensah•ARTICLE•Gender Issues•2021•Citada por: 6•Referencias: 24

  • Christianity and the Gendering of Personal Names among the Bette in Southeastern Nigeria

    R Aboh, E Mensah et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Religion in Africa•2022•Citada por: 5

    Contributing to extant debates on the juncture of naming and gender(ing), this study interrogates naming practices among Bette-Christians of northern Cross River, Southeastern Nigeria, and how they enhance understanding of the relation between naming and the enunciation of religious identity as well as how gender is enacted. With analytical insights from socio-onomastic theory, which explores the relationship between names, culture, and society, …

  • Names, Naming and the Code of Cultural Denial in a Contemporary Nigerian Society

    Open Access•E Mensah, Idom T Inyabri et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Black Studies•2021•Citada por: 5•Referencias: 38

    This article explores the rejection of indigenous African (first) names and the preference for European and westernized names by some Nigerian youth, especially those living in Calabar metropolis, Cross River State, South-eastern Nigeria. The article investigates the personal, cultural and social motivations for foreign names adoption and the subjective interpretations of both rejected and adopted first names. The study is rooted in the Afrocentr…

  • Eco-cultural identity construction through personal naming practices

    E Mensah•ARTICLE•Critical African Studies•2025•Citada por: 4•Referencias: 9

  • Gender and sexuality in African discourses

    Daniel Yaw Fiaveh, E Mensah•ARTICLE•Sociolinguistic Studies•2023•Citada por: 4•Referencias: 11

    This issue examines the role of language and/or cultural expression in discourses around gender and sexuality. We explore the expressions used to describe people in relation to their gender and sexual configurations and practices. The contributions are from scholars writing from West and Eastern African perspectives, and the findings are useful for ongoing discourse and for informing policy direction. We first present an introduction to this issu…

  • The Guy Was a Toxic Player

    E Mensah•ARTICLE•Sociological Focus•2023•Citada por: 4•Referencias: 14

    This article examines the subjective narratives and experiences of urban female youth in heterosexual-relationship breakups in the Calabar metropolis, southeastern Nigeria, where they “do gender” and reposition female heterosexuality in order to gain access to new social spaces. Drawing on ethnographic qualitative data sourced through purposive sampling and semi-structured interviews conducted with 30 participants who had unilaterally cut romanti…

  • African anthroponyms

    E Mensah, Kirsty Rowan•ARTICLE•Sociolinguistic Studies•2020•Citada por: 4•Referencias: 10

  • Name This Child

    Open Access•E Mensah•ARTICLE•Names•2024•Citada por: 3•Referencias: 4

    This article investigates the motivations and ideological foundations of religion-based personal names among a sampled population of the Tiv community who are predominantly found along the middle Benue Valley in Benue State, North-central Nigeria. The names bestowed by adherents of different religions (traditional Tiv, Christianity and Islam) reflect a personally determined system of representation based on a belief in spiritual practices and ico…

  • The dynamics of youth language in Africa

    E Mensah•ARTICLE•Sociolinguistic Studies•2016•Citada por: 3

    Eyo Mensah introduces this special issue on the dynamics of youth language in Africa

  • Visual representations on Nigerian trucks

    Open Access•E Mensah, Benjamin Nyong•ARTICLE•Semiotica•2022•Citada por: 2•Referencias: 57

    The public transport sector in the urban landscape in Nigeria is a prominent social site for the spatial distribution of automobile graffiti signatures. Transporters have various kinds of symbolic tags on their vehicles that convey different messages which represent their local attitudes, beliefs, religious identities, folk psychology, and safety precautionary measures to recipients (other road users and passers-by). This article, based on two ca…

  • An Ethnopragmatic Study of Libation Rituals among the Kiong-speaking Okoyong People in Southeastern Nigeria

    E Mensah, Eyo O Mensah et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Anthropological Research•2020•Citada por: 2•Referencias: 19

    Libation rituals are essential components of African culture and spirituality. They are a rich mixture of religious, social, and cultural performances that bind members of the audience together by emphasizing their common roots through the invocation of supernatural powers on particular sociocultural occasions. Among the Kiong-speaking Okoyong people in Odukpani, southern Cross River State, southeastern Nigeria, libation rituals are part of a way…

  • Youth language in Nigeria

    E Mensah, Eyo Offiong Mensah•ARTICLE•Sociolinguistic Studies•2013•Citada por: 2

    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

    Open Access•E Mensah, Eyo Offiong Mensah•ARTICLE•Íkala Revista de Lenguaje y Cultura•2012•Referencias: 9

