The Use of Bombast in Nigeria
The Examples of Icheoku and Masquerade
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4878434 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Diri I Teilanyo (0000-0003-2755-4954, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2003 |
| Volume | 50 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 77-104 |
| Publication date | 2003-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Africa Today (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0001-9887 • E-ISSN: 1527-1978 |
| Publisher | Indiana University Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1353/at.2003.0069 |
| OpenAlex | W4235426494 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
This paper investigates the use of bombast in second-language (English) contexts as exemplified and parodied in the mass-media comedies Icheoku and Masquerade. It points out the prevalence of "bombasters" in Nigeria, identifies the general elements of bombast as an essential feature of nonstandard English, and identifies the expressive and perceptive dimensions of bombast. It argues that the use of bombast indicates the speaker's ignorance of or indifference to the essential communicative function of language, and the powerful status symbol that English language users obtain in African English-as-second-language (ESL) societies
Feature (linguistics) · Function (biology) · Ignorance · Linguistics · Mass media · Political science · Sociology · Symbol (formal) · Law · Philosophy · Postcolonial and Cultural Literary Studies · Psychology
| Unique citing works | 2 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,13 |
| Citation span | 2011 - 2024 (14) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |