F Niyi Akinnaso
Biographic Data
| ID | 167197 |
|---|---|
| NAME | F Niyi Akinnaso |
| GIVEN NAMES | F Niyi |
| FAMILY NAME | Akinnaso |
| SIGNATURE | AKINNASO F N |
| AFFILIATIONS | Temple University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 84 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1981 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
On the Syntax and Semantics of Nominal Compounds in Yoruba Personal Names
Proceedings of the Seventh Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society (1981), pp. 1-12
Bourdieu and the diviner
Vernacular literacy in modern Nigeria
This article examines the nature, uses, andfunctions of vernacular literacy in a typical Nigerian village. While English is still the official (written) language in Nigeria, there is a growing int er es t in literacy in the mother tongue. This will be shown by reporting on the use made of literacy within the framework of the users' cultural values, social organization, and communicative economy in indigenous languages. First, the relationship bet…
Linguistic Unification and Language Rights
This paper examines the tension between linguistic unification and language rights in Nigeria and assesses the nature, causes, and implications of the tension against the backgrounds of the country's history, political development, and language situation. Drawing upon comparative data, the findings are discussed with reference to the contrasting processes of unifying the linguistic market and preserving minority language rights. The language plan…
Policy and experiment in mother tongue literacy in Nigeria
Schooling, Language, and Knowledge in Literate and Nonliterate Societies
The relationships among schooling, language, and knowledge-especially through the systematic comparison of the organization, form, function, and acquisition of institutionalized knowledge-in literate and nonliterate societies has hardly been examined. This essay attempts such an analysis, focusing on knowledge acquired through the use of language, because language is the major medium for imparting knowledge in schools and for social reproduction …
Toward the Development of a Multilingual Language policy in Nigeria
This paper examines Nigeria's language policies in terms of (I) the historical, sociolinguistic, political, educational, and ideological contexts in which they arose; (2) their impact on patterns of language choice and language use in education and other aspects of national life; and (3) their implications for the theory and practice of language planning. Practical issues of implementation are discussed, while theoretical issues are raised concer…
The Place of Arabic in Language Education and Language Planning in Nigeria
La loko de la araba en lingva edukado kaj lingva planado en Nigerio Tiu ĉi artikolo ekzamenas ta lokon de la araba en lingva edukado kaj lingvoplana agado en Niĝerio, emfazante (1) ĝian utiligon de la naǔa jarcento ĝis la hodiaǔa tago; (2) la metodojn kaj enhavon de arab lingva edukado je diversaj niveloj; (3) la kontribuojn de la araba al historia dokumentado en antaǔkotonia Niĝerio kaj al la leksika ekspansio de nigeriaj lingvoj; kaj (4) la nat…
The politics of language planning in education in Nigeria
1990). The politics of language planning in education in Nigeria. WORD: Vol. 41, No. 3, pp. 337-367
One Nation, Four Hundred Languages
SOMMAIRE Une nation, quatre-cents idiomes: Unité et diversité dans la politique linguistique du Nigéria Cet article traite des politiques linguistiques du Nigéria, de leurs objectifs contradic-toires, de leurs motivations et de leurs orientations idéologiques. Ces conflits s'expliquent en fonction du deVeloppement socio-historique de la nation, de son paysage ethnolinguis-tique complexe et de l'incompatibilité des exigences "nationalistes" et "na…
On the Similarities Between Spoken and Written Language
This paper challenges both the theoretical assumptions and the quantitative method underlying comparative studies of spoken and written language and proposes a sociolinguistic model that relates linguistic forms to macro-sociological contexts, communicative goal, and function. Drawing upon data derived from oral ritual communication in nonliterate societies and adopting a comparative, meta-analytical approach, the paper provides evidence for basi…
Performance and ethnic style in job interviews
Introduction This chapter provides a theoretical framework for analyzing conversational data derived from job interviews and reports a case study using such a framework. Our data derive from simulated interviews given to 12 Afro-American students of a CETA (Comprehensive Employment and Training Act) job training program in Oakland, California in the summer of 1978. Our goal is to highlight those communicative conditions that can lead to negative …
Yoruba Traditional Names and the Transmission of Cultural Knowledge
Perhaps because of the paradoxical function of in classifying a person simultaneously as an individual and as a product and reflection of society, anthropologists have been preoccupied with the~classificatory function of naming2 and the relationship between naming practices and social structure.3 Consequently, less attention has been given to the communicative functions of personal names, especially their use in cultural transmission. Following t…
Yoruba serial verb string commutability constraints
On The Differences Between Spoken and Written Language
Drawing on research studies in (socio)linguistics, discourse analysis, and literacy, this paper provides a synthesis of findings about lexical and syntactico-semantic differences between spokken and written language, focusing on empirical research on the English language since the 1920s. The major theoretical and methodological aproaches used in comparative studies of spoken and written language are outlined and their advantages and shortcomings …
