Temidayo Akinrinlola
Biographic Data
| ID | 4052138 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Temidayo Akinrinlola |
| GIVEN NAMES | Temidayo |
| FAMILY NAME | Akinrinlola |
| SIGNATURE | AKINRINLOLA T |
| AFFILIATIONS | McPherson University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5203-7441 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 21 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 21 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
A discursive engagement of evasions in police-suspect interactions in Ibadan, Nigeria
This study reports the discursive appeals embedded in the deployment of evasions in police-suspect interactions (PSIs) in Ibadan. Studies have marked investigating police officers (IPOs) as participants who overtly wield power during interrogation. This study argues that power is not an exclusive preserve of the IPOs; suspects equally deploy evasions to challenge IPOs’ powers. Informed by van Dijk’s model of critical discourse analysis, 45 interr…
Discursive representation of the Nigeria police in selected Afrobeats
Studies have examined the important role the Nigeria Police plays in the Nigerian security system. However, the investigation of the discursive representation of the Nigeria Police and its personnel in Afrobeats (hip hop) is yet to be largely explored. This study, thus, within the ambit of the Foucauldian Discourse Analytic approach and Halliday’s Transitivity, investigates the representation of the Nigeria Police in selected songs of Nigerian Af…
Linguistic Choices as Conveyors of Social Activism in the Tweets of Nigerian #EndBadGovernance Protesters
Protests, a site for venting dissenting voices, have attracted commendable scholarly patronage in Africa. Studies in this regard have predominantly probed the recurring tropes and trajectories in protests. However, the contextual roles of linguistic choices in constructing the themes and dissenting voices in the tweets of Nigerian #EndBadGovernance protesters remain underreported. Drawing insights from van Dijk’s model of critical discourse analy…
A Critical Discourse Analysis of Ethnic Rhetoric in the Tweets on Nigeria’s Presidential Election Campaign of 2023
Studies from diverse theoretical strands have established that the language of political campaigns in Nigeria is replete with rhetorical appeals. However, the role of language in tracking ethnic appeals in Nigeria’s 2023 presidential election has not enjoyed empirical investigation, especially from the viewpoint of critical discourse analysis. This study explores the rhetorical tropes adopted in negotiating ethnicity in the tweets of Nigerian X (…
The pragmeme of accommodation in Christian condolence messages in Nigeria
The inevitability of death is reinforced in the different cultures and religions of the world. Among Christians in general and Nigerian Christians in particular, it is seen as a transformator of human beings from mortality to immortality, as evident in their linguistic behaviour. This study investigates pain-relieving strategies in Christian condolence messages in Nigeria, within the purview of Capone’s pragmeme of accommodation. Data for the stu…
Representation of social actors in the tweets of Nigerian #EndSars protesters
Discursive tropes of love in selected songs of Bukola Elemide (a.k.a Àsá)
Nigerian popular music (NPM) is a conglomerate of diverse cultural forms. Its varied rhythm compellingly appeals to the sensibilities of Nigerians. Existing scholarly debates have interrogated the socio-cultural nuances in Àsá’s lyrics. However, the role of language in constructing the complexities of love, as captured in her lyrics, remains underexplored. This study fuses appraisal theory and the theory of language of motions to describe Àsá’s t…
Mute’s responses to facelessness
The phenomenon of street children is fast becoming a ubiquitous social practice in sub-Saharan Africa. This unfortunate social malaise has continued to fester as a result of systemic irresponsibility. Studies have probed the feminist, ideological, eco-critical and socio-psychological appeals in Darko’s Faceless. However, Darko’s emphasis on the strategic intervention of a non-governmental organisation (MUTE) in mitigating the lingering consequenc…
Argumentation in police-suspect interactions in Ibadan, Nigeria
In the Nigerian context, studies on police interrogation have acknowledged that investigating police officers (IPOs) wield power during police-suspect interactions (PSIs). We argue that power is not solely wielded by the IPOs during interrogation sessions; the suspect, who is often considered as a lesser participant during interrogation session, adopts argumentation to contest stances with IPOs. This study examines the rationale behind IPOs’ and …
A discursive construction of self in selected songs by Azeez Fashola (aka Naira Marley)
Studies on Azeez Fashola (aka Naira Marley) have only made passing comments on his personality. Most of the comments present negative perceptions about the personality of Naira Marley (NM). Such negative commentaries, this study contends, are insufficient in describing the construction of identities in NM’s lyrics. This study investigates the construction of self in selected songs of NM with a view to describing what the construction of self reve…
