When Tricycles Speak: Language Practices and Ideology in Tricycle Texts in Nigeria
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Date
2023
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Journal of Asian and African Studies
Abstract
This article investigates the sociocultural aspects of street-related linguistic practices on commercial tricycles
in Uyo metropolis, south-eastern Nigeria. Marginal urban texts on tricycles reveal a process of identity
construction and the quest for ideological distinctiveness of the grassroots in articulating their spatial street
wisdom. The study offers contextual analyses of tricycle texts to unpack how they reflect riders’ social
conditions, and problematise how riders relate their subjectivities to the audience in the mobile urban space.
We conclude that tricycle texts bring to light creative aspects of a local subculture that lends a voice to a
marginalised segment of the society.
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Research Article
Keywords
Tricycle, automobile texts, linguistic ideology, ecosocial semiotics, public transport