Research Theme 1: Media/digital discourses of conflict, protest, and resistance; online activism and campaigning; hate, extremism & political violence
1. Chiluwa, I. (in press). Hate speech and political violence. In, S. Dubinsky, M. Gavin & H. Starr (eds.). The Cambridge Handbook of Language and Political Conflict. Cambridge University Press.
2. Chiluwa, I. (in press). Women’s rights advocacy in Africa. In, S.A. Samoilenko & S. Simmons (eds.). The Handbook of Social and Political Conflict. Wiley-Blackwell.
3. Chiluwa, I. (in press). Critical discourse studies of conflict, war and terrorism: a case study of Nigeria’s Boko Haram and Somali’s Al-Shabaab, In B. Forchtner & F. Zappetini (eds.) Handbook on Critical Discourse Studies. Edward Elgar Publishing.
4. Chiluwa, I. (2024). Investigating the language of conflict and peace in critical discourse studies. Critical Discourse Studies. https://doi.org/10.1080/17405904.2024.2331160
5. Cooper, V.A. & Chiluwa, I. (2024). Constructing Africa in Chinese international news reporting: peace or conflict journalism? Critical Discourse Studies. https://doi.org/10.1080/17405904.2024.2331175
6. Chiluwa, I. & Ruzaite, J. (2024). Analysing the language of political conflict: a study of war rhetoric of Vladimir Putin and Volodymyr Zelensky. Critical Discourse Studies (https://doi.org/10.1080/17405904.2024.2331186
7. Chiluwa, I. & Ononye, C. (2024). The #PantamiMustGo political activism: a textual analysis of narrative agency in protest discourse. Discourse Studies, 26 (2), 173-198.
8. Chiluwa, I. (2024). Discourse, digitisation and women’s rights groups in Nigeria and Ghana: online campaigns for political inclusion and against violence on women and girls. New Media & Society (SAGE).https://doi.org/10.1177/14614448231220919
9. Chiluwa, I. (2023). #EndSARS protests and the search for social justice in Nigeria: Examining activist discourses on police brutality, politics and human security. Protest3(2), 200-224 (Brill).
10. Awopetu, I. & Chiluwa, I. (2023). Resistance in visual narratives: A multimodal CDA of images of the #EndSARS protests in Nigeria. Visual Communication Quarterly 30(3), 157-169 (Taylor & Francis). https://doi.org/10.1080/15551393.2023.2232296
11. Ononye, C., & Chiluwa, I. (2023). ‘There’s still something positive about the Niger Delta ecology’:Metaphor and ideology in the Niger Delta poetic discourse. Language and Literature, 32(3), 275-296. (SAGE). https://doi.org/10.1177/09639470231158694
12. Aminu, P. & Chiluwa, I. (2023). Reinventing identity and resistance ideology in protest narratives: The case of Oduduwa secessionist group on Facebook. Journal of Language Aggression and Conflict 11(2), 200-225 (John Benjamins). https://doi.org/10.1075/jlac.00078.ami
13. Chiluwa, I. (ed). (2022) Discourse, Media and Conflict: Examining war and resolution in the news. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
14. Chiluwa, I. (2022) ‘Introduction: Media, conflict and peace-building.’ In: Chiluwa, I. (ed). Discourse, Media and Conflict: Examining war and resolution in the news. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (p. 1-16).
15. Chiluwa, I., Chiluwa, I. M. & Igbinoba, A.O. (2022) “Herdsmen are terrorists”: Analyzing news headlines on the herder-farmer conflict in the Nigerian press. In: Chiluwa, I. (ed). Discourse, Media and Conflict: Examining war and resolution in the news. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (p. 69-92).
16. Peter, A. & Chiluwa, I. (2022) ‘Making a case for war: CNN and the representations of humanitarianism, Gadhafi, and NATO in the 2011 bombing of Libya.’ In: Chiluwa, I. (ed). Discourse, Media and Conflict: Examining war and resolution in the news. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (p. 119-139).
17. Chiluwa, I. & Chiluwa, I. M. (2022) ‘Deadlier than Boko Haram’: Representations of the herder-farmer conflict in the local and foreign press Media, War & Conflict 15(1), 3-24 (SAGE).
18. Chiluwa, I. (2022) Women’s online advocacy campaigns for political participation in Nigeria and Ghana. Critical Discourse Studies, 19(5), 465-484. (Taylor & Francis). DOI: 10.1080/17405904.2021.1999287
19. Chiluwa, I. (ed). (2021) Discourse and Conflict: Analysing text and talk of conflict, hate and peacebuilding. Palgrave Macmillan.
