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  1. The Crown Gathers Wealth: The Symbolic Significance of the Crown in Yoruba Personal Naming Practices

    Article • Genealogy, January 2026, MDPI AG

    Professor Eyo Mensah

  2. She contracted eight

    Article • Language Culture and Society, January 2026, John Benjamins

    Professor Eyo Mensah

  3. Praise Names among Heterosexual Igbo Women in Nigeria: Construction of Identity, Social Positioning, and Egalitarian Femininity

    Article • Africa Spectrum, August 2025, SAGE Publications

    Professor Eyo Mensah

  4. Methodological issues in African youth languages research

    Article • Ethnography, June 2025, SAGE Publications

    Professor Eyo Mensah

  5. Shut up! you are not God: religious identity in commercial tricycle texts in Nigeria

    Article • Language and Semiotic Studies, June 2025, De Gruyter

    Professor Eyo Mensah

  6. Won't You Come Home? Women's Linguistic Strategies in Negotiating Sexual Engagements in a Rural Context in Nigeria

    Article • Personal Relationships, June 2025, Wiley

    Professor Eyo Mensah

  7. Children-Related Proverbs in Efik: Ethnopragmatic Interpretation and Pedagogical Implication

    Article • English Academy Review, May 2025, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Eyo Mensah

  8. The Gendered Urban Transportation Landscape in Nigeria: Challenges of Female Tricycle Riders

    Article • Journal of Asian and African Studies, May 2025, SAGE Publications

    Professor Eyo Mensah

  9. War Is Fearful: The Recollection of War Memories Through Personal Naming Practices in Southeastern Nigeria

    Article • Genealogy, May 2025, MDPI AG

    Professor Eyo Mensah

  10. Eco-cultural identity construction through personal naming practices: a socio-onomastic appraisal

    Article • Critical African Studies, April 2025, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Eyo Mensah

  11. It May Be Unhealthy but It’s Really Cool: The Discourse of Tobacco Consumption Among Female Youth in Nigeria

    Article • Sociological Focus, March 2025, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Eyo Mensah, Gloria Umukoro

  12. Child of an outcast: cultural context of naming among the Nsirimo (Igbo) people in Nigeria

    Article • Cogent Arts and Humanities, December 2024, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Eyo Mensah

  13. Name This Child

    Article • Names, December 2024, University Library System, University of Pittsburgh

    Professor Eyo Mensah

  14. Smash Her Calabash! The Metaphoric Construction of Phallic Masculinity in the Marketing of Herbal Aphrodisiacs in Nigeria

    Article • The Journal of Men s Studies, May 2024, SAGE Publications

    Professor Eyo Mensah, Gloria Umukoro

  15. The Representation of People in the Ibibio Anthroponymic System: A Socio-Onomastic Investigation

    Article • Languages, May 2024, MDPI AG

    Professor Eyo Mensah

  16. It's better to die before dishonour: Linguistic creativity and the negotiation of meaning in the Nigerian Army community of practice

    Article • Forum for Linguistic Studies, April 2024, Bilingual Publishing Co.

    Professor Eyo Mensah

  17. Point-n-Kill: Label Metaphors in Heterosexual Peer Networks in Nigeria

    Article • Society, February 2024, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Eyo Mensah

  18. They are Just for Making Nyángá : Ethnosemiotic Significance of Waist Beads Among Young Women in Nigeria

    Article • African Studies, January 2024, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Eyo Mensah

  19. My stunning angel: endearment terms as strategies of gender identity construction in Facebook picture uploads in Nigeria

    Article • New Review of Hypermedia and Multimedia, October 2023, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Eyo Mensah

  20. Sexual jokes in Nigerian stand-up comedy

    Article • European Journal of Humour Research, September 2023, Estonian Literary Museum of Scholarly Press

    Professor Eyo Mensah

  21. When Tricycles Speak: Language Practices and Ideology in Tricycle Texts in Nigeria

    Article • Journal of Asian and African Studies, September 2023, SAGE Publications

    Professor Eyo Mensah

  22. Death is the cause of my predicament: A cross-cultural study of death-related personal names in Nigeria

    Article • Death Studies, September 2023, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Eyo Mensah

  23. Gender and sexuality in African discourses

    Article • Sociolinguistic Studies, August 2023, University of Toronto Press (UTPress)

    Professor Eyo Mensah, Daniel Fiaveh

  24. ‘It’s not all about spreading one’s legs’

    Article • Sociolinguistic Studies, August 2023, University of Toronto Press (UTPress)

    Professor Eyo Mensah

  25. Women as Public Transport Providers: A Qualitative Study of the Perception of Female Tricycle Riders in Nigeria

    Article • Journal of Population and Social Studies, August 2023, Institute for Population and Social Research

