Josephine Olufunmilayo Alexander

About

Josephine Olufunmilayo Alexander Formerly Josephine Olufunmilayo Ola-Busari
Research interests include theoretical and applied linguistics, language and technology, literature, literacy, sociolinguistics, onomastics and indigenous language documentation and preservation.

Employment

• University of South Africa Full Professor
  2016 - Present

Education

• University of Ibadan Ph.d
  1988 - 1997

Projects & Funding

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Publications (19)

• Domesticating the English Language in Niyi Osundare’s The Word Is an Egg
  Imbizo 2024 DOI: 10.25159/2663-6565/12196
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• Oral Poetic Techniques as Decolonial Creative Strategies in Osundare’s The Word is an Egg
  Scrutiny2 2024 DOI: 10.1080/18125441.2024.2371866
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• Exploring Nnedi Okorafor's decolonial turn in the Binti Trilogy
  Image & Text 2023 DOI: 10.17159/2617-3255/2023/n37a29
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• Special section editorial
  Image & Text 2023 DOI: 10.17159/2617-3255/2023/n37a28
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• Displacement in NoViolet Bulawayo’s We Need New Names
  English Academy Review 2023 DOI: 10.1080/10131752.2023.2195146
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• Translanguaging in Neshani Andreas’ The Purple Violet of Oshaantu
  Journal of Namibian Studies History Politics Culture 2022
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• The ethnopragmatic functions of Owe and Tiv personal names in Nigeria
  Language Sciences 2022 DOI: 10.1016/j.langsci.2022.101474
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• A Feminist Interrogation of Owé Gendered Naming Practices
  Names Fashioned by Gender: Stitched Perceptions 2022
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• PROBLEMATIZING MINOR TRANSNATIONAL IDENTITIES AND PATTERNS OF OTHERING IN MEG VANDERMERWE'S ZEBRA CROSSING
  Forum for Modern Language Studies 2020 DOI: 10.1093/FMLS/CQZ061
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• Unleashing the Latent Potential of Young People in Africa: The Example of Dalumuzi Happy Mhlanga and Salathiel Ntakirutimana
  Commonwealth Youth and Development 2020 DOI: 10.25159/2663-6549/3038
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