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Socio-historical multilingualism and language policies in Dubai
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Routledge
, 2020 , Book chapter)
The aim of this chapter is to provide an overview of the sociolinguistic research which has been and is currently being conducted in Dubai, and has been published in the English language. After providing a discussion of ...
Research Companion to Language and Country Branding
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Routledge Handbooks
, 2020 , Book chapter)
This is an introduction to the language and country branding volume. The aim of this chapter is to provide a critical overview of the sociolinguistic, linguistic anthropological, and discursive analytical research on ...
الألفاظ والتعبيرات التمييزية المستخدمة في الصحافة اليمنية الإلكترونية
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مركز الحكمة للبحوث والدراسات - الجزائر
, 2021 , Article)
سعت الدراسة إلى رصد الأشكال الصحفية والألفاظ التمييزية والمتحيزة الواردة في التغطية الإخبارية في الصحافة اليمنية الإلكترونية خلال الحرب الدائرة أثناء إجراء هذه الدراسة، والمقارنة بين الألفاظ التمييزية والمتحيزة المستخدمة ...
Voice and Emphasis in Arabic Coronal Stops: Evidence for Phonological Compensation
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SAGE
, 2021 , Article)
The current study investigates multiple acoustic cues–voice onset time (VOT), spectral center of gravity (SCG) of burst, pitch (F0), and frequencies of the first (F1) and second (F2) formants at vowel onset—associated with ...
Effect of emphasis spread on VOT in coronal stops in Qatari Arabic
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Cambridge University Press
, 2021 , Article)
Emphasis (contrastive pharyngealization of coronals) in Arabic spreads from an emphatic consonant to neighboring segments. Previous research suggests that in addition to changing spectral characteristics of adjacent segments, ...
Collaborative translation of Wikipedia: with whom do trainee translators collaborate and for what purpose?
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Routledge
, 2022 , Article)
This study aims to establish a model of collaboration that illustrates the various channels of collaboration that (trainee) translators go through in the course of translation, who they collaborate with, and why they choose ...
Theorizing the Performance of Blackness: Relations, Processes, and Possibilities
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Johns Hopkins University Press
, 2022 , Article)
Through a summation of representative critical works that challenge us to think of new ways of imagining performing bodies and racial performance, this essay gestures towards a process-oriented approach for theorizing the ...
“‘Pleading Human’ in Paul Beatty’s The Sellout”
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Routledge
, 2022 , Article)
This paper analyses Paul Beatty’s Booker Prize winning comic novel, The Sellout (2015), as it relates to theories of black posthumanism, as outlined in the work of Alexander Weheliye and Hortense Spillers. In the novel, ...
McBride, James
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Wiley
, 2022 , Book chapter)
One of the most interesting writers on race to emerge in the last decade of the twentieth century, James McBride (b. 1957) is an African American novelist, memoirist, and jazz musician. His memoir, The Color of Water: A ...
Can the word superiority effect be modulated by serial position and prosodic structure?
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Frontiers Media
, 2022 , Article)
In this study, we examined the word superiority effect in Arabic and English, two languages with significantly different morphological and writing systems. Thirty-two Arabic-English bilingual speakers performed a post-cued ...