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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 ...
Borrowed words in Qatari Arabic: A case study of knowledge of meaning and knowledge of origin by Qataris
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University of Akron
, 2017 , Article)
Linguistic borrowing is a common, universal and intensively studied phenomenon. It is of interest to investigate this practice and its patterns in Qatari Arabic and to know to what extent the Qataris know the meaning and ...
Football in the hands of the other: Qatar's World Cup in the British broadsheet press
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University of Akron
, 2017 , Article)
Using reportage of the 2022 World Cup taken from The Telegraph and The Guardian, this paper demonstrates how Bhaba's 'dynamics of writing and textuality' are implemented to represent an Orientalist discourse that describes ...
Evidence for gesture-speech mismatch detection impairments in schizophrenia
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Elsevier Ireland Ltd
, 2019 , Article)
Patients with schizophrenia suffer from impairments in the perception and production of gestures. The extent to which patients can access the semantic association between speech and co-verbal gestures in concrete or ...
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 ...
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 ...