Sopuruchi Christian Aboh
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 935767 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Sopuruchi Christian Aboh |
| PRENOMES | Sopuruchi Christian |
| SOBRENOME | Aboh |
| ASSINATURA | ABOH S C |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Nigeria |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3318-8014 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 28 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 26 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 28 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2020 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 3 |
Gbasgbos and Wotowoto
Big Brother Naija is a Nigerian reality TV show where contestants, known as housemates, live together for ten weeks, competing for the grand prize of over 100 million naira (US$74,300). Despite the emergence of research on this aspect of pop culture, the impolite use of language in the show is relatively unexplored. Following the call to explore the workings of impoliteness reciprocity in non-British cultures and L2 interactions, this study exami…
Metaphorical conceptualisations of language proficiency, usage, and attitude towards Nigerian English
This paper examines the conceptual metaphors underlying the perception of English language proficiency, usage, and attitudes in Nigeria, and provides their pedagogical implications. The data comprise transcripts of focus group discussions involving selected Nigerian students on attitudes towards varieties of Nigerian English. The conceptual metaphors in the data were identified and analysed by maximising the merits of conceptual metaphor theory. …
Language attitudes research
Language attitudes research focuses on the evaluative reactions to languages and varieties. Previous attempts to classify language attitudes research have focused on approaches to studying language attitudes, such as direct, indirect and social treatment studies as well as the core foci of language attitudes research, such as documentation, explanation, development, consequences and change. However, language attitudes research has not been classi…
Examining the impact of digital media technology in teaching Igbo to heritage learners
Little research attention has been given to the role of digital media technologies such as Zoom, WhatsApp and PowerPoint in teaching Igbo as a heritage language. To address this research gap, this study examined the impact of digital media technology on Igbo heritage language learners’ Igbo skills. A questionnaire was administered to 67 Igbo learners in the diaspora with little or no proficiency in Igbo who enrolled in a ten-week Igbo class. Them…
Metaphors we overthrow with
202505 bcch
Political othering and polarisation in Nigeria’s online electoral discourse
202504 bcch
Nigerian English
This article offers a comprehensive overview of Nigerian English, a rapidly expanding variety of world Englishes, recognised as one of the fastest‐growing varieties of English globally in numerical terms. This article has four aims. First, it discusses the historical developments of English in Nigeria with reference to the events that led to the implantation of English in Nigeria and the periods in which these events occurred. Second, the article…
Attitudes to Nigerian Englishes in higher education
Although there is a bourgeoning of studies on attitudes towards Nigerian Englishes, there is limited research on the effects of participants’ discipline (STEM and non‐STEM) and the type of secondary school (private and government) they attended in evaluating Nigerian Englishes. Examining these new variables is particularly critical in understanding how educational background impacts language attitudes, given the disparities in educational resourc…
Nigerian students’ attitudes toward endonormative varieties of Nigerian English
Previous language attitude research in Nigeria compared Nigerian English (NgE) to exonormative Englishes, such as British, American and Canadian Englishes, whereas this study examines attitudes toward endonormative varieties (Hausa English, HE; Igbo English, IE; and Yoruba English, YE) of NgE. Four hundred and six students drawn from three Nigerian universities located in the regions where these varieties are mainly spoken served as listener judg…
Laughter and language attitudes in students’ discussions about language use in Nigeria
Forms and functions of diminutives in the Igbo language
Studies on diminutives have primarily focused on European languages and a few African languages. However, the forms and functions of diminutives in the Igbo language remain critically unexplored. This article examines the forms and functions of diminutives in Igbo, as well as accounts for the role of tone in the formation of diminutives in Igbo, using corpus-assisted data. The descriptive analysis reveals that the form of Igbo diminutives can be …
The youths are wiser now
This study examines several Nigerians’ resistance to the two major political parties and their presidential candidates using positive discourse analysis. Additionally, the study critically investigates Nigerians’ support for the presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP) during the build-up to the 2023 Nigeria’s general elections. Data for the study comprise 1000 tweets with the hashtags #Obidients, #Atikulated, #Tinubu and tweets that menti…
Retorts in Igbo discourse
This article studies the social factors influencing the use of retorts in Igbo discourse and how these factors determine the psychological impact of retorts. By adopting a cross-sectional survey design and anchoring on the concept of politeness system, the study observes that in face-to-face conversations involving retorts in Igbo, age, gender and relationships are key social factors, and that female interlocutors are most predisposed to using re…
Ethnic othering in Nigeria’s electoral discourse
202407 bcch
Religious othering in Nigeria’s electoral discourse
