Folajimi Oyebola
List of John Benjamins publications for which Folajimi Oyebola plays a role.
Articles
2023 Question intonation patterns in Nigerian English New Englishes, New Methods, Wilson, Guyanne and Michael Westphal (eds.), pp. 108–131 | Chapter
This study investigates the intonation patterns in wh-questions and yes/no-questions used by educated Nigerian speakers of English. It examines the possible influence of gender, ethnicity, and question type on the prosodic marking of questions. Audio recordings taken from the Nigerian component… read more
2023 “He’s a lawyer you know and all of that”: General extenders in Nigerian English English World-Wide 44:1, pp. 61–90 | Article
This study examines the use of general extenders in Nigerian English, from a variational corpus-pragmatic framework, with British English as a reference variety. The data are extracted from the Nigerian and British components of the International Corpus of English. The results reveal that… read more
2021 “ Abeg na ! we write so our comments can be posted!”: Borrowed Nigerian Pidgin pragmatic markers in Nigerian English Pragmatics 31:3, pp. 455–481 | Article
This paper examines three borrowed pragmatic markers from Nigerian Pidgin into Nigerian English, abeg, sef and na, with a view to exploring their meanings, frequencies, spelling adaptability, syntactic positions, collocational patterns and discourse-pragmatic functions in Nigerian English. The… read more