Prof. Dr. Innocent Eberechi Chiluwa

Profile

Academic positionFull Professor
Research fieldsEnglish Language (Linguistics),Applied Linguistics, Computer Linguistics,Theatre and Media Studies
KeywordsCritical Discourse Analysis (CDA), Media, Corpus linguistics, Nigeria, Conflict discourse

Current contact address

CountryUnited Kingdom
CityEdinburgh
InstitutionHeriot-Watt University

Host during sponsorship

Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Christian MairEnglisches Seminar, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, Freiburg
Start of initial sponsorship01/02/2010

Programme(s)

2009Georg Forster Research Fellowship Programme for Postdocs

Publications (partial selection)

2025Chiluwa, I.: Women’s rights advocacy in Africa. In: S.A. Samoilenko & S. Simmons, The Wiley Handbook of Political and Social Conflict. Wiley & Sons, 2025.
2024Chiluwa, I. & Ruzaite, J. Analysing the language of political conflict: a study of war rhetoric of Vladimir Putin and Volodymyr Zelensky. In: Critical Discourse Studies, 2024,
2024Cooper, V. & Chiluwa, I.: Constructing Africa in Chinese international news reporting: peace or conflict journalism?. In: Critical Discourse Studies, 2024,
2024Chiluwa, I.: Discourse, digitisation and women’s rights groups in Nigeria and Ghana: online campaigns for political inclusion and against violence on women and girls.. In: New Media & Society , 2024,
2024Chiluwa, I.: Investigating the language of conflict and peace in critical discourse studies.. In: Critical Discourse Studies, 2024,
2024Chiluwa, I. & Ononye, C.: The #PantamiMustGo political activism: a textual analysis of narrative agency in protest discourse. In: Discourse Studies, 26, 2024, 173-198
2023Chiluwa, I.: #EndSARS protests and the search for social justice in Nigeria: Examining activist discourses on police brutality, politics and human security.. In: Protest, 3, 2023, 200-224
2023Aminu, P. & Chiluwa, I. Reinventing identity and resistance ideology in protest narratives. In: Journal of Language Aggression and Conflict, 11, 2023, 200-225
2023Awopetu, I. & Chiluwa, I. Resistance in visual narratives: A multimodal CDA of images of the #EndSARS protests in Nigeria. In: Visual Communication Quarterly, 30, 2023, 157-169
2023Ononye, C. & Chiluwa, I. ‘There’s still something positive about the Niger Delta ecology’: Metaphor and ideology in the Niger Delta poetic discourse. In: Language and Literature, 32, 2023, 275-296
2022Innocent Chiluwa, Isioma M. Chiluwa & Angie O. Igbinoba: "Herdsmen are terrorists": Analyzing news headlines on the herder-farmer conflict in the Nigerian press. In: Innocent Chiluwa, Discourse, Media and Conflict: Examining war and resolution in the news. Cambridge University Press (Cambridge), 2022. 69-92
2022Innocent Chiluwa (ed.): Discourse, Media and Conflict: Examining war and resolution in the news. Cambridge University Press (Cambridge), 2022
2022Innocent Chiluwa: Introduction: Media, conflict and peace-building. In: Innocent Chiluwa, Discourse, Media and Conflict: Examining war and resolution in the news. Cambridge University Press (Cambridge), 2022. 1-16
2022Ada Peter & Innocent Chiluwa: Making a case for war: CNN and the representations of humanitarianism, Gadhafi, and NATO in the 2011 bombing of Libya. In: Innocent Chiluwa, Discourse, Media and Conflict: Examining war and resolution in the news. Cambridge University Press (Cambridge), 2022. 119-139
2021Innocent Chiluwa (ed.): Discourse and Conflict: Analysing Text and Talk of Conflict, Hate and Peace-building. Palgrave Macmillan (London), 2021