Religion is a main characteristic of Nigerian identity and influences the algorithm of its public life. The study explores online religious othering in Nigeria’s electoral discourse. The study utilises a critical discourse analytic approach and examines a dataset of over 14,000 Facebook comments from Nigerians from different religious groups. The analysis revealed that religious othering in the electoral discourse was indexed using three major st…
Morphosemantics of slang expressions by students in a Nigerian university
Previous research has focused on thematic and semantic descriptions of slang expressions in the Nigerian educational context. Morphological and semantic analyses of slang expressions have received little attention. This study addresses this gap by identifying different slang expressions used by students of the University of Nigeria, Nsukka, accounting for the morphological processes involved in their formation, and exploring how the meanings of t…
It will never be well with Sars’
This paper analyses the discursive strategies used by #EndSARS protesters in their tweets and Facebook comments to construct SARS officers, hold the Nigerian government accountable and demand social change. Informed by social media critical discourse analysis (SMCDA) and social movement theory, the analysis revealed three strategies: constructing SARS as oppressors, representing the Nigerian government as insensitive and issuing a clarion call fo…
Attitudes towards Nigerian Englishes
On the parameters of the power of English in Nigeria
This study explores the power of English in Nigeria following Kachruvian six parameters of the power of English. The paper indicates that the range and depth of English in Nigeria could be seen in the government, education, mass media, commerce, and religion. The positive attitudes towards English have negatively impacted mother-tongue education and have endangered many of Nigeria’s indigenous languages. The desire to learn English has also given…
Neologistic Jargon Aphasia
This paper conducts a psycholinguistic analysis of a neologistic jargon aphasic, Akala Gboo (a pseudonym of the patient) who is 52 years old. Neologistic jargon aphasia is a type of language disorder that manifests in the form of fluent speech, production of series of meaningless sounds and formulation of new words. This aphasic condition has not been explored to a large extent by researchers. By adopting the descriptive research design and using…
Pragmatic Analysis of Presidential Campaign Manifestos of Muhammadu Buhari and Donald Trump
The study examines the presidential campaign manifestos of Presidents Muhammadu Buhari of the Federal Republic of Nigeria in 2015 and Donald Trump of the United States of America in 2016. Specifically, it sets out to analyse these presidents’ campaign speech promises on security using the cooperative principle, ascertain the conformity of their promises on job creation to the theory of cooperative principle. The study also sets out to examine the…
Morphosyntactic Analysis of Onitsha Personal Names
This study examines Onitsha personal names (OPN) from a morphosyntactic perspective. The major objective of this study is to examine the syntactic and morphological structure of some OPN. Specifically, the study seeks to ascertain the morphological processes and the relation in the internal structures of the morpheme that are combined to form the names. A sample of 250 names for both male and female were used for the analysis. The data were obtai…
Critical Discourse Analysis of Selected Nigerian Political Hate Speeches
The study examines the hate speeches used by the Nigerian politicians within the theoretical framework of Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA). Some of the hate speeches used by the Nigerian politicians are selected and analyzed. The objectives of this study include identifying and investigating the hate speeches using critical discourse analysis. The random sampling is used to elucidate data from Nigerian dailies. The data includes hate speeches us…
Interactions on Facebook and Twitter
The study examines interactions on Facebook and Twitter from a communicative action perspective. The objectives of this study are to: identify the nature of action(s) by interlocutors on Facebook and Twitter and examine the world(s) portrayed by these interlocutors. The study adopts Habermas’ theory of communicative action to study the nature of actions and the three-world concept that exist among users of Facebook and Twitter. Insights from inte…
Hyponyms of Insect in Ovoko Lect
Earlier researches have focused on hyponymy in different languages. There appears to be lack of research in the study of hyponyms of insect in a dialect of Igbo. As such, this study examines the hyponyms of insect in Ovoko lect. The objectives of the study are to identity hyponyms of insects in Ovoko lect and classify them based on their superordinate terms or hypernyms. The study employs componential analysis in the analysis of data which were d…
It will never be well with Sars’
This paper analyses the discursive strategies used by #EndSARS protesters in their tweets and Facebook comments to construct SARS officers, hold the Nigerian government accountable and demand social change. Informed by social media critical discourse analysis (SMCDA) and social movement theory, the analysis revealed three strategies: constructing SARS as oppressors, representing the Nigerian government as insensitive and issuing a clarion call fo…
Multilingualism and marginalisation
Multilingualism in a multi-cultural setting could be a problem especially where there is a politics of winner takes all. It creates room for marginalisation especially where there is no functional system to check the excesses of the policy implementers. This study examines multilingualism and marginalisation in Nigeria politicisation. The specific objectives are to explore the different manifestations of marginalisation that underlie the concept …