20. Chiluwa, I. (2021) ‘Introduction: discourse, conflict and conflict resolution.’ In: Innocent Chiluwa (ed.) Discourse and conflict: Analysing text and talk of conflict, hate and peacebuilding. London: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 1-16.
21. Chiluwa, I. (2021) Resisting corruption in the Nigerian legislature: A critical discourse analysis of news and opinion articles on legislators’ salaries. Discourse & Communication 15(5), 519-541 (SAGE).
22. Chiluwa, I. (2021) Researching the Language of Conflict. Research in Pragmatics 3(1), 49-57.
23. Chiluwa, I., Chimuanya, L. & Ajiboye, E. (2020) ‘Communicating religious extremism in West Africa.’ In: Tarusarira, J. & Chitando, E. (Eds.) Themes in Religion and Human Security in Africa. Routledge, pp. 166-179.
24. Chiluwa, I., Taiwo, R. & Ajiboye, E. (2020) Hate speech and political media discourse in Nigeria: The case of the Indigenous People of Biafra. International Journal of Media & Cultural Politics 16(2), 191-212. (Intellect)
25. Chiluwa, I. & Chiluwa, I. M. (2020) Separatists or Terrorists, Jews or Nigerians? Media and cyber discourses on the complex identity of the ‘Biafrans.’ Journal of Language and Politics 19(4), 583-603. (John Benjamins)
26. Chiluwa, I. & Bouvier G. (2019) Activism, campaigning and political discourse on Twitter: New York: Nova Science Publishers.
27. Chiluwa, I. (2019) Online activism in Mali: A study of digital discourses of the Movement for the Liberation of Azawad. In: Chiluwa & Gwen Bouvier (eds.) Activism, Campaigning and Political Discourse on Twitter. Nova Science, pp. 183-207.
28. Chiluwa I. (2019) Deception in online terrorist propaganda: A study of ISIS and Boko Haram: In: Innocent Chiluwa & Sergei Samoilenko (eds). Handbook of Research on Deception, Fake News and Misinformation Online. Hershey, PA: IGI Global, p.520-537.
29. Chiluwa I. (2019) Discourse Analysis and Conflict Studies. SAGE Research Methods Cases. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.4135/9781526468208.
30. Chiluwa I. (2018) A nation divided against itself: Biafra and the conflicting online protest discourses. Discourse & Communication, 12(4), 357-381. (SAGE).
31. Chiluwa I. (2018) SMS & civil unrest. In: Mehdi Khosrow-Pour (ed.) Encyclopedia of Information Science and Technology, 4th edition. Hershey PA: IGI Global, pp. 6275-6285.
32. Chiluwa I. & Peter, A. (2018) Digital discourse radical movements: exploring stance and positioning in Nigerian militant groups’ online discourses. In: Tunde Opeibi & Josef Schmied (eds.). From the Virtual Space to Physical Space: Exploring Language Use in Nigerian Democracy. Cuvillier Verlag, 2018, pp. 43-62.
33. Chiluwa I. (2017) The discourse of terror threats: assessing online written threats by Nigerian terrorist groups. Studies in Conflict & Terrorism, 40(4), 318-338, (Taylor & Francis).
34. Chiluwa I. & Odebunmi, A. (2016) On terrorist attacks in Nigeria: Stance and engagement in conversations on Nairaland. Communication and the Public 1(1), 91-109, (SAGE).
35. Chiluwa I. & Ajiboye, E. (2016) Language use in crisis situations: a discourse analysis of online reactions to news reports of the Washington Navy Yard shooting and the Nairobi Westgate attack. In: Rotimi Taiwo & Tunde Opeibi (eds). The Discourse of Digital Civic Engagement: Perspectives from the Developing World. Nova Science Publishers, pp.35-55.
36. Chiluwa I. (2015) Radicalist discourse: a study the stances of Nigeria’s Boko Haram and Somalia’s Al Shabaab on Twitter. Journal of Multicultural Discourses: Special Issue on Social Media, Discourse and Culture, 10(2), 214-235 (Routledge)
37. Chiluwa I. & Ifukor, P. (2015) War against our children: stance and evaluation in #BringBackOurGirls campaign discourse on Twitter and Facebook. Discourse & Society, 26(3), 267-296, (SAGE).
