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The ethnopragmatics of Yoruba personal names: Language in the context of culture.

Authors :
Ehineni, Taiwo
Source :
Studies in African Languages & Cultures; 2019, Issue 53, p69-90, 22p
Publication Year :
2019

Abstract

While the subject of Yoruba names has been significantly explored by previous studies, this paper discusses extensively the nature of such names from an ethnopragmatic framework, with the aim of explicating how Yoruba names are formed, their various cultural contexts as well as the significant functions they play in the Yoruba ethnolinguistic ecology. It identifies and categorizes personal names based on contexts such as family situation, circumstantces of birth, religious orientation, death situation and profession. This paper reinforces that names are not just arbitrary labels, but most notably, linguistic categories - lexical, phrasal or sentential - that have indexical relationship to sociocultural meanings and functions, places, time, people, and events. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Details

Language :
French
ISSN :
25452134
Issue :
53
Database :
Complementary Index
Journal :
Studies in African Languages & Cultures
Publication Type :
Academic Journal
Accession number :
144559497
Full Text :
https://doi.org/10.32690/SALC53.4