African Young Women and Alcohol and Substance Abuse

Obeng, Cecilia S.; Obeng-Gyasi, Barnabas

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-28099-4_38

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“…Again, works on Akan names have been phonological and grammatical, on the one hand, and sociolinguistic, on the other. The grammatical has concentrated on the lexical and especially morphological structures and strategies for the construction of, especially, the day name (Christaller 1933;Boadi 1984, n.d.;Kropp Dakubu 1981;Obeng 1997Obeng , 2001Ofori 2019), linearity and other circumstantial names, and the female forms of names (Adomako 2017). So far, the most pervasive of the studies have been in the sociolinguistic dimension, and have looked at the typologies of names and their response to patterns of cosmological or cultural representation (Boachie 2000;Agyekum 2006), focusing mainly on day names and circumstantial names, and some on name occurrence or choices in sociolinguistic or discoursal contexts (Afful 1998(Afful , 2006.…”

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“…People born on the same day are, thus, believed to belong to the same soul group. Christaller (1933), Kropp Dakubu (1981, Obeng (2001), and Ofori (2019) believe that there was organised worship for the seven day-deities in the past. There are, however, several instances in which fathers have changed the day names of their children in order to create a stronger spiritual bond between the children and himself or others.…”

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The Commemorability Principle in Akan Personal Name Construction

Sekyi-Baidoo

2024

Genealogy

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The movement from regular lexicon to onomasticon, especially anthroponomasticon, is often mediated by cultural principles which may determine which concepts could normally be selected for the formation of personal names. Restrictive traditions have guiding principles making some concepts acceptable or not, and some names central or peripheral. In this paper, I discuss the principle of commemorability as gatekeeping the selection of concepts for the formation of personal names in Akan; and, having established the restrictiveness of the Akan anthroponomastic system, I identify the two considerations of honourability and preservability as making up the commemorability principle. The study is inductive, establishing the theory that explains the principles for the selection of appropriate concepts for the construction of personal names, and it relies on ethnographic resources including observation, interviews, and focus group discussions supported by name content analysis to generate the theory. The paper establishes that commemorability is founded on a general philosophy that upholds the societal, effort and perseverance, and social cognitive value in the selection of concepts for constructing personal names. Guided by these considerations, concepts are placed within a value ranking system to determine their ‘commemorability’, with items that rank as ‘honourable’ normally selected and processed as personal names. In the construction itself, there is a preference for the cognitive over the physical and the general beyond the specific, and there is an overriding preference for the use of general commemorability concepts which represent excellence, prominence, fullness, abundance, inexhaustibility, strength, endurance, and resilience, among others, which are used both as base-concepts for family names or as ‘amplifier’ concepts in the construction of extension names.

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