• The relationship between attitudes and achievemet in SL ( a case study of students at the University of Qatar) 

      Al-Buainain, Haifa; Al-Emadi, Darwish ( Qatar University , 1998 , Article)
      Attitudes and motivation are considered important factors in Language Acquisition (LA). Learners' attitudes towards speakers ofTarget Language (TL) and the TLitselfhave been the subject of intensive research in applied ...
    • Representing number in the real-time processing of agreement: self-paced reading evidence from Arabic 

      Tucker, Matthew A.; Idrissi, Ali; Almeida, Diogo ( 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 ...
    • Research Companion to Language and Country Branding 

      Theodoropoulou, Irene; Tovar, Johanna ( Routledge Handbooks , 2020 , Book chapter)
      This is an introduction to the language and country branding volume. The aim of this chapter is to provide a critical overview of the sociolinguistic, linguistic anthropological, and discursive analytical research on ...
    • 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 ...
    • A review of process and production in SL studies 

      Al-Buainain, Haifa ( Qatar University , 1990 , Article)
    • A short critique of the Crescent English Course 

      Al-Buainain, Haifa; البوعينين, هيفاء ( Qatar University , 1988 , Article)
      This paper is a short critique of the "Crescent English Course", Pupils Book 2. It falls into two parts. The first is information about the course; its aims, organization and some of its general characteristics. The second ...
    • Slips of the tongue: Examples from Qatari Dialect 

      Al-Buainain, Haifa ( Hamad bin Khalifa University Press (HBKU Press) , 2018 , Conference Paper)
      There are various abstract units of linguistic performance that linguists hypothesized in order to be able to describe the grammars of languages. These are segments, features, morphemes, words or syntactic categories. Yet, ...
    • Social class struggle as a Greek political discourse 

      Irene, Theodoropoulo ( SAGE Publications Ltd , 2019 , Article)
      This article delves into the construction of social class division in Greek political discourse. More specifically, the focus is on (class struggle) as a discourse that has started being carved in Greek media since the ...
    • Social Media Branding : The case of Mykonos, Greece on Facebook 

      Theodoropoulou, Irene ( 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 ...
    • A social-ecological perspective for emerging cities: The case of Corniche promenade, “urban majlis” of Doha 

      Furlan, Raffaello; Grosvald, Michael; Azad, Aamna ( EnPress Publisher, LLC , 2022 , Article)
      In the past decade, the capital city of Doha of the State of Qatar has experienced rapid urban expansion and other changes due to globalization, which has caused (i) the loss of a compact urban pattern, (ii) landscape ...
    • Socio-historical multilingualism and language policies in Dubai 

      Theodoropoulou, Irene ( 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 ...
    • Sociolinguistic anatomy of mobility: Evidence from Qatar 

      Theodoropoulou, Irene ( Elsevier , 2015 , Article)
      Abstract This is a sociocultural linguistic study on the ways whereby mobility is reflected upon in life narratives. An ethnographically informed sociolinguistic scale analysis shows that when residents narrate their life ...
    • Sociolinguistic insights into chick lit: Constructing the social class of elegant poverty 

      Theodoropoulou, Irene ( 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 ...
    • Sociolinguistic Variation in Athenian Suburban Speech 

      Theodoropoulou, Irene ( John Benjamins Publishing , 2013 , Article)
      This article focuses on the description and interpretation of the social meaning of sociolinguistic variation in Athenian suburban speech. A descriptive statistical and a Varbrul analysis of the syntactic variable Verb and ...
    • Sociolinguistics of Style and Social Class in Contemporary Athens 

      Theodoropoulou, Irene ( John Benjamins Publishing , 2014 , Book)
      This ethnographic study deals with the ways people in Athens, Greece, use style to construct their social class identities. Including a rich dataset comprising ethnographic interviews with actual people who live in the ...
    • Stephen Dedalus and nationalism without nationalism 

      Stević, Aleksandar ( 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 ...
    • A study of the interlanguage of some Arabic students of English 

      Al-Buainain, Haifa; البوعينين, هيفاء ( Qatar University , 1988 , Article)
      In this study, the contrastive analysis method is used to investigate the lnterlanguage (IL) developmental sequences of the acquisition of some aspects of English by Arabic-speaking learners. The learners, whose language ...
    • Sustainable Status Assessment of the Transit-Oriented Development in Doha’s Education City 

      Al-Mohannadi, Mooza; Awwaad, Reem; Furlan, Raffaello; Grosvald, Michael; Al-Matwi, Rashid; ... more authors ( MDPI , 2023 , Article)
      Doha, the capital of the State of Qatar, has seen rapid growth in recent years, resulting in challenges that can be addressed through sustainable urban design strategies. Such approaches, including Transit-Oriented ...
    • Teacher education and the development of teacher identity 

      Elsheikh, Aymen ( 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 ...
    • The Conjure Woman's Poetics of Poisoning in Gloria Naylor's Mama Day 

      Saber Y. ( 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 ...