Browsing English Literature & Linguistics by Author "n 80114757"
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Expatriate languages in Kuwait: Tension between public and private domains
AHMAD, RIZWAN ( 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 ... -
Graphic politics in Eastern India: Script and the quest for autonomy - Nishaant Choksi (2021)
Ahmad, Rizwan ( Equinox Publishing , 2023 , Book Review)Although linguists and other social scientists proudly assert that India is a land of linguistic diversity and richness, there aren’t many empirical studies showing how this linguistics diversity is socially and culturally ... -
Laboring to communicate: Use of migrant languages in COVID-19 awareness campaign in Qatar
AHMAD, RIZWAN; Hillman, Sara ( De Gruyter , 2021 , Article)This study examines the communication strategies employed by Qatar's government in dealing with the COVID-19 pandemic. The study contributes to a growing body of work on the sociolinguistics of crisis communication. We ... -
Metaphorical expressions in E-commerce: A study of arabic language websites
Liginlal, Divakaran; AHMAD, RIZWAN; Meeds, Robert; Gopinath, Preetha ( 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. ... -
Muslim personal names in Urdu: Structure, meaning, and change
Ahmad, Rizwan; Kulikov, Vladimir; Iqbal, Noorin ( De Gruyter , 2023 , Article)Based on an analysis of a corpus, in this study we examine: (a) the linguistic structure of Muslim personal names, (b) their etymological sources, and (c) some changing patterns among the younger generation. Firstly, we ... -
My name is Khan… from the epiglottis: Changing linguistic norms in Bollywood songs
AHMAD, RIZWAN ( Taylor & Francis (Routledge) , 2018 , Article)Many recent studies, academic and non-academic alike, have argued that the use of Urdu in Bollywood has started to decline. These studies, important as they are, however, suffer from some limitations. They are either ... -
Urdu in Devanagari: Shifting orthographic practices and Muslim identity in Delhi
Ahmad, Rizwan ( Cambridge University Press , 2011 , Article)In sociolinguistics, Urdu and Hindi are considered to be textbook examples of digraphia—a linguistic situation in which varieties of the same language are written in different scripts. Urdu has traditionally been written ...