Personal Name Customisation Among the Youth in Benin Metropolis, Nigeria

Evbayiro Osayimwese VIOLET

Numéro 13 – RILE-1 de 2019 (Premier numéro 2019) (2019) Page(s) 101 - 114 ISSN 2076-6130

“Personal Name Customisation” is one of the latest linguistic practices among the youths in Benin metropolis. It is non transient, and currently in vogue in both verbal and written conversations. Though some studies have looked at Anglicism, code switching, code mixing, and slang as youth language practice in some African and European languages, the practice of customisation of names has largely been under-researched. This study investigates personal name customisation among the youths in Benin metropolis, Nigeria with a view to finding the link between name customisation and the youths who make use of them. Keywords: Name Customisation, Linguistic Practices, Benin Metropolises, non-transient Introduction For some time now, the emergence of new linguistic 102 code switching and intra sentential switching, is a sophisticated linguistic competence that is used mostly by those who perform well in both their first and second languages. This study focuses on Benin metropolis as a case study for examining the reality of the existence of name customisation among the youths. It examines factors such as economic and socio- political stability of Benin City which are taught to encourage migrations of youth into the city, creating a multilingual situation. This situation in turn encourages practices like slang, vulgarism, swear words, borrowing and name customisation. Available data are analysed to further strengthen the postulation in this study, which is socio-linguistic in context. However, the changing trends in youth language in Benin Ci

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Evbayiro Osayimwese VIOLET. « Personal Name Customisation Among the Youth in Benin Metropolis, Nigeria ». Revue Ivoirienne de Langues Étrangères, Numéro 13, 2019, p. 101. ISSN 2076-6130.