Department of English & Literary Studies
 
Overview (CHD)
English / Literature

Department Staffs

Research & Articles
Admission Requirement
   
Mass communication
Human Resource Development
Sociology
 
Innocent Eberechi CHILUWA PhD
General Information
Title Dr.
Position Lecturer II
Department English & Literary Studies
Phone + 234 – 8033536952
Email innocentchiluwa@yahoo.co.uk
Academic / Professional Information
 

B.A (Hons) (English & Literary Studies) (Second Class Upper Division) 1995

  M.A (English Language) 1998
  PhD (English & Media Studies) 2005
   
Research Interest
   Discourse Analysis, Pragmatics & Media Studies
   
   
Professional Associations
   INTERNATIONAL PRAGMATICS ASSOCIATION (IPrA)
   NIGERIA ENGLISH STUDIES ASSOCIATION (NESA)
   
Teaching Areas
  Pragmatics, Discourse Analysis, Semantics, Sociolinguistics and Writing for the Mass Media
   
   
Research & Publications

 (i) “A Critical Linguistic Study of Language Variation and Ideological Differences in Media Discourse in Nigeria” Ibadan Journal of English Studies, Vol. 3, 2006, pp. 87-99
(ii) “Assessing the Nigerianness of SMS Text-Messages in English.” English Today 93, Vol. 24(1), 2008, pp. 51-56
(iii) “SMS Text-Messaging and the Nigerian Christian Context: Constructing Values and Sentiments.” International Journal of Language, Society & Culture, Issue 24, 2008, pp. 14-23.
(iv) “Religious Vehicle Stickers in Nigeria: A Discourse of Identity, Faith and Social Vision.” Discourse & Communication 2 (4), (2008)
(v) “Media Language and the Pragmatics of Local Idioms in Nigeria: Implications for Language Teaching.” (The Journal of Communicative English, Vol. 2, June 2006, pp. 17-32
(vi) “Metaphors of Corruption and Power in Media Discourse: A Challenge to National Unity and Development.” BIUDISCOURSE: Journal of Arts and Education, Vol. 2, No. 1, 2007, pp. 95 – 110
(vii) “The Literary Artist as a Visionary: Festus Iyayi and the Literature of Change.” BIUDISCOURSE, Vol. 2, No. 2, 2007, pp. 95-106
(viii) “Discourse Features of the Language of Nigerian News Magazines.” Perspectives on Media Discourse: Taiwo, Odebunmi & Adetunji (Eds.). Munchen: Lincom GmbH, 2007, pp. 222-249
(ix) “A Speech Acts Analysis of Written Adverts of Soft Drinks in Nigeria (2000-2006)” (Babcock Journal of Mass Communication, Vol. 1, No. 3, 2007, pp. 29-38
(x) History of the English Language (A publication of the National Open University, Lagos, 2006)
 

Research & Publications

(i) Morpho-Semantic Features of New Lexical Forms in Nigerian English
(ii) Adverts of Hard Drinks in the Nigerian Media: A Speech Acts Analysis