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Name
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Taiwo Oloruntoba-Oju
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Bio
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Taiwo Oloruntoba-Oju is a George Forster Scholar of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation. He holds a B.A. in English and Christian Studies, an MA in English (Applied Linguistics), MA in TEFL, and a PhD in English (Stylistics and Semiotics). He has taught courses and supervised students in English Language, African Literature and Applied Linguistics for over two decades, mostly at the University of Ilorin in Nigeria. He is a Catalyst fellow of the University of Edinburgh, and had been a study fellow of the British Council and research fellow of the Nordic Africa Institute.
Oloruntoba-Oju’s teaching and research have largely been in Applied and Sociolinguistics (language, society and culture), with representations in: language and gender, ideology and class relations, style, urban and youth languages, communication skills pedagogy, multilingualism and language policy, contrastive rhetoric and comparative paroemiology. His research is rooted in Africanity and Applied Language, with a strong interdisciplinary perspective.
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