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God'sgift Ogban Uwen

0000-0001-5472-9110

Calabar-Nigeria

Dr God'sgift Ogban Uwen is of the Department of English and Literary Studies, University of Calabar, Nigeria. His research interest include Applied English Linguistics, Sociolinguistics, Semiotics and Pragmatics. Dr. Uwen has a Certificate in Computer Studies, a Diploma in Business Administration, a B.A. (Second Class Upper Division), an M.A. and a Ph.D in English and Literary Studies from the University of Calabar. He is currently doing a Post Graduate Diploma in Education in Cross River University of Technology, Calabar. His research areas of interest are Applied English Linguistics, Semiotics, Comparative Linguistics and Sociolinguistics. He has taught at the Cross River University of Technology before his employment in the University of Calabar on 22nd October, 2018. Dr. Uwen teaches Use of English and Communication Skills and English language Courses at the Undergraduate and Post Graduate levels in the Department of English and Literary Studies.

Publications

  • https://scholar.google.com/citations?view_op=list_works&hl=en&hl=en&user=OQtEBuYAAAAJ&alert_preview_top_rm=2
  • “Happy wives” and “sad husbands”
  • Tomorrow May Not Be Yours: Military Slang and Jargon as Linguistic Performance in Nigeria
  • Emerging Sociolinguistic Teaching Trends of English as a First Language in Nigeria
  • “Esprit de Corps”: Ingroup Identity Construction and Contextual Conceptualisations Among the (Para)military Discourse Community
  • Every corona is not a virus
  • Sociolinguistic configuration of a regimented workforce: a study of the Nigerian army’s workout songs
  • A socio-onomastic categorisation of Erei personal names
  • Objection Overruled: Language Dynamics and Power Relations in Courtroom Interactions
  • Mbari and uncle Nicodemus: Male representations in the heterosexual discourse among female undergraduates in Nigeria
  • Officers and men, and fallen heroes: The discursive construction of regimented masculinity in the Nigerian Army
  • God is Life: A Sociolinguistic and Ethnopragmatic Conceptualization of Chi in Igbo Naming Practices
  • Language use as stancetaking on motivations for romantic relationships among female undergraduates
  • Guns end dreams: linguistic choices as trauma narrations in Baki and Adedoyin’s End sars rhythms
  • Language, identity, and resistance to English hegemony: unpacking language ideologies in Twitter discourses on Twi usage among the ‘Kumasiano Guys’ in Ghana
  • You are Under Arrest: Language Use for Social Power Construction in Institutional Discourse
  • Beyond Spoken Linguistic Landscape: Semiotic Ideologisation of Regimented Practices in the Nigerian Army
  • Language choice in a multilingual setting: the preference for English language among school children in Nigeria
  • Framing and stereotyping of two frontline presidential candidates in Nigeria’s 2019 general election: evidence from Nairaland virtual community

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