Dr. Ayo Osisanwo

Education

PhD. University of Ibadan, Discourse Analysis and Pragmatics, 2011

M.A. University of Ibadan, Discourse Analysis and Stylistics, 2006

B.A. Ed. English, Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife (Ondo) (Second Class Upper Division), 2002

Professional Appointments

2022                Senior Lecturer and Acting Head, Department of English, Chrisland University, Abeokuta, Nigeria (Sabbatical Appointment)

2021 - 2022     Senior Lecturer (Adjunct Appointment), Institute of Humanities/English, Pan-Atlantic University, Ibeju-Lekki, Lagos, Nigeria

2019 – date     Senior Lecturer, Department of English, University of Ibadan, Ibadan, Nigeria (Other responsibilities: Examinations Coordinator at the Department, Coordinator of Departmental Seminar Series)

2016 - 2019    Lecturer I, University of Ibadan, Ibadan, Nigeria (Other responsibilities: Supervisor of Use of English, UI; Congregational Representative, Senate, University of Ibadan; Editorial Member, Ibadan Journal of English Studies)

2015                Postdoctoral Fellow (AHP/ACLS), School of Journalism, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South-Africa.

2013 - 2016    Lecturer II, University of Ibadan, Ibadan, Nigeria (Other responsibilities: Postgraduate Coordinator for Department of English, UI; Editorial Member, Ibadan Journal of English Studies; Deputy Postgraduate Coordinator for Department of English, UI)

2007 - 2013    Lecturer II/III, Adeyemi College of Education, Ondo, Nigeria

2005 - 2007     Tutorial Assistant, General Studies Programme, University of Ibadan, Ibadan, Nigeria

From the past five years (selected):

Authored Books

1. Osisanwo, A. A. (2019). Spoken English. Ibadan: University of Ibadan Distance Learning Centre. 158pp. (Nigeria)

Edited Books

1. Niyi Osunbade, Foluke Unuabonah, Ayo Osisanwo, Akin Adetunji & Funke Oni. 2021. Pragmatics, discourse and society: A festschrift for Akin Odebunmi. Volume 1. Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Publishing. https://www.cambridgescholars.com/product/978-1-5275-6881-5
2. Niyi Osunbade, Foluke Unuabonah, Ayo Osisanwo, Akin Adetunji & Funke Oni. 2021. Pragmatics, discourse and society: A festschrift for Akin Odebunmi. Volumes 2. Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Publishing. https://www.cambridgescholars.com/product/978-1-5275-7150-1
3. Osisanwo, A. A., Bamigbade, W., Egbunike, Tella, A. 2020. Applied linguistics, linguistic variations and English usage in the Nigerian context: A festschrift for Moses Alo. Ibadan: University Press Limited. xviii+670pp.
4. Rotimi Oladipupo, Julianah Akindele, Ayo Osisanwo (Eds.) 2020. Phonetics, phonology and sociolinguistics in the Nigerian context: a festschrift for AdenikeAkinjobi. Ibadan: Stirling-Horden(Nigeria). xx+411pp.
5. Osisanwo, A. A. & Kazeem Adebiyi-Adelabu. 2019. Effective English usage: A textbook for GES 101 use of English I. Ibadan: Ibadan University Press.  xii+312pp.
6. Kazeem Adebiyi-Adelabu & Osisanwo, A. A. 2019. Effective communication and literary appreciation skills: A textbook for GES 101 Use of English I. Ibadan: Ibadan University Press. xii+284pp.
7. Ayo Osisanwo, Ibrahim Olaosun & Idowu Odebode. Eds. 2018. Discourse-stylistics, sociolinguistics and society: A festschrift for Ayo Ogunsiji. Ibadan: Stirling-Horden. xx+580pp.
8. Ayo Osisanwo, Kazeem Adebiyi-Adelabu & Adebayo Mosobalaje. Eds. 2018. Literary and linguistic perspectives on orality, literacy and gender studies: A celebration of OluwatoyinJegede @ 60. Ibadan: Kraft Books Limited. xxiv+626pp.