Attitudes towards Nigerian Englishes
Nigerian students’ attitudes toward endonormative varieties of Nigerian English
Previous language attitude research in Nigeria compared Nigerian English (NgE) to exonormative Englishes, such as British, American and Canadian Englishes, whereas this study examines attitudes toward endonormative varieties (Hausa English, HE; Igbo English, IE; and Yoruba English, YE) of NgE. Four hundred and six students drawn from three Nigerian universities located in the regions where these varieties are mainly spoken served as listener judg…
The youths are wiser now
This study examines several Nigerians’ resistance to the two major political parties and their presidential candidates using positive discourse analysis. Additionally, the study critically investigates Nigerians’ support for the presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP) during the build-up to the 2023 Nigeria’s general elections. Data for the study comprise 1000 tweets with the hashtags #Obidients, #Atikulated, #Tinubu and tweets that menti…
Religious othering in Nigeria’s electoral discourse
Religion is a main characteristic of Nigerian identity and influences the algorithm of its public life. The study explores online religious othering in Nigeria’s electoral discourse. The study utilises a critical discourse analytic approach and examines a dataset of over 14,000 Facebook comments from Nigerians from different religious groups. The analysis revealed that religious othering in the electoral discourse was indexed using three major st…
Ethnic othering in Nigeria’s electoral discourse
202407 bcch
Interactions on Facebook and Twitter
The study examines interactions on Facebook and Twitter from a communicative action perspective. The objectives of this study are to: identify the nature of action(s) by interlocutors on Facebook and Twitter and examine the world(s) portrayed by these interlocutors. The study adopts Habermas’ theory of communicative action to study the nature of actions and the three-world concept that exist among users of Facebook and Twitter. Insights from inte…
Hyponyms of Insect in Ovoko Lect
Earlier researches have focused on hyponymy in different languages. There appears to be lack of research in the study of hyponyms of insect in a dialect of Igbo. As such, this study examines the hyponyms of insect in Ovoko lect. The objectives of the study are to identity hyponyms of insects in Ovoko lect and classify them based on their superordinate terms or hypernyms. The study employs componential analysis in the analysis of data which were d…
Between Statements and Actions
The study of Buhari’s statements on “jailing of more thieves,” “rule of law should be subjected to national interest,” and “being fair in federal appointments” seem not to have been approached from speech act perspective. As such, this paper analyses the locutionary acts, illocutionary acts, and the perlocutionary effects of Buhari’s statements on the above subject matters. The data were obtained from the online version of Nigerian Dailies. Austi…
Linguistic formation patterns of anglicised traditional Yorùbá anthroponyms
Yorùbá personal names have been studied from different perspectives. A critical look at the linguistic processes involved in the anglicisation of Yorùbá personal names appears to be relatively unexplored. As such, this study explores linguistic formation patterns of anglicised traditional Yorùbá anthroponyms. The study adopts the descriptive research design and analyses 50 samples of anglicised Yorùbá anthroponyms by drawing insights from the con…
Multilingualism and marginalisation
Multilingualism in a multi-cultural setting could be a problem especially where there is a politics of winner takes all. It creates room for marginalisation especially where there is no functional system to check the excesses of the policy implementers. This study examines multilingualism and marginalisation in Nigeria politicisation. The specific objectives are to explore the different manifestations of marginalisation that underlie the concept …
Neologistic Jargon Aphasia
This paper conducts a psycholinguistic analysis of a neologistic jargon aphasic, Akala Gboo (a pseudonym of the patient) who is 52 years old. Neologistic jargon aphasia is a type of language disorder that manifests in the form of fluent speech, production of series of meaningless sounds and formulation of new words. This aphasic condition has not been explored to a large extent by researchers. By adopting the descriptive research design and using…
Pragmatic Analysis of Presidential Campaign Manifestos of Muhammadu Buhari and Donald Trump
The study examines the presidential campaign manifestos of Presidents Muhammadu Buhari of the Federal Republic of Nigeria in 2015 and Donald Trump of the United States of America in 2016. Specifically, it sets out to analyse these presidents’ campaign speech promises on security using the cooperative principle, ascertain the conformity of their promises on job creation to the theory of cooperative principle. The study also sets out to examine the…
Morphosyntactic Analysis of Onitsha Personal Names
This study examines Onitsha personal names (OPN) from a morphosyntactic perspective. The major objective of this study is to examine the syntactic and morphological structure of some OPN. Specifically, the study seeks to ascertain the morphological processes and the relation in the internal structures of the morpheme that are combined to form the names. A sample of 250 names for both male and female were used for the analysis. The data were obtai…
Critical Discourse Analysis of Selected Nigerian Political Hate Speeches
The study examines the hate speeches used by the Nigerian politicians within the theoretical framework of Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA). Some of the hate speeches used by the Nigerian politicians are selected and analyzed. The objectives of this study include identifying and investigating the hate speeches using critical discourse analysis. The random sampling is used to elucidate data from Nigerian dailies. The data includes hate speeches us…
