Rotimi Taiwo
Rotimi Taiwo (Ph.D.) teaches English at Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Nigeria. He was a post-doctoral fellow at University of Freiburg, Germany (September, 2008 - August, 2009). His research focus has been on the application of (critical) discourse analytic and text-linguistic theories to a wide range of discourse, such as those of the media, religion, students' compositions, hospital interaction, politics, and popular culture and of recent, the Internet and telecommunications. Handbook...See more
Rotimi Taiwo (Ph.D.) teaches English at Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Nigeria. He was a post-doctoral fellow at University of Freiburg, Germany (September, 2008 - August, 2009). His research focus has been on the application of (critical) discourse analytic and text-linguistic theories to a wide range of discourse, such as those of the media, religion, students' compositions, hospital interaction, politics, and popular culture and of recent, the Internet and telecommunications. Handbook of Research on Discourse Behavior and Digital Communication: Language Structures and Social Interaction Volumes I & II (IGI Global, New York, 2010); Perspectives on African Studies, Essays in Honour of Toyin Falola (LINCOM Europa, Munchen, Germany); Collocation in Non-native English: A Study of Nigeria ESL Writing (VDM Verlag, Saarbrucken, Germany, 2010); Computer Mediated Discourse in Africa (Nova, New York, 2012), Language and Mobile Telecommunication in Nigeria: SMS as a Digital Age Lingual-cultural Expression (OAU Press, 2012). His most recent edited book The Discourse of Digital Civic Engagement: Perspectives from the Developing World (co-edited with Tunde Opeibi) is published by Nova Science Publishers, New York, USA. He was at different times the editor of the journal Ife Studies in English Language and the coordinator of the Use of English program at Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife. He also serves as a consulting editor for Linguistik Online (Berne, Switzerland, Journal of Language Studies (Covenant University, Ota, Nigeria). See less