Neologism and sociocultural logics of the interpretation of Covid‑19 information in rural communities in Igbo land, Nigeria
The study reflects on how rural communities negotiate information about Covid-19 including everyday discourses of Covid‑19 in the Igbo rural communities. More specifically, it examine lexical neology in the Igbo interpretations of Covid‑19, as well as the sociocultural assumptions and beliefs that u...
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| Τόπος έκδοσης: | URI:https://journals.openedition.org/jda, |
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| Μορφή: | Article ou chapitre numérique |
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Journal des anthropologues
2023
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| Διαθέσιμο Online: | Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM |
| Περίληψη: | The study reflects on how rural communities negotiate information about Covid-19 including everyday discourses of Covid‑19 in the Igbo rural communities. More specifically, it examine lexical neology in the Igbo interpretations of Covid‑19, as well as the sociocultural assumptions and beliefs that underlie the Igbo interpretations of Covid‑19. Drawing on unstructured interviews and ethnographic observation, it discovere that the Igbo interpret Covid‑19 information in a range of lexical neologies involving new coinages as well as new uses of existing words/terms. Implicit in the new terminologies, and interpretations are sociocultural assumptions and beliefs of various shades that speak to the sociocultural logic of the Igbo interpretations of Covid‑19. Other themes relate to some assumptions that Covid‑19 is a death sentence, as well as beliefs that relate to differing power relations such as Black/African vs White, and wealthy vs poor ideologies. The study makes an intervention relating to how different communities interpret and negotiate information about the virus, as well as creativity in the way a language is shaped by the need of its users. |
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