Staff Profile

Isaiah Aluya
Assoc. Prof. Isaiah Aluya

Position: Associate Professor

Department: English

Email: isaiah.aluya@binghamuni.edu.ng

Biography

Qualifications
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
Publications
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
19 Intertextuality And Interdiscursivity In Political Apologies: Tracing The Reuse Of Apology Tropes In Nigeria’s Democratic History. Journal Article
20 Visual Narratives And Linguistic Framing: A Multi-Modal Discourse Study Of Newspaper Coverage On The Cbex Ponzi Scheme In Nigeria. Journal Article
21 Media Representations Of Farmer-Herder Clashes In Selected Nigerian Newspaper Headlines. Journal Article
22 Language And Cognition In Religious Texts: A Text World Approach To Biblical Parables. Journal Article
23 A Cognitive Stylistic Study Of Mind Style In Selected Short Stories In Dul Johnson’s Shadows And Ashes. Journal Article
Research Interests
  • My main areas of expertise are associated with Syntax, Semantics, Discourse Analysis, Stylistics and Speech Writing,