Names and Naming Principles in Cross-Cultural Perspective
The Consequences of Literacy in Pragmatic and Theoretical Perspectives
Drawing on resources from anthropology, linguistics, psychology, and education, this paper examines critically the effects of literacy on cultural traditions, linguistic behavior, socio-economic organization, cognitive processes, and child development. Attention is given to the question of whether literacy causes new cognitive capabilities or only promotes the deployment of preexisting ones. The paper also considers the implications for anthropol…
Policy and experiment in mother tongue literacy in Nigeria
On The Differences Between Spoken and Written Language
Drawing on research studies in (socio)linguistics, discourse analysis, and literacy, this paper provides a synthesis of findings about lexical and syntactico-semantic differences between spokken and written language, focusing on empirical research on the English language since the 1920s. The major theoretical and methodological aproaches used in comparative studies of spoken and written language are outlined and their advantages and shortcomings …
Names and Naming Principles in Cross-Cultural Perspective
The Consequences of Literacy in Pragmatic and Theoretical Perspectives
Drawing on resources from anthropology, linguistics, psychology, and education, this paper examines critically the effects of literacy on cultural traditions, linguistic behavior, socio-economic organization, cognitive processes, and child development. Attention is given to the question of whether literacy causes new cognitive capabilities or only promotes the deployment of preexisting ones. The paper also considers the implications for anthropol…
One Nation, Four Hundred Languages
SOMMAIRE Une nation, quatre-cents idiomes: Unité et diversité dans la politique linguistique du Nigéria Cet article traite des politiques linguistiques du Nigéria, de leurs objectifs contradic-toires, de leurs motivations et de leurs orientations idéologiques. Ces conflits s'expliquent en fonction du deVeloppement socio-historique de la nation, de son paysage ethnolinguis-tique complexe et de l'incompatibilité des exigences "nationalistes" et "na…
On the Similarities Between Spoken and Written Language
This paper challenges both the theoretical assumptions and the quantitative method underlying comparative studies of spoken and written language and proposes a sociolinguistic model that relates linguistic forms to macro-sociological contexts, communicative goal, and function. Drawing upon data derived from oral ritual communication in nonliterate societies and adopting a comparative, meta-analytical approach, the paper provides evidence for basi…
Schooling, Language, and Knowledge in Literate and Nonliterate Societies
The relationships among schooling, language, and knowledge-especially through the systematic comparison of the organization, form, function, and acquisition of institutionalized knowledge-in literate and nonliterate societies has hardly been examined. This essay attempts such an analysis, focusing on knowledge acquired through the use of language, because language is the major medium for imparting knowledge in schools and for social reproduction …
Vernacular literacy in modern Nigeria
This article examines the nature, uses, andfunctions of vernacular literacy in a typical Nigerian village. While English is still the official (written) language in Nigeria, there is a growing int er es t in literacy in the mother tongue. This will be shown by reporting on the use made of literacy within the framework of the users' cultural values, social organization, and communicative economy in indigenous languages. First, the relationship bet…
The politics of language planning in education in Nigeria
1990). The politics of language planning in education in Nigeria. WORD: Vol. 41, No. 3, pp. 337-367
Yoruba Traditional Names and the Transmission of Cultural Knowledge
Perhaps because of the paradoxical function of in classifying a person simultaneously as an individual and as a product and reflection of society, anthropologists have been preoccupied with the~classificatory function of naming2 and the relationship between naming practices and social structure.3 Consequently, less attention has been given to the communicative functions of personal names, especially their use in cultural transmission. Following t…
The Place of Arabic in Language Education and Language Planning in Nigeria
La loko de la araba en lingva edukado kaj lingva planado en Nigerio Tiu ĉi artikolo ekzamenas ta lokon de la araba en lingva edukado kaj lingvoplana agado en Niĝerio, emfazante (1) ĝian utiligon de la naǔa jarcento ĝis la hodiaǔa tago; (2) la metodojn kaj enhavon de arab lingva edukado je diversaj niveloj; (3) la kontribuojn de la araba al historia dokumentado en antaǔkotonia Niĝerio kaj al la leksika ekspansio de nigeriaj lingvoj; kaj (4) la nat…
Yoruba serial verb string commutability constraints
Names and Naming Principles in Cross-Cultural Perspective
The Consequences of Literacy in Pragmatic and Theoretical Perspectives
Drawing on resources from anthropology, linguistics, psychology, and education, this paper examines critically the effects of literacy on cultural traditions, linguistic behavior, socio-economic organization, cognitive processes, and child development. Attention is given to the question of whether literacy causes new cognitive capabilities or only promotes the deployment of preexisting ones. The paper also considers the implications for anthropol…
On The Differences Between Spoken and Written Language
