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| Title: | Slangs and colloquialisms in Modern Igbo: a preliminary socio-linguistic study |
| Author: | Emenanjo, E. Nolue |
| Year: | 1980 |
| Periodical: | Ikenga: Journal of African Studies |
| Volume: | 4 |
| Issue: | 2 |
| Pages: | 49-65 |
| Language: | English |
| Geographic term: | Nigeria |
| Subjects: | sociolinguistics Igbo language |
| Abstract: | This paper attempts a socio-linguistic appraisal of what should be called slangs and colloquialisms (SACS) in Igbo. The pre-occupation of modern Igbo language studies with other matters - like orthography, standardized writing conventions, evolution of Standard Igbo, technical vocabulary, pedagogical grammars and graded texts for use in schools, and sufficient creative literature, etc. - have prevented people from focusing attention on the phenomenon of modern or contemporary Igbo usage and evolution. In the first part of the paper the author attempts a definition of the Igbo SACS. In the second part a sample word-list of some SACS, slang and colloquial expressions, is given. The third part presents some general comments about SACS and lexical evolution in the Igbo language. Ref. |