Tope Omoniyi
Biographic Data
| ID | 579022 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Tope Omoniyi |
| GIVEN NAMES | Tope |
| FAMILY NAME | Omoniyi |
| SIGNATURE | OMONIYI T |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Roehampton |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 34 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 57 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 31 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 3 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1994 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Language Ideology and Practice on the Aflao-Lome Borderland: The Case of Two Border Schools
This paper explores language practices in the school domain in Aflao-Lome on the Ghana/Togo border. Here, the boundary line bisects the Ewe thus creating two contrasting communities: French-speaking Ewe and English-speaking Ewe. Our study investigates language practices in two schools located on either side of the border since the school as a sociolinguistic domain is a contested site of language practice where tensions abound between medium of i…
A feast of letting go
The Cultures of Economic Migration
Cultures of Economic Migration: International Perspectives
Optimising learning, education and publishing in Africa: The language factor: a review and analysis of theory and practice in mother-tongue and bilingual education in sub-Saharan Africa
A borderlands' perspective of language and globalization
My primary objective in this article is to explore what new meaning borderlands research can bring to our understanding of globalization as it is presently framed in sociolinguistic scholarship. As a site of negotiations and transactions in international goods and services in the official and non-official realms they present us with a microcosm of globalised networks. The specific territoriality of a borderland illustrates localization which Wate…
Indigenous language capital and development
This position paper presents language capital as an alternative theorization to linguistic capital. It applies to the development and multilingual postcolonial contexts, especially in Africa. It argues that Bourdieu's “linguistic capital” is more applicable to the analysis of the access that is granted or denied on the basis of possession of one rather than another variety of a language. Using demographic statistics made up of human and economic …
Holy Hip-Hop, Language and Social Change
In this chapter, I shall present ‘holy hip-hop’ as a phenomenon of social change, the transformative and hybridizing processes located in the contact zone between the secular and the sacred. I shall argue that such change conceptualized within the framework of the sociology of language and religion is facilitated both through the secularization of traditional religious language as well as through borrowing and sacralization of secular language an…
Introduction: Change, Accommodation and Conflict
The concepts of change, accommodation and conflict that are our focus in this volume are not new to the older traditional disciplines of sociology, social psychology and religion where they are experiential social phenomena that both characterize and define the relationships between two states of being, contexts or persons/groups. While change frames discussions of the transition between and into states, contexts and selves, conflict and accommod…
The sociolinguistics of colonisation: A perspective of language shift
In this chapter I want to propose an alternative paradigm for understanding the dynamics of multilingualism, language competition and politics in the complex sociolinguistic terrain of sub-Saharan Africa. Particularly for the purpose of explaining language shift, it is important to note that African states had fought wars of expansion and taken vassal states in a ‘colonial’ era before European colonialists arrived in the region
From Multiculturalism to Multifaithism: A Panel Debate
From Multiculturalism to Multifaithism: A Panel Debate
The Sociology of Language and Religion: Change, Conflict and Accommodation
This book is a collection by distinguished language reasearchers focussing on the most prominent theoretical framework on language and sociology of religion"--Provided by publisher
Negotiating youth identity in a transnational context in Nigeria
Russell Potter's concept of 'resistance vernaculars' () is evident in the style and lyrics of Lágbájá, a Nigerian musician who is currently popular among African youth at home and abroad. Youth identities based in Lágbájá's music would appear to be a mere mimicry of US hip‐hop. We demonstrate that Lágbájá's work is not an imitation of an American resistance vernacular, however. Lágbájá's music emphasises themes of hybridity and global cultural di…
Sociolinguistics of Identity
Sociology of Language and Religion: Change, Conflict and Accommodation
This book is a collection by distinguished language reasearchers focussing on the most prominent theoretical framework on language and sociology of religion"--Provided by publisher
