Discourse Analysis/critical Discourse Analysis
Professor
English Language
At the English Language department office
Appointment on Visitation important
Topic: The Indomitable Lion (A Translation Of Afolabi Olabimtan’s Kekere Ekun)
Description:
This
is a translation of Afolabi Olabimtan’s Yoruba novel Kekere Ekun into the English language. The project is being carried
out to test the procedures for achieving translation equivalence in the
conversion of African literature in indigenous language texts into target
English language texts.
The
aim is to highlight the problems translators encounter, with a view to using
the outcome of this practical exercise to improve the quality of teaching
translation studies in the department’s curriculum. It is also to ascertain the
possibility of total message recovery with minimal loss of meaning in
translation procedures. The methodology will involve a three-stage process of
translation, back translation and integrity check that will lead to the
production of a final TL version.
The
translated text will offer readers from different parts of the world the
opportunity to appreciate the historical context of the colonizing influence of
western civilization on the indigenous cultures and languages of the African,
particularly the Yoruba people. It is expected that a manual of practical guide
to translation will be developed to serve as a resource material for
translators and improve translation pedagogy within the department.
# | Certificate | School | Year |
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1. | Ph.D (English) | English, University of Ibadan | 2010 |
Hate Speech and Flaming in online media in Nigeria
The
aim is to describe the discursive forms and functions of flaming in popular
Nigerian discussion networking sites , particularly involving the youth population:
facebook, Nairaland and Nigerian Village Square. The main objectives are to
determine the contribution of topic and speakers’ personalities participants to
participants' flaming behaviour. The method involves the collection of a word
corpus of Nigerian online discussion forum compiled between 2018 and 2020. This
will be processed using the Antconc corpus analytical software to search out
keywords relating to name calling, profiling and threats. The study is expected
to reveal the context of flaming behaviour in Nigeria, and the various
categories of flaming behavioural traits such as verbal- name-calling,
personality attack, ethnic profiles, and non-verbal -symbols, images, memes and
emojis. The study will contribute to the
evolving online flaming discourse as a strand of political discourse analysis. It
will explain in an objective manner the youths’ culture of language use in the
public sphere to influence political action in the country.
AYODELE AYOTUNDE is a Professor at the Department of English Language
AYODELE has a Ph.D in English from English, University of Ibadan