Victoria A Alabi
Biographic Data
| ID | 145786 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Victoria A Alabi |
| GIVEN NAMES | Victoria A |
| FAMILY NAME | Alabi |
| SIGNATURE | ALABI V A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Ilorin |
| ORCID | 0009-0006-8490-4470 |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 7 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 3 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2000 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Marks as masks
Most times, when we meet unknown persons, our first judgment either consciously or unconsciously begins from observing their physical somatogenic features that may serve as effervescent semiotic materialities for assessing their personalities. These somatogenic features include physical marks on the body, skin texture, clothing, hair or the total configuration of body structure. Beyond signifying personality, it would seem that somatogenic featur…
The highway code in Nigeria
This research investigates domestic strategies of highway codes in Nigeria and discovers that these strategies are products of the ingenuity and cultural bent of the Nigerian citizens, on the one hand, and the Nigerian government on the other, but more of the former than the latter. Out of the sixteen groups of domesticated codes encountered in the research, only two groups are government-designed while the remaining fourteen are attributable to …
Semantics of Occupational Lexis in Nigerian English
This paper describes forms of semantic re-investment of occupational lexical items in Nigerian English. Three categories and two subcategories of re-investment are identified: shift, generalisation, narrowing (subcategories of 'shift'), re-assignment, and analogy. These types of semantic re-investment are considered within a socio-cultural and linguistic setting of Nigeria as a developing country. The paper also discusses the intranational and in…
Semantics of Occupational Lexis in Nigerian English
This paper describes forms of semantic re-investment of occupational lexical items in Nigerian English. Three categories and two subcategories of re-investment are identified: shift, generalisation, narrowing (subcategories of 'shift'), re-assignment, and analogy. These types of semantic re-investment are considered within a socio-cultural and linguistic setting of Nigeria as a developing country. The paper also discusses the intranational and in…
Semantics of Occupational Lexis in Nigerian English
This paper describes forms of semantic re-investment of occupational lexical items in Nigerian English. Three categories and two subcategories of re-investment are identified: shift, generalisation, narrowing (subcategories of 'shift'), re-assignment, and analogy. These types of semantic re-investment are considered within a socio-cultural and linguistic setting of Nigeria as a developing country. The paper also discusses the intranational and in…
The highway code in Nigeria
This research investigates domestic strategies of highway codes in Nigeria and discovers that these strategies are products of the ingenuity and cultural bent of the Nigerian citizens, on the one hand, and the Nigerian government on the other, but more of the former than the latter. Out of the sixteen groups of domesticated codes encountered in the research, only two groups are government-designed while the remaining fourteen are attributable to …
Marks as masks
Most times, when we meet unknown persons, our first judgment either consciously or unconsciously begins from observing their physical somatogenic features that may serve as effervescent semiotic materialities for assessing their personalities. These somatogenic features include physical marks on the body, skin texture, clothing, hair or the total configuration of body structure. Beyond signifying personality, it would seem that somatogenic featur…
Sociology (3 works) · Business (2 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · Epistemology (2 works) · Linguistics (2 works) · Philosophy (2 works) · Political science (2 works) · Psychology (2 works) · Aesthetics (1 work) · Analogy (1 work)