2021Innocent Chiluwa: Introduction: discourse, conflict and conflict resolution. In: Innocent Chiluwa, Discourse and conflict: Analysing text and talk of conflict, hate and peace-building. Palgrave Macmillan (London), 2021. 1-16
2021Innocent Chiluwa: Researching the Language of Conflict. In: Research in Pragmatics, 3, 2021, 49-57
2021Innocent Chiluwa: Resisting corruption in the Nigerian legislature: A critical discourse analysis of news and opinion articles on legislators' salaries. In: Discourse & Communication (Sage), 15, 2021, 519-541
2021Innocent Chiluwa: Women’s online advocacy campaigns for political participation in Nigeria and Ghana. In: Critical Discourse Studies (Taylor & Francis), 2021,
2020Innocent Chiluwa, Lily Chimuanya & Esther Ajiboye: Communicating Religious Extremism in West Africa. In: Joram Tarusarira & Ezra Chitando, Themes in Religion and Human Security in Africa. Routledge (London), 2020. 166-179
2020Innocent Chiluwa & Isioma M. Chiluwa: Separatists or terrorists? Jews or Nigerians? Media and cyber discourses on the complex identity of the “Biafrans” . In: Journal of Language and Politics (John Benjamins), 2020, 583-603
2020Innocent Chiluwa & Isioma M. Chiluwa: “Deadlier than Boko Haram”: Representations of the herder-farmer conflict in the local and foreign press . In: Media, War & Conflict (Sage), 2020, 1-22
2019Innocent Chiluwa & Gwen Bouvier (eds): Activism, Campaigning and Political Discourse on Twitter. Nova Science, 2019
2019Innocent Chiluwa: Deception in online terrorist propaganda: A study of ISIS and Boko Haram. In: Innocent Chiluwa & Sergei Samoilenko, Deception, Fake News and Misinformation Online. IGI Global, 2019. 520-537
2019Innocent Chiluwa: Discourse Analysis and Conflict Studies. In: SAGE Research Methods Cases, 2019, 0
2019Innocent Chiluwa & Sergei Samoilenko: Handbook of Research on Deception, Fake News and Misinformation Online. IGI Global, 2019
2019Innocent Chiluwa: Online activism in Mali: A study of digital discourses of the Movement for the Liberation of Azawad. . In: Innocent Chiluwa & Gwen Bouvier, Activism, Campaigning and Political Discourse on Twitter. Nova Science, 2019. 183-207
2019Innocent Chiluwa & Gwen Bouvier: Twitter: Global Perspectives, Uses and Research Techniques. Nova Science, 2019
2019Gwen Bouvier & Innocent Chiluwa: Twitter: global perspectives, civic culture and moral affect. In: Innocent Chiluwa & Gwen Bouvier, Twitter: Global Perspectives, Uses and Research Techniques. Nova Science, 2019. 1-8
2019Innocent Chiluwa, E. Ovia & Emmanuel Uba : “Attention Beneficiary…! Assessing types and features of scam emails.'. In: I. Chiluwa & S. Samoilenko (eds.)., Deception, fake news and misinformation online . IGI Global, 2019. 421-438
2019Innocent Chiluwa: “Congratulations your email account has won you €1,000,000! Analyzing the discourse structures of scam emails.”. In: Tony Docan-Morgan (ed.) The Palgrave Handbook of Deceptive Communication. Palgrave-Macmillan 2019. 897-912
2018Innocent Chiluwa: “SMS & Civil Unrest.” . In: Mehdi Khosrow-Pour (ed.), Encyclopedia of Information Science and Technology, 4th edition. IGI Global, 2018. 6275-6285
2018Innocent Chiluwa: A nation divided against itself: Biafra and the conflicting online protest discourses. In: Discourse & Communication, 2018, 357-381
2017Innocent Chiluwa (ed.): Deception & Deceptive Communication: motivations, recognition techniques and behavioral control.. Nova Science Publishers, 2017
2017Isioma Chiluwa, Innocent Chiluwa & Esther Ajiboye: Online deception: a discourse study of email business scams.”. In: Innocent Chiluwa (ed)., Deception & Deceptive Communication: motivations, recognition techniques and behavioral control. Nova Science Publishers, 2017. 169-188
