English Literature & Linguistics: Recent submissions
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Lexical retrieval after Arabic aphasia: Syntactic access and predictors of spoken naming
( 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 ... -
Football in the hands of the other: Qatar's World Cup in the British broadsheet press
( 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 ... -
Borrowed words in Qatari Arabic: A case study of knowledge of meaning and knowledge of origin by Qataris
( 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 ... -
Social class struggle as a Greek political discourse
( SAGE Publications Ltd , 2019 , Article)This article delves into the construction of social class division in Greek political discourse. More specifically, the focus is on (class struggle) as a discourse that has started being carved in Greek media since the ... -
Laryngeal Contrast in Qatari Arabic: Effect of Speaking Rate on Voice Onset Time
( S. Karger AG , 2019 , Article)Beckman and colleagues claimed in 2011 that Swedish has an overspecified phonological contrast between prevoiced and voiceless aspirated stops. Yet, Swedish is the only language for which this pattern has been reported. ... -
Blue-collar workplace communicative practices: a case study in construction sites in Qatar
( 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 ... -
Nostalgic diaspora or diasporic nostalgia? Discursive and identity constructions of Greeks in Qatar
( 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 ... -
Negotiating Wikipedia narratives about the Yemeni crisis: Who are the alleged supporters of the Houthis?
( 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 ... -
Using Texts Which Address Local Issues to Create a Discursive Space within an Undergraduate Writing Course
( 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 ... -
Long-Distance Vowel-to-Vowel Coarticulation in Arabic: Influences of Intervening Consonant Pharyngealization and Length
( 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 ... -
Evidence for gesture-speech mismatch detection impairments in schizophrenia
( 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 ... -
Imageability, familiarity, and age of acquisition ratings for Arabic abstract nouns, abstract verbs and adjectives
( 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. ... -
National identity, social legacy and Qatar 2022: the cultural ramifications of FIFA’s first Arab World Cup
( Routledge , 2019 , Article)This article argues that the decision to award Qatar the World Cup in 2022 will have a lasting impact on the Gulf state. I suggest that hosting the 2022 World Cup is a central part of Qatar’s strategy to announce itself ... -
Blurring the Contours of Memory in June Jordan's Soldier: A Poet's Childhood
( Routledge , 2019 , Article)Located at the crossroads of fact and fiction and relying on memory, autobiography defies easy categorization. This paper examines June Jordan's Soldier: A Poet's Childhood (2000). Jordan situates herself vis-à-vis her ... -
Crisis translation in Yemen: Needs and challenges of volunteer translators and interpreters
( Routledge , 2019 , Book chapter)This chapter reports on the findings of a qualitative study undertaken with the aim of examining the status of crisis translators and interpreters (T&Is) in Yemen. The study aimed to ascertain how they perceive their role ... -
Language policies in education in Qatar between 2003 and 2012: from local to global then back to local
( 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 ... -
The Conjure Woman's Poetics of Poisoning in Gloria Naylor's Mama Day
( Routledge , 2018 , Article)This article examines the poetics of poisoning in Gloria Naylor's Mama Day. The article traces the depiction of the conjure woman in novels written by African American female novelists in the 1980s, drawing upon the figure's ... -
German metaphysics
( Cambridge University Press , 2018 , Book chapter)Before 1850 Herman Melville was a fairly typical American male, in that he was rebellious and needed to earn money to live. He had left school early, and by the time he began work on Moby-Dick; or, The Whale he had been a ... -
Ethnographing Gender Roles and Power in Intercultural Communication in Qatar
( Taylor and Francis Ltd. , 2018 , Article)This ethnographic study examines how gender roles associated with male and female Qatari students in intercultural communication courses in a university in Qatar are negotiated between them and their two female instructors ... -
Undoing Babel: The tower of Babel in Anglo-Saxon literature
( University of Toronto Press , 2018 , Book)The Tower of Babel narrative is one of the most memorable accounts of the Bible, and its interpretative potential has produced a vast array of literary adaptations. Undoing Babel is the first extensive examination of the ...
