Onwu Inya

List of John Benjamins publications in which Onwu Inya is involved.

Articles

Inya, Onwu 2025 “I am a baby-friendly doctor, but…”: Narrative positioning in health advice stories on X/Twitter, Naija Narrative Inquiry: Online-First Articles | Article

This paper investigates instances of narrativised health advice exchanges between Nigerian doctors and laypersons on X/Twitter, Naija. Based on 144 story tweets, the analysis focuses on how advice exchanges manifest as acts of narrative identity positioning. With Bamberg’s (1997) three-level… read more

Inya, Onwu 2022 ‘As democracy grows’: Metaphor scenarios for democracy in Nigerian Senate debates of the Fourth Republic Metaphor and the Social World 12:2, pp. 224–244 | Article

This paper investigates the metaphorical framing of the concept of democracy in Nigerian Senate debates (henceforth, NSD) in a mini-corpus of 214 meta-discursive commentaries on democracy by legislators, with insight from metaphor scenario theory. Three source concepts – “ erect… read more