Dr. Oluwayemisi Olusola Adebomi (nee Akinmameji)
Research Fellow
Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, Germany
Oluwayemisi Olusola Adebomi, is a Nigerian University Lecturer and currently a visiting researcher at the Department of English, American and Celtic Studies, University of Bonn. She obtained her doctoral degree from the University of Ibadan, Nigeria. She has received several awards including the African-German Network of Excellence in Science (AGNES) research grant, the postdoctoral fellowships of the Merian Institute for Advanced Studies in Africa (MIASA), University of Ghana/Freiburg and the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, Germany. Her areas of research include discourse, new media, multimodality, gender and African studies. Her papers have appeared in journals like Language and Semiotic Studies, LinguistikOnline, Language Matters and Journal of African Media Studies.
Current Research: Reconstructing the computer-mediated discourse of female politicians in Nigeria: A corpus-based study. (Ongoing research project, Georg Forster Postdoctoral Fellowship, Department of English, American and Celtic Studies, University of Bonn)
Curriculum Vitae
Since 2023 Senior Lecturer, General Studies Department, Federal University of Technology, Akure (FUTA)
2020 - 2023 Lecturer I, General Studies Department, Federal University of Technology, Akure (FUTA)
2017 - 2020 Lecturer II, General Studies Department, Federal University of Technology, Akure (FUTA), March, 2017 to September, 2020.
2015 - 2017 Teaching Assistant, General Studies Department, Federal University of Technology, Akure (FUTA)
2017 Ph.D. English Language, University of Ibadan, Nigeria
2011 M. A. English Language, University of Ibadan, Nigeria.
2007 B.A. English, University of Ado-Ekiti, Nigeria.
Undergraduate Level:
First Semester: GNS 101- English Language for Academic Purposes
Second Semester: GNS 102- Use of English
Postgraduate Level:
First Semester: ESP 711-Writing Skills
COM 717: Public Relations
ESP: Fundamentals of discourse analysis and pragmatics
Second Semester: COM 714: Advertising
Member, English Scholars Association of Nigeria (ESAN)
Member, National Association of Teachers and Researchers of English as a Second Language (NATRESL).
Digital Humanities Association of Nigeria (DHAN)
Publications
Adebomi, O. O. (2023b). Surviving covid-19: a multimodal discourse analysis of new media covid-19 vaccination related pictorials. Language and Semiotic Studies, 1–26.
Adebomi, O. O. (2023a). Pragma-Rhetorical analysis of Muhammadu Buhari’s speeches on Covid-19. Language Matters, 54(1), 21–39.
Adebomi O. O. (2022c). Discourse strategies in selected speeches of Nigeria president Muhammadu Buhari. The Quint, 15(1), 93–115.
Adebomi, O. O. (2022b). Discursive structures in Matthew Kukah’s January 2020 speech on the state of insecurity in Nigeria. The African Review, 49(4), 1–19.
Adebomi, O. O. (2022a). Language in a pandemic: A multimodal analysis of social media representation of Covid-19. Journal of African Media Studies, 14(1), 7–28.
Adebomi, O. O. (2020f). A multimodal analysis of memetic representation of Nigeria government’s response to Covid-19. Research in Pragmatics, 2(2), 1–22.
Adebomi O. O. (2020e). Discourse analysis of Olusegun Obasanjo’s letters to Muhammadu Buhari. Journal of Humanistic Studies, 30, 99–117.
Adebomi O. O. (2020d) Leadership ideology in the inauguration speeches of Olusegun Obasanjo. Journal of Language and Literature, 33, 138–151.
Adebomi, O. O. (2020c). Critical discourse analysis of the state of emergency speech declared by former Nigeria’s President Olusegun Obasanjo in 2004. Cross Cultural Communication, 16(2), 21–27.
Adebomi, O. O (2020b). Memetic representation of individuals and institutions in Nigeria President Muhammadu Buhari Administration. Language, Text, Society, 7(1), 1–16.
Akinmameji, O. O (2020a). Proverbs and figurative expressions as markers of feminist ideology in selected Femi Osofisan’s plays. LinguistikOnline 101, 1/20, 99–113.
Akinmameji O. O. (2018). Power expressions in the inauguration speeches of Olusegun Obasanjo. Journal of Communication and Language Arts, 9(1), 211–233.
Akinmameji O. O. (2018). A gender reading of selected speeches of former Nigerian president Goodluck Jonathan. International Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences, Modern Research Studies, 5(2), 63–82.
Akinmameji, O. O. (2016). Lexis and mood as markers of feminist ideology in Tunde Kelani’s Arugba and Ma’ami. International Letters of Social and Humanistic Sciences, 71, 71–82.
Akinmameji, O. O. (2015). Discourse strategies and ideology in Olusegun Obasanjo and Goodluck Jonathan’s correspondences of December, 2013. Madonna Journal of English and Literary Studies 2(7), 171–180.
Lamidi, M. T. & Akinmameji, O. O. (2013). Feminist interpretation of naming in selected plays of Femi Osofisan. Ibadan Journal of Humanistic Studies, 23, 51–70.
Adebomi, O. O. (Forthcoming). “Don’t expect Covid-19 to last, it was made in China”: Humorous expressions of Covid-19 realities in selected social media memes. Applied Linguistics, Classroom Discourse and Interactional Pragmatic: A Festschrift for Professor Leke Fakoya (pp. 299–315).
