Sharif Alghazo
Biographic Data
| ID | 1070358 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sharif Alghazo |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sharif |
| FAMILY NAME | Alghazo |
| SIGNATURE | ALGHAZO S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Jordan |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8163-283X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 41 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 11 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 41 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
How AI Translation Personas Reframe Diplomatic Texts
This study explores how persona prompting in AI translation systems, particularly OpenAI’s ChatGPT (GPT-4o), shapes politically sensitive discourse. By assigning translation personas such as “diplomat” and “politician,” the AI produced distinct Arabic renderings of six controversial statements by Prince Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein, former UN High Commissioner for Human Rights. Drawing on Descriptive Translation Studies, Critical Discourse Analysis, and…
AI-powered translation of Arabic idioms into English
The study investigates how ChatGPT translates Arabic idioms into English, focusing on translation strategies, error types, and degrees of figurative preservation. A purposive corpus of 26 Arabic idioms was compiled, evenly divided between 13 transparent and 13 opaque expressions following Moon’s distinction, and verified against lexicographic sources to ensure their conventional meaning and cultural authenticity. Translations were produced under …
Emphasis spread in Arabic: Evidence from Urban Jordanian Arabic
This study examines emphasis spread (ES) in Urban Jordanian Arabic (UJA), focusing on the phonological and phonetic mechanisms that govern its direction and domain. Emphasis, realized through tongue root retraction, affects both consonants and vowels and can propagate bidirectionally within the phonological word. Using autosegmental phonology, feature geometry, and Optimality Theory (OT), this research identifies coronal emphatics (/tʕ, dʕ, sʕ, ð…
An English–Arabic analysis of stance-taking in public health crisis communication
This study investigates stance-taking in the World Health Organization’s (WHO) pandemic declaration speech delivered on March 11, 2020, and its officially translated Arabic version, with the aim of exploring how stance is employed and re-conveyed across languages. The study seeks to identify the most frequent stance types in the English speech, examine how these stance markers are rendered in Arabic translation, and evaluate the communicative fun…
Refusals in Jordanian Arabic and Chinese: A cross-cultural pragmatic study of language and gender
This study investigates refusal strategies in Jordanian Arabic and Mandarin Chinese from a comparative pragmatic approach. The study also explores gender differences and similarities in refusals and highlights the social and cultural contexts that account for the realization of this speech act. A mixed-methods approach was used, combining qualitative and quantitative analyses to reveal cross-cultural nuances in the use of refusals more thoroughly…
From Loquaimat to Munchies Cultural Erasure in the Translation of Emirati Children’s Literature
Despite the growing body of scholarship on the translation of children’s literature from English into Arabic, little attention has been given to the translation of Arabic children’s literature into English. To address this gap, this article examines the English translation of Emirati children's book حين يشتهي الجمل اللقيمات, by Maitha Al Khayat, published as When a Camel Gets the Munchies. Drawing on Venuti’s ethics of difference and Newmark’s ca…
Native and Non‐Native Teachers of Second Language Pronunciation
This chapter examines the ongoing debate surrounding the roles and professional legitimacy of native (NS) and non‐native speaker (NNS) teachers in second language (L2) pronunciation instruction. Challenging the traditional binary distinction, we argue that native‐speakerism—a belief in the superiority of NS teachers—has long fostered discriminatory practices in English language teaching. Drawing on scholarly literature, we trace the historical an…
Cultural nuances in subtitling the religious discourse marker wallah in Jordanian drama into English
This study examines the strategies and challenges of subtitling the religious discourse marker والله wallah (by God) in Jordanian Arabic drama on Netflix. Two works, the series Jinn (2019) and the film Theeb (2014), are chosen as the corpus of the data. The study analyses the pragmatic functions of the religious marker wallah , which Arabs usually use to swear to God in different contexts and examines its English subtitles. The theoretical framew…
Real-world experiences of online learning: The effect of synchronous online learning on university students’ classroom engagement