Drawing on research studies in (socio)linguistics, discourse analysis, and literacy, this paper provides a synthesis of findings about lexical and syntactico-semantic differences between spokken and written language, focusing on empirical research on the English language since the 1920s. The major theoretical and methodological aproaches used in comparative studies of spoken and written language are outlined and their advantages and shortcomings …
Performance and ethnic style in job interviews
Introduction This chapter provides a theoretical framework for analyzing conversational data derived from job interviews and reports a case study using such a framework. Our data derive from simulated interviews given to 12 Afro-American students of a CETA (Comprehensive Employment and Training Act) job training program in Oakland, California in the summer of 1978. Our goal is to highlight those communicative conditions that can lead to negative …
Yoruba Traditional Names and the Transmission of Cultural Knowledge
Perhaps because of the paradoxical function of in classifying a person simultaneously as an individual and as a product and reflection of society, anthropologists have been preoccupied with the~classificatory function of naming2 and the relationship between naming practices and social structure.3 Consequently, less attention has been given to the communicative functions of personal names, especially their use in cultural transmission. Following t…
Yoruba serial verb string commutability constraints
On the Similarities Between Spoken and Written Language
This paper challenges both the theoretical assumptions and the quantitative method underlying comparative studies of spoken and written language and proposes a sociolinguistic model that relates linguistic forms to macro-sociological contexts, communicative goal, and function. Drawing upon data derived from oral ritual communication in nonliterate societies and adopting a comparative, meta-analytical approach, the paper provides evidence for basi…
One Nation, Four Hundred Languages
SOMMAIRE Une nation, quatre-cents idiomes: Unité et diversité dans la politique linguistique du Nigéria Cet article traite des politiques linguistiques du Nigéria, de leurs objectifs contradic-toires, de leurs motivations et de leurs orientations idéologiques. Ces conflits s'expliquent en fonction du deVeloppement socio-historique de la nation, de son paysage ethnolinguis-tique complexe et de l'incompatibilité des exigences "nationalistes" et "na…
The Place of Arabic in Language Education and Language Planning in Nigeria
La loko de la araba en lingva edukado kaj lingva planado en Nigerio Tiu ĉi artikolo ekzamenas ta lokon de la araba en lingva edukado kaj lingvoplana agado en Niĝerio, emfazante (1) ĝian utiligon de la naǔa jarcento ĝis la hodiaǔa tago; (2) la metodojn kaj enhavon de arab lingva edukado je diversaj niveloj; (3) la kontribuojn de la araba al historia dokumentado en antaǔkotonia Niĝerio kaj al la leksika ekspansio de nigeriaj lingvoj; kaj (4) la nat…
The politics of language planning in education in Nigeria
1990). The politics of language planning in education in Nigeria. WORD: Vol. 41, No. 3, pp. 337-367
Toward the Development of a Multilingual Language policy in Nigeria
This paper examines Nigeria's language policies in terms of (I) the historical, sociolinguistic, political, educational, and ideological contexts in which they arose; (2) their impact on patterns of language choice and language use in education and other aspects of national life; and (3) their implications for the theory and practice of language planning. Practical issues of implementation are discussed, while theoretical issues are raised concer…
Schooling, Language, and Knowledge in Literate and Nonliterate Societies
The relationships among schooling, language, and knowledge-especially through the systematic comparison of the organization, form, function, and acquisition of institutionalized knowledge-in literate and nonliterate societies has hardly been examined. This essay attempts such an analysis, focusing on knowledge acquired through the use of language, because language is the major medium for imparting knowledge in schools and for social reproduction …
Policy and experiment in mother tongue literacy in Nigeria
Linguistic Unification and Language Rights
This paper examines the tension between linguistic unification and language rights in Nigeria and assesses the nature, causes, and implications of the tension against the backgrounds of the country's history, political development, and language situation. Drawing upon comparative data, the findings are discussed with reference to the contrasting processes of unifying the linguistic market and preserving minority language rights. The language plan…
Vernacular literacy in modern Nigeria
This article examines the nature, uses, andfunctions of vernacular literacy in a typical Nigerian village. While English is still the official (written) language in Nigeria, there is a growing int er es t in literacy in the mother tongue. This will be shown by reporting on the use made of literacy within the framework of the users' cultural values, social organization, and communicative economy in indigenous languages. First, the relationship bet…
Bourdieu and the diviner
On the Syntax and Semantics of Nominal Compounds in Yoruba Personal Names
Proceedings of the Seventh Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society (1981), pp. 1-12
Linguistics (12 works) · Multilingual Education and Policy (11 works) · Sociology (11 works) · Philosophy (10 works) · Political science (7 works) · Computer Science (6 works) · Philosophy (6 works) · Literacy (5 works) · Pedagogy (5 works) · Psychology (5 works)