    Professor Eyo Mensah

  26. Chapter 12 The appropriation of animal names as personal names in Ibibio and Tiv onomastic traditions in Nigeria: An ethnopragmatic study

    Article • July 2023, De Gruyter

    Professor Eyo Mensah

  27. Melting intestines, red hearts, and scattering eyes: exploring embodiment in the Efik feeling lexica

    Article • Journal of African Languages and Linguistics, May 2023, De Gruyter

    Professor Eyo Mensah

  28. The Guy Was a Toxic Player: The Discourse of Heterosexual Non-Marital-Relationship Breakups among Female Youth in Nigeria

    Article • Sociological Focus, February 2023, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Eyo Mensah

  29. Visual representation on Nigerian trucks: a semiotic study

    Article • Semiotica, November 2022, De Gruyter

    Professor Eyo Mensah

  30. Christianity and the Gendering of Personal Names among the Bette in Southeastern Nigeria

    Article • Journal of Religion in Africa, October 2022, Brill

    Professor Eyo Mensah

  31. Tomorrow May Not Be Yours: Military Slang and Jargon as Linguistic Performance in Nigeria

    Article • Language Matters, September 2022, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Eyo Mensah

  32. Husband is a Priority: Gender Roles, Patriarchy and the Naming of Female Children in Nigeria

    Article • Gender Issues, September 2022, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Eyo Mensah

  33. Giving a Dog a Bad Name: The Strategic Use of Labelling in Contemporary Nigerian Political Discourse

    Article • Communicatio, August 2022, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Eyo Mensah

  34. The ethnopragmatic functions of Owe and Tiv personal names in Nigeria

    Article • Language Sciences, May 2022, Elsevier

    Professor Eyo Mensah

  35. Satire, Agency and the Contestation of Patriarchy in Ibibio Women’s Songs

    Article • African Studies, April 2022, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Eyo Mensah

  36. When Sugar is no Longer Sweet: The Discourse of Regret in Sugar Relationships Among Female Youth in Nigeria

    Article • Sexuality & Culture, February 2022, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Eyo Mensah

  37. 10 “Whenever I smoke, I see myself in Paradise”: The discourse of tobacco consumption among rural youth in Nigeria

    Article • February 2022, De Gruyter

    Professor Eyo Mensah

  38. It May Be Unhealthy But It's Really Cool: The Discourse of Tobacco Consumption Among Female Youth in Nigeria

    Article • SSRN Electronic Journal, January 2022, Elsevier

    Professor Eyo Mensah

  39. A sociolinguistic study of address terms in a Nigerian university’s staff club

    Article • Poznan Studies in Contemporary Linguistics, December 2021, De Gruyter

    Professor Eyo Mensah

  40. Contextual slanguage as linguistic performance among female youth in Nigeria

    Article • Southern African Linguistics and Applied Language Studies, November 2021, Informa UK Limited

    Professor Eyo Mensah

  41. Chapter 4 Nigerian Pidgin, identity and national re-invention in Naija stand-up comedy

    Article • October 2021, De Gruyter

    Professor Eyo Mensah

  42. Chapter 6 Towards a working orthography of Nigerian Pidgin

    Article • October 2021, De Gruyter

    Professor Eyo Mensah

  43. The functions of emotion-referencing names in Ibibio

    Article • International Journal of Language and Culture, September 2021, John Benjamins

    Professor Eyo Mensah, dr kirsty rowan

  44. Authenticity and the Object of Analysis:

    Article • August 2021, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Eyo Mensah

  45. Laughing at the Pandemic: Youth Performance and Digital Humour in Response to Covid-19 in Nigeria

    Article • English Academy Review, July 2021, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Eyo Mensah

  46. The Englishisation of personal names in Nigeria

    Article • English Today, May 2021, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Eyo Mensah

  47. To be a Man is Not a Day’s Job: The Discursive Construction of Hegemonic Masculinity by Rural Youth in Nigeria

    Article • Gender Issues, January 2021, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Eyo Mensah

  48. Wealth is King: The Conceptualization of Wealth in Igbo Personal Naming Practices

    Article • Anthropological Quarterly, January 2021, Project Muse

    Professor Eyo Mensah

  49. Names, Naming and the Code of Cultural Denial in a Contemporary Nigerian Society: An Afrocentric Perspective

    Article • Journal of Black Studies, December 2020, SAGE Publications

    Professor Eyo Mensah

  50. He has committed a drinkable offence: the discourse of alcohol consumption among rural youth in Nigeria

    Article • Linguistics Vanguard, December 2020, De Gruyter

    Professor Eyo Mensah

  51. He looks so cute: The discourse of heterosexual relationship initiation by female youth in Nigeria

    Article • Sexualities, October 2020, SAGE Publications

    Professor Eyo Mensah

  52. King Shumba, Smiling Devil and Baby Doctor: A sociolinguistic study of lecturers’ nicknames in two Nigerian universities