While the effect of online learning on students’ academic achievement has been extensively studied, the impact of synchronous online instruction on students’ class engagement has not received enough attention in mainstream literature. This study addresses this gap and explores how the adoption of synchronous online learning has influenced Jordanian university students’ class engagement during the COVID-19 pandemic. The study adopted a mixed-metho…
Exploring the impact of digital scaffolding on collaborative writing practices
This study investigates the impact of modern technological tools, specifically the Framapad online word processor and the Moodle platform, on collaborative writing among second language (L2) students in Algerian universities. The study involved 24 third-year French as a second language students, divided into a control (GT) and experimental (GE) group, each comprising three subgroups. The data were analysed in two phases: initial and revision. Ini…
Political rhetorical force: Analyzing the dynamics of threat in President Biden’s speeches
This study investigates the strategic use of threatening language in President Joe Biden’s speeches, introducing the concept of ‘diplomatic impoliteness’. This rhetorical style combines coercive language with institutional legitimacy, transcending the traditional binary of polite diplomacy and aggressive populism. Applying Muschalik’s framework, we conducted a qualitative analysis of 13 key speeches from 2021 to 2022, examining linguistic feature…
Engagement strategies in human-written and AI-generated academic essays: A corpus-based study
Based on an appraisal theory framework, this corpus-based study explores the use and functions of engagement strategies in human-written and AI-generated academic essays. A total of 80 essays (40 human-written from the LOCNESS corpus, which includes essays written by university-level native English writers, and 40 AI-generated by ChatGPT) were analysed. A mixed-methods approach was employed, involving both quantitative (including chi-square tests…
The Role of Gender and Social Power in the Use of Advice-giving Strategies in Algerian Arabic
This study explores the influence of gender and social status on advice-giving strategies in Algerian Arabic. The study involved 50 native Algerian Arabic speakers (25 males and 25 females) who completed a Discourse Completion Task. This task, designed to measure the gender and social status variables, presented three types of advice-giving situations: high-to-low, low-to-high, and equal social power. Hinkel’s (1997) taxonomy was used to categori…
Voice onset time in the Emirati Arabic dialect
Voice Onset Time (VOT) is an essential acoustic parameter that phoneticians use to distinguish between voiced and voiceless stop consonants. This parameter is generally overlooked in Arabic dialects and The Emirati Arabic Dialects (EAD). This study explores the voicing contrast of stop consonants by measuring voice onset time as produced by EAD speakers. This research is based on word-list data comprising 36 words uttered by 16 native speakers (e…
Refusal Strategies in Emirati Arabic: A Gender-Based Study
This study explores how Emirati Arabic speakers refuse requests, with a special focus on how men and women differ in refusal strategy use. While researchers have studied refusal strategies in different Arabic dialects, there has been little investigation into Emirati Arabic – a dialect shaped by Gulf Arab traditions, trade interactions, and religious influences. This study aims to fill that gap by analysing the specific linguistic and cultural fa…
Framing Crisis Discourse in Biden’s Political Speech: The Use of Persuasion to Rally Public Support
Functions of Discourse Markers in Nonnative English Speech: The Case of Arab English Speakers
This study examines the use and functions of discourse markers (DMs) in nonnative English speech produced by Arab English speakers. Four DMs (and, but, so, y'know) are analysed based on two theoretical frameworks: Schiffrin's (1987) framework of functions of DMs and Schourup's (1999) characterisation of DMs. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with 10 Arab English speakers. The findings show clear patterns in the participants' use of DMs. T…
The construction of stance in English and Arabic newspaper editorials: A case study
This study explores the construction of authorial stance in English and Arabic newspaper editorials. To achieve this objective, the study examines a corpus of 80 newspaper editorials retrieved from two newspapers: The first publishes in English ( The Guardian , the UK), and the second publishes in Arabic ( Addustour , Jordan). The study adopts Hyland’s taxonomy of stance, which includes features of hedges, boosters, attitude markers and self-ment…
Voices of discomfort: Metaphorical conceptualisations of physical pain in Algerian Arabic
