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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 ...
Discourse relation recognition in translation: a relevance-theory perspective
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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 ...
Stephen Dedalus and nationalism without nationalism
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Indiana University Press
, 2017 , Article)
While recent critics have often downplayed the significance of Joyce's attack on the Gaelic Revival in A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, the novel actually enacts nothing less than a systematic repudiation of ...
Long-Distance Vowel-to-Vowel Coarticulation in Arabic: Influences of Intervening Consonant Pharyngealization and Length
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SAGE Publications Ltd
, 2019 , Article)
This study investigates anticipatory vowel-to-vowel coarticulation in Arabic, and seeks to determine the degree to which it is affected by the pharyngealization and length of intervening consonants. Speakers of Egyptian ...
Language policies in education in Qatar between 2003 and 2012: from local to global then back to local
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Springer Netherlands
, 2019 , Article)
The State of Qatar, in cooperation with the RAND Corporation, launched in 2002 an ambitious educational reform and development plan, Education for a New Era, which included, among other things, the instating of English as ...
Gulf Arabic nouns and verbs: A standardized set of 319 object pictures and 141 action pictures, with predictors of naming latencies
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Springer NewYork LLC
, 2018 , Article)
Standardized pictorial stimuli and predictors of successful picture naming are not readily available for Gulf Arabic. On the basis of data obtained from Qatari Arabic, a variety of Gulf Arabic, the present study provides ...
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 ...