Tope Omoniyi

List of John Benjamins publications for which Tope Omoniyi plays a role.

Title

Explorations in the Sociology of Language and Religion

Edited by Tope Omoniyi and Joshua A. Fishman †

[Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture, 20] 2006. viii, 347 pp.

Subjects Discourse studies | Language policy | Pragmatics | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology | Sociology

Articles (6) | Order by:

Omoniyi, Tope 2006 10. Societal multilingualism and multifaithism: A sociology of language and religion perspective Explorations in the Sociology of Language and Religion, Omoniyi, Tope and Joshua A. Fishman † (eds.), pp. 121–140 | Chapter

Omoniyi, Tope 2006 22. Epilogue Explorations in the Sociology of Language and Religion, Omoniyi, Tope and Joshua A. Fishman † (eds.), pp. 338–341 | Chapter

Omoniyi, Tope, Joshua A. Fishman † and Bernard Spolsky † 2006 1. Introduction Explorations in the Sociology of Language and Religion, Omoniyi, Tope and Joshua A. Fishman † (eds.), pp. 1–9 | Chapter

Omoniyi, Tope 2003 Language ideology and politics: A critical appraisal of French as second official language in Nigeria Africa and Applied Linguistics, Makoni, Sinfree and Ulrike H. Meinhof (eds.), pp. 13–25 | Article

Omoniyi, Tope 1997 My blood, my Nation: Ethnicity and Nationality as alternative and hierarchical Identities in African Borderlands ITL - International Journal of Applied Linguistics 117/118, pp. 27–50 | Article

Identity is an important phenomenon both in traditional and in modern Africa. Before the advent of colonialism, people and communities were identified largely by ethnicity within a political framework. However, within each of the ethnic units, there were other parameters by which people were… read more

Omoniyi, Tope 1994 English and the other Tongues in Official Communicative Interaction in Nigeria ITL - International Journal of Applied Linguistics 103/104, pp. 57–75 | Article

This paper examines issues of language choice and language use patterns, attitudes to English and to indigenous languages in official communicative interaction in Nigeria as they exist in the offices today. The report is projected against the background of the claim that English is 'the language… read more