Mahmoud A Al-Khatib
Biographic Data
| ID | 3780774 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mahmoud A Al-Khatib |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mahmoud A |
| FAMILY NAME | Al-Khatib |
| SIGNATURE | AL-KHATIB M A |
| AFFILIATIONS | English Language and Linguistics, Jordan University of Science and Technology, Irbid, Jordan |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 30 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1999 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
(Im)politeness in Intercultural Email Communication between People of Different Cultural Backgrounds
This study investigates how people from different cultures negotiate meanings in email interactions. The data is composed of 120 emails written by two groups of students: sixty emails are written by Jordanian university students and sixty by American university students. The emails are supposed to be written to hypothetical friends. The data were analysed qualitatively, relying primarily on discourse analysis complemented by the theory of politen…
Authorship verification of opinion articles in online newspapers using the idiolect of author
Many approaches have been introduced to solve the authorship verification problem, including the use of machine learning techniques. These techniques proved to be effective in detecting a person’s distinctive way of speaking or writing. The main aim of this study was to show that every writer has an idiolect which is presented through the use of several types of stylometric features unique to individual authors. For this purpose, 120 online opini…
Aspects of Bilingualism in the Arab World
Language and Cultural Maintenance Among the Gypsies of Jordan
In this paper we examine the language situation among the Gypsies of Jordan within the framework of previous theories on language maintenance and shift as proposed by Le Page, Fishman, Dorian and Kelman. The study investigates language and cultural maintenance among the Gypsies of Jordan to permit comparison of the relative influences of various social parameters on their use of both Arabic and Gypsy. Here we analyse a corpus of data collected fr…
Audience design revisited in a diglossic speech community
Article Audience design revisited in a diglossic speech community: A case study of three TV programs addressed to three different audiences was published on December 18, 2001 in the journal Multilingua (volume 20, issue 4)
Jordanian college students' responses to compliments
Language shift among the Armenians of Jordan
This paper examines the language situation among Armenians in Jordan, a small minority group inhabiting the country for the last 100 years. The Armenians of Jordan are assumed to be experiencing a kind of shift in their speech. The main aim of this study is to gauge the shift and to highlight the sociodemographic factors enhancing it. The data were collected with the help of a number of Armenian assistants, by means of questionnaires and intervie…
The Arab World
This introductory article of the special Arab issue of Language, Culture and Curriculum is intended to provide background information on Arab society and the Arab world. It also offers some relevant information on Arabic and language teaching in this particular milieu, particularly on teaching English as a second or foreign language. An idea is also provided about why this special issue has been devoted to the Arab world, and there is an introduc…
Joke-telling in Jordanian society
Jordanian college students' responses to compliments
Joke-telling in Jordanian society
Language shift among the Armenians of Jordan
This paper examines the language situation among Armenians in Jordan, a small minority group inhabiting the country for the last 100 years. The Armenians of Jordan are assumed to be experiencing a kind of shift in their speech. The main aim of this study is to gauge the shift and to highlight the sociodemographic factors enhancing it. The data were collected with the help of a number of Armenian assistants, by means of questionnaires and intervie…
Language and Cultural Maintenance Among the Gypsies of Jordan
In this paper we examine the language situation among the Gypsies of Jordan within the framework of previous theories on language maintenance and shift as proposed by Le Page, Fishman, Dorian and Kelman. The study investigates language and cultural maintenance among the Gypsies of Jordan to permit comparison of the relative influences of various social parameters on their use of both Arabic and Gypsy. Here we analyse a corpus of data collected fr…
Joke-telling in Jordanian society
The Arab World
This introductory article of the special Arab issue of Language, Culture and Curriculum is intended to provide background information on Arab society and the Arab world. It also offers some relevant information on Arabic and language teaching in this particular milieu, particularly on teaching English as a second or foreign language. An idea is also provided about why this special issue has been devoted to the Arab world, and there is an introduc…
Audience design revisited in a diglossic speech community
Article Audience design revisited in a diglossic speech community: A case study of three TV programs addressed to three different audiences was published on December 18, 2001 in the journal Multilingua (volume 20, issue 4)
Jordanian college students' responses to compliments
Language shift among the Armenians of Jordan
This paper examines the language situation among Armenians in Jordan, a small minority group inhabiting the country for the last 100 years. The Armenians of Jordan are assumed to be experiencing a kind of shift in their speech. The main aim of this study is to gauge the shift and to highlight the sociodemographic factors enhancing it. The data were collected with the help of a number of Armenian assistants, by means of questionnaires and intervie…
Language and Cultural Maintenance Among the Gypsies of Jordan
In this paper we examine the language situation among the Gypsies of Jordan within the framework of previous theories on language maintenance and shift as proposed by Le Page, Fishman, Dorian and Kelman. The study investigates language and cultural maintenance among the Gypsies of Jordan to permit comparison of the relative influences of various social parameters on their use of both Arabic and Gypsy. Here we analyse a corpus of data collected fr…
Aspects of Bilingualism in the Arab World
(Im)politeness in Intercultural Email Communication between People of Different Cultural Backgrounds
This study investigates how people from different cultures negotiate meanings in email interactions. The data is composed of 120 emails written by two groups of students: sixty emails are written by Jordanian university students and sixty by American university students. The emails are supposed to be written to hypothetical friends. The data were analysed qualitatively, relying primarily on discourse analysis complemented by the theory of politen…
Authorship verification of opinion articles in online newspapers using the idiolect of author
Many approaches have been introduced to solve the authorship verification problem, including the use of machine learning techniques. These techniques proved to be effective in detecting a person’s distinctive way of speaking or writing. The main aim of this study was to show that every writer has an idiolect which is presented through the use of several types of stylometric features unique to individual authors. For this purpose, 120 online opini…
Linguistics (9 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Psychology (5 works) · Arabic (4 works) · Linguistic Variation and Morphology (4 works) · Multilingual Education and Policy (4 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Discourse Analysis in Language Studies (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Computer Science (2 works)