Adeiza Lasisi Isiaka
Biographic Data
| ID | 1262144 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Adeiza Lasisi Isiaka |
| GIVEN NAMES | Adeiza Lasisi |
| FAMILY NAME | Isiaka |
| SIGNATURE | ISIAKA A L |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Toronto |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0819-5872 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 6 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Framing victimhood, making war
As separatist yearnings resurge and gain traction in Nigeria, the agency of language and digitality in spreading dissident discourses has come under scrutiny. In this study, I investigate the linguistic-historical dimension of the Biafran movements, exploring the rhetorical frames by which the actors curate ethnic victimhood and sustain the secessionist struggle. Drawing on a corpus of memoiristic narrative of the Biafra war and digitally mediate…
Only a tree stands still to be cut down
At sixty years, the Biafran movement has evolved, with actors and narratives shaped by new demographics, discourse modalities, and ideologies. While its most compelling leaders – Ojukwu and Kanu — share a secessionist goal, Kanu’s rhetoric is widely perceived as diverging from his forebear’s. With frameworks in discourse studies, I explore wide-ranging topoi of legitimation in Ojukwu’s chronicles of the Nigeria-Biafra war, and a corpus ofliberati…
German is the holy grail
This study explores the dynamics of migration in the growing prominence of German in Nigeria, and the ways self-perception of language competence shapes ethnolingual belonging and future trajectories of transmigrant Nigerians residing in Germany. Drawing on promotional texts of German language schools and migration-themed discourses on Nairaland, I show that while German is mainly espoused for migration purposes back at home, most Nigerians in Ge…
Accommodation in L2 English
A Tale of Many Tongues
The Nigerian youth language phenomenon has often been labelled, albeit reductively, as Pidgin or Pidgin-based—to the exclusion of other varieties which co-constitute the ecology of youth argots in the country. Drawing on the notion of indexicality, this article presents a range of Pidgin and non-Pidgin exemplars and illuminates their linguistic as well as discursive strategies. Though ostensibly diverse and sphere-specific, they consist of syntax…
A phono-ethnic story of Nigerian English
This study explores the role of dialect-contact among developing L2 phonologies, and the influence of L1 ± ATR system on L2 English tense/lax vowels, using the under-documented Ebira English spoken in Nigeria as an exemplar. The variety presents an interesting precedent due to its differential historical contact with Yoruba English, starting in the early colonial periods, and Hausa English, becoming more prominent in the past three decades. This …
German is the holy grail
This study explores the dynamics of migration in the growing prominence of German in Nigeria, and the ways self-perception of language competence shapes ethnolingual belonging and future trajectories of transmigrant Nigerians residing in Germany. Drawing on promotional texts of German language schools and migration-themed discourses on Nairaland, I show that while German is mainly espoused for migration purposes back at home, most Nigerians in Ge…
A phono-ethnic story of Nigerian English
This study explores the role of dialect-contact among developing L2 phonologies, and the influence of L1 ± ATR system on L2 English tense/lax vowels, using the under-documented Ebira English spoken in Nigeria as an exemplar. The variety presents an interesting precedent due to its differential historical contact with Yoruba English, starting in the early colonial periods, and Hausa English, becoming more prominent in the past three decades. This …
A Tale of Many Tongues
The Nigerian youth language phenomenon has often been labelled, albeit reductively, as Pidgin or Pidgin-based—to the exclusion of other varieties which co-constitute the ecology of youth argots in the country. Drawing on the notion of indexicality, this article presents a range of Pidgin and non-Pidgin exemplars and illuminates their linguistic as well as discursive strategies. Though ostensibly diverse and sphere-specific, they consist of syntax…
Accommodation in L2 English
Framing victimhood, making war
As separatist yearnings resurge and gain traction in Nigeria, the agency of language and digitality in spreading dissident discourses has come under scrutiny. In this study, I investigate the linguistic-historical dimension of the Biafran movements, exploring the rhetorical frames by which the actors curate ethnic victimhood and sustain the secessionist struggle. Drawing on a corpus of memoiristic narrative of the Biafra war and digitally mediate…
Only a tree stands still to be cut down
At sixty years, the Biafran movement has evolved, with actors and narratives shaped by new demographics, discourse modalities, and ideologies. While its most compelling leaders – Ojukwu and Kanu — share a secessionist goal, Kanu’s rhetoric is widely perceived as diverging from his forebear’s. With frameworks in discourse studies, I explore wide-ranging topoi of legitimation in Ojukwu’s chronicles of the Nigeria-Biafra war, and a corpus ofliberati…
German is the holy grail
This study explores the dynamics of migration in the growing prominence of German in Nigeria, and the ways self-perception of language competence shapes ethnolingual belonging and future trajectories of transmigrant Nigerians residing in Germany. Drawing on promotional texts of German language schools and migration-themed discourses on Nairaland, I show that while German is mainly espoused for migration purposes back at home, most Nigerians in Ge…
Sociology (6 works) · Linguistics (5 works) · Anthropology (3 works) · Multilingual Education and Policy (3 works) · Ethnic group (2 works) · History (2 works) · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies (2 works) · Linguistic Variation and Morphology (2 works) · Philosophy (2 works) · Phonetics and Phonology Research (2 works)