The Cultures of Economic Migration: International Perspectives
Contents: Preface Introduction: socio-cultural attitudes to migration and the academic disposition of migration studies, Suman Gupta. Part I Europe: Open borders: the case against immigration controls, Teresa Hayter Economic migrant or hyphenated British? Writing about difference in London's East End, John Eade Outsourcing and migrational anxieties in discourse perspectives, Tope OmonA-yi Economic satisfaction and nostalgic laments: the language …
Alternative Contexts of Language Policy and Planning in Sub‐Saharan Africa
My main contention in this article is that the nation‐state paradigm for policies targeted at effecting development in sub‐Saharan Africa is undermined by arbitrary colonial boundaries and porous borders and the challenges of transnationalism as part of the globalization phenomenon in late modernity. The nation‐state paradigm is also the framework for guaranteed dominance of English and French, the two main excolonial official languages of sub‐Sa…
Explorations in the Sociology of Language and Religion
The Sociology of Language and Religion (SLR) is still in its infancy as a sub-discipline in the macrosociolinguistic tradition. It is therefore no coincidence that the editorial collaboration to produce its first definitive text Explorations in the Sociology of Language and Religion has involved Joshua A. Fishman, often cited in the literature as one of the founders of the Sociology of Language. Tope Omoniyi brings to the collaboration an insight…
Societal multilingualism and multifaithism: A sociology of language and religion perspective
Epilogue
Introduction
Email Fraud: Language, Technology, and the Indexicals of Globalisation
This paper investigates a corpus of email messages known as “419 scams”: a form of financial fraud in which huge offers of money are being made to people provided they pass on bank details and other personal information to the perpetrators. This kind of message presents us with a typical instance of “globalized” communication: they are produced in the margins of the world (the term “419 scam” is Nigerian) and sent to other places; they are electr…
Hip-hop through the world Englishes lens: A response to globalization
This paper proposes that global popular culture and, specifically, hip-hop music offers prospective sites for examining interaction between varieties of English in the context of globalization. The data consist of extracts from Nigerian hip-hop song lyrics. Sociolinguistic features of fusion as a social process of globalization include divergence through (deliberate) phonological variation, codeswitching, cross-referencing, nicknaming, colloquial…
Word-o-Graphs of Heritage Sites
The Sociology of Language and Religion: Change, Conflict and Accommodation
This book is a collection by distinguished language reasearchers focussing on the most prominent theoretical framework on language and sociology of religion"--Provided by publisher
Hip-hop through the world Englishes lens: A response to globalization
This paper proposes that global popular culture and, specifically, hip-hop music offers prospective sites for examining interaction between varieties of English in the context of globalization. The data consist of extracts from Nigerian hip-hop song lyrics. Sociolinguistic features of fusion as a social process of globalization include divergence through (deliberate) phonological variation, codeswitching, cross-referencing, nicknaming, colloquial…
Email Fraud: Language, Technology, and the Indexicals of Globalisation
This paper investigates a corpus of email messages known as “419 scams”: a form of financial fraud in which huge offers of money are being made to people provided they pass on bank details and other personal information to the perpetrators. This kind of message presents us with a typical instance of “globalized” communication: they are produced in the margins of the world (the term “419 scam” is Nigerian) and sent to other places; they are electr…
Negotiating youth identity in a transnational context in Nigeria
Russell Potter's concept of 'resistance vernaculars' () is evident in the style and lyrics of Lágbájá, a Nigerian musician who is currently popular among African youth at home and abroad. Youth identities based in Lágbájá's music would appear to be a mere mimicry of US hip‐hop. We demonstrate that Lágbájá's work is not an imitation of an American resistance vernacular, however. Lágbájá's music emphasises themes of hybridity and global cultural di…
Local Policies and Global Forces: Multiliteracy and Africa's Indigenous Languages
Alternative Contexts of Language Policy and Planning in Sub‐Saharan Africa
My main contention in this article is that the nation‐state paradigm for policies targeted at effecting development in sub‐Saharan Africa is undermined by arbitrary colonial boundaries and porous borders and the challenges of transnationalism as part of the globalization phenomenon in late modernity. The nation‐state paradigm is also the framework for guaranteed dominance of English and French, the two main excolonial official languages of sub‐Sa…
