OKE Idris Ayomo
Full Name: OKE Idris Ayomo
Email Address: iaoke@oauife.edu.ng | idrisoke.linguist@gmail.com
Phone Number: +2349032706492
Office Number: Room 202, African Studies Building
Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?view_op=list_works&hl=en&hl=en&user=din52HIAAAAJ
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0002-0992-7382
Academic Rank: Assistant Lecturer
Short Profile:
Idris completed his BA Linguistics programme from Bayero University, Kano (with First Class Honours) in 2021 and his MSc in Applied Linguistics from the University of Glasgow in 2023. For his BA, he was the Best Graduating Student and the Second to have a First Class in the history of his department at Bayero. He was a 2022 University of Glasgow African and Caribbean Excellence Award scholar and also a full member of the Corpus Linguistics Association of Nogeria (CLAN).
His research interest lies in the broad field of applied linguistics (analysis of language as used in different social, cultural and professional contexts), and he is thus interested in discourse analysis, computational/corpus linguistics, pragmatics, forensic linguistics, cognitive linguistics and functional grammar.
He has also recently developed special interest in religious discourse, especially as used in the media, and this is where he currently conducts his PhD research, using corpus-based approach to examine the representation of Salafism and Salafis on Facebook and Telegram.
Before joining OAU in 2025 as an Assistant Lecturer, he has previously worked with the Center for the Digitization of Indegnous African Languages, Lagos, as Yoruba Language Propagator and Kunle Gbade & Co, Lagos, as Forensic Analyst.
List of Publications
[Under Review] Oke, I.A. and Abdulkareem, M.D. Negotiating medical and cultural scales in Nigerian pre-labour midwife-patient interaction. Discourse & Communication.
Oke, I.A. (2026). “Is the other guy still there?”: Inferences and Flouting of Maxims in Emergency Calls to Police. TASAMBO Journal of Language, Literature and Culture, 5(1), 110-123. www.doi.org/10.36349/tjllc.2026.v05i01.012.
Oke, I .A. (2025). The language of solidarity in an imagined community: Analysing Tafawa Balewa’s independence speech. TASAMBO Journal of Language, Literature and Culture, 4(2), 110-121. www.doi.org/10.36349/tjllc.2025.v04i02.013.
Khalil, I., Adekunle, M.A., Sulaiman, L. & Oke, I.A. (2024). English Grammar in Focus: Tidbits of Rules and Usages. Ibadan: Moontelloni.
Abdullahi, B.S. and Oke, I.A. (2024). “My Young Girls”: Linguistic Politeness in Soji Cole’s Embers, Jos Journal of Linguistics, Literature and Culture, 2(1), 109-128.
Adekunle, M.A. and Oke, I.A. (2024). Inadequacies of Machine Translation through Renderings of Social Media and Search Engine Discourse. In Abdullahi B.A. (Ed). Bilingualism: English and French: Festschrift in Honour of Professor Muhammad B. Sambo, Bayero University Kano.
Adekunle, M.A. and Oke, I.A. (2021). Critical Stylistic Analysis of Political Consciousness in Femi Osofisan’s Morountodun, International Journal of Innovative Science and Research Technology, 6,(5).
Grants/Honours/Award
2025 | Institutional Based Research (IBR) Grant, Directorate of Research, Innovation and Partnership, Bayero University, Kano, NGN2000,000 with Bello Shehu Abdullahi (principal investigator)
Project: Language, Context and Therapy: Midwife-Parturient Communication as a Scalar Enterprise in Northern Nigeria.
2022 | University of Glasgow African and Caribbean Excellence Award, £20,400
Tuition Fee Waiver for 10 out of 900 applicants across Africa and Caribbean.
2022 | Best Graduating Student in Linguistics Award, Bayero University, Kano.
2020 | Best Student in Linguistics Scholarship (Year 3), Bayero University, NGN50,000
2020 | 82 Finalists of the Wole Soyinka International Cultural Exchange Essay Competition
2019 | Winner, Fitrah Review Ramadan Writing Contest (Maiden Edition) – Essay Category, NGN5000