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Blurring the Contours of Memory in June Jordan's Soldier: A Poet's Childhood
( Routledge , 2019 , Article)Located at the crossroads of fact and fiction and relying on memory, autobiography defies easy categorization. This paper examines June Jordan's Soldier: A Poet's Childhood (2000). Jordan situates herself vis-à-vis her ... -
Collaborative translation of Wikipedia: with whom do trainee translators collaborate and for what purpose?
( 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 ... -
Crisis translation in Yemen: Needs and challenges of volunteer translators and interpreters
( Routledge , 2019 , Book chapter)This chapter reports on the findings of a qualitative study undertaken with the aim of examining the status of crisis translators and interpreters (T&Is) in Yemen. The study aimed to ascertain how they perceive their role ... -
“DELIVER AMAZING”: Qatar as a branded architectural discourse in World Cup 2022
( Routledge , 2020 , Book chapter)Qatar brands itself as a projected-in-the-future proud cosmopolitan and progressive country ready to host World Cup 2022. The branding practices, whereby this projection takes place, are the focus of Irene Theodoropoulou’s ... -
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 ... -
National identity, social legacy and Qatar 2022: the cultural ramifications of FIFA’s first Arab World Cup
( Routledge , 2019 , Article)This article argues that the decision to award Qatar the World Cup in 2022 will have a lasting impact on the Gulf state. I suggest that hosting the 2022 World Cup is a central part of Qatar’s strategy to announce itself ... -
“‘Pleading Human’ in Paul Beatty’s The Sellout”
( 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, ... -
Research Companion to Language and Country Branding
( Routledge , 2020 , Book)Research Companion to Language and Country Branding brings together entirely new interdisciplinary research conducted by scholars working on various sociolinguistic, semiotic, anthropological and discursive analytical ... -
Social Media Branding : The case of Mykonos, Greece on Facebook
( Routledge , 2020 , Book chapter)The chapter aims at contributing to the sociolinguistic theorization of branding through a word-of-mouth marketing lens by delving into the ways whereby Mykonos is branded on Facebook. Place branding is investigated in the ... -
Socio-historical multilingualism and language policies in Dubai
( 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 ... -
The Conjure Woman's Poetics of Poisoning in Gloria Naylor's Mama Day
( Routledge , 2018 , Article)This article examines the poetics of poisoning in Gloria Naylor's Mama Day. The article traces the depiction of the conjure woman in novels written by African American female novelists in the 1980s, drawing upon the figure's ... -
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 ... -
Using Texts Which Address Local Issues to Create a Discursive Space within an Undergraduate Writing Course
( Routledge , 2019 , Article)This study explores whether collaboratively writing about local issues would enable learners to deepen their understanding of their relationship with their own social context. A discursive space within an English for ...