This study investigates the metaphorical representations of physical pain amongst Algerian Arabic speakers. To uncover these conceptualisations, an oral Discourse Completion Test (DCT) was administered to 30 Algerian university students. A qualitative approach was used to analyse the data and generate the conceptual metaphors used. Grounded in Kövecses model of metaphorical conceptualisations, this research unveils that Algerian Arabic speakers u…
Gender Differences in Language Use in Talks at Google
his study examines the linguistic features utilised by male and female native English speakers during their Talks at Google using Lakoff and Lakoff’s framework of women’s language. The analysis is conducted on a sample of 14 videos, consisting of seven for each gender, using a mixed-method approach. The quantitative analysis presents the frequencies of the utterances used by the speakers, while the qualitative analysis identifies the language for…
Revisiting Kabardian Phonology: A Syllabic Analysis
This paper provides an autosegmental analysis of phonological alternations in Kabardian, an Abhkaz-Adyghean language. It illustrates how several phonological re-write rules, postulated in Colarusso’s (1992) phonological analysis of Kabardian which, in some cases, lacks adequate explanation, may be uniformly reinterpreted as instances of mapping between the segmental tier and the skeletal tier in an autosegmental approach. In doing so, this paper …
Translation of cognate accusative from Arabic to English: The case of Call of the Curlew
The cognate accusative (CA) in Arabic grammar is a unique structure that has no direct equivalent in English. This paper analyses the various strategies and procedures that the translator used to translate CA instances and assesses the success of these strategies. The significance of the study lies in its attempt to explore the complexities inherent in the CA when translated from Arabic into English, as well as the special difficulties accruing t…
A pragmatic analysis of compliment response strategies by Emirati Arabic speakers
This study explored the compliment response (CR) strategies used by Emirati Arabic speakers. In addition, the study analysed the role of gender and the degree of formality in the use of CR strategies in this Arabic dialect. To this end, the study recruited 56 (28 males and 28 females) undergraduate students from the University of Sharjah (UAE). A written discourse completion task (DCT) consisting of 10 (five formal and five informal) scenarios wa…
Persuasive Strategies in Email Marketing: An Analysis of Appeal and Influence in Business Communication
This study examines the employment of persuasive strategies in informational emails that market products and/or services, illustrating how these strategies influence target customers and persuade them to make purchases. A corpus of 850 emails, encompassing over a million words, was compiled and analyzed using a mixed-method approach that integrated both quantitative and qualitative measures. The emails were collected between 2020 and 2021. The ca…
Effects of gender and degree of formality on the use of euphemistic strategies in Iraqi Arabic
Although euphemism has been studied in many Arabic dialects, it has not yet received due attention in Iraqi Arabic (IA). This study investigates the use of euphemistic strategies by IA speakers and the effect of gender and degree of formality on the use of these strategies. In order to achieve these objectives, a discourse completion test (DCT) was developed and distributed to 160 (80 males and 80 females) Iraqi university students. The data were…
Stance and engagement in English and Arabic research article abstracts
Evil-eye expressive strategies between utterers and interpreters: A pragmatic study on Colloquial Jordanian Arabic
(Im)politeness as a tool to categorize interactive discourse markers of Arabic in radio shows
Little research has related DMs to (im)politeness, and none in Jordanian Arabic (JA). This study provides evidence that (im)politeness can categorize interactive DMs into polite DMs and impolite DMs in JA. It aims to explore the use of DMs in JA in relation to (im)politeness dichotomy. Twenty-two episodes of three different Jordanian radio shows which use vernacular JA were recorded and transcribed. With the help of prosodic cues and native speak…
Native-speakerism and professional teacher identity in L2 pronunciation learning
Many studies in different contexts have examined both English as a second language (ESL) and English as a foreign language (EFL) students’ convictions about the connection between nativeness in English and professional teacher identity; however, very few studies solely focused on that connection in second language (L2) pronunciation teaching. This paper explores EFL university students’ experiences in learning English pronunciation from ‘native’-…
Persuasive appeals in Jordanian and Algerian telecommunication television commercials
