Adetutu Aragbuwa

Biographic Data

ID249549
NAMEAdetutu Aragbuwa
GIVEN NAMESAdetutu
FAMILY NAMEAragbuwa
SIGNATUREARAGBUWA A
AFFILIATIONSEkiti State University
ORCID0000-0002-0879-9027
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS5
TOTAL CITATIONS2
WORKS AS AUTHOR5
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2020
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2025
H-INDEX1

  • Neologisms in Social Media-Based Political Discourse on Nigeria’s 2023 Presidential Election

    T N Dahunsi, Adetutu AragbuwaARTICLELanguage Matters2025

    Neologisms have been explored in varied contexts of language use. However, the use of corpus analytical tools in deconstructing politics-based neologisms still remains under-explored. Neologisms in social media-based discourse surrounding Nigeria’s 2023 presidential election were explored in this study to understand their structural patterns and their semantic and pragmatic implications. A one-million-word corpus was built using posts from Facebo…

  • Metaphorisation of Women in Yoruba Proverbs

    Open AccessAdetutu Aragbuwa, Samuel Adebayo OmotundeARTICLEEuropean Journal of Literature…2022

    Studies on conceptual metaphors in gender-based proverbial discourses have gained much scholarly attention in linguistic studies. In spite of this, conceptual metaphorisations in gendered Yoruba proverbs still remain under-researched. This study seeks to fill the gap by exploring conceptual metaphorisations in gender-based Yoruba proverbs using linguistic frameworks. The data comprise 100 Yoruba proverbs on women. The Conceptual Metaphor Theory a…

  • Covid-19 #Takeresponsibility

    Open AccessAdetutu Aragbuwa, Victor O AdejumoARTICLEJournal of Language and Literature2021

    This article examines the Nigerian Center for Disease Control’s (henceforth, NCDC) Covid-19 #TakeResponsibility online public health advertising campaign. This is with a view to exploring how the representational, interactive and compositional resources are realized in these advertising visuals as well as their communicative functions. Forty purposively selected data samples, which were subjected to qualitative analysis, are examined from a multi…

  • A Standard Reading of Selected Online Readers’ Comments on Domestic Violence against Men in Nigeria

    Open AccessAdetutu AragbuwaARTICLEMen and Masculinities2020Cited by: 2References: 2

    The study performs a standard reading of online readers’ comments on Domestic Violence against Men (henceforth, DVAM). This is with a view to exploring how the readers’ comments develop dialogically to build up threads that depict salient motifs on DVAM in the Nigerian sociocultural domain. The specific objectives of the study are to identify the dialogic developments of threads among the commenters; construe motifs cum shared socio-cultural valu…

  • Dialogic contractions in online news discourse on violence against women in Nigeria

    Adetutu AragbuwaARTICLEJournal of Gender Studies2020References: 11

    The paper analyses dialogic contractions in selected online news discourse on Violence against Women (henceforth, VAW) in Nigeria. The data comprise ten (10) purposively selected online news reports on various cases of VAW sourced from the news archives of Saharareporters.com; NigeriaFilms.com; Premium Times; and The Punch Online. The study selects only cases of VAW in Nigeria. The study performs a qualitative analysis of the online news discours…