    Article • African Identities, September 2020, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Eyo Mensah

  53. An Ethnopragmatic Study of Libation Rituals among the Kiong-speaking Okoyong People in Southeastern Nigeria

    Article • Journal of Anthropological Research, September 2020, University of Chicago Press

    Professor Eyo Mensah

  54. Sentential Names in Tiv

    Article • Studia Linguistica, April 2020, Wiley

    Professor Eyo Mensah

  55. Name This Child: Religious Identity and Ideology in Tiv Personal Names

    Article • Names, March 2020, University Library System, University of Pittsburgh

    Professor Eyo Mensah

  56. African anthroponyms

    Article • Sociolinguistic Studies, February 2020, University of Toronto Press (UTPress)

    Professor Eyo Mensah

  57. Aspects of traditional Tiv naming practices

    Article • Sociolinguistic Studies, February 2020, University of Toronto Press (UTPress)

    Professor Eyo Mensah

  58. Correction to: When You Open Your Legs, You Eat: The Discourse of Transactional Sex Among Female Youth in Nigeria

    Article • Sexuality & Culture, September 2019, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Eyo Mensah

  59. When You Open Your Legs, You Eat: The Discourse of Transactional Sex Among Female Youth in Nigeria

    Article • Sexuality & Culture, September 2019, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Eyo Mensah

  60. Code-switching Patterns of Educated and Non-educated Efik-English Bilinguals: A Descriptive Study

    Article • Journal of Cognitive Science, September 2019, Institute for Cognitive Science

    Professor Eyo Mensah

  61. On the Socio-cultural Dimension of Language Use:

    Article • February 2019, JSTOR

    Professor Eyo Mensah

  62. What’s in the Stomach Is Used to Carry What’s on the Head: An Ethnographic Exploration of Food Metaphors in Efik Proverbs

    Article • Journal of Black Studies, February 2019, SAGE Publications

    Professor Eyo Mensah

  63. The New Language Policy of the Nigerian Army: National Integration or Linguistic Imperialism?

    Article • Journal of Asian and African Studies, November 2018, SAGE Publications

    Professor Eyo Mensah

  64. Let one person’s tears not be infectious

    Article • September 2018, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Eyo Mensah

  65. The Discourse of Tattoo Consumption among Female Youth in Nigeria

    Article • Communicatio, July 2018, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Eyo Mensah, dr idom t inyabri

  66. Ngemba personal names have significant communicative relevance and socio-historical resonances.

    Article • African Identities, April 2017, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Eyo Mensah

  67. Proverbial Nicknames among Rural Youth in Nigeria

    Article • Anthropological Linguistics, January 2017, Project Muse

    Professor Eyo Mensah

  68. Female nicknames in Nigeria: A case of the Calabar Metropolis

    Article • Language Matters, May 2016, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Eyo Mensah

  69. On the System of Numeration in Efik

    Article • April 2016, JSTOR

    Professor Eyo Mensah

  70. Youth Language in Africa

    Article • Sociolinguistic Studies, December 2015, Equinox Publishing

    Professor Eyo Mensah

  71. All I want is your waist: Sexual metaphors as youth slanguage in Nigeria

    Article • Sociolinguistic Studies, December 2015, Equinox Publishing

    Professor Eyo Mensah, Dr Linda Chinelo Nkamigbo

  72. Frog, where are you?: the ethnopragmatics of Ibibio death prevention names

    Article • Journal of African Cultural Studies, November 2014, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Eyo Mensah

  73. Linguistic creativity in Nigerian Pidgin advertising

    Article • Sociolinguistic Studies, April 2014, Equinox Publishing

    Professor Eyo Mensah

  74. The Adaptation of English Consonants by Efik Learners of English

    Article • English Language Teaching, February 2014, Canadian Center of Science and Education

    Professor Eyo Mensah

  75. Youth language in Nigeria: A case study of the Ágábá Boys

    Article • Sociolinguistic Studies, August 2013, Equinox Publishing

    Professor Eyo Mensah

  76. Proverbs in Nigerian Pidgin

    Article • Journal of Anthropological Research, March 2013, University of Chicago Press

    Professor Eyo Mensah

  77. Grammaticalization in Nigerian Pidgin

    Article • Íkala Revista de Lenguaje y Cultura, September 2012, Universidad de Antioquia

    Professor Eyo Mensah

  78. ON EFIK PREFIXING MORPHOLOGY

    Article • The Buckingham Journal of Language and Linguistics, September 2010, University of Buckingham Press

    Professor Eyo Mensah

  79. On Efik Nouns

    Article • Global Journal of Humanities, February 2005, African Journals Online (AJOL)

    Professor Eyo Mensah