38. Chiluwa I. (2015) Text messaging in social protests. In: Z. Yan (Ed.) Encyclopedia of Mobile Phone Behavior(vol.2) Hershey, PA: IGI Global, pp. 1024-1031.
39. Chiluwa I. (2015) Occupy Nigeria 2012: a critical analysis of Face book posts in the fuel subsidy removal protests. Clina: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Translation, Interpreting and Intercultural Communication 1(1), 47-69).
40. Chiluwa I. & Adetunji, A. (2013) Twittering the Boko Haram uprising in Nigeria: investigating pragmatic acts in the social media. Africa Today, 59 (3), 82-102 (Indiana University Press).
41. Chiluwa I. (2012) Social media networks and the discourse of resistance: a sociolinguistic CDA of Biafra online discourse. Discourse & Society 23(3), 217-244. (SAGE)
42. Chiluwa I. (2012) Citizenship, participation and CMD: the case of Nigeria. Pragmatics and Society 3(1), 61-88. (John Benjamins)
43. Chiluwa I. (2012) Language in the news: mediating sociopolitical crises in Nigeria. Frankfurt: Peter Lang. Reviewed by Desislava Cheshmedzhieva-Stoycheva. Journal of Language and Politics 15(5), 661-663. (John Benjamins, 2016).
44. Chiluwa I. (2011) Labeling and ideology in the press: a critical discourse study of the Niger Delta crisis. Frankfurt: Peter Lang. Reviewed by Mark Nartey. Pragmatics and Society, 7(3), 503-506 (John Benjamins, 2016).
45. Chiluwa I. (2011) Media construction of sociopolitical crises in Nigeria. Journal of Language and Politics, 10(1), 88-108, (John Benjamins).
46. Chiluwa I. (2010) The media and the militants: constructing the Niger Delta crisis. RASK: International Journal of Language and Communication 32, 41-78. (Institute of Language and Communication, Southern University of Denmark).
Research Theme 2: Online deceptive communications, (dis)misinformation & email scams
Chiluwa, I. M. & Chiluwa, I. (2020) “We are a mutual fund:” How Ponzi scheme operators in Nigeria apply indexical markers to shield deception and fraud on their websites. Social Semiotics (Routledge) https://doi.org/10.1080/10350330.2020.1766269.
Chiluwa, I. & Samoilenko, S. (e.d.) (2019) Deception, Fake News and Misinformation Online. Hershey PA: IGI Global.
Chiluwa, I., Ovia, E. & Uba, E. (2019) “Attention Beneficiary…!” Assessing types and features of scam emails. In: I. Chiluwa & S. Samoilenko (eds.). Deception, fake news and misinformation online. Hershey PA: IGI Global, pp. 421-438
Chiluwa, I. (2019) “Congratulations your email account has won you €1,000,000:” Analyzing the discourse structures of scam emails. In: Tony Docan-Morgan (ed.) The Palgrave Handbook of Deceptive Communication. London: Palgrave-Macmillan, pp. 897-912.
Chiluwa, I. (2017) Deception & Deceptive Communication: motivations, recognition techniques and behavioral control. Innocent Chiluwa (e.d.) New York: Nova Science Publishers.
Chiluwa, I.M., Chiluwa, I. & Ajiboye, E. (2017) Online deception: a discourse study of email business scams. In: Chiluwa I. (ed.) Deception & Deceptive Communication: motivations, recognition techniques and behavioral control. New York: Nova Science Publishers, pp. 169-188
Chiluwa, I. (2015) Email Fraud. In: Karen Tracy, Cornelia Ilie & Todd Sandel (Eds). The International Encyclopedia of Language and Social Interaction (LSE), Boston: John Wiley & Sons.
Chiluwa, I. (2010) The pragmatics of hoax E-Mail business proposals. Linguistik Online 43, Issue 3 (University of Bern).
Chiluwa, I. (2009) The discourse of digital deceptions and ‘419’ emails. Discourse Studies, 11(6), 635-660. (SAGE)
Chiluwa, I. (2008) Theresa Heyd, Email Hoaxes: Form, Function, Genre Ecology. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 2008, Pp. vii, 239. Hb. €95.00. Language in Society, 59(1), 141-142 (Cambridge University Press) (Book Review).
Research Theme 3: Social media, cultural discourses & online negotiation of group and ethnic identities
Chiluwa, I. & Bouvier G. (2019) Twitter: Global Perspectives, Uses and Research Techniques. (eds.) New York: Nova Science Publishers (2019).
