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Laboring to communicate: Use of migrant languages in COVID-19 awareness campaign in Qatar
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De Gruyter
, 2021 , Article)
This study examines the communication strategies employed by Qatar's government in dealing with the COVID-19 pandemic. The study contributes to a growing body of work on the sociolinguistics of crisis communication. We ...
Negotiating Wikipedia narratives about the Yemeni crisis: Who are the alleged supporters of the Houthis?
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SAGE Publications
, 2020 , Article)
In this article, the authors apply a narrative model to examine how narratives about the current crisis in Yemen are constructed on English Wikipedia. Using concepts from various narrative theories, as introduced to the ...
West Bay Business District in Doha, State of Qatar: Envisioning a Vibrant Transit-Oriented Development
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MDPI
, 2021 , Article)
In recent decades, Doha, the capital of Qatar, has experienced a large-scale transformation
due to globalization and rapid economic growth. Recently, these changes have led to a focus on
infrastructural development and ...
Transit‐Oriented Development in Doha: The Case of the Al Sadd Neighborhood and Hamad Hospital Metro Station
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MDPI
, 2021 , Article)
Over the last two decades, transit‐oriented development (TOD) has been widely implemented
as an integrated strategy to enhance urban livability. Doha, the capital of the State of Qatar,
has faced urban challenges such ...
A Framework for Enhancing the Spatial Urban Form of Informal Economies in India: The Case of Krishna Rajendra Market, Bangalore
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SAGE
, 2021 , Article)
The International Monetary Fund estimates that the Indian economy contributes over 8% to the global gross domestic
product (GDP), making India the fifth largest economy in the world. However, the formal and informal sectors ...
Effect of emphasis spread on coronal stop articulation in Qatari Arabic
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Linguistic Society of America
, 2020 , Conference Proceedings)
Emphasis (contrastive uvularisation) in Arabic spreads from an emphatic consonant to neighboring segments (Davis1995). The effect of emphasis spread on a consonant is manifested as lowering of its spectral mean (Jongman ...
Humoristic Translanguaging in Intercultural Communication in Qatar: Merits, Limitations, and Its Potential Contribution to Policy Development
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Springer, Singapore
, 2021 , Book chapter)
This paper deals with the merits and limitations of a pedagogical practice that has been developed in the context of teaching undergraduate sociolinguistics courses in a state tertiary education institute in the State of ...
“DELIVER AMAZING”: Qatar as a branded architectural discourse in World Cup 2022
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Routledge
, 2020 , Book chapter)
Qatar brands itself as a projected-in-the-future proud cosmopolitan and progressive country ready to host World Cup 2022. The branding practices, whereby this projection takes place, are the focus of Irene Theodoropoulou’s ...
Social Media Branding : The case of Mykonos, Greece on Facebook
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Routledge
, 2020 , Book chapter)
The chapter aims at contributing to the sociolinguistic theorization of branding through a word-of-mouth marketing lens by delving into the ways whereby Mykonos is branded on Facebook. Place branding is investigated in the ...
Socio-historical multilingualism and language policies in Dubai
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Routledge
, 2020 , Book chapter)
The aim of this chapter is to provide an overview of the sociolinguistic research which has been and is currently being conducted in Dubai, and has been published in the English language. After providing a discussion of ...