Eman Awni Ali

• PhD in Linguistics
• Assocaite Professor at Isra University

This study adopts a functional approach to investigate the use of DMs in expository essays written by Jordanian EFL learners with different levels of English language proficiency. It relies on Fraser's (2009) taxonomy to represent the targeted DMs. The comparative analysis indicates that the advanced and intermediate EFL learners employed comparabl...

This study aims to analyze the derivation of weak active participles (APs) from triconsonantal imperfective verbs within the X-slot model of autosegmental phonology. The first stage of the research involves building a corpus of APs from a well-established corpus-based dictionary, namely mucdʒam ʔalluɣah ʔalcarabijjah ʔalmuca:sirah ‘Dictionary of Mo...

This study analyzes within a functional approach the variety of use of textual discourse markers by advanced EFL Jordanian learners. The analysis is based on a corpus of thirty-three interviews with graduate students in the Department of English Language and Literature at the University of Jordan. The interviews with the advanced EFL Jordanian lear...

This paper aims at analyzing an accusation of defamation of the Jordanians in a talk show by a public figure. The person accused of defaming the Jordanians is the former head of the Jordanian royal court, Yousef Aldalabeh. The alleged defamatory statement examined in the current study is a description of the relationship between the king of Jordan...

The study mainly attempts to assess the validity of a non-corpus-based phonological analysis. The targeted analysis is Abushunar and Mahadin's (2017) non-linear phonological investigation of the derivation of the passive participle (PP) in Modern Standard Arabic (MSA). Abushunar and Mahadin (2017) examined the phonological processes that a sample o...

This study aims to analyze the alternation from English, viz. a foreign language, to Arabic, viz. the subjects’ first language, in interviews conducted with Arabic-English bilinguals. The subjects are twenty graduate students in the Department of English Language and literature at the University of Jordan. Based on their bilingual profiles, the sub...

This corpus-driven study analyzes the use of discourse markers in conversations between 14 native speakers of Jordanian Spoken Arabic (JSA). The data are collected from one Jordanian talk show, namely Caravan. This show is chosen because it is based on live conversations between a group of males and females in their twenties and thirties. The study...

The present study analyzes the phonological processes that verbal nouns (VNs) undergo in the course of their derivation from triconsonantal weak verbal stems in Modern Standard Arabic (MSA). The VNs that are targeted in the study comprise all the instances of VNs which are listed under triconsonantal weak verbs in the corpus-based dictionary mucdʒa...

This paper analyzes the use of bird names in describing people in Arabic and English. Specifically, the study aims to find the frequency of using such terms in the two languages and the extent to which the gender of the addressee affects their use. The participants are 24 native speakers of American and British English and 24 native speakers of Jor...