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Name
Dr. Emmanuel Ernest Ilonga

Academic Rank
Lecturer

Department
Languages and Literature

Biography

Biography

Dr. Emmanuel Ernest Ilonga is a lecturer in the Department of Languages and Literature within the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences. He holds a PhD in Linguistics and specializes in sociolinguistics. He completed both his undergraduate and postgraduate studies at the University of Dar es Salaam. His teaching areas include sociolinguistics and semantics. His research interests and scholarly work focus on language and social media studies, translanguaging, onomastics, linguistic landscapes, social semiotics, and political communication.

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emmanuel.ilonga@duce.ac.tz

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Research Interest

Research Interest
Sociolinguistics, translanguaging, onomastics, social semiotics, multimodality.

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Publications

  • Ilonga, E. (2025). Ethnic community languages in contemporary social media advertisements in Tanzania. South African Journal of African Languages, 45(3): 406–417. 

  • Ilonga, E. (2024). “Karibu Zanzibar” – Naming tourist watercrafts along the Zanzibar coast. Utafiti, 19(1): 55-78.
  • Ilonga, E. (2024). Morpho-semantic analysis of contemporary Swahili speakers’ linguistic innovations on microloan names. Cogent Arts & Humanities, 11(1): 1-13.
  • Ilonga, E. (2023). Language contest in the linguistic landscape of Sabasaba International Trade Exhibitions in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences, 12(2): 38-58.
  • Ilonga, E. (2023). Linguistic innovations in a multilingual digital advertising context in Tanzania: A translanguaging perspective. Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 46(4): 1257-1275.
  • Ilonga, E. (2023). The rhetoric of Tanzanian 3D digital memes on meaning making. Journal of Linguistics & Language in Education, 17(1): 97-115.
  • Mapunda, G., & Ilonga, E. (2022). Lexical innovation through swahilisation of English lexicon in online advertisements. Utafiti, 17(1): 107-129
  • Ilonga, E., & Mapunda, G. (2022). Complementarity of communicative modes on meaning making in Tanzania’s digital telecom marketing: A social semiotic multimodal perspective. Southern African Linguistics and Applied Language Studies, 40 (1): 87-99.
  • Ilonga, E. (2021). Structural analysis of code-switching in the Tanzanian Swahili- English online telecom adverts. Journal of Education, Humanities and Sciences, 10(5): 59-75.
  • Ilonga, E. (2021). Language properties of online visual commercial advertisements. In, A. Lusekelo & A. Chebanne, African languages: linguistic, literacies, and social issues (pp. 363-382). The University of the Western Cape.
  • Ilonga, E. (2019). A Socio-academic reflection of college students' slang expressions. Journal of Linguistics and Language in Education, 13(2): 178-198.
  • Ilonga, E. (2019). An investigation of university students’ English language errors and correction methods. Arusha Working Papers in African Linguistics, 2: 48-64.
  • Ilonga, E. (2018). Motivation for learning Chinese as a foreign language: Experiences from DUCE. Journal of Education, Humanities and Sciences, 7(2): 62-72.
  • Ilonga, E. (2016). A comparative study of headedness in Ruhaya compounds. Journal of Education, Humanities and Sciences, 5(1): 89-100.