Benjamin Nyong

• Master of Arts
• Lecturer at Arthur Jarvis University

This study examines the motivations behind young people's use of pseudonyms in their phone contacts, interrogating the various categories of names they assign to their contacts, such as nicknames, romantic pet names, and occupational names. It also identifies the linguistic strategies utilised in creating these names. The work is rooted in sociopra...

This article investigates the sociocultural aspects of street-related linguistic practices on commercial tricycles in Uyo metropolis, south-eastern Nigeria. Marginal urban texts on tricycles reveal a process of identity construction and the quest for ideological distinctiveness of the grassroots in articulating their spatial street wisdom. The stud...

This article investigates emblematic language use and the negotiation of meaning with particular emphasis on generative mechanisms like jargon and slang in two Nigerian Army barracks in Calabar municipality, Cross River State, southeastern Nigeria. The study is anchored in a linguistic ideology framework which is grounded in beliefs and values peop...

Religion is another avenue of language use which needs to be examined in our society. With the advent of many Christian churches and organizations flooding the Ọrọ (New Benue-Congo) community, language use is becoming interesting. In many churches, the English language is used as a default language and in some others, interpretation in Efik or Ọrọ...

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 symbolic tags on their vehicles that convey different messages which represent their local attitudes, beliefs, religious identities, folk psychology, and safety p...

A talk on indigenous language promotion on social media

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 Calabar metropolis, Cross River State, South-eastern Nigeria. The article investigates the personal, cultural and social motivations for foreign names adoption and the subje...