Akinmameji O. O. (2023). Mood as gender determinant in Femi Osofisan’s Morountodun and Tegonni: an African Antigonne. Linguistic Structure, Language Contact and Virtual Communication: A Festschrift for Tayo Lamidi (pp. 215–288). Abuja: NOUN Printing Press.
Adebomi O. O. (2021). Authorial cultural ideology in Femi Osofisan's Birthdays are not for Dying. Culture, Philosophy, Science and Technology: A Festschrift in Honour of Rev. Fr Gabriel Adebisi Adedeji (1949-2020) (pp. 101–122). Akure: FUTA BDC Printing Press.
Akinmameji, O O. (2018). Persuasive strategies in selected speeches of Nigeria’s vice-president, Yemi Osinbajo. Discourse-stylistics, Sociolinguistics and Society: A Festschrift for Ayo Ogunsiji (pp. 463–484). Ibadan: Stirling Horden Publishers Ltd.
Akinmameji, O. O. (2017). Gendered interactional conventions in Femi Osofisan’s Morountodun, Yungba Yungba and the dance contest and Tegonni: an African Antigonne. Pragmatics, Discourse and Society, Volume 2: A festschrift for Akin Odebunmi (pp. 857–869).
Akinmameji, O. O. (2016). Lexical indices of feminist ideology in Buchi Emecheta’s The Bride Price. In A. Odebunmi, A. Osisanwo, H. Bodunde & S. Ekpe (Eds.), Grammar Applied Linguistics and Society, A Festschrift for Wale Osisanwo (pp. 410–426). Ife-Ife: Obafemi Awolowo University Press.
Conference Presentations
Postgraduate seminar series of the Institute fur Anglistik und Amerikanistik, University of Hamburg, Germany on December 5, 2023
Paper presented: Revisited: Reconstructing the political discourse of select female politicians in Nigeria.
Network Meeting of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation held at the University of Stuttgart, Germany on November 22–24, 2023.
Paper presented: Reconstructing the computer mediated discourse of female politicians in Nigeria: A corpus-based study.
Digital English Worldwide: Africa and Beyond. A Conference in Honour of Prof. Dr. Josef Schmied held at the University of Chemnitz, Germany on July 14–15, 2023.
Paper presented: A corpus-based exploration of mood structures in the senatorial debates of Oluremi Tinubu and Solomon Adeola.
Spring Conference of the Joongwon Linguistic Society of Korea held on May 21, 2022
Paper presented: Covid-19 is a Gendered Crisis: Investigating the Gender Ideologies in Selected Covid-19 Memes.
Merian Institute for Advanced Studies in Africa (MIASA), University of Ghana, Legon Public Lecture Series held on April 26, 2022
Title of Lecture: Power Expressions in the Computer-Mediated Political Discourse of Select Female Politicians in Nigeria and Ghana.
Merian Institute for Advanced Studies in Africa (MIASA), University of Ghana, Legon Seminar held on March 10, 2022
Paper presented: A Linguistic Exploration of the Social Media Political Posts of Nigeria’s Oby Ezekwesili and Ghana’s Shirley Botchwey.
Merian Institute for Advanced Studies in Africa (MIASA), University of Ghana, Legon Jour Fixe held on March 3, 2022
Paper presented: Rethinking the Interconnections of Gender and Sustainable Governance in Nigerian and Ghanaian Democracies.
Fall Conference of the Joongwon Linguistic Society of Korea held on October 30, 2021
Paper presented: Sorosoke: Legitimising the Nigerian #ENDSARS Protests through Digital Activism.
International Conference in Digital Humanities held at the University of Lagos, Nigeria on May 13–14, 2021.
Papers presented: (a) Demystifying patriarchy in selected Facebook memes.
(b) Multimodal representation of the insecurity situation in Nigeria in selected Facebook cartoons.
University of Ibadan Faculty of Arts Biennial Conference held on May 18–19, 2021.
Paper presented: Discourse strategies in the Covid-19 speeches of World Health Organisation Director General, Teddros Ghebreyesus.
Gender Equality in West Africa: A writing Workshop for Female Early Career Researcher organised by the Interdisciplinary Global Development Centre, University of York between March 22–26, 2021.
Paper Presented: Lexical representation of women in Femi Osofisan’s Morountodun and Buchi Emecheta’s The Bride Price.
14th Annual ELTT/NATRESLConference held at the Federal University of Technology, Akure from June 25–28, 2019.
Papers presented: (a) Adebomi, O. O. Leadership Ideology in theInauguration of Olusegun Obasanjo.
(b) Fola-Adebayo, T., Sotiloye, B., Aduralola, R., Owoyemi, B. R.,Adebomi, O. O., Akeredolu-Ale, B. I. and Bodunde, H. Use of two Asynchronous Online Affordable in
Promoting Academic Literacy in a Blended Learning Context.
10th Pan African Literacy for All Conference held at Sheraton Hotel and Towers, Abuja, Nigeria. August 27–31, 2017.
Paper presented: Fola Adebayo, T., Sotiloye, B., Aduralola, R., Owoyemi, B. R., Akinmameji, O. O., Akeredolu- Ale, B. I. and Bodunde, H. Use of two Asynchronous Online Affordable in Promoting Academic Literacy in a Blended Learning Context.
English Scholars Association of Nigeria (ESAN) Conference, Lokoja. October 2015.
Paper presented: Akinmameji, O. O. Lexical Indices of Feminism in Buchi Emecheta’s The Bride Price.