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Reflection of Discourse Assignments in the Configuration of Yorùbá Personal Names Ògúnwálé, Joshua Abíódún
Mediterranean Journal of Social Sciences Vol. 3 No. 13 (2012): November 2012 - Special Issue
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Using the Speech Act Theory as propounded by Austin (1962) and articulated in Searle (1969), Cole(1975), Traugott and Pratt(1980:229), among others, the paper expatiates on how the speech actconfigurations are instantiated through the Yoruba name words. The configured Yoruba name- texts usedas data for the study are made possible through the nature of lexical complexity and loaded sociosemanticcapacities inherent in the name-words. The objective of the study, therefore, is with a view tocasting an in-dept look at what pragmatic roles the Yoruba names could perform, apart from their merebanal usage as tags for identifying the individuals. The article primarily outlines the general characteristicsof speech acts in discourse and also discusses the structural contents of Yoruba names in order todetermine the extent of their participation in the various name words in the language discourse. Theprimary sources were the names collected from the Voters Registration Cards obtained from theIndependent National Electoral Commission (INEC) Offices in the South- western geo-political zone ofNigeria, where speakers of the Yoruba language originated. The data was supplemented by theintrospection of the author as a native speaker of the language, oral interviews and library sources. Thestudy found that the characterisation of speech acts could be gleaned from the socio-cultural foundationswhich underlie the fabrication of the name-words as they license gratitude, questioning ,solitude,condolence ,apology, reports, denial, summon, declaration, etc. in their pragmatic imports .It is thereforeconcluded that the Yoruba Personal Names(YPNs) can be pragmatically differentiated from the personalnames in the western cultural contexts on the bases that YPNs posses packaged-information which makethem able to perform hosts of discourse roles in communication ,apart from their being a template ofsentence and an encyclopaedia where one can glean the Yoruba view-points on ethical values ,beliefs andhistory, cultural identities, genealogy ,fauna and floral.
Harnessing the Multilingual Factors of Nigeria for Development: The Challenges and Strategies Ògúnwálé, Joshua Abíódún
Mediterranean Journal of Social Sciences Vol. 3 No. 13 (2012): November 2012 - Special Issue
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The arbitrary and haphazard territorial boundaries imposed by the colonial powers in the last twocenturies or so did not take cognizance of the people’s diversities before differentiating Nigeria and othersub-Saharan African states. As a result, the geo-political enclave now known as a country encompassespeople with varying linguo-cultural identities. This has continued to have far reaching effects on the socioeconomicpotentials of the nation. It is further argued that the post-independence Nigeria’s slow pace onthe road of progress is largely due to the non-participation of the Nigerian mono-lingual majority in thesocio-economic and political affairs of the nation. This is either as a result of the non-availability, nonutilizationor defective language policy, or its absence, that is geared towards the use of mother-tongues.This paper, however contends that positive results can still be gleaned from the resourceful utilization andpositive involvements of the Nigerian factors despite her multilingualism. An empirical survey on the areaof activities where English domination is mostly manifested was conducted among some secondary schoolslocated in the south western part of Nigeria. It was found that European influence had continued to haveseries of devastating effects on the self actualization ethos of the nation because wealth of indigenousknowledge was being locked away in the local languages and was gradually being lost as the custodians ofthese knowledge passed on. It is conclusively posited, therefore, that sustainable developments of theNigerian individual and society only reside in turning a new leaf to the involvement of mother-tongues inthe production and consumption of the world knowledge.
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