English Literature & Linguistics: Recent submissions
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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 ... -
“DELIVER AMAZING”: Qatar as a branded architectural discourse in World Cup 2022
( 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
( 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
( 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 ... -
Humoristic Translanguaging in Intercultural Communication in Qatar: Merits, Limitations, and Its Potential Contribution to Policy Development
( 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 ... -
الألفاظ والتعبيرات التمييزية المستخدمة في الصحافة اليمنية الإلكترونية
( مركز الحكمة للبحوث والدراسات - الجزائر , 2021 , Article)سعت الدراسة إلى رصد الأشكال الصحفية والألفاظ التمييزية والمتحيزة الواردة في التغطية الإخبارية في الصحافة اليمنية الإلكترونية خلال الحرب الدائرة أثناء إجراء هذه الدراسة، والمقارنة بين الألفاظ التمييزية والمتحيزة المستخدمة ... -
Teacher education and the development of teacher identity
( Taylor and Francis , 2016 , Book chapter)This chapter reports on a study of teachers' professional identity development, which took place in a Sudanese English as a foreign language (EFL) teacher education program. The socio-political and economic discourses are ... -
Distinct neuropsychological correlates in positive and negative formal thought disorder syndromes: The thought and language disorder scale in endogenous psychoses
( S. Karger AG , 2016 , Article Review)The correlation of formal thought disorder (FTD) symptoms and subsyndromes with neuropsychological dimensions is as yet unclear. Evidence for a dysexecutive syndrome and semantic access impairments has been discussed in ... -
Philistine Doomsday and the Vasa Mortis of Solomon and Saturn II
( 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 ... -
Expatriate languages in Kuwait: Tension between public and private domains
( 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 ... -
Getting Them Speaking: Classroom Social Factors and Foreign Language Anxiety
( 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 ... -
Discourse relation recognition in translation: a relevance-theory perspective
( 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 ... -
The light belongs to Yves Saint Laurent: luxury beauty brands in translation
( Routledge , 2017 , Article)This paper examines the issues related to the translation into Arabic of international advertising campaigns, with particular reference to the luxury goods market in the Arabian Gulf area. Data selected from a corpus ... -
Translation and the narratives of legitimacy: A semiotic analysis of the UN Special Envoy for Yemen’s legitimacy-constructing strategies and their Arabic translations
( John Benjamins Publishing , 2020 , Article)How legitimacy narratives in conflict zones are constructed and mediated through translation remains largely under-researched. This article investigates the strategies that the United Nations Special Envoy for Yemen, Martin ... -
Equality and erasure: Responses to subject negation in the art of Jill Magid
( Springer International Publishing , 2017 , Book chapter)This chapter engages with contemporary surveillance as it is conceived of in art and literature, responding to the contemporary media culture of ubiquitous watching. Artistic discourse and its concern with this facet of ... -
Stephen Dedalus and nationalism without nationalism
( 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 ... -
Metaphorical expressions in E-commerce: A study of arabic language websites
( 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. ...