Articles in Journals

1. Osisanwo, A. A. and Ojo, R. 2022. “They are sexual objects”: construction of female rape victims in selected Nigerian newspapers. Mediální Studia, 16(1), 92–117.
2. Osisanwo, A. A. 2022. This virus is a common threat to all humans: Discourse representation of covid-19 in selected newspaper editorials. Athens Journal of Mass Media and Communications. Vol. 7(1): 59-78.
3. Osisanwo, A. A. & Adegbenro, S. 2021. The leader is a watchman: a pragma-dialectical reading of Olusegun Obasanjo’s my watch. Budapest International Research and Critics in Linguistics and Education (BirLE) Journal.  Vol. 4, No. 3: 1072-1083. doi.org/10.33258/birle.v4i3.2286.
4. Osisanwo, A. A.         2021. Self-praise, other-assault: Representations in selected political campaign songs in Southwestern Nigeria. Ghana Journal of Linguistics: Selected papers from the 1st African Pragmatics Conference.  10.1: 228–250.
5. Osisanwo, A. A. 2020. Responsibilisation and discourse:  A study of the 2019 election postponement speech of INEC Chairman. Covenant Journal of Language Studies. Vol. 8(2): 1-15.
6. Osisanwo, A. A. 2020. Visual representations of newspaper reportage of Boko Haram terrorism in Nigeria. American Journal of Art and Design.Vol. 5, No. 4, pp. 103-112. doi:10.11648/j.ajad.20200504.14.
7. Osisanwo, A. A. 2020. Discursive Strategies in Selected Political Campaign Songs in Southwestern Nigeria. Communication and Linguistics Studies (CLS). Vol. 6, No. 4, pp. 73-81. doi: 10.11648/j.cls.20200604.12.
8. Osisanwo, A. A. & Adegbosin, O. 2020. “Oga, I’m not lying”:  Discursive strategies in selected police-suspect interrogations in Ibadan, Nigeria. The International Journal of Humanities and Social Studies. 8(11):  278-286. doi:  10.24940/theijhss/2020/v8/i11/HS2011-085.
9. Osisanwo, A. A. & Iyoha, C. 2020. ‘We are not terrorists; we are freedom fighters’ Discourse Representation of the Pro-Biafra Protest in Selected Nigerian Newspapers. Discourse & Society. 31(6): 631-647.
10. Osisanwo, A. A. & Chinaguh, E. 2020. Linguistic representations in selected presidential concession speeches. Athens Journal of Mass Media and Communications. Vol. 6(4): 271-294.
11. Osisanwo, A. A. & Ajibade, T. 2019. Gender ideologies and representations in some sermons of selected Nigerian female preachers. Ife Studies in English Linguistics. 14(1): 80-101.
12. Osisanwo, A. A.  2019. Blame-frame and praise-frame on the Boko Haram terrorism in Nigeria newspapers: a discourse examination. PEOPLE: International Journal of Social Sciences. 4(3): 1633-1651.
13. Osisanwo, A. A. & Oluwayemi, V. 2018.  Divorce as conflict: representation of participants in selected Nigerian newspaper reports on divorce cases. Ibadan Journal of Humanistic Studies. 28(1): 91-108.
14. Osisanwo, A. A. 2018. Pictorial representation of Nigerian political terrain in TELL and The News magazines.  Ibadan Journal of English Studies. 14(1): 107-133.
15. Osisanwo, A. A. 2017. Linguistic features of news reports of war on terrorism in Nigeria. Ife Studies in English Linguistics.13 (2): 57-82.
16. Osisanwo, A. A. 2017. Conceptual metaphors in newspaper reportage of the war on Boko Haram terrorism in Nigeria. Ibadan Journal of Humanistic Studies. 27(1): 19-38.
17. Osisanwo, A. A. 2017. The winner as the chosen: #bbnaija fans discourse construction of the 2017 winner on selected social media. Papers in English & Linguistics (PEL). Vol. 18(3 & 4).
18. Osisanwo, A. A. 2017. I belong to everybody yet to nobody: pragmatic acts in President Muhammadu Buhari’s inaugural speech. Athens Journal of Mass Media and Communications. Vol. 3(4). 297–320.
19. Osisanwo, A. A. 2017. Stance and engagement in e-punch newspaper readers’ comments on former President Goodluck Jonathan administration’s war against Boko Haram terrorism in Nigeria. Journal of English Studies Association of Nigeria.19(1):143-160.

