Redeemer's University

List of John Benjamins publications that have an author or editor affiliated with Redeemer's University*

Oladipupo, Rotimi Olanrele & Tinuade Onabamiro 2025 Primary-stress placement in Nigerian L1 English: An empirical investigation

Keywords: Nigerian L1 English | Nigerian English | primary stress | inner circle | syllable weight | affix type | distinctive stress

English World-Wide 46:1 pp. 28–51 | article

Gut, Ulrike & Foluke Olayinka Unuabonah 2024 Expressing gratitude in Nigerian English

Keywords: Nigerian English | thanking | pragmatics | nativisation | DCT | corpus linguistics

English World-Wide 45:3 pp. 255–282 | article | open access

Olayinka Unuabonah, Foluke & Folajimi Oyebola 2022 “He’s a lawyer you know and all of that”: General extenders in Nigerian English

Keywords: general extenders | International Corpus of English | Nigerian English | vague language | variational pragmatics

English World-Wide 44:1 pp. 61–90 | article

Daniel, Florence Oluwaseyi & Foluke Olayinka Unuabonah 2022 Stance and engagement in selected Nigerian Supreme Court judgments

Keywords: engagement | judgments | Nigeria | stance | supreme court

English Text Construction 14:2 pp. 231–252 | article

Unuabonah, Foluke Olayinka, Folajimi Oyebola & Ulrike Gut 2021 “Abeg na! we write so our comments can be posted!”: Borrowed Nigerian Pidgin pragmatic markers in Nigerian English

Keywords: corpus pragmatics | global web-based English | international corpus of English | postcolonial pragmatics | pragmatic borrowing | Nigerian English | Nigerian Pidgin

Pragmatics 31:3 pp. 455–481 | article | open access

Unuabonah, Foluke Olayinka 2021 “Oya let’s go to Nigeria”: A corpus-based investigation of bilingual pragmatic markers in Nigerian English

Keywords: bilingual pragmatic markers | Nigerian English | postcolonial corpus pragmatics | pragmatic borrowing

International Journal of Corpus Linguistics 26:3 pp. 370–395 | article

Olayinka Unuabonah, Foluke 2020 Argumentation in Nigerian investigative public hearings: A pragma-dialectical study of defendants’ discourses

Keywords: argumentative indicators | defendants | investigative public hearings | pragma-dialectics | strategic maneuvering

Journal of Argumentation in Context 9:2 pp. 199–218 | article

Unuabonah, Foluke Olayinka & Eniola Boluwaduro 2020 Conflict-motivated acts in the open letters of two former Nigerian presidents

Keywords: acts | context | ideology | political letters | pragmatic acts | Nigeria

English Text Construction 13:2 pp. 158–177 | article

Gut, Ulrike & Foluke Unuabonah 2019 The use of stance markers in West African Englishes

In: Corpus Linguistics and African Englishes, Esimaje, Alexandra, Ulrike Gut & Bassey E. Antia (eds.) [Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 88] pp. 205–230

Unuabonah, Foluke Olayinka & Ulrike Gut 2018 Commentary pragmatic markers in Nigerian English

Keywords: commentary pragmatic markers | corpus linguistics | evidential markers | hearsay markers | Nigerian English | British English

English World-Wide 39:2 pp. 190–213 | article

Unuabonah, Foluke Olayinka 2017  But as a stance marker in Nigerian investigative public hearings

Keywords: appraisal | contrastive marker | evaluation | intersubjective positioning | investigative public hearings | stance

Pragmatics and Society 8:3 pp. 400–420 | article

Unuabonah, Foluke Olayinka 2017 “Are you saying …?”: Metapragmatic comments in Nigerian quasi-judicial public hearings

Keywords: Interpersonal functions | Textual functions | Nigerian public discourse | Quasi-judicial public hearings | Metapragmatic comments

Pragmatics 27:1 pp. 115–143 | article | open access

*Please note that this list may be inaccurate for older publications.