Dr. Tolulope A. Akinseye

Since 2023 Research Fellow, Alexander von Humboldt Stiftung

Since 2022 Senior Lecturer,  University of Ibadan

2019 - 2022 Lecturer I, University of Ibadan

2016 - 2019 Lecturer II, University of Ibadan

2012 - 2016 Assistant Lecturer, University of Ibadan

2017 Ph.D. English Language, University of Ibadan, Ibadan

2010 M.A. Language, University of Ibadan, Nigeria 

2005 B.A. (Ed.) English, University of Ilorin, Nigeria 

Member, English Scholars’ Association of Nigeria (ESAN)

Pragmatics Association of Nigeria (PRAN)

Member, Linguistics Association of Ghana

Akinseye, T. A. (accepted July 2023). Domestic violence is a monster: The representation of metaphors and patterns of violence in Nigerian female victims’ narratives on Facebook. REAL: Research in English and Applied Linguistics.

Akinseye, T. A. (accepted July 2023). (IM)politeness as discourse strategy in Edo and Ondo States’ governorship debates. JOS Journal of English Language.

Akinseye, T.A. (accepted June 2021). What questions do teachers and students ask? A systemic analysis of interrogative mood in selected English language and mathematics classroom discourses in Ibadan. A Festschrift for Prof. Adeleke Fakoya. Lagos State University, Nigeria.

Akinseye, T. A. (2021). Affect and judgemental attitudes in selected university undergraduates’ narrative essays. In N. Osunbade, F. Unuabonah, A. Osisanwo, A. Adetunji, F. Oni (Eds.), Pragmatics, discourse and society, Volume 2: A Festschrift in honour of Prof. Akin Odebunmi (pp. 46–69). UK: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.

Akinseye, T. A. (2019). Forms of writing: Essays, term paper and book review. In A. Osisanwo & K. A. Adebiy-Adelabu (Eds.), Effective communication and literary appreciation skills: A text for GES 201: Use of English II (pp. 237–254). Ibadan: Ibadan University Press.

Akinseye, T. A. (2019). Nigerianism, pidginism and anglicism in selected Facebook discourses. In O. R. Bello & H. J. Hunjo (Eds.), Sociolinguistics, (critical) discourse, pragmatics and Nigerian English. A Festschrift in honour of Prof. D. L. Adeyanju (pp. 154–170). Lagos: Digitech Creative Press House.

Akinseye, T. A. (2019). Exploring radical bilingualism switches in selected Osundare’s poetic idiostyle. In A. Ogunsiji & Y. Okunowo (Eds.), Language and style in Niyi Osundare’s poetry (pp. 369–378). Ogun State: TASUED Press.

Akinseye, T. A. (2019). The Metafunctions of the English Clause. In A. B. Sunday & F. O. Egbokhare (Eds.), Contemporary issues in Language studies (pp. 149–172). Ibadan: Scholarship Publishers (Nig.) Ltd.

Akinseye, T. A. (2019). Grammatical tense, aspect and modality of the English sentence. In A. Osisanwo & K. A. Adebiyi-Adelabu (Eds.), Effective English usage: A text for GES 101: Use of English I (pp. 237–254). Ibadan: Ibadan University Press.

Adebiyi, T. A. (2012). Paragraph development. In A. Odebunmi & M. A. Alo (Eds.), Use of English for theological purposes (pp. 295–327). Ibadan: Baptist Press.

Akinseye, T. A. (2023). Exploring interactive metadiscourse as a practical approach to enhancing academic writing skills of newly admitted undergraduate students in Nigeria. EuroAmerian Journal of Applied Linguistics and Languages. E-JournALL, 10(2), 44–6

Akinseye, T. A. & Ukor, E. (2023). Pragmatic acts and socially-shared ideologies in selected Pro-EndSARS Tweets. Ife Journal of Literature and Linguistics, 9(1).

Akinseye, T. A. (2023). Persuasion and connection of words: Discursive strategies and interpersonal resources in president Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s inaugural speech of May 29, 2023. ATRAS, 4(2), 143–179.

Akinseye, T. A., Oni, E. & Opaleye, K. (2022). Taxis and logico-semantic relations in selected news articles on insecurity in Nigeria. Global Journal of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences, 10(8), 1–19.

Akinseye, T. A. & Awoke N. (2021). Modality as stance and engagement markers in online readers’ comments on poverty in northern Nigeria. LIWURAN: Journal of the Humanities,22(2).

Akinseye, T. A. (2021). Discourse structure in a Nigerian tutor-learner online classroom chats. Journal of the English Scholars’ Association of Nigeria, 23(2), 81–101.

Akinseye, T. A. (2021). Metadiscursive markers in second language theses abstract. British Journal of Applied Linguistics, 1(1), 14–28.

Akinseye, T. A.(2020). Epistemic versus non-epistemic modality : An analysis of English modals in selected English as a second language (ESL) classroom discourses. Oye: Journal of Language, Literature and Popular Culture, 2(1), 67–86.

Adedamola, M. & Akinseye, T. A. (2020). Generic structure potential (GSP) and discourse features in selected banking discourses in Ibadan, Oyo State, Nigeria. International Journal of English Language and Linguistics Research 8(4), 59–93.

Akinseye, T. A. & Adebiyi, K. I. (2019). Discourse strategies and ideologies in ethno-political hate speech in selected social media platforms. Journal of Communication and Language Arts, 10(1), 35–64.

Akinseye, T. A. (2019). Thematic selection and progression patterns in L2 theses abstracts from humanities and science. Logos & Littera: Journal of Interdisciplinary Approaches to Text, 7, 49–63.

Akinseye, T. A. (2018). Achieving cohesion through grammatical conjunctions in English as a second language (ESL) English language and Mathematics Classroom Discourses. Jadavpur Journal of language and linguistics, 2, 63–78.

Akinseye, T. A. (2018). Declarative mood in teacher-students classroom interactions: A case of selected secondary school English language classroom discourses (ELCDs) and mathematics classroom discourses (MCDs) in Ibadan, Southwestern Nigeria. Lagos Papers in English Studies, 6, 149–174.   

Akinseye, T.A. (2015). I belong to everybody and i belong to nobody: An interpersonal investigation of president Mohammadu Buhari’s inaugural speech of 29 May, 2015. Ibadan Journal of English Studies, 11, 61–100.