Contributions in Collections

1. Osisanwo, A. A. & Odeyemi, F. 2022. The intonation of selected educated Hausa speakers of English in Bayero University, Kano. Linguistic discourses and literary appraisals: A festschrift for Raphael O. Atoye. Demola Jolayemi, Adenike Akinjobi, George Adekunle Ojo & Oladunjoye Faleye (Eds). Ilorin: Haytee Press & Publishing. pp 122-151.
2. Osisanwo, A. A. & Ojora, T.  2021.  Impoliteness and entertainment in Who Deserves to be a Millionaire. Pragmatics, discourse and society: A festschrift for Akin Odebunmi. Volume 1. Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.   https://www.cambridgescholars.com/product/978-1-5275-6881-5
3. Osisanwo, A. A. 2020. The exemplary applied linguist: an exploration into Alo’s linguistic scholarship. Applied linguistics, linguistic variations and English usage in the Nigerian context: A festschrift for Moses Alo. Osisanwo, A. A., Bamigbade, W., Egbunike, Tella, A. (Eds.) 3-14pp.
4. Osisanwo, A. A. & Ajibade, T. 2020. Context and gender issues in selected sermons of Nigerian female preachers. Applied Linguistics, Linguistic Variations and English Usage in the Nigerian Context: A Festschrift for Moses Alo. Osisanwo, A. A., Bamigbade, W., Egbunike, Tella, A. (Eds.). Ibadan: University Press Limited. (Nigeria). 435-455pp.
5. Osisanwo, A. A. 2020. The quintessential Nigerian English phonologist: An exploration into Akinjobi’s phonological trajectory. In RotimiOladipupo, JulianahAkindele, Ayo Osisanwo (Eds.) Phonetics, phonology and sociolinguistics in the Nigerian context: a festschrift for AdenikeAkinjobi. Ibadan: Stirling-Horden(Nigeria).3-23pp.
6. Osisanwo, A. A. & Akintaro, S. 2020. Intonation Patterns as Contextualisation Cues and Discursive Strategies in Selected Ibadan Courtroom Discourse. In Rotimi Oladipupo, Julianah Akindele, Ayo Osisanwo. Phonetics, phonology and sociolinguistics in the Nigerian context: a festschrift for Adenike Akinjobi. Ibadan: Stirling-Horden(Nigeria). 109-131pp.
7. Osisanwo, A. A. & Ajibade, T. 2020. Discourse issues and strategies in Vice Chancellor Abel Idowu Olayinka’s convocation speeches. In Ayobami Kehinde, Oyesoji Aremu and Matthew Nton. Homage to a gentleman scholar-administrator: A festschrift in honour of Professor Abel Idowu Olayinka. Ibadan: Ibadan University Press. 11-33pp.
8. Osisanwo, W. & Osisanwo, A. A. 2020. The Hallidayan systemic functional grammar. Interrogating gender through third world dialectics: a multi-disciplinary approach: a festschrift in honour of Yetunde O. O. Akorede. In Y. Ogunsiji, C. Adebiyi, A. O. Olajuyigbe, G. Dare, R. Adebile and O. M. Olaleye. Eds. pp 393-418.
9. Kehinde, M. A., Lamidi, M. T., Akinjobi, A. A., Osisanwo, A. A., Adebiyi-Adelabu, A. K. 2019. Theories and methodologies in English studies. In A. B. Ekanola, A. Raji-Oyelade and R. O. Olaniyi. Theories and methodologies in the humanities. TETFUND/Ibadan: Ibadan University Press. Pp 95-129.
10. Osisanwo, A. A. 2019. Speaking Skills as an enhancer of communication in the classroom. In Ruth K. B. Oji Communication in education: a handbook for teachers. Ibeju-Lekki: Pan-Atlantic University Press. Pp. 50-67.
11. Osisanwo, A. A. & Alugbin, M. 2019. Rhetoric of defeat in American presidential concession speeches (APCSs). In Oluwaseun Rachael Bello & Henry Jedidiah Hunjo (Eds), Sociolinguistics, (critical) discourse, pragmatics & Nigerian English: A Festschrift in honour of Dele Samuel Adeyanju.  Lagos: Digitech Creative Press House. 523- 537pp.
12. Osisanwo, A. A. 2019. Speaking skills: The sound system of English. In Kazeem Adebiyi-Adelabu & Ayo Osisanwo. Effective communication and literary appreciation skills: A textbook for GES 101 Use of English II. Ibadan: Ibadan University Press. Pp 255-274.
13. Osisanwo, A. A. 2019. Vocabulary development, meaning relations and spelling in English. In Ayo Osisanwo & Kazeem Adebiyi-Adelabu. Effective English usage: A textbook for GES 101 Use of English I. Ibadan: Ibadan University Press. Pp 255-274.
14. Osisanwo, A. A. & Atoloye, L.  2018.  The generic structure potential in The Punch editorials on Boko Haram.  In F. Unuabonah, K. A. Ayoola & A. Adegoju (Eds.). Explorations in critical discourse and new media studies: essays in honour of Rotimi Taiwo. Glienicke: GaldaVerlag. 315 – 336 pp.
15. Osisanwo, A. A. & Chinaguh, E. 2018. Rhetorical relations in presidential concession speeches of Goodluck Jonathan of Nigeria and John Mahama of Ghana. In Ayo Osisanwo, Ibrahim Olaosun & Idowu Odebode (Eds.) Discourse-stylistics, sociolinguistics and society: a festschrift for Ayo Ogunsiji. Ibadan: Stirling-Horden. 195-226pp.
16. Osisanwo, A. A. & Adekunle, M. 2018.  Expressions of political consciousness in Wole Soyinka’s Alapata Apataand Femi Osofisan’sMorountodun: A pragma-stylistic analysis. In Ayo Osisanwo, KazeemAdebiyi-Adelabu& Adebayo Mosobalaje. Eds. Literary and Linguistic Perspectives on Orality, Literacy and Gender Studies: A Celebration of Oluwatoyin Jegede @ 60. Ibadan: Kraft Books Limited. 521-541pp.