2017Innocent Chiluwa: The discourse of terror threats: assessing online written threats by Nigerian terrorist groups. In: Studies in Conflict & Terrorism (Taylor & Francis), 2017, 318-338
2016Innocent Chiluwa & Esther Ajiboye: Discursive pragmatics of t-shirt inscriptions: constructing the self, context and social aspirations. In: Pragmatics and Society, 2016, 436-462
2016 Innocent Chiluwa & Esther Ajiboye: Language use in crisis situations: a discourse analysis of online reactions to news reports of the Washington Navy Yard shooting and the Nairobi Westgate attack. In: Rotimi Taiwo & Tunde Opeibi, The Discourse of Digital Civic Engagement: Perspectives from the Developing World. Nova Science, 2016. 35-55
2016Innocent Chiluwa & Akin Odebunmi: On terrorist attacks in Nigeria: Stance and engagement in conversations on Nairaland. In: Communication and the Public (Sage), 2016, 91-109
2015 Innocent Chiluwa: 'Occupy Nigeria 2012’: a critical analysis of Face book posts in the fuel subsidy removal protests. In: Revista Clina , 2015, 47-69
2015Innocent Chiluwa: Email Fraud. In: Karen Tracy, Cornelia Ilie & Todd Sandel International Encyclopedia of Language and Social Interaction . John Wiley & Sons, 2015. 1-6
2015Innocent Chiluwa: Radicalist discourse: a study of the stances of Nigeria's Boko Haram and Somalia's Al Shabaab on Twitter. In: Journal of Multicultural Discourses (Routledge) , 2015, 214-235
2015 Innocent Chiluwa: Text messaging in social protests. In: Zheng Yan, Encyclopedia of Mobile Phone Behavior (vol.2) . IGI Global, 2015. 1011-1018
2015 Innocent Chiluwa & Emmanuel Uba: Texting and Christian practice. In: Zheng Yan Encyclopedia of Mobile Phone Behavior (vol.1). IGI Global, 2015. 354-360
2015Innocent Chiluwa & Presley Ifukor: War against our children: stance and evaluation in #BringBackOurGirls campaign discourse on Twitter and Facebook. In: Discourse & Society (Sage), 2015, 267-296
2014Innocent Chiluwa, Presley Ifukor & Rotimi Taiwo (eds): Pragmatics of Nigerian English in Digital Discourse. LINCOM, 2014
2013Innocent Chiluwa & Adetunji Adegoke: Twittering the Boko Haram Uprising in Nigeria: Investigating Pragmatic Acts in the Social Media. In: Africa Today (Indiana University Press, Indiana, USA), 2013, 82-102
2012Innocent Chiluwa: Citizenship, Participation and CMD: The case of Nigeria. In: Pragmatics and Society (John Benjamins), 2012, 61-88
2012Rotimi Taiwo & Innocent Chiluwa: Computer-Mediated Discourse in Africa. Nova Science, 2012
2012Innocent Eberechi Chiluwa: Language in the News. Peter Lang GmbH, 2012
2012Innocent Chiluwa: Language in the News: mediating sociopolitical crises in Nigeria. Peter Lang, 2012
2012Innocent Chiluwa: Online Religion in Nigeria: the Internet Church and Cyber Miracles. In: Journal of Asian and African Studies (Sage: Los Angeles, London...), 2012, 734-749
2012Innocent Chiluwa: Social Media Networks and the Discourse of Resistance: A Sociolinguistic CDA of Biafra Online Discourses. In: Discourse & Society (Sage), 2012, 217-244
2011Innocent Chiluwa: Labeling and Ideology in the Press: a Corpus-based Critical Discourse Study of the Niger Delta Crisis. Peter Lang, 2011
2011Innocent Chiluwa: Media Construction of Sociopolitical Crises in Nigeria. In: Journal of Language and Politics (John Benjamins), 2011, 88-108
2011Innocent Chiluwa: Media Representation of Nigeria’s Joint Military Task Force in the Niger Delta Crisis . In: International Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences, 2011, 197-208
2010Innocent Chiluwa: The Media and the Militants: constructing the Niger Delta crisis. In: RASK: International Journal of Language and Communication (University of Southern Denmark press), 2010, 41-78