Voices in Selected Comments of Obiageli Ezekwesili on the #BringBackOurGirls Protest
This article reports Obiageli Ezekwesili’s voices on the #BringBackOurGirls protest. Fusing Du Bois’s stance theory and Ochs’s theory of context as theoretical model, this study articulates Ezekwesili’s stances on the kidnapping of the Chibok schoolgirls. Data were sourced through purposive sampling from six prominent Nigerian online newspapers (Punch, Vanguard, Tribune, The Guardian, The Nation, and Daily Trust). Over 100 of Ezekwesili’s comment…
Thoughts on the ink
Literary-stylistics of engagement in Femi Osofisan’s The Engagement
Existing linguistic and non-linguistic studies on Femi Osofisan’s The Engagement (TE) and his other plays have articulated the revolutionary dialectics that characterise his works. Besides the fact that TE has not been sufficiently explored, scholarly information on Osofisan’s construction of marriage proposal remains under-reported. Taking insights from aspects of literary stylistics (LS), this study examines the construction of marriage proposa…
Women in crime
This study examines female characters as agents of criminal activities in Femi Osofisan’s Once upon Four Robbers. The study relies on insights from Wolfgang Iser’s Reader- -Response Theory (RRT). Drawing data from twelve purposively selected excerpts from the text, the study argues that Osofisan connects the reader’s knowledge in constructing women as agents of crime. Women’s involvement in crime is constructed through their activities in organis…
A Discursive Engagement of Ideological Issues in Ilaje Zionist Gospel Songs
The ideological practices of Christian groups in Nigeria and beyond, as evident in their songs, have received considerable attention from scholars across disciplines, including linguists. However, the songs and music of the Ilaje Zionist Christian movement, which constitutes a major bloc in the Nigerian “white garment” Christian circle, have not received serious scholarly attention. To address this gap in the literature, this article explores ide…
Discourse Tactic(s) in Police-Suspect Interactions in Ibadan, Nigeria
Existing studies on police interrogation have revealed that investigating police officers (IPOs) often resort to the use of physical force in extracting confessional statements from suspects. However, we maintain that IPOs do not usually subject suspects to torture in a bid to obtain a confession. We therefore examine how IPOs use tactics to achieve confessions in police-suspect interactions (PSIs). Data comprise nine interactions between IPOs an…
Discourse strategies of handling denials in police – suspect interaction in Ibadan, Nigeria
Studies on police interrogation have examined interrogating police officers’ (IPOs’) deployment of power abuse in gleaning confessional statements from suspects. However, studies on how IPOs handle denials during interrogation has not been given adequate attention. Therefore, this study investigates discourse strategies of handling denials in police-suspect interaction in Ibadan, Southwest Nigeria. Spencer-Oatey’s rapport management theory served…
A Stylistic Analysis of Ṣeun Ògúnfìdítìmí’s Songs
Ṣeun Ògúnfìdítìmí is a traditional Yorùbá artiste of Oǹdó extraction. She is a promising and prosperous female artiste, who explores the richness of African values in creating her lyrics. Her songs are rendered in Oǹdó dialect. Oǹdó, a dialect spoken by the Oǹdó people of Southwestern Nigeria, is a dialect of the Yorùbá language. There have been multiple studies on traditional African songs. Such studies have engaged traditional African songs mos…
Concealment in Police-Suspect Interaction in Ibadan, Nigeria
Police-suspect interaction, henceforth, PSI, is an integral aspect of forensic discourse. Existing scholarly works have engaged PSI from the linguistic and non-linguistic viewpoints. However, studies have been silent on the role of concealment in extracting confessional statements from suspects. It is against this backdrop that this study examines the discursive roles of concealment in PSI with a view to describing concealment strategies and thei…
A Discursive Import of Suspects’ Affirmative Responses in Police-Suspect Interaction in Ibadan, Nigeria
Police-suspect interaction, henceforth PSI, has been examined from the linguistic and non-linguistic standpoints. Existing studies have interrogated the stylistic peculiarities of PSI without engaging the discursive import of suspects’ affirmative responses. Paucity of scholarly works on the discursive import of suspects’ affirmative responses has undermined the place of the suspect in PSI. It is against this background that this study interrogat…
A discursive construction of resistance in police-suspect interactions in Ibadan, Nigeria
Police-suspect interactions (PSIs) are a site for negotiating power. In the Nigerian context, scholarly investigations from the pragmatic and discourse analytical ambits have probed how investigating police officers (IPOs) enact and sustain power in PSIs. However, the place of the suspect in Nigerian policing has not enjoyed sufficient scholarly investigation. This study investigates how suspects deploy discursive devices to resist IPOs’ powers, …
