Abdel Rahman Mitib Altakhaineh

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• Doctor of Philosophy
• Professor (Associate)-Dep of English Lang and Lit- School of Foreign Languages at University of Jordan

This study examines the ability of Arabic-speaking-children diagnosed with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) to acquire the Arabic grammatical gender. It also explores whether the use of visual stimuli can be effective to acquire it. Using the experimental design of a pre-and post-test, 14 children with ASD were tested twice on the same items after a...

This paper investigates whether V + V combinations in Jordanian Arabic (JA) and English could be classified as either serial verb constructions (SVCs) or V + V compounds. Through applying the cross-linguistic criteria of SVC, which have been established in the relevant literature, it seems that V + V combinations in JA and what have been considered...

This study aims to examine the effect of incidental learning on the comprehension of 30 English affixes by 50 Arabic-speaking EFL learners in an attempt to determine which affixes are more easily comprehended. We adopt the experimental design of a pre- and post-test to measure the participants’ knowledge of English affixes before and after the trea...

The study investigates the patterning of headedness in compounding, in particular the patterning of regularities and exceptions to the Right-Hand Head Rule (RHHR). An examination of the grammatical descriptions of compounds in English, French, Italian, German, Arabic, Hebrew, Dutch and Spanish indicates that languages such as German and Dutch are s...

This study aims to examine the comprehension of L2 metonymies by Arabic-speaking EFL learners and to investigate the extent to which the participants’ L1 conceptual and linguistic knowledge of metonymies can affect the processing of L2 metonymies. A comprehension task was administered to elicit data, and the results showed that the participants enc...

This study provides empirical evidence of how self-monitoring tasks contribute to improving the Korean pronunciation of foreign learners of Korean in blended courses, which combine face-to-face classes with online assignments. The study focuses on lateralization and nasalization rules, which are obligatory assimilation rules that frequently occur i...

Veracity is being dedicated to communicating the truth and honesty, which is essential not only for individuals but also for the law. Violating this act is considered lying. Detecting lies is a field of study that explores how individuals express truth or manipulate information, often uncovering patterns in language, cognition, and behavior. Forens...

This article investigates the observation that the object of obligatorily transitive verbs in Jordanian Arabic cannot drop in VSO clauses but can in SVO clauses as long as its ref-erent is already mentioned in the previous discourse of an accompanying utterance. When object drop takes place, the subject of the accompanying clause should be a [+defi...

This study aims to examine the impact of social media on interpersonal communication patterns in Jordan and determine whether there are gender differences. Through adopting a mixed-methods approach, quantitative data were collected using a structured questionnaire from a sample of 50 Facebook users in Jordan chosen based on a self-selection method,...

This study examines the impact of gender as a social factor on the lexical variation of the Jordanian currency, dinar, among students at the University of Jordan. Utilizing a mixed-method approach, the study aims to determine whether the role of gender is statistically significant in the choices among different lexical variants of the terms. For qu...

This study explores the metaphorical and metonymical expressions of sadness and joy in French idiomatic expressions, collected from various media sources and YouTube channels. Using a qualitative research design, it applies the Extended Conceptual Metaphor Theory to analyze how these emotions are conceptualized through image schemas, domains, and m...

Purpose This study aims to explore the challenges faced by BA students in the Applied English program at the University of Jordan during their practicum experience, focusing on the first semester of the academic year 2022/2023. It seeks to shed light on training environment issues and workplace skills while considering the cultural and economic con...

Purpose This study aims to explore the challenges faced by BA students in the Applied English program at the University of Jordan during their practicum experience, focusing on the first semester of the academic year 2022/2023. It seeks to shed light on training environment issues and workplace skills while considering the cultural and economic con...

This study examines the use of Andalusian Spanish on X.com platform as a means of expressing regional identity. Through content analysis of 50 words, organized in a table with their phonetic pronunciation and English translation, each group of words was categorized based on its linguistic features. The research identifies key linguistic features su...

Lying is the deliberate act of conveying false information to deceive others using language. Examining the linguistic and content features of this act has been a point of interest for forensic linguists due to its potential significance in examining various legal contexts such as criminal investigations, accusations, eyewitness testimonies, allegat...

The translation of the Holy Quran is daunting and is primarily based on the scholar’s interpretation. This study aims to investigate how the attributes of Allah are translated from Arabic into English. To this end, the study examines five translations of 12 verses that include attributes of Allah to find commonalities and/or differences in renderin...

