OYEBODE Oluwabunmi Opeyemi

Email address(es): onikepo@oauife.edu.ng

Office Address: Room 305, Humanities Block III

ORCID iD:  (https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8608-5217)

Academic Qualifications: PhD. English Language, Ife, 2015; M. A. English Language, Ife, 2010; B. A. English Language, 2004

Areas of Specialization:  (Multimodal) Discourse Analysis, Social Semiotics, New Media Linguistics and Applied Linguistics

Title of M.A. Thesis: Analysis of narrative voices in advertising discourse on billboard adverts in English in selected South-western states of Nigeria (M.A. Thesis, Department of English, Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife)

Title of Ph.D. Thesis: A multimodal discourse analysis of selected outdoor political campaign resources used for the 2011 general elections in Nigeria (PhD Thesis, Department of English, Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife)

Fellowships:

Fulbright Foreign Language Teaching Award, USA, 2007

African Humanities Program Postdoctoral Fellowship (AHP) of the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS), 2021 – 2022

Research Grants: Tertiary Education Trust Fund for Academic Staff, Training and Development (TETFUND), 2013

Carnegie Conference Travel Grant, 2012

Ongoing Current Research:

Multimodal Investigation of Political Logos in the Nigerian Fourth Republic

A Corpus-Based Study of Online Responses to the 2020 #EndSARS Protests on Nairaland.

Iconological symbolism and verbal codes in selected election campaign jingles of the Nigeria’s second and fourth republic.

Publications:

Oyebode, O. O. (2024). Appraisal Resources in Nairaland Comments on Rape Narratives of a Nigerian Survivor. Journal of English Scholars’ Association of Nigeria (JESAN), 26(2): 109 – 126.

Okesola, S. O. & Oyebode, O. O. (2023). “The soro soke generation”: Multimodality and appraisal choices in selected Nigerian #EndSars civil unrest-related memes. Language and Semiotic Studies. https://doi.org/10.1515/lass-2022-0016

Olateju, M. A. & Oyebode, O. O. (2023). Interpersonal Meta-Function of ‘Aso Ofi’ as Cultural Artifact in Southwestern Nigeria. Journal of the Institute of Cultural Studies, 15 & 16: 55 – 82.

Oyebode, O. O. & Akponorie, J. O. (2022). Framing the Departed: A Social Semiotic Study of Obituaries in Select Nigerian Newspapers. Ife Studies in English Language (ISEL), 17(2): 21 – 42.

Oyebode, O. O. & Unuabonah, F. O. (2022). “Noah’s Family Was on Lockdown”: Multimodal Metaphors in Religious Coronavirus-Related Internet Memes in the Nigerian WhatsApp Space. Metaphor and Symbol, 37(4): 287 – 302.

Oyebode, O. O. (2021). A social semiotic investigation of Nigerian Pidgin in select Nigerian church posters. In A. T. Akande & O. Salami (Eds.), Current trends in Nigerian Pidgin English: A sociolinguistic perspective. De Gruyter Mouton.

Oyebode, O. O. (2021). Visual framing as Discursive Strategies in Selected Election Campaign Posters in Nigeria. Papers in English and Linguistics (PEL), 22 (1&2)

Ayoola, K. A., Aragbuwa, A. & Oyebode, O. O. (2021). Current approaches to discourse analysis: A manual for University students. Ile-Ife: Obafemi Awolowo University Press.

Unuabonah, F. O. & Oyebode, O. O. (2021). “Nigeria is fighting Covid-419”: A multimodal critical discourse analysis of political protest in Nigerian coronavirus-related internet memes. Discourse & Communication, 15(2).

Oyebode, O. O. & Ejabena, H. O. (2020). A Social Semiotic Construction of Visual Metaphors in Pentecostal Church Posters in Nigeria. Journal of English Scholars Association of Nigeria (JESAN) 22(1).

Oyebode, O. O. & Okesola, S. O. (2020). #Take Responsibility: Non-Verbal Modes as Discursive Strategies in Managing Covid-19 Public Health Crisis. Language and Semiotic Studies, 6(4).

Oyebode, O. O. (2018). Framing an Ideal Candidate: The Social Dynamics of Some 2011 Campaign Posters in Nigeria. In F. O. Unuabonah, K. Ayoola & A. Adegoju (Eds.), Exploration in Critical Discourse and New Media Studies: Essays in Honour of Rotimi Taiwo. Galda Verlag: Glienicke.

Oyebode, O. O. & Olateju, M.A. (2018). “Your Excellency”: A Social Semiotic Study of Selected Alcoholic Beverage Advertisements in South-western Nigeria. Odu: Journal of West African Studies New Series, 4(7).

Oyebode, O. O. & Adegoju, A. (2017). Appraisal Resources in Select WhatsApp Political Broadcast Messages in the 2015 Presidential Election Campaign in `Nigeria. Africology: Journal of Pan-African Studies, 10(10).

Adegoju, A. & Oyebode, O. O. (2015). Humour as discursive practice in Nigeria’s 2015 presidential election online campaign discourse. Discourse Studies, 17 (6).

Olateju, M. A., Oyebode, O. O. & Ademilokun, M. A. (2014). Doing Multimodal Discourse Analysis. Ibadan: College Press and Publishers Limited.

Oyebode, O. O. & Unuabonah, F. O. (2013). Coping with HIV/AIDS: A multimodal discourse analysis of selected HIV/AIDS posters in South-western Nigeria. Discourse and Society, 24(6).

Oyebode, O. O., Raheem, S. O., & Afolayan, O. T. (2012). Utilising ICT for Improving L2 Teaching and Learning in Nigerian Tertiary Education. Journal of Applied Education and Vocational Research (JAEVR), 10(1).

Staff Profile:

Oluwabunmi Opeyemi Oyebode (PhD) is a Reader in the Department of English, Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Nigeria. She was a Fulbright Fellow at the University of Texas at Austin, USA and a Guest Researcher at the University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark. She was also a recipient of the prestigious African Humanities Program Postdoctoral Fellowship (AHP) of the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) for the 2021/2022 round. Her research interest spans (Multimodal) Discourse Analysis, (in which she has co-authored two academic books which are pioneer reading materials in Multimodal Discourse Studies in Nigeria), New Media Communication and Applied Linguistics. She has continued to intensify efforts to acquaint herself with latest developments in the area of Multimodality by interrogating verbal and non-verbal modes as frames in the Nigerian political, religious and health discourse respectively. The major arguments in her research are that all semiotic resources deployed for representation are socially and culturally motivated for meanings; and that like language, visuals are strategically used as rhetorical tropes/discourse constructs in texts to project certain ideological stances within the Nigerian social milieu that resonate with the target audience. Thus, her academic engagement shows the propensity of the critical dimension in multimodal discourse in analyzing visual texts. She has published articles in reputable journal outlets such as, Journal of Pan African Studies, Discourse & Communication, Discourse & Society, Discourse Studies, and Metaphor & Symbol.