Professor
Solomon Oluwole Oyetade is a Professor of Linguistics in the Department of
Linguistics and African Languages. He was a Federal Government scholar. His
area of specialisation is Sociolinguistics covering Applied Linguistics. His
research focus has been on endoglossic bilingualism in Nigeria and other
aspects of Sociolinguistics including language variation,
bilingualism/multilingualism, language endangerment and revitalization,
language policy and language planning, ethnography of communication, etc. He has published widely in local and
international journals.
Professor
Oyetade is a member of a number of prestigious academic associations including:
Fellow, Nigerian Academic of Letters; Fellow Alexander von Humboldt Foundation,
Germany; World Congress of African Linguistics, West African Linguistics
Congress, Lingua Pax, Association of Contemporary African Linguistics, Linguistics
Association of Nigeria, Yoruba Studies Association of Nigeria, etc. He is a member of editorial board of a number
of linguistic journals as well as an assessor for African Humanities Programme
of American Council of Learned Society. As a Fellow of the Alexander von
Humboldt Foundation, Germany, he was a researcher at the Institute of African
Studies, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany. He was a Visiting Lecturer at
the University of Legon, Ghana as well as an Adjunct Lecturer at the University
of Education, Winneba, Ghana.
He
has held several administrative positions in the University system. These include:
Warden, Mellanby Hall, University of Ibadan; Supervisor, GES 101: USE OF
ENGLISH; Ag. Head, Department of Linguistics and African Languages; Chairman,
Faculty of Arts Senate Curriculum Committee; Faculty representative on the
Central Appointments and Promotions Committee, Senate representative on Kenneth
Dike Library Board and Deputy Director (Administration) UI Distance Learning
Centre. Outside the University of
Ibadan, he was the Deputy Executive Director, National Institute for Nigerian
Languages, Aba, Abia State.
Professor
Oyetade has served as External Examiner for Linguistics and English in several
Universities in Nigeria and Ghana both at under- and postgraduate levels. He
has equally served as external assessors in these Universities for promotion or
appointments of colleagues to the grades of Associate and full Professors.