Eyo Mensah
List of John Benjamins publications in which Eyo Mensah is involved.
Articles
2025 She contracted eight: Linguistic strategies of naming diseases in Efik Language, Culture and Society 7:2, pp. 121–143 | Article
Disease names are words that exist in the lexicon of a language, and constitute part of the native speaker’s linguistic intuition. In some African contexts, disease names are often constructed to reflect symptoms or conditions of diseases. This article explores the linguistic strategies of… read more
2021 The functions of emotion-referencing names in Ibibio International Journal of Language and Culture 8:2, pp. 218–244 | Article
In certain societies including the Ibibio of Akwa Ibom State, South-Eastern Nigeria, naming is a distinctive system of communicative practice which is used to express emotion and construct the personhood and identity of the name-bearer. This article examines emotion-referencing names among the… read more