African anthroponyms

Sociolinguistic currents and anthropological reflections

Authors

  • Eyo Mensah University of Calabar Author
  • Kirsty Rowan SOAS, University of London Author

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.1558/sols.37819

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Author Biographies

  • Eyo Mensah, University of Calabar

    Dr. Eyo Mensah is an Associate Professor of Structural and AnthropologicalLinguistics at the University of Calabar, Nigeria. He is a CAS LeventisPostdoctoral Research Associate (SOAS, University of London, UK), AHP/ACLSPostdoctoral Fellow and Firebird Anthropological Research Fellow. He is thepioneer President of the Nigerian Name Society (NNS). Some of his latestpublications have appeared in Sexuality and Culture (2019), Linguistics Vanguard (2019), Journal of Cognitive Science (2019), Journal of Asian and African Studies(2019), Journal of Black Studies (2019), and Names (2020). He is a member ofthe Linguistic Association of Nigeria (LAN) and the West African LinguisticSociety (WALS). He sits on the Editorial Boards of Sociolinguistic Studies andEnglish Language Teaching. He is also a member of the Governing Council ofthe University of Calabar, Nigeria.

  • Kirsty Rowan, SOAS, University of London

    Dr. Kirsty Rowan is a Senior Teaching Fellow in the School of Languages,Cultures and Linguistics at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS),University of London, United Kingdom. She is a member of the Anthropologyand Language Committee of the Royal Anthropological Institute (RAI) and aFellow of the RAI and the Royal Geographical Society (RGS with IBG). Sheconducts endangered language documentation on Nile Nubian languages,toponymy and culture and works with African heritage and diaspora communitiestowards the maintenance of indigenous languages.

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2020-02-20

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Vol. 13 No. 2-4 (2019): Special Issue: African anthroponyms: Sociolinguistic currents and anthropological reflections

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Mensah, E., & Rowan, K. (2020). African anthroponyms: Sociolinguistic currents and anthropological reflections. Sociolinguistic Studies, 13(2-4), 157–170. https://doi.org/10.1558/sols.37819