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Discourse strategies of handling denials in police – suspect interaction in Ibadan, Nigeria
Studies on police interrogation have examined interrogating police officers’ (IPOs’) deployment of power abuse in gleaning confessional statements from suspects. However, studies on how IPOs handle denials during interrogation has not been given adequate attention. Therefore, this study investigates discourse strategies of handling denials in police-suspect interaction in Ibadan, Southwest Nigeria. Spencer-Oatey’s rapport management theory served…
A Stylistic Analysis of Ṣeun Ògúnfìdítìmí’s Songs
Ṣeun Ògúnfìdítìmí is a traditional Yorùbá artiste of Oǹdó extraction. She is a promising and prosperous female artiste, who explores the richness of African values in creating her lyrics. Her songs are rendered in Oǹdó dialect. Oǹdó, a dialect spoken by the Oǹdó people of Southwestern Nigeria, is a dialect of the Yorùbá language. There have been multiple studies on traditional African songs. Such studies have engaged traditional African songs mos…
Concealment in Police-Suspect Interaction in Ibadan, Nigeria
Police-suspect interaction, henceforth, PSI, is an integral aspect of forensic discourse. Existing scholarly works have engaged PSI from the linguistic and non-linguistic viewpoints. However, studies have been silent on the role of concealment in extracting confessional statements from suspects. It is against this backdrop that this study examines the discursive roles of concealment in PSI with a view to describing concealment strategies and thei…
A Discursive Import of Suspects’ Affirmative Responses in Police-Suspect Interaction in Ibadan, Nigeria
Police-suspect interaction, henceforth PSI, has been examined from the linguistic and non-linguistic standpoints. Existing studies have interrogated the stylistic peculiarities of PSI without engaging the discursive import of suspects’ affirmative responses. Paucity of scholarly works on the discursive import of suspects’ affirmative responses has undermined the place of the suspect in PSI. It is against this background that this study interrogat…
A discursive construction of resistance in police-suspect interactions in Ibadan, Nigeria
Police-suspect interactions (PSIs) are a site for negotiating power. In the Nigerian context, scholarly investigations from the pragmatic and discourse analytical ambits have probed how investigating police officers (IPOs) enact and sustain power in PSIs. However, the place of the suspect in Nigerian policing has not enjoyed sufficient scholarly investigation. This study investigates how suspects deploy discursive devices to resist IPOs’ powers, …
Discourse Tactic(s) in Police-Suspect Interactions in Ibadan, Nigeria
Existing studies on police interrogation have revealed that investigating police officers (IPOs) often resort to the use of physical force in extracting confessional statements from suspects. However, we maintain that IPOs do not usually subject suspects to torture in a bid to obtain a confession. We therefore examine how IPOs use tactics to achieve confessions in police-suspect interactions (PSIs). Data comprise nine interactions between IPOs an…
Women in crime
This study examines female characters as agents of criminal activities in Femi Osofisan’s Once upon Four Robbers. The study relies on insights from Wolfgang Iser’s Reader- -Response Theory (RRT). Drawing data from twelve purposively selected excerpts from the text, the study argues that Osofisan connects the reader’s knowledge in constructing women as agents of crime. Women’s involvement in crime is constructed through their activities in organis…
A Discursive Engagement of Ideological Issues in Ilaje Zionist Gospel Songs
The ideological practices of Christian groups in Nigeria and beyond, as evident in their songs, have received considerable attention from scholars across disciplines, including linguists. However, the songs and music of the Ilaje Zionist Christian movement, which constitutes a major bloc in the Nigerian “white garment” Christian circle, have not received serious scholarly attention. To address this gap in the literature, this article explores ide…
Argumentation in police-suspect interactions in Ibadan, Nigeria
In the Nigerian context, studies on police interrogation have acknowledged that investigating police officers (IPOs) wield power during police-suspect interactions (PSIs). We argue that power is not solely wielded by the IPOs during interrogation sessions; the suspect, who is often considered as a lesser participant during interrogation session, adopts argumentation to contest stances with IPOs. This study examines the rationale behind IPOs’ and …
A discursive construction of self in selected songs by Azeez Fashola (aka Naira Marley)
