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Models of Speech Processing
( Taylor & Francis , 2015 , Book chapter)One of the fundamental questions about language is how listeners map the acoustic signal onto syllables, words, and sentences, resulting in understanding of speech. For normal listeners, this mapping is so effortless ... -
Politeness on Facebook: The case of Greek birthday wishes
( John Benjamins Publishing , 2015 , Article)Facebook forms one of the most widely used online social networks, through which people manage their communication with diverse contacts or 'friends', ranging from members of the family and schoolmates to work colleagues ... -
Representing number in the real-time processing of agreement: self-paced reading evidence from Arabic
( Frontiers Media , 2015 , Article)In the processing of subject-verb agreement, non-subject plural nouns following a singular subject sometimes “attract” the agreement with the verb, despite not being grammatically licensed to do so. This phenomenon generates ... -
Translating the style of Aganaktismenoi(Indignants) on Facebook
( De Gruyter , 2015 , Article)The paper discusses translation challenges associated with the linguistic and multisemiotic stylistic ways (Kress 2010; Coupland 2007) Aganaktismenoi, the Greek indignants’ movement, employ to produce a digital sense of ... -
Voicing in Qatari Arabic: Evidence for prevoicing and aspiration
( Hamad bin Khalifa University Press (HBKU Press) , 2016 , Conference Paper)Languages with a two-way voicing contrast in phonology usually contrast prevoiced b, d, g stops with voiceless unaspirated p, t, k stops or voiceless unaspirated stops with voiceless aspirated stops (Iverson & Salmons, ... -
Expatriate languages in Kuwait: Tension between public and private domains
( Taylor and Francis Ltd. , 2016 , Article)Following the rise of oil-based economies after the 1950s, the six Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries became extremely attractive to workers from other Arab countries and beyond. Initially, Arabs were a majority in ... -
Getting Them Speaking: Classroom Social Factors and Foreign Language Anxiety
( John Wiley and Sons Inc , 2016 , Article)This study, which focuses on foreign language anxiety (FLA) experienced by Japanese learners of English in four universities, explores causative agents by looking into the classroom. The research questions aim to explore ... -
Discourse relation recognition in translation: a relevance-theory perspective
( Routledge , 2016 , Article)The use of discourse markers in argumentation is an area in which the rhetorical traditions of Arabic and English diverge. While English allows implicit logical links, Arabic demands explicitly marked coherence. Such ... -
Philistine Doomsday and the Vasa Mortis of Solomon and Saturn II
( Springer Netherlands , 2016 , Article)This paper reviews and assesses past scholarship on the so-called vasa mortis riddle of the Old English poem Solomon and Saturn II (lines 75-103) before proposing its own solution. It examines the trajectory of the scholarly ... -
Teacher education and the development of teacher identity
( Taylor and Francis , 2016 , Book chapter)This chapter reports on a study of teachers' professional identity development, which took place in a Sudanese English as a foreign language (EFL) teacher education program. The socio-political and economic discourses are ... -
Distinct neuropsychological correlates in positive and negative formal thought disorder syndromes: The thought and language disorder scale in endogenous psychoses
( S. Karger AG , 2016 , Article Review)The correlation of formal thought disorder (FTD) symptoms and subsyndromes with neuropsychological dimensions is as yet unclear. Evidence for a dysexecutive syndrome and semantic access impairments has been discussed in ... -
Mediatized vernacularization: On the structure, entextualization and resemiotization of Varoufakiology
( Elsevier , 2016 , Article)This paper focuses on the structure of mediatized discourses on the former Greek minister of finance Yanis Varoufakis, which are labeled Varoufakiology. Through a multimodal discourse analysis of cartoons and photographs, ... -
Equality and erasure: Responses to subject negation in the art of Jill Magid
( Springer International Publishing , 2017 , Book chapter)This chapter engages with contemporary surveillance as it is conceived of in art and literature, responding to the contemporary media culture of ubiquitous watching. Artistic discourse and its concern with this facet of ... -
Football in the hands of the other: Qatar's World Cup in the British broadsheet press
( University of Akron , 2017 , Article)Using reportage of the 2022 World Cup taken from The Telegraph and The Guardian, this paper demonstrates how Bhaba's 'dynamics of writing and textuality' are implemented to represent an Orientalist discourse that describes ... -
Lexical retrieval after Arabic aphasia: Syntactic access and predictors of spoken naming
( Elsevier Ltd , 2017 , Article)Research into anomia has been carried out in English and many Indo-European languages extensively, but not in Arabic. Previous studies have investigated predictors of successful lexical retrieval after anomia, and access ... -
Metaphorical expressions in E-commerce: A study of arabic language websites
( Taylor and Francis Inc. , 2017 , Article)This study examines the use of metaphors in Arabic language e-commerce websites and shows that metaphorical language plays an important role in enhancing the effectiveness of websites and e-commerce businesses in general. ... -
Borrowed words in Qatari Arabic: A case study of knowledge of meaning and knowledge of origin by Qataris
( University of Akron , 2017 , Article)Linguistic borrowing is a common, universal and intensively studied phenomenon. It is of interest to investigate this practice and its patterns in Qatari Arabic and to know to what extent the Qataris know the meaning and ... -
The light belongs to Yves Saint Laurent: luxury beauty brands in translation
( Routledge , 2017 , Article)This paper examines the issues related to the translation into Arabic of international advertising campaigns, with particular reference to the luxury goods market in the Arabian Gulf area. Data selected from a corpus ... -
Stephen Dedalus and nationalism without nationalism
( Indiana University Press , 2017 , Article)While recent critics have often downplayed the significance of Joyce's attack on the Gaelic Revival in A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, the novel actually enacts nothing less than a systematic repudiation of ... -
Sociolinguistic insights into chick lit: Constructing the social class of elegant poverty
( Elsevier , 2017 , Article)Abstract Aiming at suggesting ways whereby the sociolinguistic paradigm can benefit from the analysis of chick lit, this paper explores the ways through which the social class of “elegant poverty” is stylistically constructed ...