Yohanna Joseph Waliya
@frenchvillage.edu.ng
,
Nigeria French Language Village Ajara-Badagry
Yohanna Joseph Waliya is a lecturer and researcher at The Nigeria French Language Village, Badagry-Lagos, Nigeria . He's a Nigerian digital poet, distant writer, ludokinetic writer, novelist, playwright, basic python programmer, winner of the Janusz Korczak Prize for Global South 2020, Electronic Literature Organization Research Fellow, UNESCO Janusz Korczak Fellow, Creator & Curator of MAELD and ADELD [2022 Emerging Open Scholarship Award: Honourable Mention, C-SKI], Executive Director of AELA& ADELI ( ), International Association for Advancement of Artificial Intelligence Conference on Web and Social Media [ICWSM ] Scholar 2021-2022, Scrimba Scholar 2022-2023, and Hastac Scholar 2021-2023. He writes in English and French. Among his works are : La récolte de vie (play), Monde 2.0 (play), Hégémonie Disparue (novel), Quand l’Afrique se lèvera (novel), @TinyKorczak (Twitterbot-poetry), Climatophosis (digital poetry: The best use of DH for Fun 2020), etc.
EDUCATION
2011-2014: B.A. Modern Languages, University of Calabar.
2008-2010: B.A. Religion Studies, NationsUniversity
2019-2023: M.A. French, Ahmadu Bello University
RESEARCH, TEACHING, or OTHER INTERESTS
Arts and Humanities, Literature and Literary Theory, Global and Planetary Change, Cultural Studies
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Yohanna Joseph WALIYA
Southwest University Neofit Rilski
The democratisation of the Internet has given rise to a digital society, the most influential, smart, and cumbersome in the history of humanity. English, the most used language on the Internet, accounts for 49.7% of the linguistic content across all digital platforms. The dominance of English has posed a linguistic challenge to Francophone, Hispanophone, Russophone, Lusophone, Sinophone, Arabophone, and many other linguistic communities for several decades. English continuously enriches itself with emerging technological buzzwords thanks to linguistic content disseminated on websites and digital social network applications such as ChatGPT, Google, Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Instagram, etc. This research focuses on the sociolinguistic competition between English and French in the virtual world, analysing code-switching (English and French) on the French weblog Usbek et Rica, which adopts this style to convey information to its Francophone audience. Can it be said that this illustrates the linguistic homogenisation of English as the language of the Internet to the detriment of other languages, such as French? This article aims to answer this question by examining articles published on usbeketrica.com from 2016 to 2020, using these publications as a data corpus. It also critiques the programming languages of the blog in comparison with natural languages in society, applying the Marie-Anne Paveau’s ecological linguistic approach, which stipulates that all linguistic and extra-linguistic signs produce symmetrical meanings in the digital ecosystem. The findings show that the impact of English on French, in terms of technological language, is increasingly evident on the blog.
N. Mujafarkani, Victoria Bassey, Jumbo J. Tokono, A. Jafar Ahamed, Innocent Benjamin, Daniel C. Agurokpon, Yohanna J. Waliya, and Hitler Louis
Elsevier BV
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AWARDS & PRIZES
Scrimba scholarship 29th September 2022-29th March 2023
MAELD&ADELD: Emerging Open Scholarship Award:
Honourable Mention, Canadian-Social Knowledge Institute . 2022.
International Association for Advancement of Artificial Intelligence Conference on Web and social media [ICWSM ] Scholarship . 2021-2022.
Hastac Scholarship 2021-2023.
UNESCO Janusz Korczak Prize for Global South 2020.
UNESCO Janusz Korczak Fellow 2020.
Electronic Literature Organization Research Fellow 2020.
Volkswagen Foundation & LSSDH Scholarship 2018.
Homboldt Colleg & LSSDH Scholarship 2017.
Prof. Margrate Okon’s Prize, University of Calabar, 2015.
Book worm of the year, LANSA, University of Calabar, 2013.
Federal Government Scholarship Ref. FSBA/FGSS/UG/13/084 2013.