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  1. Thanking strategies in Ghanaian English and Ugandan English: A corpus-based study

    Article • Journal of Pragmatics, April 2026, Elsevier

    Dr Foluke O. Unuabonah

  2. “Yeeees, Thank You Please!”: the Pragmatics of Please in African Englishes

    Article • Contrastive Pragmatics, February 2026, De Gruyter

    Dr Foluke O. Unuabonah

  3. Pragmatic Acts and Appraisal Choices in Nigerian Online Reader Comments on Climate Change

    Article • Journal of Asian and African Studies, November 2025, SAGE Publications

    Dr Foluke O. Unuabonah

  4. Pragmatic variation across the New Englishes

    Article • Journal of Pragmatics, July 2025, Elsevier

    Dr Foluke O. Unuabonah

  5. Apologising in Nigerian English

    Article • World Englishes, February 2025, Wiley

    Dr Foluke O. Unuabonah

  6. “Sorry it took me a long time to reply”: Sorry as a discourse-pragmatic feature in African Englishes

    Article • Journal of Pragmatics, January 2025, Elsevier

    Dr Foluke O. Unuabonah

  7. ‘Let’s buy money before buying food’: a multimodal critical discourse analysis of WhatsApp memes on the Nigerian Naira redesign policy

    Article • Visual Communication, December 2024, SAGE Publications

    Dr Foluke O. Unuabonah

  8. Anyway as a Pragmatic Marker in Nigerian and Ghanaian Englishes

    Article • Contrastive Pragmatics, December 2024, De Gruyter

    Dr Foluke O. Unuabonah

  9. ‘No work, No pay’: A multimodal discourse analysis of selected online images on industrial actions by Nigerian public universities

    Article • Discourse & Communication, November 2024, SAGE Publications

    Dr Foluke O. Unuabonah

  10. Investigating the Pragmatic Functions of Nigerian English-Based Proverbs: A Corpus-Driven Method

    Article • Corpus Pragmatics, November 2024, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Foluke O. Unuabonah

  11. Expressing gratitude in Nigerian English

    Article • English World-Wide A Journal of Varieties of English, August 2024, John Benjamins

    Dr Foluke O Unuabonah, Dr Foluke O. Unuabonah

  12. Multimodality and appraisal choices in Nigerian coronavirus-related WhatsApp memes

    Article • Communication and the Public, August 2024, SAGE Publications

    Dr Foluke O. Unuabonah

  13. “Eish it’s getting really interesting”: borrowed interjections in South African English

    Article • Multilingua, May 2024, De Gruyter

    Dr Foluke O. Unuabonah

  14. “Let’s talk divorce”: a multimodal critical discourse analysis of Oduduwa secessionist discourse

    Article • Multimodal Communication, May 2024, De Gruyter

    Dr Foluke O. Unuabonah

  15. Discourse-Pragmatic Borrowing in South African English

    Article • Language Matters, May 2024, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Foluke O. Unuabonah

  16. Offers in Nigerian English

    Article • Lingua, May 2024, Elsevier

    Dr Foluke O. Unuabonah

  17. Book review

    Article • System, April 2024, Elsevier

    Dr Foluke O. Unuabonah

  18. Discourse-Pragmatic Variation and Change: Theory, Innovations, Contact, edited by Elizabeth Peterson, Turo Hiltunen and Joseph Kern

    Article • Contrastive Pragmatics, September 2023, De Gruyter

    Dr Foluke O. Unuabonah

  19. Generic structure and pragmatic acts in Yoruba traditional weddings in Southwestern Nigeria

    Article • Journal of Pragmatics, July 2023, Elsevier

    Dr Foluke O. Unuabonah

  20. “You are quite funny paa!”: A corpus-based study of borrowed discourse-pragmatic features in Ghanaian English

    Article • Corpus Pragmatics, May 2023, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Foluke O. Unuabonah

  21. Book review

    Article • Journal of Pragmatics, April 2023, Elsevier

    Dr Foluke O. Unuabonah

  22. Multilingual pragmatic markers in South African English

    Article • Southern African Linguistics and Applied Language Studies, March 2023, Informa UK Limited

    Dr Foluke O. Unuabonah

  23. The pragmatics of ‘it is well’ in Nigerian English

    Article • Poznan Studies in Contemporary Linguistics, February 2023, De Gruyter

    Dr Foluke O. Unuabonah

  24. Offers in Nigerian English

    Article • January 2023, Elsevier

    Dr Foluke O. Unuabonah

  25. “Noah’s Family Was on Lockdown”: Multimodal Metaphors in Religious Coronavirus-Related Internet Memes in the Nigerian WhatsApp Space

    Article • Metaphor and Symbol, October 2022, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Foluke O. Unuabonah

  26. Borrowed Swahili discourse-pragmatic features in Kenyan and Tanzanian Englishes

    Article • Intercultural Pragmatics, August 2022, De Gruyter

    Dr Foluke O. Unuabonah

  27. “He’s a lawyer you know and all of that”

    Article • English World-Wide A Journal of Varieties of English, August 2022, John Benjamins

    Dr Foluke O Unuabonah, Dr Foluke O. Unuabonah

  28. Metapragmatic Comments in Nigerian Public Hearings

    Article • Pragmatics Quarterly Publication of the International Pragmatics Association (IPrA), July 2022, John Benjamins

