Creative ways of using Esl to name children

The study examines English names which second language speakers give their children. The names may be English but have a distinct African flavour such as No Please and Talknomore hence the term Afro English. The study interrogates the background of over sixty names collected over a period of ten yea...

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Main Authors: Green, Florence F., Jhamba, Dureen
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Language:English
Published: IOSR Journal Of Humanities And Social Science 2017
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Online Access:http://iosrjournals.org/iosr-jhss/papers/Vol.%2021%20Issue1/Version-1/K021116165.pdf
http://hdl.handle.net/11408/1899
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description The study examines English names which second language speakers give their children. The names may be English but have a distinct African flavour such as No Please and Talknomore hence the term Afro English. The study interrogates the background of over sixty names collected over a period of ten years. The researchers conclude that ESL speakers of all linguistic groups exercise creativity when they choose English names .Furthermore the study reveals that the less educated the parents are, the more creative they get to be in name choice.
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spelling ir-11408-18992022-06-27T13:49:06Z Creative ways of using Esl to name children Green, Florence F. Jhamba, Dureen Afro English, onomastics, ESL, SFL, Indigenous, circumstances The study examines English names which second language speakers give their children. The names may be English but have a distinct African flavour such as No Please and Talknomore hence the term Afro English. The study interrogates the background of over sixty names collected over a period of ten years. The researchers conclude that ESL speakers of all linguistic groups exercise creativity when they choose English names .Furthermore the study reveals that the less educated the parents are, the more creative they get to be in name choice. 2017-03-06T12:31:48Z 2017-03-06T12:31:48Z 2016 Article 2279-0837 http://iosrjournals.org/iosr-jhss/papers/Vol.%2021%20Issue1/Version-1/K021116165.pdf http://hdl.handle.net/11408/1899 en IOSR Journal Of Humanities And Social Science;Vol.1, Issue 1, p. 61-65 open IOSR Journal Of Humanities And Social Science
spellingShingle Afro English, onomastics, ESL, SFL,
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Jhamba, Dureen
Creative ways of using Esl to name children
title Creative ways of using Esl to name children
title_full Creative ways of using Esl to name children
title_fullStr Creative ways of using Esl to name children
title_full_unstemmed Creative ways of using Esl to name children
title_short Creative ways of using Esl to name children
title_sort creative ways of using esl to name children
topic Afro English, onomastics, ESL, SFL,
Indigenous, circumstances
url http://iosrjournals.org/iosr-jhss/papers/Vol.%2021%20Issue1/Version-1/K021116165.pdf
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