A stylistic analysis of corruption-induced idioms and idiomatic expressions in Yorùbá literary and routine communication

This paper sets to examine and analyze corruption-induced expressions and its effects on the communicative performance of the Yorùbá language speakers. Corruption has multi-faceted meanings and can be viewed through different lenses. Its meaning is viewed from personal or consequential perceptive. The Yorùbá language like other world languages possesses a standard variety used in every formal conversation situation while it also retains the non-standard variety for phatic communion and other day-to-day interactions among the users. There are forms of expressions, which include jargons of various trades, sports and occupations. There are also the rich vocabularies of slang of imprecation, of ribaldry as well as the corruption-induced expressions derived from new Yorùbá idioms. New Yorùbá idioms and idiomatic expressions are contemporaneous and are part of modern communication employed to instruct, persuade, exhort, abuse, extol and entertain in all areas of life. Corruption-induced expressions derived from the new Yorùbá idioms and idiomatic expressions are new expressions brought about by the endemic corruption in the contemporary Yorùbá society and by extension, Nigeria.