Ibukun Filani, PhD
09107 Chemnitz, Reichenhainer Strasse, zi. 202 (up to February 2024)
Tel: +49 (0)
Emails: ibf@hrz.tu-chemitz.de; phylani2@gmail.com
Short Curriculum Vitae
Ibukun Filani teaches at the Department of English in Augustine University Ilara-Epe, Lagos state Nigeria. He received a Ph.D. at the University of Ibadan for his research on language use in African stand-up comedy. Ibukun Filani’s research has focused on how linguistics offers insights into what stand-up comedians do with jokes in ESL globalising contexts like Nigeria. His writings on Nigerian humour adopt theoretical approaches from pragmatics, discourse theory and sociolinguistics. His articles have been published in Intercultural Pragmatics, Discourse Studies, European Journal of Humour Research and Humour: International Journal of Research. He was the guest editor for European Journal of Humour Research special issue on Nigerian Humour.
During his doctoral degree, he was a recipient of University of Ibadan Postgraduate School Teaching and Research Assistantship Award. He is also a Fellow of the Institute for Advanced Studies at Central European University in Budapest. Currently, he is a Georg Forster Postdoctoral Fellow of Alexander van Humboldt Foundation under the mentorship of Prof. Dr. Josef Schmied at Technische Universität, Chemnitz. In 2023, he participated in the Alexander-von-Humboldt Linguistic Marathon (May 15-25, 2023: Brno (CZ), Klagenfurt (AT), Padova, Ferrara, Modena (IT); here you can read his personal report).
Publications in Journals and Edited Volumes (Selection)
2021: The stand-up comedian as an egocentric communicator. Intercultural Pragmatics, 18(1), 1-23.
2020: A discourse analysis of national identity in Nigerian stand-up humour. Discourse Studies, 22(3), 319-338.
2019: Gendered concepts in Nigerian stand-up comedy. Bulletin of the Transilvania University of Brasov Series IV: Philology and Cultural Studies, 12(61), 19-34.
2018: Editorial: Dis laf fit kill person- an overview of Nigerian humour. European Journal of Humour Research (Special Issue on Nigerian Humour) 6(4), 1-9.
2018. On nonverbal aspects of Nigerian stand-up comedy. African Notes 42 (1&2), 106-121
With Sunday, A.B. 2018: Playing with culture: Nigerian stand-up comedians joking with cultural beliefs and representations. Humour: International Journal of Humour Research. 32 (1), 97-124.
2017: On joking contexts: an example of stand-up comedy. Humour: International Journal of Humour Research 30 (4), 439- 460.
2017: Politics of humour and political humour in Nigerian stand-up comedy. Israeli Journal of Humour Research 6(1), 93-109.
2016: “Laf wan kill me die”: an analysis of Akpos Jokes and the readers’ responses. European Journal of Humour Research (Special Issue on Humour and Social Media) 4(4), 5-25
With Adeoti, O. 2016. ‘Contextual beliefs and pragmatic strategies in online humour: an example of Akpos Jokes’ in R. Taiwo, A. Odebunmi and A. Adetunji (Eds.). Analysing Language and humour in online communication, (pp.372-385). Hershey: IGI Global.
With Ajayi, T.M. 2016: Error Analysis of written English in News tickers on NTAi. Ife Journal of the Humanities and Social Studies, 3 (2), 14-31.
2016: The use of mimicry in Nigerian stand-up comedy. Comedy Studies, 7 (1), 89-102.
2015: Stand-up comedy as an activity type. Israeli Journal of Humour Research, 4 (1), 73-97.
2015: Discourse types in stand-up performances: an example of Nigerian stand-up comedy. European Journal of Humour Research, 3 (1), 41-60.
2014: Pronunciation problems of Mwaghavul speakers of English: a contrastive analysis. Oye Studies in the Arts and Social Sciences, 1(1),1-15.
With Melefa, O.M. 2014: A Socio-semiotic study of nicknaming among undergraduates in a Nigerian university. Linguistik Online, 68(6), 21-42.
With Ajayi, M.T. 2014: Pragmatic function(s) of pronouns and pronominals in Nigerian hip hop music. Nnamdi Azikwe University’s Journal of Arts and Humanities, 15 (2), 117-141.
2014: ‘Computer assisted language learning: implications for English Language learning in Nigerian public universities’ in O. Taiwo and A. Olayiwola (Eds.).Globalising the local: African languages and cultures at the border of technology. (pp.372-385). Ibadan: Crown Goldmine Communications.
2013: ‘A contrastive analysis of three semantic fields of English and Ugboko’ in W. Adegbite, A. Ogunsiji and O. Taiwo (Eds.), Linguistics and the Glocalisation of African languages for sustainable development (pp529-541). Ibadan: Universal Akada Books Nigeria Limited.
Lectures, Conferences and Panel (Selection)
2021: Multidisciplinary and Pragmatics approaches to Humour. Organised and chaired Panel at the 4th International Conference of the Pragmatics Association of Nigeria, University of Benin, Benin City, Nigeria.
2020: Linguistic Markers of Masculinities. A Paper Presented at the 11th Language in the Social Semiotics Conference, Institute of English Studies, Jagiellonian University, Krakrów, Poland.
2020: Discourse Construction of Gender and Sexuality in Nigerian Stand-up Comedy. A Seminar Presented at Institute for Advanced Studies, Central European University, Budapest, Hungary.
With Ogunkunle, V.O. 2012: Use of Proverbs in Parent-Child Communication among the Yoruba People. A Paper Presented at the 2nd International Proverb Conference, University of Ilorin, Ilorin, Nigeria.
2011: Descriptive Analysis of Mwaghavul Syllable Structure: An Optimality Approach. A Paper Presented at the 24th Conference of Linguistic Association of Nigeria, Bayero University, Kano, Nigeria.