Eyo Offiong Mensah

Datos Biográficos

ID642191
NOMBREEyo Offiong Mensah
NOMBRESEyo Offiong
APELLIDOMensah
FIRMAMENSAH E O
AFILIACIONESUniversity of Calabar
VERIFICADONo
TOTAL DE OBRAS6
TOTAL DE CITAS51
TOTAL COMO AUTOR6
TOTAL COMO EDITOR0
PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN2012
AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN2019
ÍNDICE H3

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

    Open AccessE Mensah, Eyo Offiong Mensah et al.ARTICLEJournal of Black Studies2019

    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 AccessE Mensah, Eyo Offiong MensahARTICLESexuality & Culture2019Citada por: 10Referencias: 16

  • Frog, where are you

    E Mensah, Eyo Offiong MensahARTICLEJournal of African Cultural Studies2015Citada por: 31Referencias: 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…

  • Youth language in Nigeria

    E Mensah, Eyo Offiong MensahARTICLESociolinguistic Studies2013Citada 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 MensahARTICLEJournal of Anthropological Research2013Citada por: 8Referencias: 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 …

  • Grammaticalization in Nigerian Pidgin

    Open AccessE Mensah, Eyo Offiong MensahARTICLEÍkala Revista de Lenguaje y Cultura2012Referencias: 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…