The Implications of the Socio-Cultural Meaning of Yoruba Greetings

This paper examines one semantic field namely, greetings that are prevalent in the Yoruba cultural settings, with the intention of enhancing better understanding of the culture as well as throwing more light on the semantic field under consideration. A review of the concept of culture in addition to the notion of context of situation was carried out. The analysis of the types of greetings such as greetings derived from situations and greetings based on celebrations. The paper concludes that the view of mind implies that meaning is always situated in specified socio-cultural practices and experience! It is thus concluded that culture and language combine to reflect cosmological view of a people as well as their ideology.