This study investigates the ability of Jordanian learners of English as a foreign language to understand color-idiomatic metaphorical expressions. It also examines whether gender can have an effect on the participants' ability to comprehend these expressions. Twenty females and twenty males from Isra University took part in this study. The adopted...

This research paper investigates the pronunciation difficulties faced by Arabic-speaking EFL learners, particularly with words containing identical adjacent consonant letters. This study aims to enhance pronunciation proficiency and identify effective pedagogical approaches. To this end, a questionnaire was distributed to 15 university educators in...

This study explores a specific category of construct states in Arabic, which involves the use of filial words to form the construct head, producing what we refer to as “filial construct states”, e.g., bana:t llajl, which literally translates to “daughters of the night” meaning “dreams”. Using a manually collected specialized corpus, and adopting Co...

This study investigates the various marketing strategies employed in the malls and streets of Amman, Jordan. Specifically, it aims to identify the different methods salespeople use to attract customers’ attention to their products indirectly, and sometimes through non-verbal means. The study illustrates how the theoretical concepts of speech acts,...

Political speeches have a vital role in inspiring, reassuring and unifying citizens. Using pragmatics and speech act theory, this paper examines King Abdullah II’s ‘Address to the Nation on the 25th Accession to the Throne Day.’ This analysis examines the rhetorical strategies and delivery techniques employed in King Abdullah’s speech to sufficient...

Arabic phonotactics significantly differ from English phonotactics in that they usually follow a framework that forbids the presence of consonant clusters in syllabic onsets. This study examines the relationship between Arabic-speaking EFL learners’ spelling accuracy and pronunciation, concentrating on the difficulties caused by consonant clusters...

This study investigates the alignment between program learning outcomes of Press and Media programs at Jordanian universities and the requirements of the local labor market. Specifically, it examines whether the courses and training offered effectively enhance students’ skills and equip them with the necessary knowledge and experience to excel in t...

Aim. This paper investigates the pragmatic errors of Jordanian EFL learners from a cultural perspective on communication. It is suggested that pragmatics, or the study of how language is used in context, plays a crucial role in L2 learners’ communicative skills. Thus, the research aims to provide a comprehensive understanding of how the lack of pra...

This study aims to explore the attitude of English as a Foreign Language Learners (EFLL) in Jordanian schools about the use of different dictionary types - including paper-based, electronic monolingual, or electronic bilingual dictionaries. It also examines the challenges students face while using their dictionaries. To this end, a questionnaire wa...

Developing critical thinking and effective communication skills through argumentative essays is crucial to the success of university students. This study aims to identify the most engaging strategies used in teaching writing argumentative essays for university students. In spite of this, identifying the most engaging strategies to teach this skill...

This study aims to explore the target concepts of metonymical and metaphorical uses of ‘head’ in Jordanian Arabic (JA) compared to those used in Tunisian Arabic (TA). Extended conceptual metaphor theory (ECMT) as envisaged by Kövecses (2020, Review of Cognitive Linguistics , 18 , 112–-130) is adopted as the theoretical framework. Data analysis reve...

This study examines the semantic variation in fruit and vegetable classifier usage in Amman, Jordan, employing a cognitive sociolinguistic approach. The semantic variation revolves around using idiomatic classifiers, such as raːs basˤal (“head of onion”), in contrast to neutral classifiers, i.e., ħabbet basˤal (“a piece of onion”) or numerals, such...

This study aims to investigate the impact of application patterns of Korean phonological rules in foreign-accented speech on native speakers’ comprehension. The phonological rules investigated here are lateralization and nasalization, which are considered the most difficult for foreign learners. Lateralization and nasalization are obligatory assimi...

Attitude is one of the main success elements of language learning. It reflects students' beliefs, feelings, and behavior tendencies. This research paper explores Jordanian secondary school students' attitudes toward learning English in terms of emotional, behavioral, and cognitive aspects. In addition, it investigates whether there is a significant...

This study examines the visual [monomodal] and multimodal metaphorical representations of Jordanians’ perceptions and attitudes toward the amended Cyber Crime Law in Jordan as depicted by Jordanian activists and image creators online. It adopts Forceville’s theory of Multimodal Metaphor [1, 2] as its theoretical framework. Twenty visual and multimo...

This study delves into the use of impoliteness strategies within emails sent by undergraduate and postgraduate students to their professors, aiming to discern the variance in their implementation based on (Culpeper and Hardaker's. 2017. Impoliteness. In: Culpeper, Jonathan, Haugh, Michael and Daniel Kadar (eds.), The Palgrave handbook of linguistic...

