Browsing English Literature & Linguistics by Publication Date
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A study of the interlanguage of some Arabic students of English
( 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 ... -
A short critique of the Crescent English Course
( 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 ... -
A review of process and production in SL studies
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Open-ended cloze procedure and multiple - choice cloze procedure: similarties and differences
( 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 ... -
The relationship between attitudes and achievemet in SL ( a case study of students at the University of Qatar)
( 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 ... -
Creativity/Productivity of Child's Language: A Case of Qatari Dialect
( Qatar University , 1999 , Article) -
Developmental Stages of the Acquisition of Negation and interrogation by Children Native Speakers of Qatari Dialect
( Qatar University , 2002 , Article)The developmental stages of Qatari Dialect interrogatives and negatives are described in this paper. Four children were included in this study, ranging in age from one year and six months to nine years. According 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 ... -
Urdu in Devanagari: Shifting orthographic practices and Muslim identity in Delhi
( 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 ... -
Sociolinguistic Variation in Athenian Suburban Speech
( 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 ... -
Perceptual Dialectology of the Arab World: A Principal Analysis
( 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 ... -
Sociolinguistics of Style and Social Class in Contemporary Athens
( 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 ... -
A rating scale for the assessment of objective and subjective formal thought and language disorder (TALD)
( Elsevier , 2014 , Article)Formal thought disorder (FTD) is a core syndrome of schizophrenia. However, patients with other diagnoses, such as mania and depression amongst others, also present with FTD. We introduce a novel, comprehensive clinical ... -
Models of Speech Processing
( 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 ... -
Sociolinguistic anatomy of mobility: Evidence from Qatar
( 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 ... -
Politeness on Facebook: The case of Greek birthday wishes
( 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 ... -
Representing number in the real-time processing of agreement: self-paced reading evidence from Arabic
( 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 ... -
Translating the style of Aganaktismenoi(Indignants) on Facebook
( De Gruyter , 2015 , Article)The paper discusses translation challenges associated with the linguistic and multisemiotic stylistic ways (Kress 2010; Coupland 2007) Aganaktismenoi, the Greek indignants’ movement, employ to produce a digital sense of ... -
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 ... -
Expatriate languages in Kuwait: Tension between public and private domains
( 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 ...
