Onwu Inya
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 311604 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Onwu Inya |
| NOMBRES | Onwu |
| APELLIDO | Inya |
| FIRMA | INYA O |
| AFILIACIONES | Federal University of Technology |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9109-1029 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 6 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 6 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 6 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2018 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 2 |
“I am a baby-friendly doctor, but…”
This paper investigates instances of narrativised health advice exchanges between Nigerian doctors and laypersons on X/Twitter, Naija . Based on 144 story tweets, the analysis focuses on how advice exchanges manifest as acts of narrative identity positioning. With Bamberg’s (1997) three-level model of positioning, interactional pragmatics, and membership categorisation analysis, the study examines the emergence and co-construction of tale-world, …
I Cannot Overreach the Senate
Both democracy and the legislature in Africa are emergent and require scholarly investigations to understand them. Therefore, this paper investigates the contextual configuration of Nigerian Senate debates (henceforth, NSD), paying particular attention to how legislators orient to the macro-context of this institutional discourse. The data comprise a 1.9 million-word corpus of NSD subjected to quantitative and qualitative discourse analysis. Whil…
‘As democracy grows’
This paper investigates the metaphorical framing of the concept of democracy in Nigerian Senate debates (henceforth, NSD) in a mini-corpus of 214 meta-discursive commentaries on democracy by legislators, with insight from metaphor scenario theory. Three source concepts – “ erect structure ”, “ living organism ”, “ dividends ” and their associate scenarios are analysed. These scenarios are exploited by legislators to effect specific argumentative …
Egungun be careful, na Express you dey go
The legislature is the engine room of democracy’
This study investigates how legislators utilise proximisation strategies to construct ideological worldviews in Nigerian Senate debates about democratic consolidation and the legitimacy of the legislature. For data, samples were purposively drawn from a 1.9 million-word corpus of Nigerian Senate debates constructed for a broader research and subjected to qualitative discourse analysis. The analysis reveals that legislators’ discursive acts prompt…
Conversational humour in a Nigerian radio news programme
This paper investigates the Generic Structure Potential (GSP) of Lati inu aka aka Biodun/Kayode (LIABK), a Nigerian secondary gatekeeping radio news programme, with the aim of indicating the stages of the genre where conversational humour typically occurs, and then it analyses humour types in the data through the neo-Gricean concept of untruthfulness and pragmatic act theory. The data for the study constitute a ten hour audio recording of Lati in…
Egungun be careful, na Express you dey go
The legislature is the engine room of democracy’
This study investigates how legislators utilise proximisation strategies to construct ideological worldviews in Nigerian Senate debates about democratic consolidation and the legitimacy of the legislature. For data, samples were purposively drawn from a 1.9 million-word corpus of Nigerian Senate debates constructed for a broader research and subjected to qualitative discourse analysis. The analysis reveals that legislators’ discursive acts prompt…
Conversational humour in a Nigerian radio news programme
This paper investigates the Generic Structure Potential (GSP) of Lati inu aka aka Biodun/Kayode (LIABK), a Nigerian secondary gatekeeping radio news programme, with the aim of indicating the stages of the genre where conversational humour typically occurs, and then it analyses humour types in the data through the neo-Gricean concept of untruthfulness and pragmatic act theory. The data for the study constitute a ten hour audio recording of Lati in…
Conversational humour in a Nigerian radio news programme
This paper investigates the Generic Structure Potential (GSP) of Lati inu aka aka Biodun/Kayode (LIABK), a Nigerian secondary gatekeeping radio news programme, with the aim of indicating the stages of the genre where conversational humour typically occurs, and then it analyses humour types in the data through the neo-Gricean concept of untruthfulness and pragmatic act theory. The data for the study constitute a ten hour audio recording of Lati in…
The legislature is the engine room of democracy’
This study investigates how legislators utilise proximisation strategies to construct ideological worldviews in Nigerian Senate debates about democratic consolidation and the legitimacy of the legislature. For data, samples were purposively drawn from a 1.9 million-word corpus of Nigerian Senate debates constructed for a broader research and subjected to qualitative discourse analysis. The analysis reveals that legislators’ discursive acts prompt…
Egungun be careful, na Express you dey go
‘As democracy grows’
This paper investigates the metaphorical framing of the concept of democracy in Nigerian Senate debates (henceforth, NSD) in a mini-corpus of 214 meta-discursive commentaries on democracy by legislators, with insight from metaphor scenario theory. Three source concepts – “ erect structure ”, “ living organism ”, “ dividends ” and their associate scenarios are analysed. These scenarios are exploited by legislators to effect specific argumentative …
“I am a baby-friendly doctor, but…”
This paper investigates instances of narrativised health advice exchanges between Nigerian doctors and laypersons on X/Twitter, Naija . Based on 144 story tweets, the analysis focuses on how advice exchanges manifest as acts of narrative identity positioning. With Bamberg’s (1997) three-level model of positioning, interactional pragmatics, and membership categorisation analysis, the study examines the emergence and co-construction of tale-world, …
I Cannot Overreach the Senate
Both democracy and the legislature in Africa are emergent and require scholarly investigations to understand them. Therefore, this paper investigates the contextual configuration of Nigerian Senate debates (henceforth, NSD), paying particular attention to how legislators orient to the macro-context of this institutional discourse. The data comprise a 1.9 million-word corpus of NSD subjected to quantitative and qualitative discourse analysis. Whil…
Discourse Analysis in Language Studies (5 obras) · Sociology (5 obras) · Ideology (3 obras) · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies (3 obras) · Law (3 obras) · Linguistics (3 obras) · Political science (3 obras) · Advertising (2 obras) · Art (2 obras) · Computer Science (2 obras)