English Literature & Linguistics: Recent submissions
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Baseline data for Arabic acquisition with clinical applications: Some phonological processes in Qatari children’s speech
( LAR Center Press , 2012 , Article)This paper has two aims. The first is to inform our language acquisition colleagues about the “Baseline Data for Arabic Acquisition with Clinical Applications” project, which is a multi-institutional and international ... -
Needs of English by graduates of Qatar University in the workplace
( Australia Asia Research and Education Foundation (AAREF) , 2010 , Article)English is undoubtedly the language of international communication. It is generally observed that English is widely used in different sectors in Qatar. The need for English is clear. However, there is no large scale ... -
Can the word superiority effect be modulated by serial position and prosodic structure?
( Frontiers Media , 2022 , Article)In this study, we examined the word superiority effect in Arabic and English, two languages with significantly different morphological and writing systems. Thirty-two Arabic-English bilingual speakers performed a post-cued ... -
McBride, James
( Wiley , 2022 , Book chapter)One of the most interesting writers on race to emerge in the last decade of the twentieth century, James McBride (b. 1957) is an African American novelist, memoirist, and jazz musician. His memoir, The Color of Water: A ... -
“‘Pleading Human’ in Paul Beatty’s The Sellout”
( Routledge , 2022 , Article)This paper analyses Paul Beatty’s Booker Prize winning comic novel, The Sellout (2015), as it relates to theories of black posthumanism, as outlined in the work of Alexander Weheliye and Hortense Spillers. In the novel, ... -
Theorizing the Performance of Blackness: Relations, Processes, and Possibilities
( Johns Hopkins University Press , 2022 , Article)Through a summation of representative critical works that challenge us to think of new ways of imagining performing bodies and racial performance, this essay gestures towards a process-oriented approach for theorizing the ... -
Borrowed Words In Qatari Dialect: A Case Study
( Hamad bin Khalifa University Press (HBKU Press) , 2014 , Conference Paper)According to Graddol (2004) "The world's language system is undergoing rapid change because of demographic trends, new technology, and international communication. These changes will affect both written and spoken ... -
Voicing in Qatari Arabic: Evidence for prevoicing and aspiration
( Hamad bin Khalifa University Press (HBKU Press) , 2016 , Conference Paper)Languages with a two-way voicing contrast in phonology usually contrast prevoiced b, d, g stops with voiceless unaspirated p, t, k stops or voiceless unaspirated stops with voiceless aspirated stops (Iverson & Salmons, ... -
Slips of the tongue: Examples from Qatari Dialect
( Hamad bin Khalifa University Press (HBKU Press) , 2018 , Conference Paper)There are various abstract units of linguistic performance that linguists hypothesized in order to be able to describe the grammars of languages. These are segments, features, morphemes, words or syntactic categories. Yet, ... -
Collaborative translation of Wikipedia: with whom do trainee translators collaborate and for what purpose?
( Routledge , 2022 , Article)This study aims to establish a model of collaboration that illustrates the various channels of collaboration that (trainee) translators go through in the course of translation, who they collaborate with, and why they choose ... -
Research Companion to Language and Country Branding
( Routledge Handbooks , 2020 , Book chapter)This is an introduction to the language and country branding volume. The aim of this chapter is to provide a critical overview of the sociolinguistic, linguistic anthropological, and discursive analytical research on ... -
Transit‐Oriented Development in Doha: The Case of the Al Sadd Neighborhood and Hamad Hospital Metro Station
( 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 ... -
Voice and Emphasis in Arabic Coronal Stops: Evidence for Phonological Compensation
( SAGE , 2021 , Article)The current study investigates multiple acoustic cues–voice onset time (VOT), spectral center of gravity (SCG) of burst, pitch (F0), and frequencies of the first (F1) and second (F2) formants at vowel onset—associated with ... -
West Bay Business District in Doha, State of Qatar: Envisioning a Vibrant Transit-Oriented Development
( 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 ... -
Laboring to communicate: Use of migrant languages in COVID-19 awareness campaign in Qatar
( 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 ... -
Effect of emphasis spread on VOT in coronal stops in Qatari Arabic
( Cambridge University Press , 2021 , Article)Emphasis (contrastive pharyngealization of coronals) in Arabic spreads from an emphatic consonant to neighboring segments. Previous research suggests that in addition to changing spectral characteristics of adjacent segments, ... -
Effect of emphasis spread on coronal stop articulation in Qatari Arabic
( 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 ... -
Mediation effect of L2 English in acquisition of front rounded vowels in L3 Turkish by L1 Arabic learners
(2018 , Conference Proceedings)В статье рассматривается модель усвоения фонетических категорий в третьем языке. Результаты эксперимента показывают, что второй язык может оказывать большее влияние на процесс усвоения фонетических категорий, чем родной язык -
A Framework for Enhancing the Spatial Urban Form of Informal Economies in India: The Case of Krishna Rajendra Market, Bangalore
( 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 ... -
Research Companion to Language and Country Branding
( Routledge , 2020 , Book)Research Companion to Language and Country Branding brings together entirely new interdisciplinary research conducted by scholars working on various sociolinguistic, semiotic, anthropological and discursive analytical ...
