| Edition |
First edition. |
| Description |
1 online resource. |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
African humanities series
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African humanities series.
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| Contents |
Cover; Dedication; About the Series; Board Members; Published in this series; Title page; Copyright page; Contents; Acknowledgements; Foreword; Preface; List of Tables; 1. Introduction; Beyond stylistic rhetoric; Establishing the canon; Identity as a linguistic phenomenon; Theoretical approaches; Socio-ethno-linguistic analysis; Critical discourse analysis; Literary discourse analysis; The selected texts; 2. Constructing ethnic identity; Names as labels of ethnic identity; Circumstantial names and naming; Personality promotion/Ego-boosting names; Names with anti-ethnic/racial sentiments |
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Who has the right to name whom?3. Enacting cultural identity; The bond of language and culture; Loanwords describing food items; Loanwords referring to clothing; Loanwords describing dance/music and supernatural beliefs; 4. Lexical and discursive construction of national identity; Language and nationhood; Nigerianisms; Neologisms/Coinages from existing English words; Loan transfer; Creations from Nigerian linguistic space; Pronominal strategies; Expressing solidarity and collectivity; Polarity and boundary mapping; 5. Language as a marker of gender identity |
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The juncture of language and genderMarriage and procreation as identity; Woman-woman oppression; Man-woman subjectivity; 6. Afterword; Bibliography; Index; Back cover |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Nigerian fiction (English) -- Themes, motives.
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Nigerian fiction (English) |
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Themes, motives. |
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Nigerian fiction (English) -- History and criticism.
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Literary style.
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Literary style. |
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Niger-Congo languages -- Style.
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Niger-Congo languages. |
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Identity (Psychology)
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Identity (Psychology) |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: 9781920033293 1920033297 (OCoLC)1082870643 |
| ISBN |
9781920033347 (electronic book) |
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1920033343 (electronic book) |
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9781920033293 |
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1920033297 |
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