G.A. Ioratim-Uba
List of John Benjamins publications for which G.A. Ioratim-Uba plays a role.
Articles
2001 Adapting Data Gathering Methods to Multilingual and Multicultural Settings: An illustration with the Matched Guise in language Attitude research in Nigeria ITL - International Journal of Applied Linguistics 131/132, pp. 35–62 | Article
African Multilingual nations are in dire need of empirical investigations, which will expose the real language situations, attitudes, and how all of these can be harnessed for development. This study attempts to show that a rich variety of research methods can serve this purpose. An illustration… read more
1999 A President, Speech Acts and Development in Nigeria: Analysing Consequences of the Gulf between Promise and Fulfilment ITL - International Journal of Applied Linguistics 125/126, pp. 195–227 | Article
The discourse strategies and social implications of speech importantly overlap to govern our relationships in person versus person, group versus group, and person versus group capacities. We apply here Speech Act Theory to communicative interactions with respect to person versus group by discourse… read more
1995 Attitudes Towards Received Pronunciation (RP) Among Nigerian Undergraduates ITL - International Journal of Applied Linguistics 109/110, pp. 36–74 | Article
Using undergraduates in two Nigerian Universities, namely the University of Ilorin and the University of Jos, we have examined attitudes towards Received Pronunciation (RP). Employing the multivariate theoretical trend, based on the social psychological approach as explicated by BAKER (1992), we… read more