This study focuses on the domain of acknowledgment composition in English by Master’s level students who are Arabic speakers and learning English as a foreign language at the University of Jordan. Its aim is to offer insights into the patterns of expression that predominate in their gratitude expression. By adopting Hyland’s framework, the study ex...

Aims. This study explores the acquisition of passive structures in Jordanian Arabic by ten children diagnosed with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD). It aims to identify the preferred passive structure among these children and investigate the underlying reasons for their preference. Methods. The research included a sample of 10 male children with ASD...

Aim. This study investigates the acquisition of plural morphology by native Jordanian children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). The primary objective of the study is to assess children’s capacity to use plural morphology in Jordanian Arabic, aiming to identify the most frequently utilized form of the plural and the reasons behind its prevalence...

This study aims to investigate the sociolinguistic variation of Noun Phrase (NP) genitive alternatives in Jordanian Arabic (JA) as spoken in Amman. It attempts to examine the role of certain linguistic factors i.e., animacy, definiteness, alienability, complexity, and grammatical function as well as social factors, i.e., age, gender, education, and...

Most papers written on polysemy focus on sense overlaps and lexical ambiguity, yet studies that explore the possibility of establishing a polysemic complex and explaining how the new interpretations arise through metaphor are almost non-existent in Arabic. This paper aims to explore how metaphor serves to create new concepts as part of polysemic co...

Indexical meanings of the realization of /sˤ/ ‫ﺹ‬ as [s] ‫ﺱ‬ in spoken and written Jordanian Arabic: a language change in progress? Abstract: This study examines how the phonetic realisation of the phoneme /sˤ/ and its orthographic form ‫ﺹ‬ is surfacing as the variant [s] in speaking and as ‫ﺱ‬ in writing in Ammani Arabic (AA), which is a variety o...

Compound nouns, whether metaphorical or otherwise, are compact and image-evoking linguistic structures widely used in news headlines. However, a review of the relevant literature shows that they have not been examined in the context of news headlines in Arabic media. Hence, this study aims to identify the role of metaphoric and catchy noun compound...

The current study investigates the semantic or conceptual relations that exist between two compound elements in Arabic based on the theoretical framework of Conceptual Semantics and a modified version of Parallel Architecture called Relational Morphology (RM). It also explores the similarities and/or differences between these relations and those id...

This study explores the use of interactional 1 metadiscourse by first language (L1) and second language (L2) English editorialists. The study uses Hyland's (2019) model of metadiscourse to analyse 80 editorials published between 2020 and 2021 in The Guardian and The Jordan Times newspapers (40 from each newspaper). A mixed-method approach-adopting...

This paper examines the utilization of Arabic tautological expressions, provided by customers as a reiteration of an element of an English compound such as 'apple pie' [fatˁi:rit ʔabil bai 'an apple pie pie'], from the perspective of Relevance Theory (RT). Data was collected from 90 participants, divided into two groups: 40 native speaker informant...

The study elucidates His Royal Highness (HRH) Crown Prince Al-Hussein’s insightful vision to empower youth through a critical analysis of the rhetoric and persuasive patterns used in his speeches. The thematic analysis reveals his adept use of distinctive grammatical, lexical, and rhetorical features in his speeches, highlighting the significance o...

Purpose Due to the high expense of obtaining and accessing scientific research, readers with diverse financial abilities are not offered equal opportunities. This study investigates the preferences for journal access types among Arab university academics and explores the implications of publishing research articles in open access vs closed access j...

Aim. This study aimed to investigate the use of different Jordanian Arabic possessive pronouns by children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and explore the influence of their IQ on the usage of possessive pronouns and possessive adjectives. Methods. The study employed a paired-choice preference assessment method adapted from Fisher et al. (1992...

This study aims to investigate the use of question tags among Jordanian female and male Facebook users and identify some commonly used words for question tags in colloquial Arabic. To this end, a focus group was formed, comprising individuals who possessed an advanced command of the Arabic language and an understanding of sociolinguistic concepts....

Numerous studies suggest that children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) encounter language problems related to syntax. In particular, these children face difficulties in comprehending and answering complex language structures in Arabic. This paper examines whether a prototype Arabic assistive application can have an impact on the ability of chil...

This study explores the effect of the workplace on language use by Jordanian working women in terms of variety, lexis, and pronunciation. To this end, the study adopted a triangulation of research methods utilising qualitative and quantitative analyses, i.e. a questionnaire, ethnographic field notes, and interviews. Ethnographic field notes were ta...

