University of Ibadan

List of John Benjamins publications that have an author or editor affiliated with University of Ibadan*

Schaefer, Ronald P. & Francis O. Egbokhare 2026 Tonal aberrations signaling contact-induced grammatical change

Keywords: areal contact | future tense | contact-induced grammaticalization | tonal polarity | tonal aberration | Emai | Edoid

Diachronica 43:2 pp. 266–289 | article

Odebunmi, Akin 2025 Knowledge distribution in provenance inquiries: Small talk in Nigerian clinical meetings

Keywords: provenance inquiry | doctor-patient interaction | small talk | epistemic distribution | Nigeria | Yoruba identity construction

In: Identity Perspectives from Peripheries, Matsumoto, Yoshiko & Jan-Ola Östman (eds.) [Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 352] p. 94

Osisanwo, Ayo & Ruth Karachi Benson Oji 2025 Us and them: Discourses on October 20, 2020 #endsars shooting at the Lekki toll gate in Nigerian newspapers

Keywords: #EndSARS protest | ideological discourse | Lekki shooting | us and them | Nigerian newspapers

Pragmatics and Society 17:2 pp. 153–174 | article

Schaefer, Ronald P. & Francis O. Egbokhare 2025 Diachronic shifts among sound ideophones

Keywords: ideophones of sound | verbs | cause-effect | resultative | aspectual extent

In: Historical Linguistics 2022: Selected papers from the 25th International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Oxford, 1–5 August 2022, Kennard, Holly, Emily Lindsay-Smith, Aditi Lahiri & Martin Maiden (eds.) [Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 369] pp. 62–78

Ajayi, Temitope Michael & Temidayo Akinrinlola 2024 The pragmeme of accommodation in Christian condolence messages in Nigeria

Keywords: Nigerian Christians | death | pain-relieving strategies | condolence messages | pragmemes

Pragmatics and Society 16:5 pp. 726–747 | article

Adegbola, Olubunmi Funmi 2022 The discursive construction of gay people in news reports of selected Nigerian newspapers

Keywords: representation of gay persons | heteronormativity | ideologies | discourses on same-sex sexualities | homophobia in the Nigerian press

Journal of Language and Sexuality 11:1 p. 80 | article

Schaefer, Ronald P. & Francis O. Egbokhare 2022 Constraints constrained: Equipollent verb constructions in Emai

Keywords: Cause co-event verb | Edoid | Emai | framing patterns | serial verbs

In: Neglected Aspects of Motion Events Description: Deixis, asymmetries, constructions, Sarda, Laure & Benjamin Fagard (eds.) [Human Cognitive Processing: Cognitive Foundations of Language Structure and Use, 72] pp. 235–256

Odebunmi, Akin 2022 Nigerian hospital setting discourse

In: Handbook of Pragmatics: 24th Annual Installment, Östman, Jan-Ola & Jef Verschueren (eds.) [Handbook of Pragmatics, 24] pp. 187–219

Odebunmi, Akin 2021 Negotiating patients’ therapy proposals in paternalistic and humanistic clinics

Keywords: therapy proposals | paternalistic and humanistic doctoring styles | Kecskes’socio-cognitive approach | interactional moves | Yoruba culture | Nigerian clinical meetings

Pragmatics 31:3 pp. 430–454 | article | open access

Sunday, Adesina B. 2021 Critical sociocognitive analysis of hate speech in the 2015 Nigerian presidential election campaigns

Keywords: hate speech | critical sociocognitive analysis | propagandist and alarmist ideologies | 2015 Nigerian presidential election | Peoples Democratic Party Presidential Campaign Organisation (PDP) | All Progressives Congress Presidential Campaign Organisation (APC)

Pragmatics and Society 12:1 pp. 59–78 | article

Okwudilichukwu Ugwu, Eucharia 2020 Language policy and planning in Nigeria: Moving beyond rhetoric

Keywords: language policy | Nigerian government | multilingual education

Language Problems and Language Planning 44:1 pp. 1–19 | article

Igboanusi, Herbert, Clement Odoje & Garba Ibrahim 2018 The modernisation of HIV and AIDS’ nomenclatures in Nigeria’s major languages

Keywords: HIV and AIDS nomenclatures | lexical modernisation | Hausa | Igbo and Yoruba of Nigeria | health discourse

Terminology 23:2 pp. 238–260 | article

Oyetade, Solomon O. & Emeka C. Ifesieh 2014 The meaning of meaning in a literary translatorial action

Keywords: truth-value | discourse practice | use variation | unpredictability.

Babel 59:3 pp. 274–287 | article

Adeyanju, Dele 2008 Attitudes to taboo phenomenon among Yoruba–English bilinguals

Babel 54:2 pp. 159–170 | article

Schaefer, Ronald P. & Francis Oisaghaede Egbokhare 2008 Toward a typological perspective for Emai’s BE constructions.

In: Studies in African Linguistic Typology, Voeltz, F.K. Erhard (ed.) [Typological Studies in Language, 64] pp. 377–396

Egbokhare, Francis Oisaghaede 2008 Phonosemantic correspondences in Emai attributive ideophones

In: Ideophones, Voeltz, F.K. Erhard & Christa Kilian-Hatz (eds.) [Typological Studies in Language, 44] pp. 87–96

Ukoyen, Joseph 1999 La littérature africaine moderne en traduction: Problèmes, perspectives et contribution à la culture nationale et universelle

Babel 45:2 pp. 149–161 | article

Iyalla-Amadi, Priye 1996 Langage technique et univers technologique africain: À la recherche d'une lexicologie appropriée à Faide de la traduction technique

Babel 42:4 pp. 193–210 | article

Bamgbose, Ayo 1989 Issues for a Model of Language Planning

Language Problems and Language Planning 13:1 pp. 24–34 | article

Banjo, Ayo & Peter Young 1982 On editing a second-language dictionary: The proposed Dictionary of West African English (DWAE)

English World-Wide 3:1 pp. 87–91 | other

Obanya, Pai 1973 A Comparison of Students' Scores on Three Aspects of French

ITL - International Journal of Applied Linguistics 21:1 p. 3 | article

Obanya, Pai 1973 Improving Language Aptitude Through Intensive Foreign Language Training: A Pilot Study

ITL - International Journal of Applied Linguistics 20:1 pp. 11–17 | article

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