Staff Profile
Dr. Isaiah Aluya
Position: Senior Lecturer
Department: English
Email: isaiah.aluya@binghamuni.edu.ng
Biography
I am a lecturer in the Department of English and Literary Studies, Bingham University. I work with both undergraduate and postgraduate students and teach the following courses: Syntax, Semantics, Discourse Analysis, Speech Writing, Advanced Morphology and Syntax, Lexicology and Semantics, Advanced English Stylistics and Advanced Discourse Analysis. I am interested in supervising undergraduate and postgraduate research in the aforementioned areas.
| SN | Name | Institution | Year Obtained |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ph.D. English Language | University of Ibadan | June, 2019 |
| 2 | M.A. Teaching English as a Foreign and Second Language | University of Birmingham, UK | December, 2012 |
| 3 | B.A. (Hons.) English | Ambrose Alli University, Ekpoma | October, 2008 |
| SN | Name | Type | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 'A Corpus-Based Approach To The Linguistic Features In Nigeria And America Presidential Speeches' | Journal Article | |
| 2 | 'A Sociolinguistic Examination Of Language Attitudes Of Edo State Civil Servants To The English Language In Relation To Their Indigenous Languages' | Journal Article | |
| 3 | Graphic Devices As Signallers Of Meaning In Osundare's Dialogue With My Country | Journal Article | |
| 4 | 'Still In The Woods': A Stylistic Reading Of Osundare's Essays | Journal Article | |
| 5 | 'Alliteration And Assonance As Discourse Elements In Tanure Ojaide's And Benji Egede's Poetry'' | Journal Article | |
| 6 | Cohesion And Coherence In Chimammanda Ngozi Adichie's Half Of A Yellow Sun' | Journal Article | |
| 7 | 'Communicative Imports Of Rhetorical Questions In Niyi Osundare's Essays'' | Journal Article | |
| 8 | 'Discourse Construction Of Power Relation In Femi Osofisan's Women Of Owu'" | Journal Article | |
| 9 | The Semantics Of Incongruous Collocations In Chimammanda Adichie's Half Of A Yellow Sun' | Journal Article | |
| 10 | 'Exploring The Forms And Meanings Of Mood Structures In Niyi Osundare's "Parable From Koma"'' | Journal Article | |
| 11 | 'Style In Selected Headlines Of Niyi Osundare's Columns In Newswatch' | Journal Article | |
| 12 | 'Poetic Representation Of The Environment Of The Emasculated In Tanure Ojaide's The Endless Songs' | Journal Article | |
| 13 | 'Pragmatic Face And Ideology In Selected Speech Discourses Of President Muhammadu Buhari' | Journal Article | |
| 14 | 'Non-Verbal Cues As Discourse Strategy In Soyinka's Death And The King's Horseman' | Journal Article | |
| 15 | Resourcefulness Of Figurative Language In Selected Essay Discourses Of Niyi Osundare And Ray Ekpu' | Journal Article | |
| 16 | 'Discourse Dimension Of Dominance Relations In Dul Johnson's Across The Gulf | Journal Article | |
| 17 | 'Grammatical Deviation As A Tool For Foregrounding Nigeria Sociopolitical Challenges In Niyi Osundare's Essays | Journal Article | |
| 18 | Lexical Repetition And Syntactic Parallelism In Selected Political Essays Of Niyi Osundare And Ray Ekpu' | Journal Article |
Research Interests
- My main areas of expertise are associated with Syntax, Semantics, Discourse Analysis, Stylistics and Speech Writing,