Peter Oyewole Makinde

Dr. Peter Oyewole Makinde is a Lecturer in the Department of Linguistics at Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Awka. He holds a PhD in Linguistics from the University of the Western Cape, South Africa as well as MA and BA in English Language and Literature from Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Awka. His research paradigm explores the construction of meaning through the interaction of language, visual, spatial, material, and auditory modes in socially situated contexts. His research spans political discourse, education, health communication, religion, media, music, and popular culture, with particular emphasis on African communicative practices. He has published on political cartoons, higher education branding, music videos, pharmaceutical discourse, religious sermons, and institutional messaging. He also works in sociolinguistics, stylistics, literary linguistics, and African language studies, with research on Igbo and Yoruba covering contrastive analysis, dialectal variation, and lexical semantics. His scholarship contributes to the advancement of multimodal and social semiotic theory, demonstrating the relevance of linguistics to contemporary social, cultural, and institutional issues. Dr Makinde is a member of several professional bodies, including Linguistics Association of Nigeria, WASFLIG, NiSFLIG, International Systemic Functional Linguistics Association.