Studies on Azeez Fashola (aka Naira Marley) have only made passing comments on his personality. Most of the comments present negative perceptions about the personality of Naira Marley (NM). Such negative commentaries, this study contends, are insufficient in describing the construction of identities in NM’s lyrics. This study investigates the construction of self in selected songs of NM with a view to describing what the construction of self reve…
Voices in Selected Comments of Obiageli Ezekwesili on the #BringBackOurGirls Protest
This article reports Obiageli Ezekwesili’s voices on the #BringBackOurGirls protest. Fusing Du Bois’s stance theory and Ochs’s theory of context as theoretical model, this study articulates Ezekwesili’s stances on the kidnapping of the Chibok schoolgirls. Data were sourced through purposive sampling from six prominent Nigerian online newspapers (Punch, Vanguard, Tribune, The Guardian, The Nation, and Daily Trust). Over 100 of Ezekwesili’s comment…
Thoughts on the ink
Literary-stylistics of engagement in Femi Osofisan’s The Engagement
Existing linguistic and non-linguistic studies on Femi Osofisan’s The Engagement (TE) and his other plays have articulated the revolutionary dialectics that characterise his works. Besides the fact that TE has not been sufficiently explored, scholarly information on Osofisan’s construction of marriage proposal remains under-reported. Taking insights from aspects of literary stylistics (LS), this study examines the construction of marriage proposa…
The pragmeme of accommodation in Christian condolence messages in Nigeria
The inevitability of death is reinforced in the different cultures and religions of the world. Among Christians in general and Nigerian Christians in particular, it is seen as a transformator of human beings from mortality to immortality, as evident in their linguistic behaviour. This study investigates pain-relieving strategies in Christian condolence messages in Nigeria, within the purview of Capone’s pragmeme of accommodation. Data for the stu…
Representation of social actors in the tweets of Nigerian #EndSars protesters
Discursive tropes of love in selected songs of Bukola Elemide (a.k.a Àsá)
Nigerian popular music (NPM) is a conglomerate of diverse cultural forms. Its varied rhythm compellingly appeals to the sensibilities of Nigerians. Existing scholarly debates have interrogated the socio-cultural nuances in Àsá’s lyrics. However, the role of language in constructing the complexities of love, as captured in her lyrics, remains underexplored. This study fuses appraisal theory and the theory of language of motions to describe Àsá’s t…
Mute’s responses to facelessness
The phenomenon of street children is fast becoming a ubiquitous social practice in sub-Saharan Africa. This unfortunate social malaise has continued to fester as a result of systemic irresponsibility. Studies have probed the feminist, ideological, eco-critical and socio-psychological appeals in Darko’s Faceless. However, Darko’s emphasis on the strategic intervention of a non-governmental organisation (MUTE) in mitigating the lingering consequenc…
A discursive engagement of evasions in police-suspect interactions in Ibadan, Nigeria
This study reports the discursive appeals embedded in the deployment of evasions in police-suspect interactions (PSIs) in Ibadan. Studies have marked investigating police officers (IPOs) as participants who overtly wield power during interrogation. This study argues that power is not an exclusive preserve of the IPOs; suspects equally deploy evasions to challenge IPOs’ powers. Informed by van Dijk’s model of critical discourse analysis, 45 interr…
Discursive representation of the Nigeria police in selected Afrobeats
Studies have examined the important role the Nigeria Police plays in the Nigerian security system. However, the investigation of the discursive representation of the Nigeria Police and its personnel in Afrobeats (hip hop) is yet to be largely explored. This study, thus, within the ambit of the Foucauldian Discourse Analytic approach and Halliday’s Transitivity, investigates the representation of the Nigeria Police in selected songs of Nigerian Af…
Linguistic Choices as Conveyors of Social Activism in the Tweets of Nigerian #EndBadGovernance Protesters
Protests, a site for venting dissenting voices, have attracted commendable scholarly patronage in Africa. Studies in this regard have predominantly probed the recurring tropes and trajectories in protests. However, the contextual roles of linguistic choices in constructing the themes and dissenting voices in the tweets of Nigerian #EndBadGovernance protesters remain underreported. Drawing insights from van Dijk’s model of critical discourse analy…
A Critical Discourse Analysis of Ethnic Rhetoric in the Tweets on Nigeria’s Presidential Election Campaign of 2023
Studies from diverse theoretical strands have established that the language of political campaigns in Nigeria is replete with rhetorical appeals. However, the role of language in tracking ethnic appeals in Nigeria’s 2023 presidential election has not enjoyed empirical investigation, especially from the viewpoint of critical discourse analysis. This study explores the rhetorical tropes adopted in negotiating ethnicity in the tweets of Nigerian X (…
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