Title:	Senior Lecturer
Department:	English,Linguistics and Cultural Studies
Address:	32/38 Wells Street, London, W1T 3UW
Tel:	+44 (0)20 7911 5000 ext: 5870
Fax:	+44 (0)20 7911 5000
Email:	K.Ihemere@wmin.ac.uk

 

Biography

Kelechukwu Ihemere is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of English, Linguistics and Cultural Studies. He was educated at the University of Jos (BA Honours in English) and the University of Newcastle (MA in English Language and Linguistics; PhD in Linguistics). He has taught at the International House Language School Moscow – Russia, University of Newcastle, University of Central England and the University of Northumbria. 

 

Teaching Interests

Sociolinguistics, the Sociology of Language, Anthropological Linguistics, Pidgin and Creole linguistics, the analysis of conversational code-switching in bilingual communities, and corpus linguistics - especially problems of bilingual spoken corpora, bilingual education and cross-cultural pragmatics. I would be interested in hearing from prospective students wishing to pursue postgraduate study in the above listed areas. Suggestions for interdisciplinary projects are also welcome.

 

Recent Interests and Key Outputs

Books

Ihemere, K. U. (ed.) (2011). Language Contact and Language Shift: Grammatical and Sociolinguistic Perspectives. Munich, Germany: Lincom Europa Academic Publishers. ISBN 978-386-288-052-2

Ihemere, K. U. (2010). A Comparative Analysis of Grammatical and Lexical Cohesive Devices in Authentic Texts in English. Altona, Victoria: Common Ground Publishing. ISBN 978-186-335-651-0

Ihemere, K. U. (2007). A Tri-Generational Study of Language Choice and Shift in Port Harcourt. Boca Raton, Florida: Universal Publishers, USA. ISBN 158-112-958-0

Book Chapters

Ihemere, K. U. (2011). ‘Language Choice and Language Shift in Port Harcourt’. In K. U. Ihemere (ed.), Language Contact and Language Shift: Grammatical and Sociolinguistic Perspectives, 140-154. Munich, Germany: Lincom Europa Academic Publishers. ISBN 978-386-288-052-2
 
Ihemere, K. U. (2008). ‘A Sequential Analytic Approach to Code-Switching in the Ikwerre community of Port Harcourt, Nigeria’. In A. Nikolaev and J. Niemi (eds.), Two or More Languages, 84 – 93. Joensuu, Finland: University of Joensuu Press. ISBN: 978-952-219-100-7

Ihemere, K. U. (2006). ‘An integrated approach to language attitudes: the case of the Ikwerre of Port Harcourt City, Nigeria’. In O. F. Arasanyin and M. Pemberton (eds.), Shifting the Center of Africanism in Language Politics and Economic Globalization, 194-207. Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press. ISBN 1-57473-414-8

Journal Articles

Ihemere, K. U. (2010). ‘Some Code-Switching Practices in Port Harcourt: Code-Switching as a Linguistic Resource’. The International Journal of the Humanities Vol. 8(1), 181 – 194. ISSN 1447-9508
 
Ihemere, K. U. (2009). ‘Revisiting the Issue of Language in Education Policy and Mother Tongue Medium of Instruction in Nigeria’. The International Journal of the Humanities Vol. 7(3), 119 – 132. ISSN 1447-9508

Ihemere, K. U. (2006). ‘A basic description and analytic treatment of noun clauses in Nigerian Pidgin’. Nordic Journal of African Studies Vol. 15(3), 296 – 313. ISSN 1459-9465

 

Conference Papers

Some Code-Switching Practices in Port Harcourt. Paper accepted for presentation at the 8th International Conference on New Directions in the Humanities, University of California Los Angeles USA, 29 June – 2 July, 2010.

Revisiting the Issue of Language in Education Policy and Mother Tongue Medium of Instruction in Nigeria. Paper accepted for presentation at the 7th International Conference on New Directions in the Humanities, Beijing, China – June, 2009.

Language Shift in Port Harcourt City: The Role of Social Networks Paper accepted for presentation at the 39th Annual Conference on African Linguistics (ACAL 39) at the University of Georgia, Athens USA, April 17 – 20, 2008.

Conversational Code-switching in Port Harcourt: How Do We Explain It? Paper presented at the Westminster University one day conference on Interface with Linguistics, March 26, 2008.

English in Africa: Imperialism or Pragmatism? Paper presented at the Newcastle University One Day Conference on English in a Global Context: Postcolonial Intersections in Literary and Linguistic Studies, November 25th, 2007.

Code-Switching in Port Harcourt: How do we explain it? Paper presented at the Annual Conference on African Linguistics (ACAL 38) at the University of Florida, March 22 – 25, 2007.

A Sequential Analytic Approach to Code-Switching in the Ikwerre community of Port Harcourt, Nigeria. Paper presented at the 9th Nordic Conference on Bilingualism at the University of Joensuu-Finland, August 10-11, 2006.

Language Attitudes and Change in Port Harcourt City Nigeria. Paper presented at the British Association of Applied Linguists Language in Africa SIG at the University of Leeds, November 17-18, 2006.

An Integrated Approach to Language Attitudes: the Case of the Ikwerre of Port Harcourt City Nigeria. Paper presented at the Annual Conference on African Linguistics (ACAL 36) at the Georgia Southern University, March 31 – April 3, 2005.

A Basic Description and Analytic Treatment of Noun Clauses in Nigerian Pidgin. Paper presented to the Department of English language and Linguistic Studies, University of Newcastle Visiting Speaker programme, 15th October 2003