Oluwabunmi O Oyebode
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 6566461 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Oluwabunmi O Oyebode |
| NOMBRES | Oluwabunmi |
| APELLIDO | O Oyebode |
| FIRMA | OYEBODE O O |
| AFILIACIONES | Obafemi Awolowo University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8608-5217 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 9 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 15 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 9 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2013 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2024 |
| ÍNDICE H | 3 |
Breaking the conspiracy of silence
This paper explores discursive strategies Nigerian victims of rape deploy in narrating their traumatic experiences. Data for the study comprise purposively selected online narratives of two major Nigerian rape victims circulated on Pulse.ng and Nairaland in 2018 and 2019 respectively. The data are analysed qualitatively using van Leeuwen’s social actors’ model, a framework that describes how participants of social practices are represented in dis…
Multimodality and appraisal choices in Nigerian coronavirus-related WhatsApp memes
This article explores coronavirus-related internet memes in the Nigerian WhatsApp space, to examine how multimodal elements are used for evaluation and intersubjective positioning. The theory utilises Kress and van Leeuwen’s visual grammar and Martin and White’s appraisal theory. The data, which comprise 147 purposively selected internet memes, were analysed qualitatively. The findings indicate that the meme producers employ verbal and non-verbal…
The soro-soke [speak up] generation”
This paper explores the deployment of multimodal elements as appraisal resources in #Endsars civil unrest-related memes in Nigerian social media space (WhatsApp and Twitter) to express affective meanings and intersubjective positioning. The study investigates how both verbal and non-verbal elements are deployed as appraisal resources to evaluate the trajectory of the protest. The data, which comprise thirty purposively selected Internet memes, co…
Multimodal resources in the ‘Get It Together’ reproductive health campaign in Nigeria
This study analyses the use of multimodal semiotic resources in the Family Planning campaign materials of the Nigerian Urban Reproductive Health Initiative’s (NURHI) ‘Get It Together’ (GIT) campaign which aims to persuade individuals and families, families to adopt family planning and thus significantly reduce the country’s high fertility and maternal mortality rate. Using Kress and Van Leeuwen’s (2006) visual grammar in Reading Images and Van Le…
“Noah’s Family Was on Lockdown”
This paper examines the forms and functions of religious Internet memes that relate to Covid-19, with a view to identifying the conceptual metaphors that underlie the creation of the memes. The data, which consist of thirty religious Internet memes shared in the Nigerian WhatsApp space, are analyzed qualitatively using the categorization of religious Internet memes, and the concept of multimodal metaphors. The memes contain (non-)linguistic metap…
‘Nigeria is fighting Covid-419’
This paper examines political protest in 40 purposively sampled internet memes circulated among Nigerian WhatsApp users during the Covid-19 pandemic, with a view to exploring the thematic preoccupation, ideology, and the representation of participants and processes in the memes. The data, which were subjected to qualitative analysis, are examined from a multimodal critical discourse analytic approach. The analysis reveals that the memes are used …
Take Responsibility
Article #Take Responsibility: Non-Verbal Modes as Discursive Strategies in Managing Covid-19 Public Health Crisis was published on December 1, 2020 in the journal Language and Semiotic Studies (volume 6, issue 4)
Humour as discursive practice in Nigeria’s 2015 presidential election online campaign discourse
One of the most popular forms of humour on the Internet is memes. Given the identity construction motif that is associated with memes, agents of memes select targets outside the in-group and criticise the targets’ behaviour for ideological purposes. This study examines the patterns of humour evidenced in the deployment of Internet memes (both verbal and visual) in the online campaign discourse of the 2015 presidential election in Nigeria. Data fo…
Coping with HIV/Aids
This article explores the communicative acts employed in the creation of HIV/AIDS posters which focus on people living with HIV/AIDS (PLWHA) and their relatives/friends and investigates the generic structure of these posters. Van Leeuwen’s multimodal communicative acts and Yuen’s Generic Structure Potential of printed advertisements serve as the theoretical framework for the study. The data include six purposively selected HIV/AIDS posters which …
Humour as discursive practice in Nigeria’s 2015 presidential election online campaign discourse
One of the most popular forms of humour on the Internet is memes. Given the identity construction motif that is associated with memes, agents of memes select targets outside the in-group and criticise the targets’ behaviour for ideological purposes. This study examines the patterns of humour evidenced in the deployment of Internet memes (both verbal and visual) in the online campaign discourse of the 2015 presidential election in Nigeria. Data fo…
The soro-soke [speak up] generation”