    Dr Foluke O Unuabonah, Dr Foluke O. Unuabonah

  29. Afrikaans discourse-pragmatic features in South African English

    Article • Lingua, June 2022, Elsevier

    Dr Foluke O. Unuabonah

  30. Borrowed Discourse-Pragmatic Features in Kenyan English

    Article • Language Matters, May 2022, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Foluke O. Unuabonah

  31. Introducing the Historical Corpus of English in Nigeria (HiCE–Nig)

    Article • English Today, February 2022, Cambridge University Press

    Dr Foluke O. Unuabonah

  32. Requesting Strategies in Nigerian and British English: A Corpus-Based Approach

    Article • January 2022, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Foluke O. Unuabonah

  33. Interactional strategies of Nigerian Supreme Court judges in writing opinions

    Article • English Text Construction, December 2021, John Benjamins

    Dr Foluke O Unuabonah, Florence Daniel, Dr Foluke O. Unuabonah

  34. “Oya let’s go to Nigeria”

    Article • International Journal of Corpus Linguistics, July 2021, John Benjamins

    Dr Foluke O Unuabonah, Dr Foluke O. Unuabonah

  35. ‘Mehn! This wins the award’

    Article • English Today, April 2021, Cambridge University Press

    Dr Foluke O. Unuabonah

  36. ‘Nigeria is fighting Covid-419’: A multimodal critical discourse analysis of political protest in Nigerian coronavirus-related internet memes

    Article • Discourse & Communication, April 2021, SAGE Publications

    Dr Foluke O. Unuabonah

  37. Exploring multilingual resources of U.S.-Nigerians on a Nigerian web forum - Mirka Honkanen, World Englishes on the Web: The Nigerian Diaspora in the USA. Amsterdam/Philadephia: John Benjamins, 2020. Pp. vii + 338. Hardback €105.00, ISBN 9789027207395

    Article • English Today, March 2021, Cambridge University Press

    Dr Foluke O. Unuabonah

  38. Intensifier Usage in Nigerian English: A Corpus-Based Approach

    Article • Corpus Pragmatics, March 2021, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Foluke O. Unuabonah

  39. “Abeg na! we write so our comments can be posted!”

    Article • Pragmatics Quarterly Publication of the International Pragmatics Association (IPrA), March 2021, John Benjamins

    Dr Foluke O Unuabonah, Dr Foluke O. Unuabonah

  40. Conflict-motivated acts in the open letters of two former Nigerian presidents

    Article • English Text Construction, December 2020, John Benjamins

    Dr Foluke O Unuabonah, Eniola Boluwaduro, Dr Foluke O. Unuabonah

  41. Argumentation in Nigerian investigative public hearings

    Article • Journal of Argumentation in Context, October 2020, John Benjamins

    Dr Foluke O Unuabonah, Dr Foluke O. Unuabonah

  42. Haba! Bilingual interjections in Nigerian English: A corpus-based study

    Article • Journal of Pragmatics, July 2020, Elsevier

    Dr Foluke O. Unuabonah

  43. Extended discourse‐pragmatic usage of now in Nigerian English

    Article • World Englishes, May 2020, Wiley

    Dr Foluke O. Unuabonah

  44. “So you know ehn … ” The use of bilingual interjections in Nigerian English

    Article • Intercultural Pragmatics, April 2020, De Gruyter

    Dr Foluke O. Unuabonah

  45. Bilingual pragmatic markers in Nigerian English

    Article • World Englishes, February 2020, Wiley

    Dr Foluke O. Unuabonah

  46. Frequency and Stylistic Variability of Discourse Markers in Nigerian English

    Article • Corpus Pragmatics, July 2019, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Foluke O. Unuabonah

  47. Chapter 2.2. The use of stance markers in West African Englishes

    Article • February 2019, John Benjamins

    Dr Foluke O. Unuabonah

  48. “You're not staying in Island sha o ”: O , sha and abi as pragmatic markers in Nigerian English

    Article • Journal of Pragmatics, October 2018, Elsevier

    Dr Foluke O. Unuabonah

  49. Forms of address and language ideologies: The case of a southwestern Nigerian university

    Article • Linguistik Online, July 2018, University of Bern

    Dr Foluke O. Unuabonah

  50. Direct quotations in Nigerian investigative public hearings

    Article • Text & Talk - An Interdisciplinary Journal of Language Discourse Communication Studies, June 2018, De Gruyter

    Dr Foluke O. Unuabonah

  51. Commentary pragmatic markers in Nigerian English

    Article • English World-Wide A Journal of Varieties of English, May 2018, John Benjamins

    Dr Foluke O Unuabonah, Dr Foluke O. Unuabonah

  52. Butas a stance marker in Nigerian investigative public hearings

    Article • Pragmatics and Society, October 2017, John Benjamins

    Dr Foluke O Unuabonah, Dr Foluke O. Unuabonah

  53. Contextual beliefs

    Article • Journal of Asian and African Studies, October 2014, SAGE Publications

    Dr Foluke O. Unuabonah, Dr Foluke O Unuabonah

  54. Multimodality in HIV/AIDS posters

    Article • Discourse & Society, November 2013, SAGE Publications

    Dr Foluke O. Unuabonah

  55. Thematic Organization and the Analysis of Selected Online Academic Scientific Journals' Site

    Article • IGI Global

    Dr Foluke O. Unuabonah