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Sociolinguistic anatomy of mobility: Evidence from Qatar
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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 ...
Noisy zones of proximal development: Conversation in noisy classrooms
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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 ...
Translating the style of Aganaktismenoi(Indignants) on Facebook
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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 ...
Politeness on Facebook: The case of Greek birthday wishes
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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 ...
Urdu in Devanagari: Shifting orthographic practices and Muslim identity in Delhi
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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 ...
Perceptual Dialectology of the Arab World: A Principal Analysis
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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 ...
Blue-collar workplace communicative practices: a case study in construction sites in Qatar
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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 ...
My name is Khan… from the epiglottis: Changing linguistic norms in Bollywood songs
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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 ...
Mediatized vernacularization: On the structure, entextualization and resemiotization of Varoufakiology
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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, ...
Representing number in the real-time processing of agreement: self-paced reading evidence from Arabic
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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 ...