Chiluwa, I. (2019) Twitter – global perspectives, civic culture and moral affect. In: I. Chiluwa & Gwen Bouvier. Twitter: Global Perspectives, Uses and Research Techniques. New York: Nova Science Publishers (pp.1-8).
Chiluwa, I. (2019) New media and the web as corpora: Exploring research projects in digital humanities. Research in Pragmatics, 1(1), 67-82 (Journal of the Pragmatics Association of Nigeria).
Chiluwa, I. (2018) Critical discourse analysis and new media research in Nigeria. In: Foluke Unuabonah, Kehinde Ayoola & Adeyemi Adegoju (eds). Explorations in Critical Discourse Analysis and New Media Studies: Essay in Honour of Rotimi Taiwo. Glienicke: Galda-Verlag (pp.3-20).
Chiluwa, I. (2017) Nation as Grand Narrative: The Nigerian Press and the Politics of Meaning by Wale Adebanwi Rochester. New York: University of Rochester Press, The Journal of Modern African Studies (Cambridge) (2017) vol.55 (3), pp. 522-525 (Review).
Chiluwa, I. & Ajiboye, E. (2016) Discursive pragmatics of T-shirt inscriptions: constructing the self, context and social aspirations. Pragmatics and Society 7(3), 436-462 (John Benjamins).
Chiluwa, I., Chimuanya, L., & Ajiboye, E. & Peter A. (2015) Texting and relationship: examining discourse strategies in negotiating and sustaining relationships using mobile phone. Covenant Journal of Language Studies 3(2), 17-38 (Covenant University).
Chiluwa, I. (2014) Online negotiation of ethnic identity. In: S. Adekoya; Rotimi Taiwo; Kehinde Ayoola & A. Adegoju. Current Linguistic and Literary Issues in Digital Communication in the Globalised Age. Ife: University of Ife Press (Nigeria), pp. 81-110.
Chiluwa, I. (2012) Politeness in openings and closings of personal emails. In: Isaiah Bariki, Domwin Kuupole & Moses Kambou (eds). Aspects of Language Variation, Acquisition and Use. Festschrift for Prof. Emmanuel Kwofie. Cape Coast: University of Cape Coast Press, (Ghana), pp. 36-62, 2012.
Chiluwa, I. (2011) Discursive pragmatics of unsolicited advice in Lifestyle Weblogs. Papers in English and Linguistics. 12, 147-179. (OAU, Ife).
Chiluwa, I. (2010) Discursive practice and the Nigerian identity in personal emails. In: Rotimi Taiwo (ed). Handbook of Research on Discourse Behaviour and Digital Communication: Language Structures and Social Interaction. Hershey; New York: IGI, pp. 112-129.
Chiluwa, I. (2009) Ethno-pragmatics of Ońunwa performance of the Igbo of Nigeria. Journal of Multicultural Discourses, 4 (3), 279-295, (Routledge).
Chiluwa, I. (2007) A speech act analysis of adverts of soft drinks in Nigeria, 2000-2006. Babcock Journal of Mass communication, 1(3), 29-38.
(Digital) religious and cultural discourses; language and social interaction
Chimuanya, L., Awonuga, C. & Chiluwa, I. (2018) Lexical trends on Facebook and Twitter texts of selected Nigerian Pentecostal Churches: A stylistic inquiry. Semiotica. Issue 224, pp. 45- 84 (De Gruyter)
Chiluwa, I. & Uba, E. (2015) Texting and Christian practice. In: Zheng Yan (e.d.) Encyclopedia of Mobile Phone Behavior (vol.1) Hershey, PA: IGI Global, pp. 369-376.
Chiluwa, I. (2013) Community and social interaction in digital religious discourse in Nigeria, Ghana and Cameroon. Journal of Religion, Media and Digital Culture 2 (1), 1-37 (Brill).
Chiluwa, I. (2012) Online religion in Nigeria: The internet church and cyber miracles. Journal of Asian and African Studies 47(6), 734-749, (SAGE).
Chiluwa, I. (2008) Religious vehicle stickers in Nigeria: a discourse of identity, faith and social vision. Discourse & Communication 2 (4), 371-387, (SAGE).
Chiluwa, I. (2008) SMS text-messaging and the Nigerian Christian context: constructing values and sentiments. International Journal of Language, Society & Culture, Issue 24, 11-20. (University of Tasmania).