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Department	English And Literary Studies
Faculty	Arts
Office	Not specified

Biography

Ottoh-Agede Blossom Shimayam is a Associate Professor, in the Department of English And Literary Studies, Faculty of Arts, specializing in Language (Stylistics), with 25 publications at Federal University of Lafia.

Research Interests

Publications

• A semiotic analysis of the map of the University of Ibadan road network (cartosemiotics). , 148-156.
  ÑDÜÑODÉ: Calabar journal of the humanities. A publication of the Faculty of Arts, University of Calabar, Nigeria, 2009
• Semiotics of cartoon in two Nigerian newspapers: The punch and the guardian
  LWATI: An academic & research journal in all disciplines., 2011
• A contrastive analysis of sentence and clause patterns in Lokaa and English
  Annals of humanities and development studies, 2012
• Gendered Selves Reconstruction in Alice Walker’s The Color Purple and Maya Angelou’s I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
  World Journal of English Language, 2013
• Grapho-metaphorization in Maya Angelou’s I know why the caged bird sings and Alice Walker’s The color purple.
  Journal of languages, literature and communication studies. A publication of the Faculty of Language and Communications Studies, Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida University, Lapai, Nigeria, 2013
• Language and identity in Alice Walker’s The color purple and Maya Angelou’s I know why the caged bird sings. Currents in African literature and the English language
  A publication of the Department of English and Literary Studies, University of Calabar, Nigeria, 2014
• Linguistic identity and the role of Ebonics in African American literary experience
  International journal of English language teaching, 2014
• Gender semiotics and the 21st century feminist utopia.
  Theory and practice in language studies, 2014
• The African, his spirituality and language exploitation: a cause of some armed conflicts and insurgency in Africa
  The international journal of diverse identities. J. Collins, ed. Illinois: Common Ground Publishers, 2016
• Social network sites (SNS) technology and language education: harnessing ICT-driven service delivery in FULafia
  FULafia journal of humanities and social sciences. A journal of Federal University of Lafia, Nigeria, 2016
• Literacy, complementarities and nationalism: a reading of selected poems in Idris Amali’s Efeega: war of ants
  Journal of Pan-African reading and literacy research. A publication of Pan-African Literacy for All Conference (PALFA), the International Literacy Association (ILA), Newark Delaware, USA with assistance from CODE, 2019
• Sexual objectification and genital cursing metaphors for socio-political activism in Stella Nyanzi’s online poem to President Museveni and select-social media comments
  International journal of humanitatis theoreticus. A publication of the Department of English, Faculty of Arts, University of Yaoundé 1, Cameroon, 2020
• Feminist-stylistic perspective in select-Nigerian newspaper reports on Boko Haram.
  African journal on terrorism (AJT). A journal of the African Centre for the Study and Research on Terrorism (ACSRT), African Union., 2021
• Stylistic representations and the rhetoric of the image/text in select-Nigerian newspaper reports on terrorism.
  African journal on terrorism. A journal of the African Centre for the Study and Research on Terrorism (ACSRT), African Union, 2021
• Making the best of a “bad” situation: Onwudinjo’s linguistic gymnastics in De walaha for Wazobia
  Issues in language and literary studies. A journal of the Department of English, Ajayi Crowther University, Oyo, 2022
• Tiv political cosmos in songs: a stylistic analysis of select-artistes
  Issues in language and literary studies. A journal of the Department of English, Ajayi Crowther University, Oyo., 2022
• Violence and narrative representation of women’s experiences in Sefi Atta’s Swallow and Mariama Ba’s So long a letter
  African Identities, 2024
• A critical metaphorical analysis of verbal violence in selected Tiv political campaign songs
  International journal of arts, languages, linguistics and literary studies, 2025
• Investigation teacher qualifications, training, and professional identity in English and Hausa language teaching
  International journal of arts, languages, linguistics and literary studies, 2025
• Rhetoric of dressing and impression in selected Nigerian political campaigns: A critical reading of Facebook public perception
  Ikenga journal of African studies, 2025
• An Epistemological and Ethical Examination of AI-Assisted Writing in Postgraduate Research at the Federal University of Lafia
  LASU Postgraduate Studies Journal, 2026
• Style and media rhetoric: reporting terrorism in Nigeria
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