Akinmade Timothy Akande

Biographic Data

ID4052474
NAMEAkinmade Timothy Akande
GIVEN NAMESAkinmade Timothy
FAMILY NAMEAkande
SIGNATUREAKANDE A T
AFFILIATIONSObafemi Awolowo University
ORCID0000-0002-4519-7711
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS9
TOTAL CITATIONS6
WORKS AS AUTHOR8
WORKS AS EDITOR1
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2010
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2025
H-INDEX2

  • Aspects of Digital Multilingualism in Twenty-First Century Retail Banking in Nigeria

    Akinmade Timothy Akande, Anjola Robbin et al.ARTICLELanguage Matters2025

    This article investigated the use of multiple languages on ATMs in selected banks located in Oyo and Osun states, Nigeria. The study examined the number of languages used on the ATMs in these banks and the prospects and challenges of using multiple languages on ATMs by drawing data from surveys and interviews with bankers. The study found the dominant use of English, minimal use of Nigerian Indigenous languages, and one instance of Nigerian Pidgi…

  • Current Trends in Nigerian Pidgin English

    De Gruyter Mouton, Akinmade Timothy Akande et al.EDITORBOOKCurrent Trends in Nigerian Pidgin…2021

    This book focuses on the structure and sociolinguistics of Nigerian Pidgin English. Its major aim is to serve as a compendium which touches different major aspects of NPE as it has been observed that earlier works in this area have focused only on one aspect or the other. It will offer a broad survey of the form and functions of Nigerian Pidgin (NP) in different domains. The book promises to investigate the use of NP in such domains as popular cu…

  • Sex Sells

    Adeola Ojoawo, Akinmade Timothy AkandeARTICLEMuziki2020

    “Sex sells” is a thriving trend in the hip-hop world which certainly applies to contemporary Nigerian hip-hop music, despite the Nigerian socio-cultural restriction. Studies of Nigerian hip-hop music have focused on the effects of sexual content, with a few focused on the strategies used in the discussion of sexual themes. Fewer studies, however, have examined metaphors of sex and body parts in Nigerian hip-hop music. This paper investigates the …

  • Dative Alternation in Nigerian English

    Mayowa Akinlotan, Akinmade Timothy Akande et al.ARTICLEGlottotheory2020

    Dative alternation is that sort of construction which requires a choice from two available choices; the double object (DOC) (i. e. Please give Mary the book) and the preposition construction (TOC) (i. e. Please give the book to Mary). Empirical evidence detailing the characteristics and motivations of dative choices in different varieties have been put forward in the literature. Albeit, nothing is known about the nature and motivations of this ph…

  • Naming as a marker of identity on Nairaland

    Saheed Oke Raheem, Akinmade Timothy AkandeARTICLEAfrican Identities2019Cited by: 4References: 13

    Names are very important in every culture of the world as it is by one’s name that he or she is first of all known and identified. A name can say a lot about an individual: it can inter alia say something about the appearance of a person, about his behavior and about his family background. It is against this backdrop that this paper was aimed at investigating naming as a crucial instrument of expressing different forms of identity. The data for t…

  • Morning Sir

    Akinmade Timothy AkandeARTICLEMatatu2017

    Nigerian military army barracks are a rich domain in which soldiers and officers display different strands of their identity. A typical army barracks in Nigeria often accommodates many ethnic groups owing to the federal policy governing the recruitment of both soldiers and officers. Thus, it is common in the barracks for military men to be aware of their ethnic, linguistic, religious, and regional affiliations and to relate to one another based o…

  • Multilingual practices in Nigerian army barracks

    Akinmade Akande, Akinmade Timothy AkandeARTICLEAfrican Identities2016Cited by: 2References: 15

    The aim of this study was to analyse the multilingual practices in Nigerian army barracks with a view to showing the sociolinguistic profile of the Nigerian army barracks, establishing the patterns of language use of the Nigerian army and demonstrating how they make use of language choice in different domains to express multiple identities. Data were collected from 46 military men comprising soldiers and officers in four army barracks through fac…

  • Code-switching in Nigerian hip-hop lyrics

    Akinmade Akande, Akinmade Timothy AkandeARTICLELanguage Matters2013

    This paper examines multilingualism in relation to hip-hop lyrics in Nigeria. It focuses on the sociolinguistics of English and its contact with other Nigerian languages in hip-hop music. The paper argues that, because Nigerian Pidgin English (NPE) has the highest number of speakers as compared to other indigenous languages in the country (Faraclas 2004), its speakers are found across the country and its usage given prominence in Nigerian hip-hop…

  • Is Nigerian Pidgin English English

    Akinmade Timothy AkandeARTICLEDialectologia et Geolinguistica2010

    The major aim of this paper is to demonstrate through the grammar of the verb phrase in Standard English (StdE) and Nigerian Pidgin English (NPE) that NPE is a distinct language. The paper draws on data collected from 30 Nigerian University Graduates from three ethnolinguistic regions. Although many scholars have pointed out that NPE is a language (Agheyisi, West African Pidgin: Simplification and Simplicity, University of Stanford, 1971; Elugbe …