Mahmoud A Al‐khatib
Biographic Data
| ID | 95403 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mahmoud A Al‐khatib |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mahmoud A |
| FAMILY NAME | Al‐khatib |
| SIGNATURE | AL KHATIB M A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Jordan University of Science and Technology |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1426-8134 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 42 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1994 |
| 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…
Politeness in the Holy Quran
This study investigates politeness in the Holy Quran from a socio-pragmatic perspective. Drawing on politeness theory, we examine the text-building mechanisms and functions of a large number of chapters and verses selected from the Holy Quran. Data is analyzed in terms of both Brown and Levinson's theory of politeness and Leech's maxims of politeness. These two theoretical frameworks have been, so far, attested against data collected from various…
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 pragmatics of letter-writing
This paper focuses on personal letter-writing as a mode of communication between an L2 writer and an L1 reader, a little explored discourse type, yet particularly vital and salient in the process of language teaching and learning. The corpus is composed of 120 personal letters. They are supposed to be written to British English native speakers. The data were analyzed and discussed in the light of the theoretical insights of a number of modern lin…
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
The impact of interlocutor sex on linguistic accommodation
L'article examine l'accommodation linguistique telle qu'elle se revele en arabe jordanien, selon certains parametres sociologiques et psychologiques. Il analyse en particulier l'influence du sexe de l'interlocuteur sur son repertoire linguistique. Les donnees sont issues d'appels telephoniques retransmis a la radio. Deux variables phonologiques sont choisies pour les propos de l'etude: les occlusives uvulaires sourdes et les affriquees palato-alv…
A sociolinguistic view of linguistic taboo in Jordanian Arabic
The phenomenon of linguistic taboo has not been adequately explained in sociolinguistic theory. This paper attempts to bring this phenomenon into focus by investigating it in terms of its relationship with the social context in which it is used and the socio‐cultural factors affecting it—education, age, setting and topic. Linguistic taboo is examined in the light of a number of theoretical orientations which have recently been advanced by socioli…
A sociolinguistic view of the language of persuasion in Jordanian society
This paper investigates persuasion as a sodolinguistic phenomenon in Jordanian society. It focuses upon three main modes of persuasion: trustworthiness, argument, and emotional appeal. It also explores attitudes toward a number of factors that might facilitate persuasion success, and highlights the influence of religion, heritage and other socio‐cultural factors on persuasiveness. The study maintains that devices such as the Quranic verses, the T…
Code-mixing of Arabic and English in teaching science
This paper investigates mixing Arabic and English in science lectures. The phenomenon is examined mainly with reference to frequency, grammatical categories involved, and adequacy of the syntactic constraints proposed in the literature for providing a structural description of this practice. The results show that the alternate use of the two languages in teaching is a prominent feature of the lectures and occurs in different grammatical categorie…
The Concept of Justice in Islam
This study attempts to extend politeness theory beyond informal situations to a more serious type of discourse, using data collected from the Holy Quran and the Prophet’s sayings. Specifically, different aspects of social justice have been investigated in this study from an Islamic point of view. The data comprises 191 Quranic verses and 100 sayings of the Prophet Mohammed. The study uses qualitative methods focusing on the concept of social just…
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…
The impact of interlocutor sex on linguistic accommodation
L'article examine l'accommodation linguistique telle qu'elle se revele en arabe jordanien, selon certains parametres sociologiques et psychologiques. Il analyse en particulier l'influence du sexe de l'interlocuteur sur son repertoire linguistique. Les donnees sont issues d'appels telephoniques retransmis a la radio. Deux variables phonologiques sont choisies pour les propos de l'etude: les occlusives uvulaires sourdes et les affriquees palato-alv…
A sociolinguistic view of the language of persuasion in Jordanian society
This paper investigates persuasion as a sodolinguistic phenomenon in Jordanian society. It focuses upon three main modes of persuasion: trustworthiness, argument, and emotional appeal. It also explores attitudes toward a number of factors that might facilitate persuasion success, and highlights the influence of religion, heritage and other socio‐cultural factors on persuasiveness. The study maintains that devices such as the Quranic verses, the T…
Politeness in the Holy Quran
