Among female youth in Nigeria, especially those living in Abuja, Nigeria's Federal Capital
Territory and its environs, transactional sex is a pervasive sexual culture which is deployed …

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 discursive construction of hegemonic masculine ideologies which
are recreated and reinforced in the daily lives and social contexts of rural youth in southern …

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 …

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 …

Names and naming practices convey various nuances of meaning in the Bette sociocultural
setting. Against this significant backdrop, this study examines proverbial names as figurative …

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 …

The public transport sector in the urban landscape in Nigeria is a prominent social site for
the spatial distribution of automobile graffiti signatures. Transporters have various kinds of …

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 …

This article explores and analyses Tiv personal names which are composed of sentences.
The structural, semantic and pragmatic characteristics of these sentence names are …