The present study seeks to explore the link between persuasion and advertising by examining the persuasive appeals used by telecommunication companies in Jordanian and Algerian television commercials. To this end, 12 television advertisements (six from Jordan and six from Algeria) were randomly selected from YouTube. The data were analysed based on previous categorisations of persuasive appeals. The findings revealed that both groups of advertise…
A cross-cultural analysis of the speech act of congratulating in Kabyle and Jordanian Arabic
Congratulating others is an essential aspect of human social interaction and a speech act that is realised differently in languages. This study aims to investigate the pragmalinguistic realisations of the speech act of congratulating in Kabyle and Jordanian Arabic (JA) by comparing the strategies that Kabyle-speaking and JA-speaking students employ when offering congratulations. The data are analysed with reference to social status, gender and cu…
Two Types of Concession: Evidence From Discourse Markers
This study investigates the use of concessive discourse markers (DMs) in Jordanian Arabic (JA), particularly relying on a corpus analysis of naturally occurring data. It argues that there are mainly two types of concession in JA: extrinsic concession and intrinsic concession. The two types of concession are shown to differ from each other with respect to Kratzer’s compatibility of propositions. Intrinsic concession occurs when a speaker has a man…
Stance and engagement in English and Arabic research article abstracts
Discourse markers within sentence grammar: Further evidence from ʕaad in Jordanian Arabic
This article investigates the discourse functions of ʕaad in Jordanian Arabic (JA), based on a naturally occurring corpus which consists of 20 sociolinguistic interviews with 60 participants. Upon analysing all occurrences of ʕaad in the corpus, we propose that ʕaad is a discourse marker that provides supplementary information that relates the speaker's attitude (i.e., disagreement) to the proposition expressed by the host sentence. Additionally,…
A sociolinguistic analysis of intensifiers in Ammani Arabic
This study aims to identify the intensifiers used in Ammani Arabic (henceforth AA) and to explore whether or not their use is socially constrained by age, gender, and education. Furthermore, the study attempts to find whether the use of intensifiers throughout this dialect is internally constrained through the examination of the effects of a set of linguistic factors (i.e., the semantic class of adjectives, the function of adjectives [attributive…
Textual and interpersonal metadiscourse markers in political discourse: A case study
This study explores the use of textual and interpersonal metadiscourse markers in political discourse and their role in persuasion. To this end, the study examines four political speeches delivered by Hillary Clinton, an American politician. The speeches were retrieved from YouTube, transcribed and analysed following Dafouz-Milne’s (2008) model of metadiscourse markers. In addition, Mai’s (2016) taxonomy—which draws on Aristotle’s model of persua…
(Im)politeness as a tool to categorize interactive discourse markers of Arabic in radio shows
Little research has related DMs to (im)politeness, and none in Jordanian Arabic (JA). This study provides evidence that (im)politeness can categorize interactive DMs into polite DMs and impolite DMs in JA. It aims to explore the use of DMs in JA in relation to (im)politeness dichotomy. Twenty-two episodes of three different Jordanian radio shows which use vernacular JA were recorded and transcribed. With the help of prosodic cues and native speak…
Effects of gender and degree of formality on the use of euphemistic strategies in Iraqi Arabic
Although euphemism has been studied in many Arabic dialects, it has not yet received due attention in Iraqi Arabic (IA). This study investigates the use of euphemistic strategies by IA speakers and the effect of gender and degree of formality on the use of these strategies. In order to achieve these objectives, a discourse completion test (DCT) was developed and distributed to 160 (80 males and 80 females) Iraqi university students. The data were…
Engagement strategies in English and Arabic newspaper editorials
This study explores the use and functions of engagement strategies in English and Arabic newspaper editorials. To this end, the study analyses 80 editorials collected from two popular newspapers (40 from each): The Guardian which publishes in English and appears in the UK and Addustour which publishes in Arabic and appears in Jordan. Following Paltridge’s (2020) taxonomy, the study utilises a mixed-method approach to assess whether differences in…
The efficacy of the type of instruction on second language pronunciation acquisition
