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Resource typeJournal Article
Title(s)Identity Framing as Resilience in Selected Nicknames of Nigerian Street Children
DOI10.48548/pubdata-1435
Handle20.500.14123/1504
CreatorOlajimbiti, Ezekiel Opeyemi  0000-0002-5263-0149
AbstractStreet children who are forced onto the streets due to oppressive experiences use a variety of strategies, including nicknaming, to cope with street adversities. Previous studies have not adequately considered street children’s nicknames as resilience enablers. This study fills this gap by unpacking identity frames in street children’s nicknames as resilience enablers in southwestern Nigeria. Using the unstructured interview method, 65 nicknames of street children in the six southwestern states of Nigeria were sampled and subjected to discourse analysis with insights from social identity theory and the concept of frames. Findings reveal that the sampled names manifest Yorùbá and English with five syntactic patterns. Yorùbá nicknames are characterised by animal metaphors, food/body-parts/virtue-related terms, while the English forms indicate force, weather, and political-related terms, with meanings oriented to street culture. The nicknames configure the identity frames associated with ingroup norms and attributes of self-enhancement. Given the complexity of street life, the children adopt nicknames for discursive functions such as evasive mechanisms, reinforcement of an ingroup affiliation, group management, and bestowal of preferences. This study concludes that full-time street children in southwestern Nigeria use nicknames as adaptations to street culture, routine communication, and psychological strength boosters to withstand the adversities of street culture.
LanguageEnglish
KeywordsDiscourse Studies; Identity; Socio-Onomastics; Street Children; Street Culture
Year of publication in PubData2024
Publishing typeParallel publication
Publication versionPublished version
Date issued2024-08-16
Creation contextResearch
Faculty / departmentFakultät Bildung
NotesThis publication was funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG).
Date of Availability2024-11-08T13:37:38Z
Archiving Facility Medien- und Informationszentrum (Leuphana Universität Lüneburg  02w2y2t16)
Published byMedien- und Informationszentrum, Leuphana Universität Lüneburg
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Resource typeJournal
Title of the resource typeLanguages
IdentifierDOI: 10.3390/languages9080277
Publication year2024
Volume9
Issue8
Number277
Number typeArticle
PublisherMDPI
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