عنوان

Linguistic Representations of Postproverbial Expressions among Selected Yoruba Speakers

شماره

LA120428

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انگلیسی

عنوان اصلي

Linguistic Representations of Postproverbial Expressions among Selected Yoruba Speakers

نام عام مواد

[Article]

نام نخستين پديدآور

Ojo Akinleye Ayinuola

محل نشرو پخش و غیره

Leiden

نام ناشر، پخش کننده و غيره

Brill

متن يادداشت

Extant studies have investigated postproverbial expressions from sociological, feminist, and philosophical perspectives with insufficient attention paid to the linguistic representations of social identity in such expressions. This study, therefore, examines how social identities are constructed through postproverbials among Yoruba youths with a view to exploring the social realities that conditioned the representations of new identities in such expressions. The study adopts Halliday's Systemic Functional Linguistics and Tajfel and Tuner's Social Identity Theory as framework. Ten (10) postproverbial expressions, which are from anonymous and the written collections of Yoruba proverbs by Yoruba scholars form the data. Linguistic substitutions and code-mixings characterise such expressions. Postproverbials are a conveyor of rationalist, religious, hedonistic, and economic identities, which are conditioned by western influence and are transported by the generation of conscious Yoruba youths. The paper inferred that, though proverbs and postproverbials are context-dependent, postproverbials explicate a paradigm shift in the postmodernist discourse and refract Nigerian socio-cultural realities. Extant studies have investigated postproverbial expressions from sociological, feminist, and philosophical perspectives with insufficient attention paid to the linguistic representations of social identity in such expressions. This study, therefore, examines how social identities are constructed through postproverbials among Yoruba youths with a view to exploring the social realities that conditioned the representations of new identities in such expressions. The study adopts Halliday's Systemic Functional Linguistics and Tajfel and Tuner's Social Identity Theory as framework. Ten (10) postproverbial expressions, which are from anonymous and the written collections of Yoruba proverbs by Yoruba scholars form the data. Linguistic substitutions and code-mixings characterise such expressions. Postproverbials are a conveyor of rationalist, religious, hedonistic, and economic identities, which are conditioned by western influence and are transported by the generation of conscious Yoruba youths. The paper inferred that, though proverbs and postproverbials are context-dependent, postproverbials explicate a paradigm shift in the postmodernist discourse and refract Nigerian socio-cultural realities.

تاريخ نشر

2020

توصيف ظاهري

311-326

عنوان

Matatu

شماره جلد

51/2

شماره استاندارد بين المللي پياييندها

1875-7421

اصطلاح موضوعی

postproverbials

اصطلاح موضوعی

Social Identity Theory

اصطلاح موضوعی

Systemic Functional Linguistics

اصطلاح موضوعی

Yoruba proverbs

مستند نام اشخاص تاييد نشده

Ojo Akinleye Ayinuola

شماره بازیابی

10.1163/18757421-05102007

نام الکترونيکي

فرمت انتشار

p

نوع ماده

[Article]

کد کاربرگه

275578

سطح دسترسي

a

تكميل شده

Y