This study investigates the use of interactive metadiscourse markers in first language (L1) and second language (L2) English editorials. It also identifies how L1 and L2 editorials differ in the use of these markers. To this end, the study utilizes Hyland's (2019) model of interactive metadiscourse to analyse-based on a descriptive approach-80 edit...

This study aims to critically analyze metaphors employed in Arabic cosmetics advertisements and compare them to those used in English advertisements. A specialized corpus including 250 advertisements (125 Arabic advertisements and 125 English ones) of different cosmetics products was compiled. The method adopted for data analysis was based on Chart...

Purpose This study aims to discuss the impact of the physical environment on the quality of distance education from the viewpoint of a number of teaching staff in Jordanian universities during the COVID-19 pandemic. Design/methodology/approach A total of 308 lecturers were selected using a snowball sampling method from different social media websi...

This study examines the realizations of variable /ð/ sound in Ammani Arabic (AA) as well as the correlation between this variation and a number of sociolinguistic factors. Four phonetic variants ([ð], [d], [z] and [ðˤ]), four social factors (sex, age, region and educational attainment) and two linguistic factors (the position of the variant in the...

This study analyzes 30 cartoons depicting THE DEAL OF THE CENTURY as envisaged by two Jordanian cartoonists. Conceptual Blending Theory (Fauconnier and Turner [2008, Cam-bridge handbook of metaphor and thought, Cambridge University Press, 53-66]) and Multimodal Metaphor Theory (Forceville, 2008) are adopted as theoretical frameworks. The results re...

This paper examines the comprehension of English compound nouns by sixty Arabic-speaking EFL learners majoring in English at the University of Jordan, Amman. It explores the problems that these learners may encounter in understanding certain types of compounds, namely, subordinative, attributive and coordinative, based on the notions of endocentric...

This article aims to examine the challenges facing secondary school teachers and students in English vocabulary online classes in Amman, Jordan. It also aims to propose the most effective ways to overcome the encountered challenges. To this end, qualitative semi-structured interviews were conducted with thirty teachers and twenty students to unders...

The effect of incidental learning on acquiring the pronunciation of the phoneme /p/ by Arabic-speaking English as foreign language learners was the focus of this study. This phoneme was chosen because it does not exist in the phonemic inventory of Arabic. Eighth graders studying at Al-Ethra’a Secondary School in Alkarak were tested on the pronuncia...

This study aims to explore the use of disagreement strategies in two Arabic dialects: Jordanian and Algerian Arabic. It also investigates the effect of social status on the choice of disagreement strategies adopting Muntigl and Turnbull's (1998) taxonomy. To achieve these objectives, 40 participants (20 Jordanians and 20 Algerians) were randomly re...

This study aims to explore the use of disagreement strategies in two Arabic dialects: Jordanian and Algerian Arabic. It also investigates the effect of social status on the choice of disagreement strategies adopting Muntigl and Turnbull's (1998) taxonomy. To achieve these objectives, 40 participants (20 Jordanians and 20 Algerians) were randomly re...

Purpose Despite the fact that the gender-based violence (GBV) term has different interpretations, leading to the assumption that all types of harmful acts against all gender identities and either sex will be addressed under the GBV umbrella, in reality, GBV remains to be synonymous with violence against women (VAW). Thus, this paper aims to assess...

Purpose. This paper examines whether irregular past verbs are acquired earlier than regular past verbs by Arabic-speaking EFL children. Methods and procedure. Ninety fifth graders were tested using pictures representing 20 regular and 20 irregular past tense verbs through a sentence completion task. An introspective session was conducted with 70 ch...

This study provides an analysis of the monomodal and multimodal metaphors and metonymies depicting COVID-19 in a corpus of 250 memes. The theoretical framework adopted in this study included Conceptual Metaphor Theory (CMT) by Lakoff and Johnson (1980), Forceville's (2008) Mono-modal and Multimodal Metaphor Theory, and Musolff’s (2006) approach in...

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This study examines love and beloved metaphors from the cross-cultural perspective of Jordanian Arabic (JA) and English. The conceptual models suggested by Lakoff and Johnson ( 1980 , 1999 ) and Kövecses (2014) and force dynamics proposed by Talmy (1988) are adopted as the theoretical frameworks for this study. The data was collected from contempor...

In this contribution, we analyse how students perceive and comment on potential instances of intercultural clashes in the writing component of the International English Language Testing System. Following student accounts, we argue that intercultural bias is indeed perceived, preventing test takers from fully positioning themselves regarding cultura...

