Dr. Onwu Inya

Profile

Academic positionAssociate Professor, Senior Lecturer, Reader
Research fieldsEnglish Language (Linguistics)
KeywordsNigerian Legislative Discourse, Evaluation, Corpus Linguistics, Rapport management, Pragmatics
Honours and awards

2022: Postdoctoral Fellow ACLS/African Humanities Program

Current contact address

CountryGermany
CityLüneburg
InstitutionLeuphana Universität Lüneburg
InstituteInstitute of English Studies (IES)

Host during sponsorship

Prof. Dr. Anne BarronInstitute of English Studies (IES), Leuphana Universität Lüneburg, Lüneburg
Start of initial sponsorship01/11/2023

Programme(s)

2023Georg Forster Research Fellowship Programme for Postdocs

Publications (partial selection)

2023Onwu Inya: Modality in Nigerian Senate Debates: Patterned co-occurrence and discourse functions. Readings in Corpus Linguistics: A Teaching and Research Guide for Scholars in Nigeria and Beyond.. Unuabonah, F. O., Oladipupo, R. O. and Daniel, F. O., 2023. 394-417
2023Onwu Inya: ‘I Cannot Overreach the Senate’: Orienting to the Macro-Context of Legislative Debates of the Nigerian Senate. In: Journal of Asian and African Studies, 2023,
2023Onwu Inya: ‘This app is evil forest true true’: metaphor-based metadiscursive evaluations of Twitter by Nigerians. In: Digital Scholarship in the Humanities, 2023, 1-9
2022Onwu Inya: ‘As democracy grows’ Metaphor scenarios for democracy in Nigerian Senate debates of the Fourth Republic. In: Metaphor and the Social World, 12, 2022, 224-244
2021Onwu Inya; Blessing T. Inya: Interrogating the Phenomenon of Suffering and Smiling by Nigerians: A Mixed Methods Study.. The Palgrave Handbook of Humour Research . Vanderheiden, E., Mayer, C.H, 2021. 149-170.
2021Onwu Inya; Blessing T. Inya: Pragmatic Reading of Sex-Construing Metaphors in Shoneyin’s The Secret Lives of Baba Segi’s Wives.. Pragmatics, Discourse and Society: A Festschrift for Akin Odebunmi. Osunbade, N., Unuabonah, F., Osisanwo, A., Adetunji, A., Oni, F. 2021. 424-446
2021Onwu Inya: ‘The legislature is the engine room of democracy’: Constructing ideological worldviews through proximisation strategies in Nigerian Senate debates. In: Discourse & Society, 32, 2021, 196-213
2021Onwu Inya: “Egungun be careful, na Express you dey go”: Socialising a newcomer-celebrity and co-constructing relational connection on Twitter Nigeria. In: Journal of Pragmatics, 184, 2021, 140-151