On the parameters of the power of English in Nigeria
This study explores the power of English in Nigeria following Kachruvian six parameters of the power of English. The paper indicates that the range and depth of English in Nigeria could be seen in the government, education, mass media, commerce, and religion. The positive attitudes towards English have negatively impacted mother-tongue education and have endangered many of Nigeria’s indigenous languages. The desire to learn English has also given…
It will never be well with Sars’
This paper analyses the discursive strategies used by #EndSARS protesters in their tweets and Facebook comments to construct SARS officers, hold the Nigerian government accountable and demand social change. Informed by social media critical discourse analysis (SMCDA) and social movement theory, the analysis revealed three strategies: constructing SARS as oppressors, representing the Nigerian government as insensitive and issuing a clarion call fo…
Attitudes towards Nigerian Englishes
Retorts in Igbo discourse
This article studies the social factors influencing the use of retorts in Igbo discourse and how these factors determine the psychological impact of retorts. By adopting a cross-sectional survey design and anchoring on the concept of politeness system, the study observes that in face-to-face conversations involving retorts in Igbo, age, gender and relationships are key social factors, and that female interlocutors are most predisposed to using re…
Ethnic othering in Nigeria’s electoral discourse
202407 bcch
Religious othering in Nigeria’s electoral discourse
Religion is a main characteristic of Nigerian identity and influences the algorithm of its public life. The study explores online religious othering in Nigeria’s electoral discourse. The study utilises a critical discourse analytic approach and examines a dataset of over 14,000 Facebook comments from Nigerians from different religious groups. The analysis revealed that religious othering in the electoral discourse was indexed using three major st…
Morphosemantics of slang expressions by students in a Nigerian university
Previous research has focused on thematic and semantic descriptions of slang expressions in the Nigerian educational context. Morphological and semantic analyses of slang expressions have received little attention. This study addresses this gap by identifying different slang expressions used by students of the University of Nigeria, Nsukka, accounting for the morphological processes involved in their formation, and exploring how the meanings of t…
Language attitudes research
Language attitudes research focuses on the evaluative reactions to languages and varieties. Previous attempts to classify language attitudes research have focused on approaches to studying language attitudes, such as direct, indirect and social treatment studies as well as the core foci of language attitudes research, such as documentation, explanation, development, consequences and change. However, language attitudes research has not been classi…
Examining the impact of digital media technology in teaching Igbo to heritage learners
Little research attention has been given to the role of digital media technologies such as Zoom, WhatsApp and PowerPoint in teaching Igbo as a heritage language. To address this research gap, this study examined the impact of digital media technology on Igbo heritage language learners’ Igbo skills. A questionnaire was administered to 67 Igbo learners in the diaspora with little or no proficiency in Igbo who enrolled in a ten-week Igbo class. Them…
Metaphors we overthrow with
202505 bcch
Political othering and polarisation in Nigeria’s online electoral discourse
202504 bcch
Nigerian English
This article offers a comprehensive overview of Nigerian English, a rapidly expanding variety of world Englishes, recognised as one of the fastest‐growing varieties of English globally in numerical terms. This article has four aims. First, it discusses the historical developments of English in Nigeria with reference to the events that led to the implantation of English in Nigeria and the periods in which these events occurred. Second, the article…
Attitudes to Nigerian Englishes in higher education
Although there is a bourgeoning of studies on attitudes towards Nigerian Englishes, there is limited research on the effects of participants’ discipline (STEM and non‐STEM) and the type of secondary school (private and government) they attended in evaluating Nigerian Englishes. Examining these new variables is particularly critical in understanding how educational background impacts language attitudes, given the disparities in educational resourc…
Nigerian students’ attitudes toward endonormative varieties of Nigerian English
Previous language attitude research in Nigeria compared Nigerian English (NgE) to exonormative Englishes, such as British, American and Canadian Englishes, whereas this study examines attitudes toward endonormative varieties (Hausa English, HE; Igbo English, IE; and Yoruba English, YE) of NgE. Four hundred and six students drawn from three Nigerian universities located in the regions where these varieties are mainly spoken served as listener judg…
Laughter and language attitudes in students’ discussions about language use in Nigeria
Forms and functions of diminutives in the Igbo language
Studies on diminutives have primarily focused on European languages and a few African languages. However, the forms and functions of diminutives in the Igbo language remain critically unexplored. This article examines the forms and functions of diminutives in Igbo, as well as accounts for the role of tone in the formation of diminutives in Igbo, using corpus-assisted data. The descriptive analysis reveals that the form of Igbo diminutives can be …
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