OLAYANJU Modupe Bukola

Full name (surname first):  Olayanju Modupe Bukola

Department: Linguistics and African Languages

Rank: Assistant Lecturer

Phone number: +2347035573017

Email address(es): mbolayanju@oauife.edu.ng | mdpolayanju@gmail.com

Office Address: Room 108B, Humanities Block II, Faculty of Arts.

Academic Qualifications: B.A. (Ado-Ekiti), M.A. (Ife)

Areas of Specialization: Sociolinguistics and Applied Linguistics

Title of B.A. Thesis:

Aspects of the Phonology of Idanre dialect of Yoruba.

Title of M.A. Thesis:

A Multimodal Critical Discourse Analysis of Nigerianized Stickers in WhatsApp Conversations.

Research Grants:

Endangered Material Knowledge Programme (EMKP) sponsored by the British Museum. (Co-Applicant).

Publications:

O.E. Bamigbade, M.B. Olayanju and J.O. Omogunwa. (2024). “The Misuse and Abuse of Social Media Short Forms and Nigerianized Sticker Slang in Proper Speech Making and Formal Writing among Nigerian Youths”. International Journal of Humanities and Social Studies (India).

Bamigbade O. E., and Olayanju M. B. (2023). “The Episteme of De-Taboo of Yoruba Cosmology of Female Mensuration”, Proceedings of the International Conference in Honour of Emeritus Professor Wande Abimbola: Faiths, Spiritualities and Gove and Knowledge in Africa.

Staff Profile:

Modupe Bukola Olayanju is an Assistant Lecturer in the Department of Linguistics and Foreign Languages, Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-ife, Nigeria. Her area of interest is Multimodal discourse, digital sociolinguistics with focus on the critical analysis of digital semiotic practices, power, identity construct in postcolonial context.