Turki Bani-Khaled

University of Jordan | UJ · Department of Linguistics

Abstract This paper is a qualitative discourse study of the speech “It Can Be Otherwise” by Harvard Professor and President Drew Faust. The speech was delivered on May 30, 2014 at Cambridge, Massachusetts. The language and content of the speech are analyzed as a genre including macro and micro level units such as moves, communicative functions and...

This paper examines the theme of education in feminist discourse with particular reference to a speech given by a prominent academic leader (Drew Faust, President and Professor of Harvard University). This is done by reviewing related literature on feminist discourse and public speaking of political and academic leaders. Using insights from genre a...

Attitudes towards Standard Arabic: A Case Study of Jordanian Undergraduate Students of English Turki Ahmad Ali Bani-Khaled Department of Linguistics, Faculty of Foreign Languages, University of Jordan, Amman 11942, Jordan Tel: 962-777-851-589 E-mail: turkiaad@yahoo.co.uk Received: July 11, 2014 Accepted: July 19, 2014 Published: August 19, 2014 doi...

This paper reports the findings of a case study that investigated how 50 Jordanian Arab university students of English interacted with words and dictionaries while reading a specialized text in linguistics. 1 The data was obtained through dictionary use records and structured interviews. The results showed that most of the look-ups were for ‘genera...