Value Assessment of Greeting Scripts in the Interpersonal Disposition of the Yoruba and the Igbo Cultures of Nigeria

Elegbeleye, O.S.

doi:10.1080/0972639x.2005.11886516

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“…Things have now changed as it is subsequently detailed: Firstly, very few children are greeting their parents upon waking up in the morning unless they have slept in different houses. This is at variance with what Elegbeleye (2005) observes in the Yoruba society where children have to greet their parents even if they have slept in the same house.…”

Section: Greetings Between Parents and Childrencontrasting

confidence: 60%

“…However, every speech community has got specific categories of greetings related to age, gender, kinship relations and socio-cultural events (see, for example, Elegbeleye 2005;Schleicher 2010;Odebunmi 2013). Similarly, in some communities, greetings are accompanied with certain deferential terms and paralinguistic behaviours (see, for example, Yusuf 1973;1979;Oumarou 1997).…”

Section: Empirical Literature Reviewmentioning

confidence: 99%

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A sociolinguistic analysis of verbal greetings, address forms and paralinguistic behaviours in Kisubi

Rwakakindo¹

2021

LiA

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This paper analyses the greeting system of Kisubi. It specifically seeks: to identify temporal greeting patterns in Kisubi; to determine whether age and gender do dictate the kind of verbal greetings, address forms and paralinguistic behaviours that are used in particular greeting events; to examine different kinship-specific verbal greetings, address forms and paralinguistic behaviours that are used in particular greeting events; and lastly, to assess the role of context in the Kisubi greeting system. Observation and face-to-face interview methods were used to gather data from 36 participants who were obtained using snowball sampling technique, and afterwards they were stratified into different strata depending on age, gender and educational status of a person. This stratification led to the attainment of authentic data. The obtained data were subjected to content analysis from which different themes emerged. It was established that there are four temporal chunks in Kisubi, each of which is associated with its own greeting term. Age, gender, context and kinship relations also determine the type of greeting terms and the honorifics or deferential terms to use. However, the use of honorifics and/or deferential terms is declining gradually.

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Section: Greetings Between Parents and Childrencontrasting

confidence: 60%

Section: Empirical Literature Reviewmentioning

confidence: 99%

A sociolinguistic analysis of verbal greetings, address forms and paralinguistic behaviours in Kisubi

Rwakakindo¹

2021

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“…In the Yorùbá culture, premium is placed on greetings and politeness; they hold the duo in high esteem (Ajayi & Balogun, 2014). Greetings foster interpersonal relationship among people (Elegbeleye, 2005) and enhance social solidarity (Yuen, 2009). For every kind of imaginable activity, which a person may be doing and at whatever time, the Yorùbá have a greeting for it (Adegbija, 1989;Adejumo, 2010;Akindele, 2007;Oyetade, 1995); the people take offence if a person does not greet at all or he/she does not greet as they deem it appropriate.…”

Section: Politeness In Yorubaculturementioning

confidence: 99%

“…For every kind of imaginable activity, which a person may be doing and at whatever time, the Yorùbá have a greeting for it (Adegbija, 1989;Adejumo, 2010;Akindele, 2007;Oyetade, 1995); the people take offence if a person does not greet at all or he/she does not greet as they deem it appropriate. Such behaviour is regarded as misconduct (Elegbeleye, 2005) and a shame on the family of the offender, especially the parents.…”

Section: Politeness In Yorubaculturementioning

confidence: 99%

“…Another way they show politeness is in the use of honorifics (Ajayi & Oyetade, 2016). Basically, age is a vital social variable in Yorùbá and many African cultures; a younger person must use one honorific or the other to call or refer to an older person (Elegbeleye, 2005). Responding to questions at his book launching recently, Chief Ọbásanjọ, a Yorùbá elder statesman and former president of Nigeria, said: -Any Nigerian, that is well-born and well brought-up, will respect two things among others: age and authority‖ (Ọbásanjọ́, 2015).…”

Section: Politeness In Yorubaculturementioning

confidence: 99%

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Im/politeness in Muslim Discourse: A Study of Nigerian Friday Sermons

Kareem¹

2018

IJLC

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This paper investigated the use of im/politeness in Muslim sermons or Khutbahs. The study attempts to show that the Muslim sermon, in its aim to impart various types of religious information to the congregation, is a communicative event that is capable of generating ill-feelings among its various audiences. The Imam is thus expected to make strategic use of politeness elements in his delivery or risk compromising the efficacy of the sermon. To identify these elements, a modified version of Brown and Levinson's (1987) model of politeness was used as an analytical framework. Using naturally occurring data collected from Friday sermons, the study shows that the Imams used several politeness strategies identified in the Brown and Levinson model. Furthermore, the inclusion of data comprising sermons delivered in Yorùbá adduced evidence of the influence of the Yorùbá culture in the linguistic politeness practices of the Imams. In addition, it is shown that although the Imams used the traditional Face Threatening Acts (FTAs), these largely amount to ‗conventional aggression' (Harris, 2001)or ‗unmarked FTAs' (Dynel 2015). The study concluded that the Imams were characteristically polite in their delivery, and politeness is an important feature in a religious discourse such as the Friday sermon.

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Analytical investigation of career variables as correlate work stress of electrical/electronic trade teachers in technical colleges

Ogbuanya

Yekinni

2020

International Journal of Electrical Engineering & Education

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This study focused on the investigation of career variables as correlate work stress of electrical/electronic trade teachers of technical colleges in south west Nigeria. The study had nine specific objectives and six hypotheses tested at 0.05 level of significance to guide the study. A total of 185 electrical/electronic trade teachers of technical colleges made up of the population for the study. The study adopted correlation research design and the structured questionnaire was used to collect data from the respondent. However, the study found that the electrical/electronic trade teachers experienced high job stress, experienced low satisfaction in their teaching profession and exhibited high job performances. The study found positive correlation between work stress and job satisfaction, between work stress and job performances and between job satisfaction and job performances. It was obtained from the result that age, gender and experience did not statistically influence work stress, job satisfaction and job performances. Meanwhile, the type of teacher significantly influences work stress and job satisfaction. It is recommended that more qualified teachers should be employed for the teachers to be more relieved of their duties which can lead to work stress. Teachers of technical colleges should be motivated and satisfied to ensure more productivity and ensure that effect of work stress is reduced.

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Value Assessment of Greeting Scripts in the Interpersonal Disposition of the Yoruba and the Igbo Cultures of Nigeria

Cited by 3 publications

References 4 publications

A sociolinguistic analysis of verbal greetings, address forms and paralinguistic behaviours in Kisubi

A sociolinguistic analysis of verbal greetings, address forms and paralinguistic behaviours in Kisubi

Im/politeness in Muslim Discourse: A Study of Nigerian Friday Sermons

Analytical investigation of career variables as correlate work stress of electrical/electronic trade teachers in technical colleges

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