Browsing English Literature & Linguistics by Type "Article"
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Gulf Arabic nouns and verbs: A standardized set of 319 object pictures and 141 action pictures, with predictors of naming latencies
( Springer NewYork LLC , 2018 , Article)Standardized pictorial stimuli and predictors of successful picture naming are not readily available for Gulf Arabic. On the basis of data obtained from Qatari Arabic, a variety of Gulf Arabic, the present study provides ... -
Imageability, familiarity, and age of acquisition ratings for Arabic abstract nouns, abstract verbs and adjectives
( John Benjamins Publishing Company , 2018 , Article)To date, normative psycholinguistics research has mainly focused on establishing norms for producing databases for concrete words using standardized pictures, while abstract words have been subject to much less attention. ... -
Laboring to communicate: Use of migrant languages in COVID-19 awareness campaign in Qatar
( 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 ... -
Language policies in education in Qatar between 2003 and 2012: from local to global then back to local
( Springer Netherlands , 2019 , Article)The State of Qatar, in cooperation with the RAND Corporation, launched in 2002 an ambitious educational reform and development plan, Education for a New Era, which included, among other things, the instating of English as ... -
Laryngeal Contrast in Qatari Arabic: Effect of Speaking Rate on Voice Onset Time
( S. Karger AG , 2019 , Article)Beckman and colleagues claimed in 2011 that Swedish has an overspecified phonological contrast between prevoiced and voiceless aspirated stops. Yet, Swedish is the only language for which this pattern has been reported. ... -
Laryngeal realism and the voicing contrast in Khuzestani Arabic stops
( Cambridge University Press , 2023 , Article)In laryngeal realism (LR), laryngeal specification of stops is explained by direct maps of cues (e.g. VOT) onto privative phonological laryngeal features [voice] or [spread glottis]. Phonetic realization of the segments ... -
Le Développement de la Compétence de Lecture-Compréhension des Textes Narratifs en Classe de FLE
( Yarmouk University , 2023 , Article)L’objectif de cette étude est de proposer des stratégies en vue du développement des compétences de lecture-compréhension des textes narratifs chez les apprenants arabophones en classe de français langue étrangère (FLE). ... -
Les représentations de la langue/culture française chez les étudiantes qatariennes inscrites en mineure de français à l’Université du Qatar
( Slovenska Vzdelavacia a Obstaravacia s.r.o , 2021 , Article)Cette recherche s’intéresse aux représentations que se font les étudiantes qatariennes, inscrites en mineure de français à l’université du Qatar, de la langue/culture française. Son objectif est d’analyser ces représentations ... -
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 ... -
Long-Distance Vowel-to-Vowel Coarticulation in Arabic: Influences of Intervening Consonant Pharyngealization and Length
( SAGE Publications Ltd , 2019 , Article)This study investigates anticipatory vowel-to-vowel coarticulation in Arabic, and seeks to determine the degree to which it is affected by the pharyngealization and length of intervening consonants. Speakers of Egyptian ... -
L’enseignement de la grammaire dans la classe du FLE
( The University of Jordan , 2021 , Article)Cette étude entend mettre en relief l'importance de l'enseignement de la grammaire dans la classe de français langue étrangère et discuter de la place réservée à la grammaire dans les différents courants méthodologiques. ... -
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, ... -
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. ... -
Muslim personal names in Urdu: Structure, meaning, and change
( 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
( 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 ... -
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 ... -
Needs of English by graduates of Qatar University in the workplace
( Australia Asia Research and Education Foundation (AAREF) , 2010 , Article)English is undoubtedly the language of international communication. It is generally observed that English is widely used in different sectors in Qatar. The need for English is clear. However, there is no large scale ... -
Negotiating Wikipedia narratives about the Yemeni crisis: Who are the alleged supporters of the Houthis?
( SAGE Publications , 2020 , Article)In this article, the authors apply a narrative model to examine how narratives about the current crisis in Yemen are constructed on English Wikipedia. Using concepts from various narrative theories, as introduced to the ... -
Noisy zones of proximal development: Conversation in noisy classrooms
( Blackwell Publishing Ltd , 2011 , Article)Despite the importance of context in studies of language use, sociolinguists have ignored the impact of noise on conversational interaction. This inattention is of particular concern in classrooms where language is a ... -
Nostalgic diaspora or diasporic nostalgia? Discursive and identity constructions of Greeks in Qatar
( Elsevier B.V. , 2019 , Article)This paper deals with the discursive constructions of transformative, agentive and creative ethnolinguistic self-conceptualizations and positionings of some select members of the approximately 3000-member Greek diasporic ...