This article investigates the motivations and ideological foundations of religion-based
personal names among a sampled population of the Tiv community who are predominantly …

This article explores the rejection of indigenous African (first) names and the preference for
European and westernized names by some Nigerian youth, especially those living in …

Personal names among the Igbo people of South-eastern Nigeria can also be understood
and contextualized within the fringes of their cultural values, worldviews, emotions, and …

Names and naming traditions are ubiquitous cultural practices that herald the beginning of
bearers as social beings. In the African socio-historical context, anthroponymic systems …

This article examines the communicative significance and sociolinguistic import of
deathprevention names in Mbube, Ogoja Local Government Area of Cross River State …

This article interrogates death-prevention names among the Karanga people in Masvingo
Province, Zimbabwe, from an ethnopragmatic perspective. In Karanga society, there is a …

This article explores the sociopragmatic functions of address terms in social interactions at
the University of Calabar Senior Staff Club. It takes into perspective the metalinguistic …

Naming in the African cultural context serves both referential and connotative functions as a
unique means of identity construction which contains important cultural meaning and …

The current paper investigated personal names in Kemunasukuma, a Sukuma language
dialect spoken in Tanzania, from a linguistic perspective. It illuminates the meanings …

Names are part of language, and they operate to communicate and shape people's thinking
and world views. This article seeks to present a morpho-syntactic and ethno-pragmatic …