L Oladipo Salami
Biographic Data
| ID | 5074901 |
|---|---|
| NAME | L Oladipo Salami |
| GIVEN NAMES | L Oladipo |
| FAMILY NAME | Salami |
| SIGNATURE | SALAMI L O |
| AFFILIATIONS | Obafemi Awolowo University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 6 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1991 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Deference and subordination
The Yoruba society, like many patriarchal traditions, tends to espouse male supremacy - an ideology that is reflected, often, in many of the cultural values and beliefs of the people. The use of address terms in Yoruba constitutes an aspect of linguistic practices where there is inequality in the use of language between male and male, female and female as well as between male and female. The study reported in this paper focuses on the use of firs…
It is Still “Double Take”
In this article, I explore language practices in Nigerian primary school classrooms against the backdrop of the policy of mother tongue education. Findings from the study show that there is a classroom bilingual practice that is rather unstructured in terms of curricular application and levels. The study shows that rather than implementing the country's mother tongue education policy, teachers have resorted to evolving a varied “policy” of biling…
Creating God in our own image
Pragmatic Inferencing in a Social Action
This paper reports a speech event among the Yoruba-speaking people of southwestern Nigeria. It describes and analyses the activity of ‘writing in’ and tries to explain the verbal and nonverbal routines and ritualized behaviour involved in the activity using both the ethnography of speaking approach and interpretive framework. The paper concludes that the knowledge of some Yoruba cultural rules and norms is critical to both the understanding as we…
Other Tongue? Policy and Ethnic Nationalism In Nigeria
Diffusion and focusing
This article reports on the application of the concept of social network to the process of language usage among Yoruba-speaking city dwellers in Ile-Ife, Southwestern Nigeria. The study, modeled on L. Milroy (1980), focuses mainly on phonetic/phonological variation within Common Spoken Yoruba (CmSpY). The analysis of the data gathered mainly within face-to-face interviews shows that, whereas we can claim that there is stratification within CmSpY …
Diffusion and focusing
This article reports on the application of the concept of social network to the process of language usage among Yoruba-speaking city dwellers in Ile-Ife, Southwestern Nigeria. The study, modeled on L. Milroy (1980), focuses mainly on phonetic/phonological variation within Common Spoken Yoruba (CmSpY). The analysis of the data gathered mainly within face-to-face interviews shows that, whereas we can claim that there is stratification within CmSpY …
Other Tongue? Policy and Ethnic Nationalism In Nigeria
Diffusion and focusing
This article reports on the application of the concept of social network to the process of language usage among Yoruba-speaking city dwellers in Ile-Ife, Southwestern Nigeria. The study, modeled on L. Milroy (1980), focuses mainly on phonetic/phonological variation within Common Spoken Yoruba (CmSpY). The analysis of the data gathered mainly within face-to-face interviews shows that, whereas we can claim that there is stratification within CmSpY …
Other Tongue? Policy and Ethnic Nationalism In Nigeria
Pragmatic Inferencing in a Social Action
This paper reports a speech event among the Yoruba-speaking people of southwestern Nigeria. It describes and analyses the activity of ‘writing in’ and tries to explain the verbal and nonverbal routines and ritualized behaviour involved in the activity using both the ethnography of speaking approach and interpretive framework. The paper concludes that the knowledge of some Yoruba cultural rules and norms is critical to both the understanding as we…
Creating God in our own image
It is Still “Double Take”
In this article, I explore language practices in Nigerian primary school classrooms against the backdrop of the policy of mother tongue education. Findings from the study show that there is a classroom bilingual practice that is rather unstructured in terms of curricular application and levels. The study shows that rather than implementing the country's mother tongue education policy, teachers have resorted to evolving a varied “policy” of biling…
Deference and subordination
The Yoruba society, like many patriarchal traditions, tends to espouse male supremacy - an ideology that is reflected, often, in many of the cultural values and beliefs of the people. The use of address terms in Yoruba constitutes an aspect of linguistic practices where there is inequality in the use of language between male and male, female and female as well as between male and female. The study reported in this paper focuses on the use of firs…
Linguistics (5 works) · Multilingual Education and Policy (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Yoruba (4 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Psychology (3 works) · EFL/ESL Teaching and Learning (2 works) · First language (2 works) · Gender Studies (2 works) · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies (2 works)