Toward a Re-Theorization of Code Switching
N My intention in this contribution is to turn the critical spotlight on code switching (CS) as currently conceptualized in mainstream AL, particularly in its application to the local African context. CS is the copresence of elements from two or more languages in a stretch of discourse. It is thus a phenomenon of multiple language environments (Clyne, 1972; Gumperz, 1982; Myers-Scotton, 1993a, 1993b). Much of the work on this subject has been con…
Language Ideology and Practice on the Aflao-Lome Borderland: The Case of Two Border Schools
This paper explores language practices in the school domain in Aflao-Lome on the Ghana/Togo border. Here, the boundary line bisects the Ewe thus creating two contrasting communities: French-speaking Ewe and English-speaking Ewe. Our study investigates language practices in two schools located on either side of the border since the school as a sociolinguistic domain is a contested site of language practice where tensions abound between medium of i…
Indigenous language capital and development
This position paper presents language capital as an alternative theorization to linguistic capital. It applies to the development and multilingual postcolonial contexts, especially in Africa. It argues that Bourdieu's “linguistic capital” is more applicable to the analysis of the access that is granted or denied on the basis of possession of one rather than another variety of a language. Using demographic statistics made up of human and economic …
The sociolinguistics of colonisation: A perspective of language shift
In this chapter I want to propose an alternative paradigm for understanding the dynamics of multilingualism, language competition and politics in the complex sociolinguistic terrain of sub-Saharan Africa. Particularly for the purpose of explaining language shift, it is important to note that African states had fought wars of expansion and taken vassal states in a ‘colonial’ era before European colonialists arrived in the region
From Multiculturalism to Multifaithism: A Panel Debate
Islands and identity in sociolingtiistics: A Theoretical Perspective
Article Islands and identity in sociolingtiistics: a theoretical perspective was published on January 1, 2000 in the journal International Journal of the Sociology of Language (volume 2000, issue 143)
English and the other Tongues in Official Communicative Interaction in Nigeria
This paper examines issues of language choice and language use patterns, attitudes to English and to indigenous languages in official communicative interaction in Nigeria as they exist in the offices today. The report is projected against the background of the claim that English is 'the language of government, education, commerce, etc.' in Nigeria; a claim that does not present the current roster of functions performed or shared by English and th…
My blood, my Nation: Ethnicity and Nationality as alternative and hierarchical Identities in African Borderlands
Identity is an important phenomenon both in traditional and in modern Africa. Before the advent of colonialism, people and communities were identified largely by ethnicity within a political framework. However, within each of the ethnic units, there were other parameters by which people were sub-categorised such as family, ancestral trade/calling, Many language attitude studies have investigated the relative popularity of competing languages in m…
Oluokun
Islands and identity in sociolingtiistics: A Theoretical Perspective
Article Islands and identity in sociolingtiistics: a theoretical perspective was published on January 1, 2000 in the journal International Journal of the Sociology of Language (volume 2000, issue 143)
Gbomo, Gbomo
Language ideology and politics: A critical appraisal of French as second official language in Nigeria
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Local Policies and Global Forces: Multiliteracy and Africa's Indigenous Languages
Word-o-Graphs of Heritage Sites
Word‐o‐Graphs of Heritage Sites
Toward a Re-Theorization of Code Switching
N My intention in this contribution is to turn the critical spotlight on code switching (CS) as currently conceptualized in mainstream AL, particularly in its application to the local African context. CS is the copresence of elements from two or more languages in a stretch of discourse. It is thus a phenomenon of multiple language environments (Clyne, 1972; Gumperz, 1982; Myers-Scotton, 1993a, 1993b). Much of the work on this subject has been con…
Explorations in the Sociology of Language and Religion
The Sociology of Language and Religion (SLR) is still in its infancy as a sub-discipline in the macrosociolinguistic tradition. It is therefore no coincidence that the editorial collaboration to produce its first definitive text Explorations in the Sociology of Language and Religion has involved Joshua A. Fishman, often cited in the literature as one of the founders of the Sociology of Language. Tope Omoniyi brings to the collaboration an insight…
