A SOCIO- CULTURAL AND LINGUISTIC ANALYSIS OF GBAGYI NAMES

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2015-10-01

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Department of Languages and Linguistics, Nasarawa State University, Keffi

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Names, apart from serving as marks of individuals’ identities, reveal the deep rooted socio-semantic and cultural values, experience, prevailing situations and philosophies of a given society. The focus of this paper therefore, is to examine socio-semantic implications of Gbagyi names and their relevance to cultural promotion and identity of Gbagyi nation. The primary source is based on the interaction and direct observations among native speakers of the language while the secondary source is based on written materials on Gbagyi language. The Data collected shall be analysed based on the structure and meaning of Gbagyi given names. The paper provides an insight into the structure and semantic values of Gbagyi personal and the implication and importance of names to the bearers in Gbagyi language.

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the Gbayi language, names, cultural values

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Adejoh. M.O. (2008). Idoma Names: A Socio- Semantic Analysis. A paper Presented at the 22nd Conference of the Linguistics Association of Nigeria (CLAN), University of Maiduguri, 9th-13* November, 2008. Agbedo, C. U. (2000).General Linguistics: An Introduction. Nsukka : University of Nigeria Press. Awoonor, K. (1995). The Breast of the Earth: A Survey of the History, Culture and literature of Africa South of the Sahara. New York: Harcourt, Brace and World

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https://keffi.nsuk.edu.ng/handle/20.500.14448/3660

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