Ruth Karachi Benson Oji
List of John Benjamins publications for which Ruth Karachi Benson Oji plays a role.
Articles
2024 Chapter 5. “Is your culture better than mine?”: Identity construction of inter-ethnic marriages in selected Nigerian movies Linguistic, Literary, and Cultural Diversity in a Global Perspective, Bodomo, Adams and Carola Koblitz (eds.), pp. 90–110 | Chapter
2021 Painting the state in the text: A pragmatic analysis of Remi Raji’s A Harvest of Laughters Pragmatics and Society 12:4, pp. 649–668 | Article
Literary works across cultures are never written in a vacuum. They depict the reality of the society where they are set. With the societal obligation of the writers to serve as righters, especially in Africa, this study attempts a pragmatic inquiry of the state of the Nigerian society as… read more
Us and them: Discourses on the october 202020 #endsars shooting at lekki toll gate in selected Nigerian newspapers Pragmatics and Society: Online-First Articles | Article
#EndSARS protest started publicly on October 8, 2020, with teeming Nigerian youths moving from one location to the other to press home their demands, protesting police brutality among others. The protesters, especially those in Lagos, chose the Lekki Toll Gate as their protest base. The protest… read more