    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

    E Mensah, Eyo Offiong Mensah•ARTICLE•Sociolinguistic Studies•2013•Citada por: 2

    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

    E Mensah, Eyo Offiong Mensah•ARTICLE•Journal of Anthropological Research•2013•Citada por: 8•Referencias: 10

    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 …

  • Linguistic creativity in Nigerian Pidgin advertising

    E Mensah, Roseline I Ndimele et al.•ARTICLE•Sociolinguistic Studies•2014•Citada por: 1

    Advertising communication aims at attracting audiences’ attention. It also motivates interest, changes perceptions, stimulates desires and manipulates social values and attitudes. In achieving these objectives, the language medium needs to be carefully selected, especially in a multilingual setting like Nigeria, given that language is the driving force that determines the effectiveness of ad messages. This paper explores the (socio)linguistic dev…

  • Frog, where are you

    E Mensah, Eyo Offiong Mensah•ARTICLE•Journal of African Cultural Studies•2015•Citada por: 31•Referencias: 19

    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…

  • Female nicknames in Nigeria

    E Mensah•ARTICLE•Language Matters•2016

    Nicknames individuate and identify their bearers and stand out with more socio-cognitive forces than the conventional names within the socio-cultural setting and beyond. In this article, I examine the sociolinguistic and ethnographic significance of nicknaming among female adolescents in Nigeria with particular emphasis on those living in Calabar Metropolis, Cross River State, south-east Nigeria. I take into account the dynamics of female nicknam…

  • All I want is your waist

    E Mensah, Linda Chinelo Nkamigbo et al.•ARTICLE•Sociolinguistic Studies•2016•Citada por: 7

    This paper explores the use of sexual metaphors as slang as spoken by youths in Nigeria, with a particular focus on these speakers in the Calabar metropolis in the Cross River State of South-eastern Nigeria. These metaphors are used to express the mechanics of sexual activities and their gratifying appeal. Young people utilize lexically and contextually driven sexually explicit codes to reconceptualize and reconstruct sex and sexual relations wit…

  • The dynamics of youth language in Africa

    E Mensah•ARTICLE•Sociolinguistic Studies•2016•Citada por: 3

    Eyo Mensah introduces this special issue on the dynamics of youth language in Africa

  • The communicative significance of Ngə̂mbà personal names

    E Mensah, Solange Mekamgoum•ARTICLE•African Identities•2017•Citada por: 7•Referencias: 12

    Among the Ngə̂mbà, a Bantu-Grassfields people of Western Cameroon, personal names are alternative forms of narratives that represent past experiences and conflicts encountered by the name giver. These are central to the self-definition and future expectations of the name bearer as well as in re-negotiating locally relevant principles of values. This article explores Ngə̂mbà personal names as communicative acts that mirror a wide range of human ex…

  • Proverbial Nicknames among Rural Youth in Nigeria

    E Mensah•ARTICLE•Anthropological linguistics•2017•Citada por: 8

    Among rural youth in southern Cross River State, southeastern Nigeria, proverbial nicknames foreground dimensions of power relations, especially hegemonic masculinity, tell stories about past exploits, and accentuate locally relevant values that emphasize conformity to societal norms. Indexical and emblematic meanings of nicknames in the social contexts where they are given and used are investigated, as are the sources, social significance, and p…

  • What’s in the Stomach is Used to Carry What’s on the Head

    Open Access•E Mensah, Eyo Offiong Mensah et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Black Studies•2019

    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

    Open Access•E Mensah, Eyo Offiong Mensah•ARTICLE•Sexuality & Culture•2019•Citada por: 10•Referencias: 16

  • The New Language Policy of the Nigerian Army

    Open Access•E Mensah•ARTICLE•Journal of Asian and African…•2019•Citada por: 1•Referencias: 17

    I argue in this paper that the new language policy of the Nigerian Army recognizes and promotes the dominant languages as resources for military training, intelligence gathering and peace building, while the dominated languages are marginalized, alienated and relegated, thus the policy infringes on the fundamental linguistic rights of speakers of minoritized languages in the army. I further maintain that the Nigerian Army's exclusive language pol…

  • Sentential Names in Tiv1

    Open Access•E Mensah, Jighjigh Ishima•ARTICLE•Studia Linguistica•2020

    This article explores and analyses Tiv personal names which are composed of sentences. The structural, semantic and pragmatic characteristics of these sentence names are described, and simplex sentence names with their unique grammatical peculiarities and propositional contents are identified. Ethnographic data for this research was obtained through interviews, metalinguistic conversations and participant observations in two Tiv speaking communit…

