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Mary Ifeoluwa Abidoye, M.A.

Lecturer and PhD candidate

 

Campus Am Neuen Palais
Am Neuen Palais 10
Building 19, Room 1.29
14469 Potsdam

 

consulting hours
Thursdays 4 p.m. - 5 p.m.

About

  • Since 11/2024 - Lecturer at the Chair of Development and Variation of the English Language at University of Potsdam
  • 03/2024 - 08/2024 - Student Assistant at the Chair of Development and Variation of the English Language at University of Potsdam
  • Since 10/2023 - PhD candidate at the Chair of Development and Variation of the English Language at University of Potsdam
  • 2021 - 2022 M.A. in English Linguistics at the University of Lagos, Nigeria
  • 11/2020 - 08/2021 English Language Teacher at Beautiful Beginning College, Pakuro, Nigeria
  • 11/2019 - 10/2020 English Language Teacher at Agulu Grammar School, Agulu, Nigeria
  • 20014/15 - 2019 B.A. in English Language at Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Nigeria 

Research Projects

  • PhD Research project: Phraseological Patterns of Verbs in World Englishes
  • MA thesis: #ENDSARS Protest in Nigeria: an Analysis of  Transitivity in Selected Newspaper Editorials

Research Interests

  • World Englishes
  • Cultural Linguistics
  • Corpus Linguistics
  • Cognitive (Socio-)Linguistics
  • Multilingualism 
  • Creole and Pidgin
  • Discourse Analysis