Osoba, Joseph Babasola | Alex Ekwueme Federal University, Ndufu-Alike

Biography

Dr Joseph Babasola Osoba is an Associate Professor of English Linguistics at the Federal University, Ndufu-Alike, Ikwo, Abakaliki, Ebonyi State, Nigeria. His research interests include sociolinguistics, discourse analysis, pragmatics, psycholinguistics, critical linguistics as well as phonetics and phonology. He has been an external examiner to Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Osun State, Nigeria and The University of Zululand, Kwadlangezwa, South Africa. He has successfully supervised five Ph.D. candidates while his three other Ph.D. students, at the University of Lagos, are at the final lap of their programmes.

In addition, he has supervised well over four hundred M.A. students in English both at the University of Lagos and at Adekunle Ajasin University, Akungba-Akoko, Ondo State.He now has about thirty one publications in terms of journal articles, book chapters and review as well as conference proceedings in both reputable local and foreign institution-based outlets. He is the Chair of the 2017 Free Linguistics Conference (first time in Africa) to be held at University of Lagos, Akoka between the 28^th and 29^th September 2017.

He is a member of three international academic societies.

Faculty

Humanities

Social Media Handles
Facebook	jbaosoba@yahoo.co.uk	LinkedIn	jbosoba@gmail.com

Academic Qualifications

	Institutions Attended	Degree(s) Awarded	Year
*	UNIVERSITY OF LAGOS, AKOKA	PH.D ENGLISH	2000
*	UNIVERSITY OF LAGOS, AKOKA	M.A. ENGLISH	1991
*	ONDO (NOW EKITI) STATE UNIVERSITY, ADO-EKITI	B.A. ENGLISH & LIT. STUDIES	1987

Teaching And Research Interests

*	SOCIOLINGUISTICS
*	DISCOURSE ANALYSIS
*	PRAGMATICS
*	PHONETICS & PHONOLOGY
*	PSYCHOLINGUISTICS
*	CRITICAL LINGUISTICS

Membership of Professional Bodies

	Professional Body
*	West Africa Linguistics Association(since 2000)
*	Nigeria English Studies Association(since 2000)
*	West Africa Comparative Research Association(since 2012)

Selected Publications

*	Osoba, J.B. & Sola G. Oluwamunsanmi (2017) “Genderlect as Discourse in Yoruba Movies” In Crossroads, Journal of English Studies, 12, (1) June 2017, 1-22?, The University of Bialystok, Poland.
*	Osoba, J.B. (2016) Book Review of English InsideOut 3 by Judeson A. Ogberaha, Learnrite International Publishers Limited, Lagos, Nigeria, (2013). Number of pages: 366, In Cuttington University Journal of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences (CUJLASS), 3 (1) November, 2016, 115-116, Cuttington University, Liberia.
*	Osoba, J.B. & T.A. Alebiosu (2016) “Language Preference as a Precursor to Displacement and Extinction in Nigeria: The Roles of English Language and Nigerian Pidgin” In Journal of Universal Language (JUL) 17 (2), October, 2016, 111-143, Language Research Institute, Sejong University, South Korea.
*	Osoba, J.B. (2015b) “Interactional Language in Business Correspondence in Nigeria” In Tunde Opeibi et al. (Eds.), Research in English and Applied Linguistics REAL Studies 9, March 2015, 173-180, a Festschrift in Honour of Prof. Segun Awonusi, Chemnitz University of Technology, Germany.
*	Osoba, J.B. (2015a) “Analysis of Discourse in Nigerian Pidgin”. In Journal of Universal Language (JUL) 16 (1), March 2015, 1-29, Language Research Institute, Sejong University, South Korea.
*	Osoba, J.B. (2014c) ‘The Use of Nigerian Pidgin in Nigerian Political Jingles’. In Journal of Universal Language (JUL) 15(1) March 2014, 105-127, Language Research Institute, Sejong University, South Korea.
*	Osoba, J.B. (2014e) ‘Language, Education and Manpower Development in the Present-Day Nigeria’ In Cuttington University Journal of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences (CUJLASS), 1, 1, June 2014, 71-89, Cuttington University, Liberia.

Staff Information

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Campus Address

Department of Languages, Linguistics, Literary Studies & Theatre Arts, Faculty of Humanities, Federal University, Ndufu-Alike Ikwo (FUNAI), Ebonyi State, NIGERIA.