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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 ... -
Blue-collar workplace communicative practices: a case study in construction sites in Qatar
( Springer Netherlands , 2019 , Article)The aim of this paper is to contribute to the understanding of the role of language in multilingual blue-collar workplaces by investigating how communication is realized in construction sites in Qatar. The State of Qatar ... -
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 ... -
Borrowed words in Qatari Arabic: A case study of knowledge of meaning and knowledge of origin by Qataris
( University of Akron , 2017 , Article)Linguistic borrowing is a common, universal and intensively studied phenomenon. It is of interest to investigate this practice and its patterns in Qatari Arabic and to know to what extent the Qataris know the meaning and ... -
Borrowed Words In Qatari Dialect: A Case Study
( Hamad bin Khalifa University Press (HBKU Press) , 2014 , Conference Paper)According to Graddol (2004) "The world's language system is undergoing rapid change because of demographic trends, new technology, and international communication. These changes will affect both written and spoken ... -
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 ... -
Creativity/Productivity of Child's Language: A Case of Qatari Dialect
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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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Distinct neuropsychological correlates in positive and negative formal thought disorder syndromes: The thought and language disorder scale in endogenous psychoses
( S. Karger AG , 2016 , Article Review)The correlation of formal thought disorder (FTD) symptoms and subsyndromes with neuropsychological dimensions is as yet unclear. Evidence for a dysexecutive syndrome and semantic access impairments has been discussed in ... -
Effect of emphasis spread on coronal stop articulation in Qatari Arabic
( Linguistic Society of America , 2020 , Conference Proceedings)Emphasis (contrastive uvularisation) in Arabic spreads from an emphatic consonant to neighboring segments (Davis1995). The effect of emphasis spread on a consonant is manifested as lowering of its spectral mean (Jongman ... -
Effect of emphasis spread on VOT in coronal stops in Qatari Arabic
( Cambridge University Press , 2021 , Article)Emphasis (contrastive pharyngealization of coronals) in Arabic spreads from an emphatic consonant to neighboring segments. Previous research suggests that in addition to changing spectral characteristics of adjacent segments, ... -
Equality and erasure: Responses to subject negation in the art of Jill Magid
( Springer International Publishing , 2017 , Book chapter)This chapter engages with contemporary surveillance as it is conceived of in art and literature, responding to the contemporary media culture of ubiquitous watching. Artistic discourse and its concern with this facet of ... -
Ethnographing Gender Roles and Power in Intercultural Communication in Qatar
( Taylor and Francis Ltd. , 2018 , Article)This ethnographic study examines how gender roles associated with male and female Qatari students in intercultural communication courses in a university in Qatar are negotiated between them and their two female instructors ... -
Evidence for gesture-speech mismatch detection impairments in schizophrenia
( Elsevier Ireland Ltd , 2019 , Article)Patients with schizophrenia suffer from impairments in the perception and production of gestures. The extent to which patients can access the semantic association between speech and co-verbal gestures in concrete or ... -
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 ... -
Expect amazing! Branding Qatar as a sports tourism destination
( SAGE Publications Ltd , 2018 , Article)This article focuses on the ways in which, after its successful bid to host the ‘mega event’ of World Cup 2022, Qatar is branded as a sports tourism destination in the online semioscape and linguascape of sports events. ... -
Football in the hands of the other: Qatar's World Cup in the British broadsheet press
( University of Akron , 2017 , Article)Using reportage of the 2022 World Cup taken from The Telegraph and The Guardian, this paper demonstrates how Bhaba's 'dynamics of writing and textuality' are implemented to represent an Orientalist discourse that describes ...
