Florence Oluwaseyi Daniel
Biographic Data
| ID | 1048598 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Florence Oluwaseyi Daniel |
| GIVEN NAMES | Florence Oluwaseyi |
| FAMILY NAME | Daniel |
| SIGNATURE | DANIEL F O |
| AFFILIATIONS | Redeemer's University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8561-0534 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 17 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 6 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
“Yeeees, Thank You Please!”
This article examines the discourse-pragmatic use of please as a marker of politeness in three African English varieties: Ghanaian English, Nigerian English, and Ugandan English, analysing its frequency, structural patterns, pragmatic functions, and variation across different text types. Using both qualitative and quantitative methods, the study analysed data from the Ghanaian, Nigerian, and Ugandan components of the International Corpus of Engli…
“But I think, with respect, that the trial court was wrong”
This study investigates the stance functions of but as a contrastive marker in Nigerian Supreme Court judgements to explore other lexical means of marking stances in the legal genre aside value-laden words and lexico-grammatical constructions. The study analysed a corpus of Nigerian Supreme Court judgements comprising lead, supporting and dissenting judgements for stance classification, following the stance triangle model. Findings show that the …
Dissenting with Conviction and Deference
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Offers in Nigerian English
This article is concerned with the speech act of offers in educated Nigerian English within a variational pragmatics approach. In particular, this study explores the offer strategies chosen by Nigerian English speakers and the effect the speakers' and hearers' social status and social distance, the type of offer and formality of the context might have on them. A total of 325 Nigerian respondents filled in questionnaires containing 13 discourse co…
Haba! Bilingual interjections in Nigerian English
Haba! Bilingual interjections in Nigerian English
Offers in Nigerian English
This article is concerned with the speech act of offers in educated Nigerian English within a variational pragmatics approach. In particular, this study explores the offer strategies chosen by Nigerian English speakers and the effect the speakers' and hearers' social status and social distance, the type of offer and formality of the context might have on them. A total of 325 Nigerian respondents filled in questionnaires containing 13 discourse co…
Sorry it took me a long time to reply
Haba! Bilingual interjections in Nigerian English
Sorry it took me a long time to reply
Offers in Nigerian English
This article is concerned with the speech act of offers in educated Nigerian English within a variational pragmatics approach. In particular, this study explores the offer strategies chosen by Nigerian English speakers and the effect the speakers' and hearers' social status and social distance, the type of offer and formality of the context might have on them. A total of 325 Nigerian respondents filled in questionnaires containing 13 discourse co…
“But I think, with respect, that the trial court was wrong”
This study investigates the stance functions of but as a contrastive marker in Nigerian Supreme Court judgements to explore other lexical means of marking stances in the legal genre aside value-laden words and lexico-grammatical constructions. The study analysed a corpus of Nigerian Supreme Court judgements comprising lead, supporting and dissenting judgements for stance classification, following the stance triangle model. Findings show that the …
Dissenting with Conviction and Deference
“Yeeees, Thank You Please!”
This article examines the discourse-pragmatic use of please as a marker of politeness in three African English varieties: Ghanaian English, Nigerian English, and Ugandan English, analysing its frequency, structural patterns, pragmatic functions, and variation across different text types. Using both qualitative and quantitative methods, the study analysed data from the Ghanaian, Nigerian, and Ugandan components of the International Corpus of Engli…
Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies (4 works) · Swearing, Euphemism, Multilingualism (4 works) · Linguistic Variation and Morphology (3 works) · Linguistics (3 works) · Dissenting opinion (2 works) · Philosophy (2 works) · Philosophy (2 works) · Psychology (2 works) · Sociology (2 works) · Supreme court (2 works)