Browsing English Literature & Linguistics by Type "Book chapter"

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    • Crisis translation in Yemen: Needs and challenges of volunteer translators and interpreters 

      Al-Shehari, Khaled ( 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 

      Theodoropoulou, Irene ( 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 ...

    • Equality and erasure: Responses to subject negation in the art of Jill Magid 

      Christmas, Amy ( 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 ...

    • Generational Changes in VOT in Qatari Arabic 

      Kulikov, Vladimir; Al-Hajri, Najlla; Al-Kuwari, Buthaina ( John Benjamins Publishing Company , 2023 , Book chapter)
      The current study investigates variation in production of VOT in voiceless stops in Qatari Arabic. In line with Labov’s Cascade model, longer VOT in this dialect might be viewed as a new variable developing in the metropolitan ...

    • German metaphysics 

      Sturgess K.C. ( Cambridge University Press , 2018 , Book chapter)
      Before 1850 Herman Melville was a fairly typical American male, in that he was rebellious and needed to earn money to live. He had left school early, and by the time he began work on Moby-Dick; or, The Whale he had been a ...

    • Humoristic Translanguaging in Intercultural Communication in Qatar: Merits, Limitations, and Its Potential Contribution to Policy Development 

      Theodoropoulou, Irene ( Springer, Singapore , 2021 , Book chapter)
      This paper deals with the merits and limitations of a pedagogical practice that has been developed in the context of teaching undergraduate sociolinguistics courses in a state tertiary education institute in the State of ...

    • Language Learning Strategy Use by Arabic Speaking Students Learning English through Content areas 

      Eslami, Zohreh; Al-Buainain, Haifa; Tzou, Juliet ( TESOL Arabia International Conference and Exhibition , 2009 , Book chapter  &   Conference Proceedings)
      The success of learning in any language is usually dependent upon the kinds of learning strategies adopted by the language learner. Research into language learning strategies has thus assumed great importance as more and ...

    • 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 ...

    • 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 ...

    • 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 ...

    • 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 ...

    • 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 ...

    • 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 ...

    • 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 neural basis of idea density during natural spoken language 

      Nagels, Arne; Lüll, Svenja; Friederich, Lisa; Straube, Benjamin; Grosvald, Michael; ... more authors ( Springer International Publishing , 2020 , Book chapter)
      Idea density (ID) evolved as a quantification of propositional base structure. Besides its function as a measure of linguistic complexity, ID has also been used as an index of general linguistic ability. In order to find ...