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Lexical retrieval after Arabic aphasia: Syntactic access and predictors of spoken naming
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Elsevier Ltd
, 2017 , Article)
Research into anomia has been carried out in English and many Indo-European languages extensively, but not in Arabic. Previous studies have investigated predictors of successful lexical retrieval after anomia, and access ...
Processing passive constructions in arabic and english a crosslanguage priming study
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Georgetown University Press
, 2019 , Article)
The English and Arabic languages each have passive constructions, but their realizations in the two languages are quite different. We carried out a syntactic priming experiment on Arabic-English bilinguals to investigate ...
A brief self-rating scale for the assessment of individual differences in gesture perception and production
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Elsevier
, 2015 , Article)
Gesture production and perception have a strong impact on speech perception and social-communicative functioning. Consequently, we created the 'Brief Assessment of Gesture' (BAG) tool, a set of 12 subjective statements ...
Sociolinguistic insights into chick lit: Constructing the social class of elegant poverty
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Elsevier
, 2017 , Article)
Abstract Aiming at suggesting ways whereby the sociolinguistic paradigm can benefit from the analysis of chick lit, this paper explores the ways through which the social class of “elegant poverty” is stylistically constructed ...
Metaphorical expressions in E-commerce: A study of arabic language websites
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Taylor and Francis Inc.
, 2017 , Article)
This study examines the use of metaphors in Arabic language e-commerce websites and shows that metaphorical language plays an important role in enhancing the effectiveness of websites and e-commerce businesses in general. ...
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 ...
The Conjure Woman's Poetics of Poisoning in Gloria Naylor's Mama Day
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Routledge
, 2018 , Article)
This article examines the poetics of poisoning in Gloria Naylor's Mama Day. The article traces the depiction of the conjure woman in novels written by African American female novelists in the 1980s, drawing upon the figure's ...
Nostalgic diaspora or diasporic nostalgia? Discursive and identity constructions of Greeks in Qatar
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Elsevier B.V.
, 2019 , Article)
This paper deals with the discursive constructions of transformative, agentive and creative ethnolinguistic self-conceptualizations and positionings of some select members of the approximately 3000-member Greek diasporic ...
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 ...
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 ...