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  1. 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

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

    Article • Languages, May 2024, MDPI AG

    Professor Eyo Mensah

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

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

    Professor Eyo Mensah

  4. Sexual jokes in Nigerian stand-up comedy

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

    Professor Eyo Mensah

  5. 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

  6. 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

  7. 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

  8. 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

  9. Visual representation on Nigerian trucks: a semiotic study

    Article • Semiotica, November 2022, De Gruyter

    Professor Eyo Mensah

  10. 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

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

    Article • Language Matters, September 2022, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Eyo Mensah

  12. 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

  13. 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

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

    Article • Language Sciences, May 2022, Elsevier

    Professor Eyo Mensah

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

    Article • African Studies, April 2022, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Eyo Mensah

  16. 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

  17. 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

  18. 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

  19. 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

  20. The Englishisation of personal names in Nigeria

    Article • English Today, May 2021, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Eyo Mensah

  21. 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

  22. 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

  23. 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

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

    Article • Sexualities, October 2020, SAGE Publications

    Professor Eyo Mensah

  25. Sentential Names in Tiv

    Article • Studia Linguistica, April 2020, Wiley

    Professor Eyo Mensah

  26. 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

  27. 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

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

    Article • Communicatio, July 2018, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Eyo Mensah, dr idom t inyabri

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

    Article • African Identities, April 2017, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Eyo Mensah

  30. Proverbial Nicknames among Rural Youth in Nigeria

    Article • Anthropological Linguistics, January 2017, Project Muse

    Professor Eyo Mensah

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

    Article • Language Matters, May 2016, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Eyo Mensah

  32. Youth Language in Africa

    Article • Sociolinguistic Studies, December 2015, Equinox Publishing

    Professor Eyo Mensah

  33. 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

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

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

    Professor Eyo Mensah

  35. Linguistic creativity in Nigerian Pidgin advertising

    Article • Sociolinguistic Studies, April 2014, Equinox Publishing

    Professor Eyo Mensah

  36. 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

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

    Article • Sociolinguistic Studies, August 2013, Equinox Publishing

    Professor Eyo Mensah

  38. Proverbs in Nigerian Pidgin

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

    Professor Eyo Mensah

  39. On Efik Nouns

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

    Professor Eyo Mensah