Akinola Odebunmi

Akinola Odebunmi (PhD) is a specialist in pragmatics, teaches in the Department of English, University of Ibadan, Nigeria. His papers have appeared in Pragmatics, Linguistik Online, Intercultural Pragmatics, Review of Cognitive Linguistics, Pragmatics and Society, Pragmatics and Cognition, California Linguistic Notes, Marang and Multilingua. His contribution entitled, “?m?lúàbí” appeared in the 2015 edition of the Handbook of Pragmatics edited by Jef Verschueren and Jan Ola Ostman. He is co-editor (with Arua E. Arua and Sailal Arimi) of Language, Gender and Politics, published by the Centre for Black and African Arts and Civilisation. His reviews of Mira Ariel’s Defining Pragmatics (published by Cambridge University Press), and Ulrich Busse and Axel Hubler’s (eds) Investigations into the Meta-Communicative Lexicon of English (published by John Benjamins) have appeared in Discourse Studies. Between 2010 and 2011, he was an Alexander von Humboldt Georg Forster experienced fellow at the Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies, University of Freiburg, Germany.

Publications

Analyzing Language and Humor in Online Communication
Analyzing Language and Humor in Online Communication
Rotimi Taiwo, Akinola Odebunmi, Akin Adetunji. © 2016. 324 pages.
Misunderstandings in technology-mediated communication can be due to a lack of tone and facial expression on the part of the speaker, which provide additional context clues into...