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National identity, social legacy and Qatar 2022: the cultural ramifications of FIFA’s first Arab World Cup
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Routledge
, 2019 , Article)
This article argues that the decision to award Qatar the World Cup in 2022 will have a lasting impact on the Gulf state. I suggest that hosting the 2022 World Cup is a central part of Qatar’s strategy to announce itself ...
Social class struggle as a Greek political discourse
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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 ...
Blurring the Contours of Memory in June Jordan's Soldier: A Poet's Childhood
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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 ...
The light belongs to Yves Saint Laurent: luxury beauty brands in translation
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Routledge
, 2017 , Article)
This paper examines the issues related to the translation into Arabic of international advertising campaigns, with particular reference to the luxury goods market in the Arabian Gulf area. Data selected from a corpus ...
Ethnographing Gender Roles and Power in Intercultural Communication in Qatar
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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 ...
Imageability, familiarity, and age of acquisition ratings for Arabic abstract nouns, abstract verbs and adjectives
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John Benjamins Publishing Company
, 2018 , Article)
To date, normative psycholinguistics research has mainly focused on establishing norms for producing databases for concrete words using standardized pictures, while abstract words have been subject to much less attention. ...
Using Texts Which Address Local Issues to Create a Discursive Space within an Undergraduate Writing Course
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Routledge
, 2019 , Article)
This study explores whether collaboratively writing about local issues would enable learners to deepen their understanding of their relationship with their own social context. A discursive space within an English for ...
Expatriate languages in Kuwait: Tension between public and private domains
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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 ...
Philistine Doomsday and the Vasa Mortis of Solomon and Saturn II
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Springer Netherlands
, 2016 , Article)
This paper reviews and assesses past scholarship on the so-called vasa mortis riddle of the Old English poem Solomon and Saturn II (lines 75-103) before proposing its own solution. It examines the trajectory of the scholarly ...
Getting Them Speaking: Classroom Social Factors and Foreign Language Anxiety
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John Wiley and Sons Inc
, 2016 , Article)
This study, which focuses on foreign language anxiety (FLA) experienced by Japanese learners of English in four universities, explores causative agents by looking into the classroom. The research questions aim to explore ...