This study investigates politeness in the Holy Quran from a socio-pragmatic perspective. Drawing on politeness theory, we examine the text-building mechanisms and functions of a large number of chapters and verses selected from the Holy Quran. Data is analyzed in terms of both Brown and Levinson's theory of politeness and Leech's maxims of politeness. These two theoretical frameworks have been, so far, attested against data collected from various…
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…
The pragmatics of letter-writing
This paper focuses on personal letter-writing as a mode of communication between an L2 writer and an L1 reader, a little explored discourse type, yet particularly vital and salient in the process of language teaching and learning. The corpus is composed of 120 personal letters. They are supposed to be written to British English native speakers. The data were analyzed and discussed in the light of the theoretical insights of a number of modern lin…
Code-mixing of Arabic and English in teaching science
This paper investigates mixing Arabic and English in science lectures. The phenomenon is examined mainly with reference to frequency, grammatical categories involved, and adequacy of the syntactic constraints proposed in the literature for providing a structural description of this practice. The results show that the alternate use of the two languages in teaching is a prominent feature of the lectures and occurs in different grammatical categorie…
A sociolinguistic view of the language of persuasion in Jordanian society
This paper investigates persuasion as a sodolinguistic phenomenon in Jordanian society. It focuses upon three main modes of persuasion: trustworthiness, argument, and emotional appeal. It also explores attitudes toward a number of factors that might facilitate persuasion success, and highlights the influence of religion, heritage and other socio‐cultural factors on persuasiveness. The study maintains that devices such as the Quranic verses, the T…
Code-mixing of Arabic and English in teaching science
This paper investigates mixing Arabic and English in science lectures. The phenomenon is examined mainly with reference to frequency, grammatical categories involved, and adequacy of the syntactic constraints proposed in the literature for providing a structural description of this practice. The results show that the alternate use of the two languages in teaching is a prominent feature of the lectures and occurs in different grammatical categorie…
The impact of interlocutor sex on linguistic accommodation
L'article examine l'accommodation linguistique telle qu'elle se revele en arabe jordanien, selon certains parametres sociologiques et psychologiques. Il analyse en particulier l'influence du sexe de l'interlocuteur sur son repertoire linguistique. Les donnees sont issues d'appels telephoniques retransmis a la radio. Deux variables phonologiques sont choisies pour les propos de l'etude: les occlusives uvulaires sourdes et les affriquees palato-alv…
A sociolinguistic view of linguistic taboo in Jordanian Arabic
The phenomenon of linguistic taboo has not been adequately explained in sociolinguistic theory. This paper attempts to bring this phenomenon into focus by investigating it in terms of its relationship with the social context in which it is used and the socio‐cultural factors affecting it—education, age, setting and topic. Linguistic taboo is examined in the light of a number of theoretical orientations which have recently been advanced by socioli…
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…
The pragmatics of letter-writing
This paper focuses on personal letter-writing as a mode of communication between an L2 writer and an L1 reader, a little explored discourse type, yet particularly vital and salient in the process of language teaching and learning. The corpus is composed of 120 personal letters. They are supposed to be written to British English native speakers. The data were analyzed and discussed in the light of the theoretical insights of a number of modern lin…
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
Politeness in the Holy Quran
This study investigates politeness in the Holy Quran from a socio-pragmatic perspective. Drawing on politeness theory, we examine the text-building mechanisms and functions of a large number of chapters and verses selected from the Holy Quran. Data is analyzed in terms of both Brown and Levinson's theory of politeness and Leech's maxims of politeness. These two theoretical frameworks have been, so far, attested against data collected from various…
(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…
The Concept of Justice in Islam
This study attempts to extend politeness theory beyond informal situations to a more serious type of discourse, using data collected from the Holy Quran and the Prophet’s sayings. Specifically, different aspects of social justice have been investigated in this study from an Islamic point of view. The data comprises 191 Quranic verses and 100 sayings of the Prophet Mohammed. The study uses qualitative methods focusing on the concept of social just…
Linguistics (14 works) · Psychology (11 works) · Sociology (11 works) · Philosophy (10 works) · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies (8 works) · Multilingual Education and Policy (8 works) · Philosophy (8 works) · Arabic (6 works) · Discourse Analysis in Language Studies (6 works) · Computer Science (5 works)