Meet ONI-BURAIMOH OLAWUNMI OMOLARA, an Academic Staff of Lagos State University.
Pragmatics, Cultural And Youth Studies
Senior Lecturer
English Language
At the English Language department office
Appointment on Visitation important
Topic: Pragmatics, African Popular Culture And Youth Studies
Description:
My research works are
mostly in the area of Pragmatics, African popular culture and youth studies. I
have published in the area of language in popular cartoons, social media, and
Nigerian youth cultures. I have six (6) papers that interrogate one aspect of
youth sexual discourse or the other. I also have a paper that examines the literary imagination
of sex and sexual discourse in Lola Shoneyin’s The Secret Lives of Baba Segi’s Wives; a paper on the Language of sexting on the social media and
its impact on spousal relationships in Nigeria. I have twelve (12) papers
in one aspect of popular culture or the other. Two of my papers are on basic
grammar and usage; two (2) in sociolinguistics and two (2) in Critical Discourse
Analysis. Aside from using insights from pragmatics in most of my papers, I
have a chapter on key concepts in Pragmatics and I co-authored a book on Trends in Semantics and Pragmatics – a book
of 40 chapters. In all, my research triangulates three separate fields of the
humanistic sciences—Linguistics, Sociology and Cultural Studies.
| # | Certificate | School | Year |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | Ph.D (Language) | English, University of Ibadan | 2012 |
Rape culture and Language enablers in Nigerian pop music
Rape is not a new phenomenon
but its upsurge during the Covid 19 period lockdown in Nigeria (March 2020 – May
2020) was alarming. Apart from the pandemic which made vulnerable people exposed
to their predators, another observed causative factor is inherent in Nigerian
pop music. The language used in some of the music act as enablers of rape and
this cannot be continuously overlooked. In this project, one song each from three
Nigerian pop artistes will be purposively selected for content analysis – Olamide,
Naira Marley and Slim case. Our aim is investigate the prevalence of sex
and other related phenomena in the songs, propagation of erroneous assumptions about sex and other
related phenomena, objectification of women’s and men’s bodies, metaphorisation
of sexual activity as a conquest and encouragement of drug use for sexual
activity. Pop music is a
site for exhibiting counter hegemonic designs which provides us with the belief
systems and ideologies of the ever adventurous youths. We hope the study through the findings can address issues of rape culture in the society.
Key words: rape
culture, language enablers, ideologies, Nigerian pop music, Covid-19
ONI-BURAIMOH OLAWUNMI is a Senior Lecturer at the Department of English Language
ONI-BURAIMOH has a Ph.D in Language from English, University of Ibadan
