Dr. Onwu Inya

Profil

Derzeitige StellungProfessor W-2 und Äquivalente
FachgebietEnglische Sprachwissenschaft
KeywordsNigerian Legislative Discourse, Evaluation, Corpus Linguistics, Rapport management, Pragmatics
Auszeichnungen

2022: Postdoctoral Fellow ACLS/African Humanities Program

Aktuelle Kontaktadresse

LandDeutschland
OrtLüneburg
Universität/InstitutionLeuphana Universität Lüneburg
Institut/AbteilungInstitute of English Studies (IES)

Gastgeber*innen während der Förderung

Prof. Dr. Anne BarronInstitute of English Studies (IES), Leuphana Universität Lüneburg, Lüneburg
Beginn der ersten Förderung01.11.2023

Programm(e)

2023Georg Forster-Forschungsstipendien-Programm für Postdocs

Publikationen (Auswahl)

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