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Victor Adedayo

Victor Adedayo

PhD Student, TESOL and Applied Linguistics

Graduate Teaching Assistant

Pronouns: he/him
Email: victor.adedayo@okstate.edu

MA, Applied Linguistics/TESOL, The University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, Alabama

MA, English (Linguistics), The University of Ibadan, Ibadan, Nigeria

BA, English (Linguistics), Kwara State University, Malete, Kwara State

Areas of Interest & Expertise
  • Racial Discourse

  • Corpus Linguistics

  • Corpus-Assisted CDA

  • Racial Equity and AI

Recent Courses Taught
  • International Freshman Composition I, Oklahoma State University

  • English Composition, The University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, 2021-2023

  • English Composition II Non-Native Speaker, The University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, 2021-2023

Selected Publications

Journal Articles

  • Adedayo, V. (2023). Grounding mechanisms in selected interviews of President Muhammadu Buhari. Language Matters. 54(1), 40-60. https://doi.org/10.1080/10228195.2023.2197252

  • Imam. M. & Adedayo. V. (2019). Americanism and its Influence on the Orthography of Postgraduate Students. International Journal of English Language Studies (IJELS), 1(2), 22-28.

Book Reviews

  • Adedayo, V. & Adebayo, Q. (2024). [Book Review] Durrant, Philip. Corpus linguistics for writing development: A guide for research. Routledge, Oxon and New York (2023). 194 pp. Hardback: $128.00; Paperback: $35.96; E-book: $35.96

Selected Conference Presentations
  • Adedayo, V. (2024). Media representation of identities: A corpus-based investigation of Black Lives Matter reportage [Conference Paper]. Southern Plains Conference, Oklahoma State University.

  • Adedayo, V. (2023). Lexical bundles and Nigerian university discourse: A corpus-based study, [Conference Paper]. CLAN International Conference, Redeemer’s University, Ede.

  • Adedayo, V. (2023). Deresponsibilization strategies in graduate school rejection letters. [Conference Paper]. UALC, Tuscaloosa, AL

  • Adedayo, V. (2022). Grammaticalizing relationships: The use of pronouns in Covid-19 survivor stories. [Conference Paper]. UALC, Tuscaloosa, AL

  • Adedayo, V. (2022). A pragmatic reconstruction of meanings of two lexical items (abeg and oga) in Nigerian pidgin English usage on Twitter. [Conference Paper]. AM-TESOL, Jackson, MS

Professional Appointments and Professional Service
  • Assistant Director, Oklahoma State University Writing Center

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