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Faleye, James Oladunjoye
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Verbal Idioms and Linguistic Distortions in Selected Fela Anikulapo’s Afrobeat Lyrics Faleye, James Oladunjoye; Adejuwon, Anthony Olabiyi
Journal of linguistics, culture and communication Vol 3 No 1 (2025): Journal of Linguistics, Culture, and Communication
Publisher : CV. Rustam

Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.61320/jolcc.v3i1.226-247

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Scholars have studied the linguistic choices in Fela’s lyrics. However, the peculiar verbal idioms and linguistic distortions that the artiste deploys to (re)socialise his audience to African realities have not been sufficiently interrogated. This study, therefore, is a postcolonial reading of his selected lyrics viewed through the lens of anti-language. It examines the verbal idioms and linguistic distortions in the lyrics and relates them to his ideological orientations. The data comprise 5 purposively selected lyrics downloaded from the internet: ‘International thief thief I. T. T’, ‘Teacher don’t teach me nonsense’, ‘Shuffering and Shmiling’, ‘Beasts of no nation’, and ‘Army arrangement’. These songs cut across the themes of corruption, culture as a teacher, and people’s existential difficulties. These downloaded lyrics are printed and subjected to critical analysis to identify samples of verbal idioms in them. The data were analysed with insights from anti-language and postcolonial theories. Findings show that Fela Anikulapo’s lyrics comprise verbal idiom and linguistic distortions that can be classified as anti-language because of his ideological stance on colonialism. The artist deploys peculiar verbal idioms which are products of relexicalisation processes: orthographic reconfiguration, phonological, syntactic, and morphological distortions comprising borrowing and reduplications. It concludes that the linguistic distortions in the verbal idioms are in tune with his anti-establishment ideological stance of reclamation of African values and the creation of a new social order.
A Socio-Onomastics Study of a Church Naming Content on legit.ng Faleye, James Oladunjoye; Fajobi, Eunice Olatokunbo; Olaosun, Ibrahim Esan
Journal of linguistics, culture and communication Vol 4 No 1 (2026): Journal of Linguistics, Culture, and Communication
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.61320/jolcc.v4i1.102-122

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This paper is a Socio-onomastic analysis of a church-naming content, posted on www. Legit.ng , an online forum where young Africans share contents of all kinds. The content consists of the signboards and programme flyers of some hypothetical churches in Nigeria. The naming component of these signposts and flyers serves as the data for this article, which is aimed at expounding the underlying discourse significance of the socially-constituted genre of religious discourse. Using the principles of Socio-onomastics and insights from Eco’s Textual Cooperation Theory and the notion of diegesis in Narratology, analysis of the data shows that the names in the signposts and flyers, though congruently fictional in form, are true narratives of the church naming practices amongst ‘commercial church owners’ in Nigeria. The paper concludes that although the church names fictionalized not directly reference specific real church names in Nigeria, they mirror certain societal values and ideologies of breakthrough in the country rather than merely serving as entertainment construction.
Co-Authors Adejuwon, Anthony Olabiyi Fajobi, Eunice Olatokunbo Olaosun, Ibrahim Esan