Richard Damilare Akano
Biographic Data
| ID | 4052626 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Richard Damilare Akano |
| GIVEN NAMES | Richard Damilare |
| FAMILY NAME | Akano |
| SIGNATURE | AKANO R D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Osun State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2577-0613 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Changing aesthetics in the Yoruba theatre from the Alarinjo theatre to the digital film age
Theatrical traditions are deeply rooted in a society’s history, geography, religion, and cultural values. This study explores the aesthetic evolution of Yoruba theatre, tracing its development from the ritualistic Alarinjo performances through Hubert Ogunde’s professional theatre, the literary and television stages, to the digital filmmaking era. It examines aesthetic elements such as language, costume, music, dance, setting, scripting, themes, c…
Trust-indicating pragmatic markers in selected African englishes
Rhetorical Strategies and Appraisal Markers in Online Civic Engagement of the Yoruba Nation Secessionist Agitation on Nairaland
This study examines rhetorical strategies and appraisal markers in the engagement of the Yoruba Nation (YN) secessionist agitation in Nairaland. Adopting the appraisal framework and Fairclough's notions of intertextuality and interdiscursivity as a theoretical anchorage, analysis unveils historical and biblical allusion, proverbs and adages, rhetorical questions, code alternation and pidgin as prominent rhetorical practices and intertextual and i…
Extending the rape narrative: A corpus-assisted discourse analysis of the construction of rape in selected Nigerian dailies
This study examines the discursive construction of rape in news reports from the standpoint of critical linguistics. To do this, a corpus of news articles on rape cases was generated from five Nigerian newspapers (The Punch, Vanguard, Daily Trust, Nigerian Tribune and Sun) published between 2018-2022. For concordance analysis, AntConc4 was deployed to tease out lexemes and collocates that index the construal of rape and actors. With insights from…
A threat to national unity, an emancipator: Discourse construction of the Yoruba nation secessionist agitation in selected Nigerian digital communities
The recently resurged Yoruba Nation (YN, henceforth) agitation joins some socio-political movements, social protests, and resistance group discourse in Nigeria that continue to gain traction in (critical) discourse studies. Guided by the theoretical paradigms of van Leeuwen’s representational strategies and Martin and White’s appraisal framework, 24 representative posts out of a thousand posts culled from Nairaland, Gistmania, and Naijaloaded gen…
Production and Interpretation of Accentual Intonation Tunes in L2 Acquisition: Implications for Nigerian Spoken English Accent
Intonation is one of the most problematic aspects of the English prosody for L2 speakers. Studies on Nigerian English (NigE) intonation have claimed that Standard English intonation differs significantly from native Englishes but studies on the interpretation and production of accentual intonation tunes of L2 acquisition have been rare. Fifty final-year university undergraduates from Nigeria (25 males and 25 females) were purposively sampled. Eac…
Ideological Stances in Yoruba Nation Secessionist Discourse in Nigerian Virtual Communities
This study examined the Yoruba nation secessionist agitation from the viewpoint of stance and ideology in its discursive engagement on three popular Nigerian virtual communities: Nairaland, Gistmania, and Naijaloaded. Data were subjected to the theoretical and analytical paradigms of appraisal framework and critical discourse analysis. Two voices were identified in the study: the anti-Yoruba nation and the pro-Yoruba nation voices. The anti-Yorub…
A threat to national unity, an emancipator: Discourse construction of the Yoruba nation secessionist agitation in selected Nigerian digital communities
The recently resurged Yoruba Nation (YN, henceforth) agitation joins some socio-political movements, social protests, and resistance group discourse in Nigeria that continue to gain traction in (critical) discourse studies. Guided by the theoretical paradigms of van Leeuwen’s representational strategies and Martin and White’s appraisal framework, 24 representative posts out of a thousand posts culled from Nairaland, Gistmania, and Naijaloaded gen…
Trust-indicating pragmatic markers in selected African englishes
Production and Interpretation of Accentual Intonation Tunes in L2 Acquisition: Implications for Nigerian Spoken English Accent
Intonation is one of the most problematic aspects of the English prosody for L2 speakers. Studies on Nigerian English (NigE) intonation have claimed that Standard English intonation differs significantly from native Englishes but studies on the interpretation and production of accentual intonation tunes of L2 acquisition have been rare. Fifty final-year university undergraduates from Nigeria (25 males and 25 females) were purposively sampled. Eac…
Ideological Stances in Yoruba Nation Secessionist Discourse in Nigerian Virtual Communities
This study examined the Yoruba nation secessionist agitation from the viewpoint of stance and ideology in its discursive engagement on three popular Nigerian virtual communities: Nairaland, Gistmania, and Naijaloaded. Data were subjected to the theoretical and analytical paradigms of appraisal framework and critical discourse analysis. Two voices were identified in the study: the anti-Yoruba nation and the pro-Yoruba nation voices. The anti-Yorub…
Extending the rape narrative: A corpus-assisted discourse analysis of the construction of rape in selected Nigerian dailies
This study examines the discursive construction of rape in news reports from the standpoint of critical linguistics. To do this, a corpus of news articles on rape cases was generated from five Nigerian newspapers (The Punch, Vanguard, Daily Trust, Nigerian Tribune and Sun) published between 2018-2022. For concordance analysis, AntConc4 was deployed to tease out lexemes and collocates that index the construal of rape and actors. With insights from…
A threat to national unity, an emancipator: Discourse construction of the Yoruba nation secessionist agitation in selected Nigerian digital communities
The recently resurged Yoruba Nation (YN, henceforth) agitation joins some socio-political movements, social protests, and resistance group discourse in Nigeria that continue to gain traction in (critical) discourse studies. Guided by the theoretical paradigms of van Leeuwen’s representational strategies and Martin and White’s appraisal framework, 24 representative posts out of a thousand posts culled from Nairaland, Gistmania, and Naijaloaded gen…
Changing aesthetics in the Yoruba theatre from the Alarinjo theatre to the digital film age
Theatrical traditions are deeply rooted in a society’s history, geography, religion, and cultural values. This study explores the aesthetic evolution of Yoruba theatre, tracing its development from the ritualistic Alarinjo performances through Hubert Ogunde’s professional theatre, the literary and television stages, to the digital filmmaking era. It examines aesthetic elements such as language, costume, music, dance, setting, scripting, themes, c…
Trust-indicating pragmatic markers in selected African englishes
Rhetorical Strategies and Appraisal Markers in Online Civic Engagement of the Yoruba Nation Secessionist Agitation on Nairaland
This study examines rhetorical strategies and appraisal markers in the engagement of the Yoruba Nation (YN) secessionist agitation in Nairaland. Adopting the appraisal framework and Fairclough's notions of intertextuality and interdiscursivity as a theoretical anchorage, analysis unveils historical and biblical allusion, proverbs and adages, rhetorical questions, code alternation and pidgin as prominent rhetorical practices and intertextual and i…
Linguistics (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Law (4 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Gender Studies (3 works) · Ideology (3 works) · Politics (3 works) · Psychology (3 works) · Yoruba (3 works)