Ibukun Filani
List of John Benjamins publications in which Ibukun Filani is involved.
Articles
2026 The discursive construction of femininity in metacommentaries on a rape-joke in Nigeria Pragmatics in African Contexts, pp. 196–222 | Article
This article analyses the construction of femininity in metacommentaries on a rape-joke in a Nigerian online forum “Nairaland.” Discursive analysis of posts reveals that netizens supporting the joke mesh indigenous framing of femininity with Western epistemic authority enacted through… read more
2025 The comedian’s identity, audience’s perspective(s) and problematic jokes ‘Only joking’: Negotiating offensive humour in interaction, Elder, Chi-Hé, Eleni Kapogianni and Ibi Baxter-Webb (eds.), pp. 69–92 | Article
This paper examines the interconnection of performers’ institutional identity, audience’s perspectives and offensive jokes in our contemporary world, where there are increasing debates on humourists’ rights to free speech and audience’s (or the target’s) right to face wants. Commonly, because of… read more
2023 Nigerian stand-up comediennes performing femininity: A pragmatic analysis Pragmatics 33:2, pp. 209–236 | Article
Nigerian stand-up comedy has attracted several investigations from different disciplinary perspectives; however, there has been little research interest into the performance of femininity in the genre. Coming from pragmatics, this paper analyses how Nigerian comediennes use the language of… read more