Societal multilingualism and multifaithism: A sociology of language and religion perspective
Epilogue
Introduction
Email Fraud: Language, Technology, and the Indexicals of Globalisation
This paper investigates a corpus of email messages known as “419 scams”: a form of financial fraud in which huge offers of money are being made to people provided they pass on bank details and other personal information to the perpetrators. This kind of message presents us with a typical instance of “globalized” communication: they are produced in the margins of the world (the term “419 scam” is Nigerian) and sent to other places; they are electr…
Hip-hop through the world Englishes lens: A response to globalization
This paper proposes that global popular culture and, specifically, hip-hop music offers prospective sites for examining interaction between varieties of English in the context of globalization. The data consist of extracts from Nigerian hip-hop song lyrics. Sociolinguistic features of fusion as a social process of globalization include divergence through (deliberate) phonological variation, codeswitching, cross-referencing, nicknaming, colloquial…
The Cultures of Economic Migration: International Perspectives
Contents: Preface Introduction: socio-cultural attitudes to migration and the academic disposition of migration studies, Suman Gupta. Part I Europe: Open borders: the case against immigration controls, Teresa Hayter Economic migrant or hyphenated British? Writing about difference in London's East End, John Eade Outsourcing and migrational anxieties in discourse perspectives, Tope OmonA-yi Economic satisfaction and nostalgic laments: the language …
Alternative Contexts of Language Policy and Planning in Sub‐Saharan Africa
My main contention in this article is that the nation‐state paradigm for policies targeted at effecting development in sub‐Saharan Africa is undermined by arbitrary colonial boundaries and porous borders and the challenges of transnationalism as part of the globalization phenomenon in late modernity. The nation‐state paradigm is also the framework for guaranteed dominance of English and French, the two main excolonial official languages of sub‐Sa…
Sociolinguistics of Identity
Sociology of Language and Religion: Change, Conflict and Accommodation
This book is a collection by distinguished language reasearchers focussing on the most prominent theoretical framework on language and sociology of religion"--Provided by publisher
Negotiating youth identity in a transnational context in Nigeria
Russell Potter's concept of 'resistance vernaculars' () is evident in the style and lyrics of Lágbájá, a Nigerian musician who is currently popular among African youth at home and abroad. Youth identities based in Lágbájá's music would appear to be a mere mimicry of US hip‐hop. We demonstrate that Lágbájá's work is not an imitation of an American resistance vernacular, however. Lágbájá's music emphasises themes of hybridity and global cultural di…
Holy Hip-Hop, Language and Social Change
In this chapter, I shall present ‘holy hip-hop’ as a phenomenon of social change, the transformative and hybridizing processes located in the contact zone between the secular and the sacred. I shall argue that such change conceptualized within the framework of the sociology of language and religion is facilitated both through the secularization of traditional religious language as well as through borrowing and sacralization of secular language an…
Introduction: Change, Accommodation and Conflict
The concepts of change, accommodation and conflict that are our focus in this volume are not new to the older traditional disciplines of sociology, social psychology and religion where they are experiential social phenomena that both characterize and define the relationships between two states of being, contexts or persons/groups. While change frames discussions of the transition between and into states, contexts and selves, conflict and accommod…
The sociolinguistics of colonisation: A perspective of language shift
In this chapter I want to propose an alternative paradigm for understanding the dynamics of multilingualism, language competition and politics in the complex sociolinguistic terrain of sub-Saharan Africa. Particularly for the purpose of explaining language shift, it is important to note that African states had fought wars of expansion and taken vassal states in a ‘colonial’ era before European colonialists arrived in the region
From Multiculturalism to Multifaithism: A Panel Debate
Sociology (25 works) · Linguistics (20 works) · Political science (16 works) · Multilingual Education and Policy (14 works) · Philosophy (14 works) · Computer Science (10 works) · Law (10 works) · Gender Studies (8 works) · History (8 works) · Politics (8 works)