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  1. The comedian’s identity, audience’s perspective(s) and problematic jokes

    Article • Pragmatics & Cognition, September 2025, John Benjamins

    Ibukun Filani

  2. The discursive construction of femininity in metacommentaries on a rape-joke in Nigeria

    Article • Pragmatics and Society, July 2025, John Benjamins

    Ibukun Filani

  3. Shepherd Mpofu: The politics of laughter in the social media age: perspectives from the global south

    Article • Humor - International Journal of Humor Research, September 2023, De Gruyter

    Ibukun Filani

  4. The Linguistic Style of Nigerian Mediated Comedies in English

    Article • January 2023, Springer Science + Business Media

    Ibukun Filani

  5. A Preliminary Sketch on Intertextuality in Nigerian Stand-Up Comedy

    Article • January 2023, Springer Science + Business Media

    Ibukun Filani

  6. Nigerian stand-up comediennes performing femininity

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

    Ibukun Filani

  7. “Ooin, freaky freaky, you are doing well”

    Article • March 2022, Taylor & Francis

    Ibukun Filani

  8. The stand-up comedian as an egocentric communicator

    Article • Intercultural Pragmatics, January 2021, De Gruyter

    Ibukun Filani

  9. A discourse analysis of national identity in Nigerian stand-up humour

    Article • Discourse Studies, March 2020, SAGE Publications

    Ibukun Filani

  10. Gendered concepts in Nigerian stand-up comedy

    Article • Bulletin of the Transilvania University of Brasov Series IV Philology and Cultural Studies, January 2020, Universitatea Transilvania Brasov

    Ibukun Filani

  11. Culture in Nigerian stand-up comedy performances.

    Article • Humor - International Journal of Humor Research, February 2019, De Gruyter

    ADESINA SUNDAY, Ibukun Filani

  12. Editorial: Dis laf fit kill person - An overview of Nigerian humour

    Article • European Journal of Humour Research, December 2018, Estonian Literary Museum of Scholarly Press

    Ibukun Filani

  13. “Laf wan kill me die” (I almost died laughing): An analysis of Akpos jokes and the readers’ responses

    Article • European Journal of Humour Research, January 2017, Estonian Literary Museum of Scholarly Press

    Ibukun Filani

  14. Situation of Joke exchanges

    Article • Humor - International Journal of Humor Research, January 2017, De Gruyter

    Ibukun Filani, Ibukun Filani

  15. The use of mimicry in Nigerian stand-up comedy

    Article • Comedy Studies, January 2016, Taylor & Francis

    Ibukun Filani

  16. Contextual Beliefs and Pragmatic Strategies in Online Humour

    Article • January 2016, IGI Global

    Ibukun Filani

  17. Discourse types in stand-up comedy performances: An example of Nigerian stand-up comedy

    Article • European Journal of Humour Research, March 2015, Estonian Literary Museum of Scholarly Press

    Ibukun Filani

  18. A Socio-semiotic Study of Nicknaming among Undergraduates in a Nigerian University

    Article • Linguistik Online, September 2014, University of Bern

    Ibukun Filani