  • He has committed a drinkable offence

    E Mensah•ARTICLE•Linguistics Vanguard•2020

    This article explores how identity and masculinity are framed and negotiated through interactional discourses which are related to alcohol consumption and drinking culture by rural youth in Southern Cross River State, South-Eastern Nigeria. In this culture, young men employ enregisterment of slang, metaphors and subjective narratives to symbolically construct their ideologies of alcohol. The study adopts the community of practice conceptual frame…

  • African anthroponyms

    E Mensah, Kirsty Rowan•ARTICLE•Sociolinguistic Studies•2020•Citada por: 4•Referencias: 10

  • Aspects of traditional Tiv naming practices

    E Mensah, Kirsty Rowan et al.•ARTICLE•Sociolinguistic Studies•2020•Citada por: 1•Referencias: 7

    Naming in the African cultural context serves both referential and connotative functions as a unique means of identity construction which contains important cultural meaning and metaphysical presuppositions. Among the Tiv people of Benue State, North-central Nigeria, personal names reflect social relations and reveal major insights into their history, philosophy, language, spirituality and worldview. Naming practices in Tiv are indicative of the …

  • Name This Child

    Open Access•E Mensah•ARTICLE•Names•2020•Citada por: 9•Referencias: 6

    This article investigates the motivations and ideological foundations of religion-based personal names among a sampled population of the Tiv community who are predominantly found along the middle Benue Valley in Benue State, North-central Nigeria. The names bestowed by adherents of different religions (traditional Tiv, Christianity and Islam) reflect a personally determined system of representation based on a belief in spiritual practices and ico…

  • An Ethnopragmatic Study of Libation Rituals among the Kiong-speaking Okoyong People in Southeastern Nigeria

    E Mensah, Eyo O Mensah et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Anthropological Research•2020•Citada por: 2•Referencias: 19

    Libation rituals are essential components of African culture and spirituality. They are a rich mixture of religious, social, and cultural performances that bind members of the audience together by emphasizing their common roots through the invocation of supernatural powers on particular sociocultural occasions. Among the Kiong-speaking Okoyong people in Odukpani, southern Cross River State, southeastern Nigeria, libation rituals are part of a way…

  • The functions of emotion-referencing names in Ibibio

    Open Access•E Mensah, Vivian Dzokoto et al.•ARTICLE•International Journal of Language…•2021

    In certain societies including the Ibibio of Akwa Ibom State, South-Eastern Nigeria, naming is a distinctive system of communicative practice which is used to express emotion and construct the personhood and identity of the name-bearer. This article examines emotion-referencing names among the Ibibio and adopts an ethnographic approach to investigate the motivations for the name choice, their socio-onomastic significance and the extent of influen…

  • Contextual slanguage as linguistic performance among female youth in Nigeria

    E Mensah•ARTICLE•Southern African Linguistics and…•2021

    The article explores the use of contextual slang as linguistic performance by three all-female friendship groups in Calabar metropolis, Cross River State, south-eastern Nigeria. I argue that slang constitutes critical components of the discursive practices of young urban Nigerian women in maintaining friendship and deviating from stereotyped cultural and linguistic norms. Drawing insights from the analytical tools of African feminism and linguist…

  • To be a Man is Not a Day’s Job

    Open Access•E Mensah•ARTICLE•Gender Issues•2021•Citada por: 6•Referencias: 24

  • Names, Naming and the Code of Cultural Denial in a Contemporary Nigerian Society

    Open Access•E Mensah, Idom T Inyabri et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Black Studies•2021•Citada por: 5•Referencias: 38

    This article explores the rejection of indigenous African (first) names and the preference for European and westernized names by some Nigerian youth, especially those living in Calabar metropolis, Cross River State, South-eastern Nigeria. The article investigates the personal, cultural and social motivations for foreign names adoption and the subjective interpretations of both rejected and adopted first names. The study is rooted in the Afrocentr…

  • Wealth is King

    E Mensah, Eyo O Mensah et al.•ARTICLE•Anthropological Quarterly•2021•Citada por: 9

    Personal names among the Igbo people of South-eastern Nigeria can also be understood and contextualized within the fringes of their cultural values, worldviews, emotions, and economic resources. This article explores the conceptualization of wealth in Igbo personal naming practices from an ethnopragmatic paradigm, which uncovers the hidden meanings underlying the interpretation of language. Drawing on ethnographic data sourced through participant…

  • Giving a Dog a Bad Name

    E Mensah, Samson Fabian Nzuanke et al.•ARTICLE•Communicatio•2022

    In Nigeria, political actors, especially those in the ruling and opposition political parties, utilise labelling as a rhetorical strategy to characterise each other in negative and face-threatening ways and achieve positive self-presentation before the public. The aim of this article is to contribute to existing literature on political communication through an investigation of labelling as a discursive political strategy and a mechanism for under…

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