Onwu Inya
Ph.D.
- English
- Literature studies
Research areas
'This app is evil forest true true': Metaphor-based Metadiscursive Evaluations of Twitter by Nigerians
Inya, O., 01.12.2023, In: Digital Scholarship in the Humanities. 38, 4, p. 1582-1590 9 p.Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review
'The legislature is the engine room of democracy’: Constructing ideological worldviews through proximisation strategies in Nigerian Senate Debates
Inya, O., 03.2021, In: Discourse & Society. 32, 2, p. 196 - 213 18 p.Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review
- Published
Modality in Nigerian Senate Debates: Patterned co-occurrence and stratgic-pragmatic functions
Inya, O., 2023, Readings in Corpus Linguistics: A Teaching and Research Guide for Scholars in Nigeria and Beyond. Kraft Books, p. 394 - 417 24 p.Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research › peer-review
- Published
Interrogating the Phenomenon of Suffering and Smiling by Nigerians: A Mixed Methods Study
Inya, O. & Inya, B., 01.06.2024, The Palgrave Handbook of Humour Research. Vanderhaiden, E. & Mayer, C.-H. (eds.). Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, p. 241-262 22 p.Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Chapter › peer-review
'I Cannot Overreach the Senate': Orienting to the Macro-Context of Legislative Debates of the Nigerian Senate
Inya, O., 02.2025, In: Journal of Asian and African Studies. 60, 1, p. 223 - 238 16 p.Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review
"Egungun be careful, na Express you dey go": Socialising a Newcomer-Celebrity and Co-constructing Relational Connection on Twitter Nigeria
Inya, O., 10.2021, In: Journal of Pragmatics. 184, p. 140 - 151 12 p.Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review
- Published
Delegitimisation through Evaluation: Discursive Appraisal of the National Grazing Reserve Bill in Online Media Discourse
Inya, B. T. & Inya, O., 2022, Studies in Media and Ideological Representation of Herders/Farmers' Conflict in Nigeria. Ibileye, G. (ed.). Lagos: Malthouse Press Limited, p. 65 - 90 26 p.Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research › peer-review
- Accepted/In press
Check your BP today! Content structure and narrative types in health advice stories on Twitter Naija
Inya, O., 2025, (Accepted/In press) The Linguistic Expression of Culture, Identity and Social Issues in Sub-Sahara Africa. AHP PublicationsResearch output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research › peer-review
'As democracy grows': Metaphor scenarios for Democracy in Nigerian Senate Debates of the Fourth Republic
Inya, O., 20.10.2022, In: Metaphor and the Social World. 12, 2, p. 224 - 244 21 p.Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review