This article aims to examine to what extent English and Jordanian Arabic (JA) have the same classification of N + N compounds based on their degree of compositionality. It also attempts to propose a universally applicable classification of compositionality in N + N compounds. I suggest a modified version of the degree of compositionality based on p...

Abstract Purpose. This paper reports on an investigation of Arabic word order acquisition by twelve Jordanian children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD), and the reasons for this order of acquisition. This study researched the following questions: (1). Which word order do Jordanian Arabic speaking children with ASD prefer? (2). Why do children wi...

This study aims to explore the use of hedging devices by female Saudi students in academic writing by analyzing the frequency, reasons for, and nature of their hedging devices choices in argumentative essays. To this end, sixty-four samples of writings by female Saudi EFL university students of King Saud University were thoroughly analyzed in light...

This study aims to examine the extent to which the alternation between the common negation patterns of verbless clauses in Ammani Arabic, namely [mu] and [miʃ], is socially constrained. Gender, age, level of education and region (West Amman vs. East Amman) were investigated in this regard. Twenty-five hours of audio-recorded sociolinguistic intervi...

This study examines the production of geminates in Emirati Pidgin Arabic (EPA) spoken by blue-collar workers in the United Arab Emirates. A simple naming test was designed to test the production of geminates to determine whether the EPA speakers would produce a geminated or degeminated phoneme. Following that, a semi-structured interview was conduc...

This study examined the effect of culturally-specific items on the performance of Arab candidates on the IELTS Listening Test. Using an online survey and focus-group discussions with 16 IELTS teachers and 32 IELTS candidates at Al Ain University in Abu Dhabi/the United Arab Emirates, the current study showed that the independent variable, i.e., 'cu...

This study explores the effectiveness of using an overhead projector to display guessing games and that of printed dictionaries in teaching collocations to Arabic-speaking English as a foreign language (EFL) learners. The study focused particularly on the acquisition of English grammatical collocations or, more precisely, colligations. A pre-test a...

According to teachers’ observations and the related literature review, foreign language speaking anxiety is a common phenomenon in English language classrooms that adversely affects the process of language learning. This study aims to contribute to the limited literature available on foreign language speaking anxiety in Jordan by exploring the poss...

The study considered the effectiveness of an online educational program aimed at developing intellectual security and tolerance among secondary school students in Al-Karak, Jordan. The study took a semi-experimental approach with sixty students at Aye Secondary School, distributed as thirty students each in the experimental and control groups. The...

This study reviews three university ranking methodologies: Quacquarelli Sysmonds University Rankings, The Times Higher Education World University Rankings, and the Shanghai Jiao Tong University’s Academic Ranking of World Universities. It also aims to suggest two new methodologies, one for World University Ranking and one for Arab University Rankin...

This article aims at investigating the challenges of teaching English oral skills using online learning by secondary school teachers and students in Amman/Jordan. It also aims at proposing the most effective solutions that can be used to overcome the challenges encountered and to promote teaching/learning oral skills online in Jordan. To this end,...

This study examines the attitudes of university professors toward monetary and non-monetary research incentives at Arab universities. The study was motivated by the observation that some university professors appear to prefer monetary research incentives rather than non-monetary ones, and vice versa. For the purpose of this study, sixty university...

The present study examines the complaint pattern preferences used by male and female Algerian Arabic speakers. Fifty (25 males and 25 females) Algerian undergraduate students in their final year of study were selected to take part in this study. Data were collected through a semi-structured individual telephone interview in the form of a discourse...

This study aims to investigate the attitudes of non-Arabic students towards reading short stories in Arabic at universities in Malaysia, with a focus on three variables: the students' university, gender, and mother tongue. A mixed-methods approach was employed, using a questionnaire and semi-structured focus group discussion with 58 participants. T...

This study aimed to identify the obstacles facing female secondary teachers of English in Al-Qaser Directorate of Education in Al-Karak, Jordan. For the purpose of the study, a quantitative approach was adopted. The sample was randomly selected and included 170 female English language teachers. A questionnaire consisting of 29 items covering five d...

The current study aims to shed light on teacher education from the Islamic perspective, identifying education principles and practices as well as teachers’ characteristics. The methodology employed in this study exclusively depended on the researchers’ extensive reading of several books, research papers, book reviews, and other types of manuscripts...

