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Profile
| Academic position | Full Professor |
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| Research fields | General and Applied Linguistics, Typology, Non-European Languages,English Language (Linguistics) |
| Keywords | Linguistic globalisation, popular culture, codeswitching, language use |
| Honours and awards | 2019: The Alexander von Humboldt Returning Fellowship Award 2016: The Alexander von Humboldt Returning Fellowship Award 2014: African Humanities Program Fellowship Residency at Makerere University, Uganda 2013: African Humanities Program Fellowship Award 2012: The Alexander von Humboldt Returning Fellowship Award 2011: The Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship Award 2006: Language Learning Grants: Modern Language Centre, Ontario, Institute for Studies in Education, Canada 2005: Bonamy Dobree Scholarship Award: University of Leeds, Leeds 2005: Overseas Research Student Award: UniversitiesUK, United Kingdom 2005: Tetley and Lupton Scholarship Award: University of Leeds, Leeds |
Current contact address
| Country | Nigeria |
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| City | Ile-Ife |
| Institution | Obafemi Awolowo University |
| Institute | Department of English |
Host during sponsorship
| Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Christian Mair | Englisches Seminar, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, Freiburg |
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| Start of initial sponsorship | 01/04/2011 |
Programme(s)
| 2010 | Georg Forster Research Fellowship Programme for Postdocs |
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Publications (partial selection)
| 2018 | Eunice Fajobi and Akinmade Akande: Patterns of the Pronunciation of the English interdental fricatives by Some Yoruba Speakers of English in a Nigerian University. In: Studia Anglica Posnaniensia , 2018, 25-43 |
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| 2017 | Akinmade Akande: Morning Sir! Identity Negotiation in Nigerian army barracks. In: MATATU: Journal for African Culture and Society , 2017, 201-224 |
| 2016 | Akinmade Akande: Multilingual practices in Nigerian army barracks. In: African Identities, 2016, 38-58 |
| 2014 | Akinmade Akande: Hybridity as authenticity in Nigerian hip-hop lyrics. In: Veronique Lacoste, Jakob Leimgruber, Thiemo Breyer, Authenticity: A View from inside and outside Sociolinguistics. Mouton de Gruyter, 2014. 269-284 |
| 2014 | Akinmade Akande and Adebayo Mosobalaje: The use of proverbs in hip-hop music: The example of Yoruba proverbs in 9ices lyrics. In: Proverbium, 2014, 35-58 |
| 2013 | Akinmade Akande: Code-switching in Nigerian hip-hop lyrics. In: Language Matters, 2013, 39-57 |
| 2012 | Akinmade Akande: Globalization and English in Africa: Evidence from Nigerian Hip-hop. Novas, 2012 |
| 2012 | Akinmade Akande: The appropriation of African American Vernacular English and Jamaican Patois by Nigerian hip-hop artistes . In: Zeitschrift fur Anglistik und Amerikanistik: A Quarterly of Language, Literature and Culture, 2012, 237-254 |