In onomastic practices of some traditional societies in Nigeria, stereotyped gender roles and
patriarchy are deliberately perpetuated in the naming of female children, thus using naming …

This article explores the motivations, beliefs, and attitudes toward death-related names in
some onomastic traditions in Nigeria: Ibibio, Igbo (south-east), and Owe (mid-west). The …

African personal names have communicative contents that reflect the experiences and
expectations of the name-giver as well as the bearer. Death-prevention names, for instance …

This chapter explores the motivations for the adoption of animal names as personal names
among the Ibibio and Tiv people of Nigeria from an ethnopragmatic conceptual framework …

This article presents an account of the ethnopragmatic functions of personal names in two
onomastic traditions in North-central Nigeria: Owé (Kogi State) and Tiv (Benue State). The …

Among the Bakonzo people of Western Uganda, naming is an important aspect of
communication, as names denote or connote several meanings. From someone's name, for …

Although names exist in all languages of the world, their formal and functional
manifestations show great diversity. Due to their embeddedness in socio-cultural and …

Working chiefly within the tenets of Cultural Linguistics (CL), this study examines the cultural
and cognitive motivations that underlie selected death-oriented personal names among the …

In certain societies including the Ibibio of Akwa Ibom State, South-Eastern Nigeria, naming is
a distinctive system of communicative practice which is used to express emotion and …

Abstract The Practice of Shamanism Continues into Modern Society. To survive and grow,
shamans follow the development of the times and continuously adapt to technological …