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Ndimele, Ozo-mekuri

doi:10.2307/j.ctvh8r15d.3

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“…Blending/clipping, according to Ndimele (2003) is a morphological process of creating a new word by combining parts of two or more already existing words in the same language. It should be stressed that such parts could however be syllables or lesser phonological units.…”

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Anglicization of Indigenous Names on Social Media by Yoruba-English Bilinguals: Pedagogic Implications

Ogunbona,

Jimoh

2023

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Anglicism and Nativization can be said to be closely knit as both linguistic phenomena are attempts to portray one language in the form of another. Whereas, Anglicism is the attempt to make an indigenous language sound English, Nativization is trying to make English sound indigenous. This study investigates Anglicization of names on social media, a practice among some Yoruba-English bilinguals (YEBs), with a view to finding out its linguistic features, sociolinguistic imports, the motivation behind such practice and its implications for pedagogy and language teaching. Data for the study, which were sourced from the WhatsApp group of SSIII students, Demonstration Secondary School, Ondo, Nigeria, contain one hundred indigenous profile names of the students as anglicized on the group’s platform. Using Dell Hymes’ Ethnography of Communication, William Labov’s Variability Concept as well as Descriptive Method of Data Analysis, the data were purposively selected, carefully grouped and applied for the analysis. The investigation reveals that the theory of word-formation processes in English was adopted by YEBs to anglicize their indigenous names at both phonological and morphological levels, with apparent disregard for both semantic components and sociolinguistic functions of their indigenous names before Anglicization, thereby leaving the product (anglicized) to appear as mere cant or jargon of the bilingual youths. The paper submits that the motivation for Anglicism might not be mainly attributable to linguistic dexterity or innate morphological competence on the part of YEBs, but largely to exuberance and idiosyncrasies emanating from identifying with the global practice of specialized youth communication on social media, a phenomenon that should be noted by the EL2 teacher while teaching this set of youths. Article visualizations:<img src="/-counters-/soc/0001/a.php" alt="Hit counter" />

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Section: Discussionmentioning

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Anglicization of Indigenous Names on Social Media by Yoruba-English Bilinguals: Pedagogic Implications

Ogunbona,

Jimoh

2023

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“…Some of the Igbo scholars are Green and Igwe (1963), Abraham (1967), Welmers (1973, Anagbogu (1978), Emenanjo (1978, pp. 197-200), Ndimele (2003, pp. 125-127), Obichili (2010, Anyanwu (2007, pp.…”

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Relativization in Ikwuano Dialect of Igbo

Uwasomba Ph.D

2024

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This paper examines relativization in Ikwuano Igbo. The problem of word order and the selectional rule for grammaticality in the realization of semantic affinity that exist in sentence construction cannot be ignored. This study investigates the embedding features that make sentential structures to be embedded in other sentences. The relative pronouns found in Ikwuano Igbo include; “ónyé- who,whom”, “nkè- which”, “nà- that”, “mà- whether”, “kà- that”. The relative pronoun occurs as the subject of a relative clause making it to be grammatical. The theoretical framework adopted by this study is the embedding principle of “Principles and Parameters”. This theory is a brain child of Noam Chomsky. This study takes a descriptive approach of language analysis. The data for this paper is elicited utterances by adult native speakers and intuition from the researcher. The aim of this paper is to examine relativization in Ikwuano Igbo with a view to establishing the Ikwuano strategy. This paper explains the motivation for the relative pronoun strategy and its behavior in the language. This study reveals that relativization in Ikwuano Igbo remains the most productive strategy in Igbo and many other languages for grammaticality. The study shows that relativization performs an emphatic function in the grammatical structure of Ikwuano Igbo.

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“…The gaming method could also be used as well as listening and imitation. They can also be exposed to the morphology of adverbs, as identified by Ndimele (2008) that most adverbs are morphologically marked by aly suffix.…”

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Adverbs of Mobility: Usage Challenges Among Kri University Students

Muhi,

Dajang

2023

jllce

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An adverb is used to indicate roughly how frequently a typical or usual action or event occurs. It is one of the fundamental English grammar structures that present challenges for students at KRI University. The aim of this paper was to investigate the challenges of the mobility of adverbs among KRI University students. The instrument used for data collection was the open-ended questionnaire created via a Google Form with a five-item structure shared with participants. SPSS version 21 software was used to analyze the data, which was deployed at five universities in KRI at the upper secondary level to evaluate how effectively the respondents used adverbs. The results were examined using simple percentages. Many of the respondents were found to often place adverbs in ways that led to illegible and unclear sentences. Additionally, some students were found to misuse classes of words, using one when they should use the other. Since adverbs cannot just be used in every sentence positions, the study concluded that adverbs and adverbials genuinely display restricted mobility occurring in just three positions: initial, middle and final. Accordingly, the result of the study of adverb movement depends largely on the adverb's subtype and nature which have a significant role in determining its mobility.

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Editorial Note

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Anglicization of Indigenous Names on Social Media by Yoruba-English Bilinguals: Pedagogic Implications

Anglicization of Indigenous Names on Social Media by Yoruba-English Bilinguals: Pedagogic Implications

Relativization in Ikwuano Dialect of Igbo

Adverbs of Mobility: Usage Challenges Among Kri University Students

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