The grammatical category ‘feminine’ has been viewed in various ways in the relevant literature, typically as the marked member of the category Gender (henceforth Gen), i. e. denoting sex (Kibort & Greville 2008) and/or animacy (Dahl 2000). It enters into an Agree relation in Chomsky’s work (1995; 2000) and as such is interpretable on the controller...

This study compares the effectiveness of using pictures to that of using online dictionaries in teaching metaphorical expressions to 50 Arabic-speaking EFL learners studying English (2) at Al Ain University in the United Arab Emirates. The study adopts a pre-and post-test experimental design to measure the participants' comprehension of English met...

This study examines the attitude of pre-service teachers towards the gender of their instructors and students at schools during the practicum in the city of Al Ain in the United Arab Emirates. This study is motivated by the observation that gender is a salient factor influencing the communicative behaviour of the pre-service teachers during their p...

This paper shows that the head noun of the Construct State (CS) may ɸ-agree (in Number and Gender) with the accompanying DP associate in Jordanian Arabic (JA). When it occurs, this agreement is, however, only invoked when the DP associate is referential (e.g., galam ʔil-walad ‘the boy’s pen’ > galamuhi ʔil-waladi, but barbiiʃ ʔil-ʁaaz ‘the gas pipe...

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine the effectiveness of using colors and learner’s intelligence quotient (IQ) in teaching new vocabulary in Arabic (L1) and English (L2) to children with autism spectrum disorder (henceforth, ASD). Design/methodology/approach To this end, 12 autistic children whose ages ranged between 7 and 12 were obse...

This study examined the effectiveness of using colors and learner's IQ in teaching new vocabulary in Arabic (L1) and English (L2) to children with autism spectrum disorder (henceforth, ASD). To this end, 12 autistic children whose ages ranged between 7 and 12 were observed while they were being taught ten new words. The children were divided into t...

This study investigates the effect of flipped classroom instruction on developing Emirati EFL learners' pragmatic competence. It compares flipped classroom instruction with the conventional method of developing learners' request speech acts. To this end, the participants were randomly divided into two groups: experimental and control. A Discourse C...

This study investigates the impact of different teaching techniques, e.g. projecting pictures using an overhead projector and the traditional way of teaching, in improving Arabic-speaking EFL learners‘ production of antonyms in English. A production test was administered, including 20 pairs of antonyms, to assess the students‘ knowledge of English...

This study examined the incidental acquisition of English prepositions by Arabic-speaking English as a foreign language (EFL) learners. Employing reading comprehension exercises as a treatment, we adopted the experimental design of a pre- and post-test to determine the effectiveness of the treatment on the participants’ incidental acquisition of En...

Background. Given the importance of English a global language and one of the four official languages used in FIFA, it is essential to acquaint students who are specialised in Physical Education with English sport terminology. Objectives. This study aims to determine the knowledge level of physical education students in Saudi universities’ faculties...

The study reported in this paper measured the extent to which Arabic-speaking EFL learners appreciate English punny jokes. It aimed to identify the challenges those students face with certain types of such jokes and identify explanations for these challenges. For the purpose of the study, a test of 16 punny jokes from four types of punny jokes, nam...

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to investigate whether age plays a role in the acquisition of construct state (CS) constructions in Arabic by 14 children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). It also examined the challenges faced by children with ASD in producing different types of CS constructions. Finally, the study analysed the sources of di...

This study aims to identify types of compounds in Modern Standard Arabic (MSA) and Jordanian Arabic (JA) by applying the cross-linguistic criteria for compoundhood discussed in the relevant literature, with a special focus on English and Hebrew. These criteria – orthographic, phonological, syntactic and semantic in nature – have been proposed to ma...

This study aims to analyse verses from the Quran in relation to Noah"s story from an intertextuality perspective. The analysis focuses on three main aspects, namely, unravelling the discoursal meaning of ʔardˁ "land" in comparison with ʔalʔardˁ "the earth", describing the size of Noah"s Ark, and identifying the types of animals which Noah took with...

This study examined the effect of the gender and culture of the IELTS examiner on the performance of Arab examinees on the IELTS speaking test. It relied on Communication Accommodation Theory to account for the linguistic behaviour of the examinees in reaction to the gender and the culture of the IELTS examiner. Through interviewing 15 female and 1...

This study examines two types of semantic change, namely amelioration and pejoration, through comparing the positive/negative senses of 20 English adjectives over time in the Oxford English Dictionary (OED). It also aims to explore whether the semantic change, which may have occurred in these words, can be associated with their frequency in The Bri...