This paper explores the deployment of multimodal elements as appraisal resources in #Endsars civil unrest-related memes in Nigerian social media space (WhatsApp and Twitter) to express affective meanings and intersubjective positioning. The study investigates how both verbal and non-verbal elements are deployed as appraisal resources to evaluate the trajectory of the protest. The data, which comprise thirty purposively selected Internet memes, co…
Coping with HIV/Aids
This article explores the communicative acts employed in the creation of HIV/AIDS posters which focus on people living with HIV/AIDS (PLWHA) and their relatives/friends and investigates the generic structure of these posters. Van Leeuwen’s multimodal communicative acts and Yuen’s Generic Structure Potential of printed advertisements serve as the theoretical framework for the study. The data include six purposively selected HIV/AIDS posters which …
Take Responsibility
Article #Take Responsibility: Non-Verbal Modes as Discursive Strategies in Managing Covid-19 Public Health Crisis was published on December 1, 2020 in the journal Language and Semiotic Studies (volume 6, issue 4)
Coping with HIV/Aids
This article explores the communicative acts employed in the creation of HIV/AIDS posters which focus on people living with HIV/AIDS (PLWHA) and their relatives/friends and investigates the generic structure of these posters. Van Leeuwen’s multimodal communicative acts and Yuen’s Generic Structure Potential of printed advertisements serve as the theoretical framework for the study. The data include six purposively selected HIV/AIDS posters which …
Humour as discursive practice in Nigeria’s 2015 presidential election online campaign discourse
One of the most popular forms of humour on the Internet is memes. Given the identity construction motif that is associated with memes, agents of memes select targets outside the in-group and criticise the targets’ behaviour for ideological purposes. This study examines the patterns of humour evidenced in the deployment of Internet memes (both verbal and visual) in the online campaign discourse of the 2015 presidential election in Nigeria. Data fo…
Take Responsibility
Article #Take Responsibility: Non-Verbal Modes as Discursive Strategies in Managing Covid-19 Public Health Crisis was published on December 1, 2020 in the journal Language and Semiotic Studies (volume 6, issue 4)
‘Nigeria is fighting Covid-419’
This paper examines political protest in 40 purposively sampled internet memes circulated among Nigerian WhatsApp users during the Covid-19 pandemic, with a view to exploring the thematic preoccupation, ideology, and the representation of participants and processes in the memes. The data, which were subjected to qualitative analysis, are examined from a multimodal critical discourse analytic approach. The analysis reveals that the memes are used …
“Noah’s Family Was on Lockdown”
This paper examines the forms and functions of religious Internet memes that relate to Covid-19, with a view to identifying the conceptual metaphors that underlie the creation of the memes. The data, which consist of thirty religious Internet memes shared in the Nigerian WhatsApp space, are analyzed qualitatively using the categorization of religious Internet memes, and the concept of multimodal metaphors. The memes contain (non-)linguistic metap…
The soro-soke [speak up] generation”
This paper explores the deployment of multimodal elements as appraisal resources in #Endsars civil unrest-related memes in Nigerian social media space (WhatsApp and Twitter) to express affective meanings and intersubjective positioning. The study investigates how both verbal and non-verbal elements are deployed as appraisal resources to evaluate the trajectory of the protest. The data, which comprise thirty purposively selected Internet memes, co…
Multimodal resources in the ‘Get It Together’ reproductive health campaign in Nigeria
This study analyses the use of multimodal semiotic resources in the Family Planning campaign materials of the Nigerian Urban Reproductive Health Initiative’s (NURHI) ‘Get It Together’ (GIT) campaign which aims to persuade individuals and families, families to adopt family planning and thus significantly reduce the country’s high fertility and maternal mortality rate. Using Kress and Van Leeuwen’s (2006) visual grammar in Reading Images and Van Le…
Breaking the conspiracy of silence
This paper explores discursive strategies Nigerian victims of rape deploy in narrating their traumatic experiences. Data for the study comprise purposively selected online narratives of two major Nigerian rape victims circulated on Pulse.ng and Nairaland in 2018 and 2019 respectively. The data are analysed qualitatively using van Leeuwen’s social actors’ model, a framework that describes how participants of social practices are represented in dis…
Multimodality and appraisal choices in Nigerian coronavirus-related WhatsApp memes
This article explores coronavirus-related internet memes in the Nigerian WhatsApp space, to examine how multimodal elements are used for evaluation and intersubjective positioning. The theory utilises Kress and van Leeuwen’s visual grammar and Martin and White’s appraisal theory. The data, which comprise 147 purposively selected internet memes, were analysed qualitatively. The findings indicate that the meme producers employ verbal and non-verbal…
Sociology (8 obras) · Linguistics (7 obras) · Political science (7 obras) · Psychology (7 obras) · Digital Communication and Language (5 obras) · Discourse Analysis in Language Studies (5 obras) · Humor Studies and Applications (5 obras) · Law (5 obras) · Computer Science (4 obras) · Discourse analysis (4 obras)