FALEYE James Oladunjoye

Email address(es): faleyej@oauife.edu.ng, adeolafe@yahoo.co.uk

Office Address: DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH, HBI 104

Academic Qualifications: B.A , M.A. PhD. IEnglish Ife

Areas of Specialization: English Phonetics and Phonology, Applied Linguistics and Sociolinguistics

Title of M.A. Thesis: Phonological Problems of Teachers of English in Selected Primary Schools in Ibadan and its Environs, M. A. Thesis, Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife. 2004

Title of Ph.D. Thesis: A Sociolinguistic Study of Word Stress in the English Pronunciation of Selected Nigerian Teachers, PhD Thesis, Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, 2010.

Ongoing Current Research:

My current research interests include Nigerian English, /r/ residual speech disorders among city and rural dwellers, literacy empowerment and the representations of ecological cum climate change-related issues in ESL textbooks in Nigeria.

Publications:

Faleye J. O. (2022) Humour-Evoking Phonological Features in Jenifa’s Diary by Funke Akindele IOSR Journal of Humanities and Social Science (IOSR-JHSS) Vol. 27, Issue 2, Series 6 (February. 2022) 37-45

Faleye J. O. (2022) “Residual Speech Sound Disorders of /r/ Articulation among Yoruba-English Bilingual Prevarsity Students” In Jolayemi, D., Akinjobi, A., Ojo G. A. and Faleye J. O. (Eds) Linguistic Discourses and Literary Appraisals: A Festschrift for Ralph O. Atoye, Ilorin: Haytee Press and Publishing Co. Pp. 92-105

Faleye J. O. & Fajobi E. O. (2020). A Prosodic Analysis of English Sermons of Selected Pastors in Southwest Nigeria, Language and Semiotic Studies, Soochow University, China. Vol. 5 No. 3, 111-133.

Faleye J. O. (2020) “Towards a Linguistic ‘Independence’ of the Nigerian State”, In Alao, A. and Ogunyemi A. O. (Eds) Contending Issues on Nigeria’s Development Trajectory Since 1914, Ile-Ife, Obafemi Awolowo University, Press. Pp.101-124.

Faleye, J. O. (2019) “Contextual Elision in Educated Yoruba English”, Journal of the English Scholars’ Association of Nigeria, Vol. 21 (1), 211-225.

Faleye J. O. and Adeseko, E. O. (2018) “The (Re) Configuration of Syllable Structural Patterns in Non-Cognate English-Yoruba Homographs”, ODU: A Journal of West African Studies (New Series) No 47, 44-61

Faleye, J. O. (2017). “Variant Word Stress Patterns in the Spoken English of Selected Nigerian Teachers”, AHYU: Journal of Language and Literature (AJLL), (Journal of the Department of English and literary Studies, Federal University, Wukari)

Faleye J. O. (2016) “A Linguistic Analysis of Klint Da Drunk’s Alcoholic Talk Show”, In: Rotimi, T, A. Odebunmi and A. Adetunji (Eds) Analysing Language and Humor in Online Communication, USA: IGI Global Disseminator of Knowledge. Pp.115-131.

Olaosun, I. E. & Faleye, J. O. (2015). “A Cognitive Semantic Study of Some English Riddles and Their Answers in Amidst a Tangled Web”, Asian Journal of Social Sciences & Humanities Vol. 4(2), 62-71. (Japan).

Soneye, T. & Faleye, J. O. (2015) “Syllable Phonotactics in Educated Nigerian English”, Konin Language Studies, Vol. 3. Number 3, 255-270. Faculty of Philology, State University of Applied Sciences in Konin, Poland.

Faleye, J. O. & Soneye, T. (2015) “The Sociophonetics of Zero Alphabetisation in Nigerian Spoken English”, Ibadan Journal of English Studies, University of Ibadan, Ibadan. 11 33-61.

Faleye, J. O. & Olaosun, I. E. (2014) “On the Question of Computer Faithfulness in ESL Composition”, In: Adekoya, S, Taiwo, R. Ayoola, K & Adegoju, A. (eds.) Current Linguistic and Literary Issues in Digital Communication in the Globalised Age,. Obafemi Awolowo University Press: Ile-Ife. Pp. 203-223.

Faleye J. O. (2013). “Yoruba-English Bilinguals’ Processing Abilities in Non-Cognate Inter-lingual Homographs”, Journal of the Nigeria English Studies Association, Vol.16 (1&2), 27-41.

Faleye, J. O. & Yemi Adegoju (2012). “A Sociolinguistic Study of Deviant Orthographic Representation of Graduating Students’ Names in a Nigerian University”, Linguistik Online 53(3), 12-22. Available online at https://bop.unibe.ch/linguistik-online/issue/view/116. (Germany).

Staff Profile

James Oladunjoye Faleye is a member of several learned and professional associations. He has reviewed articles for journals such as Ibadan Journal of English Studies, University of Ibadan and Journal of Language Studies, Covenant University, Ota. Ife Studies in English (ISEL), Journal of English Scholars Association of Nigeria (JESAN) and Journal of the Association of Phoneticians and Phonologists in Nigeria (JAPPIN). Presently, he is the Secretary of National Association of Phoneticians and Phonologists in Nigeria. He has numerous scholarly publications to his credit in local and international journals.