Personal Statement
My area of teaching and research spans Classical English Syntax; Applied Linguistics; and Educational Sociolinguistics. I have over 40 years of university teaching and research experience from May 1985. Much of my interest has been in Nigerian English – one of the New Englishes – and I have extensively investigated it at all levels of usage: phonetics and phonology; morphology; syntax; semantics; pragmatics; and others. My current focus is on faulty analogy – an insidious and hardly acknowledged offshoot of behaviourism that is forever at work, accounting for a large proportion of the language errors occurring on all levels in Nigerian English.
To link up town and gown, I regularly deploy my wealth of experience in manuscript-correction; editing; and facilitating at Use of English/Business Communication Skills workshops/seminars in Nigeria for banks; newspaper houses; credit ratings and risk management firms; the National Pension Commission (PENCOM); audit, tax and advisory services firms; accounting firms; law chambers; churches; the Teachers’ Service Commission (TESCOM), Lagos State; a host of secondary schools; other organizations; and as far afield as Cote d’Ivoire, The Gambia, Ghana, Liberia, Rwanda, Sierra Leone.
- Rank
- Professor
- Department
- Business Administration
- Highest qualification
- B.A. M.Phil. Ph.D.
- Publications listed
- 7