PEER RECOGNITION

Reviewer – Media, War & Conflict

Reviewer – Terrorism and Political Violence

Reviewer – Research in Pragmatics

Reviewer – Legon Journal of the Humanities

Reviewer – Ghana Journal of Linguistics

Reviewer – Research in African Languages and Linguistics

Reviewer – Covenant Journal of Language Studies

Reviewer – African Identities

Reviewer – Ibadan Journal of Humanistic Studies

Reviewer – Ibadan Journal of English Studies

Reviewer – Journal of English Scholars Association of Nigeria

2001, Federal Government of Nigeria Scholarship for Outstanding Undergraduates

2002, Best Graduating Student Prize, School of Languages, Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU – ACE).

2002. Best Graduating Student Prize, Department of English, Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU – ACE).

2015, Recipient (Individual), Humanities Staff Development Grants (HSDG)

2015, Recipient (Group), Humanities Staff Development Grants (HSDG)

2015 – 2016, Postdoctoral Fellowship Award, African Humanities Program (AHP) of the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS)

2017, Grantee, Manuscript Development Workshop, African Humanities Program (AHP) of the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS), Accra, Ghana.

2020, Grantee, Remote-mentorship, African Humanities Program (AHP) of the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS), Department of Linguistics, University of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.

2022, Georg Forster Fellowship for Experienced Researchers, Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, Germany; October, 2022 – March, 2024