Email: kativie@delsu.edu.ng

  • Area of Specialization: Syntax, Semantics and Sociolinguistics
  • Department of English and Literary Studies

  • A lecturer in the department of English and Literary Studies, Delta State University, Abraka. I teach Syntax, Semantics and Sociolinguistics.
    My Publications
  1. Karoh Ativie, Adanma A Eguvwebere (2025/9/1) A Socio-Literary Meaning in Sam Ukala’s Skeletons: A Collection of Stories, Nsukka Journal of the Humanities
    https://scholar.google.com/citations?view_op=view_citation&hl=en&user=uvJrjQEAAAAJ&citation_for_view=uvJrjQEAAAAJ:UeHWp8X0CEIC Vol.33(3) Pages: 66-87

  2. Karoh Ativie (2025) Opening and Closing Sequences in Nigerian Pidgin Sales Talk, NIU Journal of Humanities
    https://scholar.google.com/citations?view_op=view_citation&hl=en&user=uvJrjQEAAAAJ&citation_for_view=uvJrjQEAAAAJ:Tyk-4Ss8FVUC Vol.10(1) Pages: 155-164

  3. Richard Oliseyenum Maledo, Karoh Ativie (2022) Visuality, language and communication in COVID-19 Nigerian social media images, International Review of Humanities Studies
    https://scholar.google.com/citations?view_op=view_citation&hl=en&user=uvJrjQEAAAAJ&citation_for_view=uvJrjQEAAAAJ:LkGwnXOMwfcC Vol.7(2) Pages: 428-445

  4. Karoh Ativie (2020) Politeness in Service Encounters: Astudy of Nigerian Pidgin, AJELLS Journal of English Language and Literary Studies
    nigerianjournalsonline.com Vol.Vol 7(1) Pages: 194-207

  5. Karoh Ativie (2020) Greeting Dynamics in Chukwuemeka Ike's The Potter's Wheel and The Bottled Leopard, KIU Journal of Humanities
    ijhumas.com Vol.Vol 5(3) Pages: 199-205

  6. Karoh Ativie (2019) Face work in Tanure Ojaide's God's Medicine Men and Other Stories, UNIOYU JOURNAL OF HUMANITIES
    www.uujh.org Vol.Vol 23 Pages: 73-82

  7. C.Ailende Ativie and Karoh Ativie (2018) Utility of Linguistics in the Study of Literature, Malthouse Press Ltd
    https://books.google.com.ng Vol. Pages: 387-398

  8. Karoh Ativie (2018) How May I Help You? Face Manifestations in Nigerian Front Counter Staff-Customer Interaction, Abraka Humanities Review
    https://scholar.google.com/citations?view_op=view_citation&hl=en&user=uvJrjQEAAAAJ&citation_for_view=uvJrjQEAAAAJ:IjCSPb-OGe4C Vol.8(1) Pages: 236-248

  9. Karoh Ativie (2017) Domesticating Strategies in Selected Poems of Christian Otobotekere, Between the Crown and the Muse: Poetry, Politics and Environmentalism of Christian Otobotekere
    https://scholar.google.com/citations?view_op=view_citation&hl=en&user=uvJrjQEAAAAJ&citation_for_view=uvJrjQEAAAAJ:YOwf2qJgpHMC Vol. Pages: 91-98

  10. Karoh Ativie (2014) Decoding Cultural Semantic Undertones in the Nigerian Fictional Narrative, Abraka Humanities Review
    Vol.Vol 6, (1) Pages: 89-87

  11. Karoh Ativie (2012) Cohesive Devices in the Language of Legal Document, Wilberforce Island Review
    https://scholar.google.com/citations?view_op=view_citation&hl=en&user=uvJrjQEAAAAJ&citation_for_view=uvJrjQEAAAAJ:kNdYIx-mwKoC Vol.10 Pages: 43-51

  12. Karoh Ativie (2011) THE ROLE OF THE NIGERIAN WOMAN IN REVITALISING THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE FOR NATIONAL DEVELOPEMENT, Abraka Studies In African Arts
    https://scholar.google.com/citations?view_op=view_citation&hl=en&user=uvJrjQEAAAAJ&citation_for_view=uvJrjQEAAAAJ:0EnyYjriUFMC Vol.2 Pages: 126-133

  13. Karoh Ativie (2011) Process and Participants Types in Hope Eghagha's " The Last Testament, UNIOYU JOURNAL OF HUMANITIES
    Vol.Vol 16 Pages: 198-208

  14. Karoh Ativie (2010) Lexical Interference in Tanure Ojaide's When It No Longer Matters Where You Live and Children of Iroko and Other Poems, Abraka Humanities Review
    Vol.Vol 3, (1) Pages: 210-217

  15. Karoh Ativie (2009) Language as an Index of Culture and Identity: The Example of Nigerian English in Uhrobo Land, Re-visioning Humanistic Studies
    https://scholar.google.com/citations?view_op=view_citation&hl=en&user=uvJrjQEAAAAJ&citation_for_view=uvJrjQEAAAAJ:ULOm3_A8WrAC Vol. Pages: 237-247

  16. C.Ailende Ativie and Karoh Ativie (2008) Advertising Discourse: The Analysis of Transactional Functions in the Promotion of Goods and Services in the Media, JOURNAL OF THE LINGUISTIC ASSOCIATION OF NIGERIA(JOLAN)
    www.acadix.ng Vol.Vol 10 Pages: 133-143

  17. Karoh Ativie (2007) Code-mixing:An investigation of English and Urhobo, Malthouse Press Ltd
    www.admin-africanbookscollective.com Vol. Pages: 55-62

  18. Karoh Ativie (2007) Endophoric Reference in Tanure Ojaide's Delta Blues and Homesongs, JOURNAL OF THE LINGUISTIC ASSOCIATION OF NIGERIA(JOLAN)
    www.acadix.ng Vol.Vol 10 Pages: 215-222

  19. Karoh Ativie (2007) Language Contact and Interference Phenomenon: An Investigation of English and Uhrobo Languages, Journal of Creative Arts
    Vol.3(1) Pages: 130-140

  20. Karoh Ativie, Emmanuel Ogheneakpobor Emama ( 2026/6/1) A Transitivity Analysis of Urhobo Women's Songs., International Journal of Communication & Linguistic Studies
    https://scholar.google.com/citations?view_op=view_citation&hl=en&user=uvJrjQEAAAAJ&citation_for_view=uvJrjQEAAAAJ:eQOLeE2rZwMC Vol.24(2) Pages: 1-19