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    • McBride, James 

      Naughton, Gerald David ( 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 ...

    • Mediation effect of L2 English in acquisition of front rounded vowels in L3 Turkish by L1 Arabic learners 

      Kulikov, Vladimir G.; Ameen, A.; Al-Kaabi, A.; Abdalla, M. (2018 , Conference Proceedings)
      В статье рассматривается модель усвоения фонетических категорий в третьем языке. Результаты эксперимента показывают, что второй язык может оказывать большее влияние на процесс усвоения фонетических категорий, чем родной язык

    • Mediatized vernacularization: On the structure, entextualization and resemiotization of Varoufakiology 

      Theodoropoulou, Irene ( 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 

      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. ...

    • Models of Speech Processing 

      Grosvald, Michael; Burton, Martha W.; Small, Steven L. ( 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 ...

    • Models of speech processing 

      Grosvald, Michael; Burton, Martha W.; Small, Steven L. ( Taylor and 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 that ...

    • 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 ...

    • National identity, social legacy and Qatar 2022: the cultural ramifications of FIFA’s first Arab World Cup 

      Griffin T.R. ( 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 

      Al-Buainain, Haifa A.; Hassan, Fouad Khalil; Madani, Ahmed ( 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? 

      Al-Shehari, Khaled; Al-Sharafi, Abdul Gabbar ( 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 

      McKellin, W. H.; Shahin, K.; Hodgson, M.; Jamieson, J.; Pichora-Fuller, M. Kathleen ( 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 

      Theodoropoulou, Irene ( 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 ...

    • Open-ended cloze procedure and multiple - choice cloze procedure: similarties and differences 

      Al-Buainain, Haifa; البوعينين, هيفاء ( Qatar University , 1991 , Article)
      This paper is a validation of two cloze procedures: Open-Ended and Multiple-Choice (henceforth OE and MC respectively). Open-Ended and Multiple-Choice tests on the same text were administered to 60 English majors in their ...

    • Perceptions and attitudes of Qatar University students regarding the utility of arabic and english in communication and education in Qatar 

      Mustafawi, Eiman; Shaaban, Kassim; Khwaileh, Tariq; Ata, Katsiaryna ( Springer Science and Business Media B.V. , 2022 , Article)
      This study investigates the linguistic attitudes and perceptions of Qatar University students regarding the utility and vitality of the two languages that define the education and communication scenes in Qatar, namely, ...

    • Perceptual Dialectology of the Arab World: A Principal Analysis 

      Theodoropoulou, Irene; Tyler, Joseph ( Georgetown University Press , 2014 , Article)
      This study discusses perceptions of variation across dialects of Arabic in the Arab world as revealed through a perceptual dialectology map task. On a map of the Arab world, female undergraduate students at Qatar University ...

    • Philistine Doomsday and the Vasa Mortis of Solomon and Saturn II 

      Major, Tristan ( 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 ...

    • “‘Pleading Human’ in Paul Beatty’s The Sellout” 

      Naughton, Gerald David ( 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, ...

    • Politeness on Facebook: The case of Greek birthday wishes 

      Theodoropoulou, Irene ( 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 ...

    • Processing passive constructions in arabic and english a crosslanguage priming study 

      Grosvald, Michael; Khwaileh, Tariq ( Georgetown University Press , 2019 , Article)
      The English and Arabic languages each have passive constructions, but their realizations in the two languages are quite different. We carried out a syntactic priming experiment on Arabic-English bilinguals to investigate ...