This study investigates the efficacy of the type of instruction (i.e., perception-based vs. production-based) on second language (L2) pronunciation acquisition in an English as a foreign language (EFL) context. To achieve this objective, 60 tertiary-level Jordanian learners of English were recruited and put into two groups (30 learners in each group). Group A received 6 weeks of perception-based instruction on both segmental and suprasegmental as…
On English translation variation of similar plural nouns in the Holy Quran
This study aims to explore the difficulties involved in translating similar plural nouns in the Holy Quran from Arabic into English.It specifically investigates 21 plural nouns derived from seven singular nouns in the Holy Quran and discusses their exegetic contexts and translation into English.To achieve this aim, the study tracks singular nouns where three plurals are derived from each of them.The meaning of each singular noun is looked up in A…
The effect of the workplace on women’s language: A view from Jordan
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 taken for Jordanian working women in two different settings over three weeks. The questionnaire was di…
First language and second language English editorialists’ use of interactional metadiscourse
This study explores the use of interactional1 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 quantitative and qualitative measures – was used to analyse the data. The frequency of interactiona…
No Adjective Ordering Preferences in Jordanian Arabic Grammar
Evil-eye expressive strategies between utterers and interpreters: A pragmatic study on Colloquial Jordanian Arabic
The construction of stance in English and Arabic newspaper editorials: A case study
This study explores the construction of authorial stance in English and Arabic newspaper editorials. To achieve this objective, the study examines a corpus of 80 newspaper editorials retrieved from two newspapers: The first publishes in English ( The Guardian , the UK), and the second publishes in Arabic ( Addustour , Jordan). The study adopts Hyland’s taxonomy of stance, which includes features of hedges, boosters, attitude markers and self-ment…
Voices of discomfort: Metaphorical conceptualisations of physical pain in Algerian Arabic
This study investigates the metaphorical representations of physical pain amongst Algerian Arabic speakers. To uncover these conceptualisations, an oral Discourse Completion Test (DCT) was administered to 30 Algerian university students. A qualitative approach was used to analyse the data and generate the conceptual metaphors used. Grounded in Kövecses model of metaphorical conceptualisations, this research unveils that Algerian Arabic speakers u…
Gender Differences in Language Use in Talks at Google
his study examines the linguistic features utilised by male and female native English speakers during their Talks at Google using Lakoff and Lakoff’s framework of women’s language. The analysis is conducted on a sample of 14 videos, consisting of seven for each gender, using a mixed-method approach. The quantitative analysis presents the frequencies of the utterances used by the speakers, while the qualitative analysis identifies the language for…
Revisiting Kabardian Phonology: A Syllabic Analysis
This paper provides an autosegmental analysis of phonological alternations in Kabardian, an Abhkaz-Adyghean language. It illustrates how several phonological re-write rules, postulated in Colarusso’s (1992) phonological analysis of Kabardian which, in some cases, lacks adequate explanation, may be uniformly reinterpreted as instances of mapping between the segmental tier and the skeletal tier in an autosegmental approach. In doing so, this paper …
Translation of cognate accusative from Arabic to English: The case of Call of the Curlew
The cognate accusative (CA) in Arabic grammar is a unique structure that has no direct equivalent in English. This paper analyses the various strategies and procedures that the translator used to translate CA instances and assesses the success of these strategies. The significance of the study lies in its attempt to explore the complexities inherent in the CA when translated from Arabic into English, as well as the special difficulties accruing t…
A pragmatic analysis of compliment response strategies by Emirati Arabic speakers
This study explored the compliment response (CR) strategies used by Emirati Arabic speakers. In addition, the study analysed the role of gender and the degree of formality in the use of CR strategies in this Arabic dialect. To this end, the study recruited 56 (28 males and 28 females) undergraduate students from the University of Sharjah (UAE). A written discourse completion task (DCT) consisting of 10 (five formal and five informal) scenarios wa…
Persuasive Strategies in Email Marketing: An Analysis of Appeal and Influence in Business Communication
This study examines the employment of persuasive strategies in informational emails that market products and/or services, illustrating how these strategies influence target customers and persuade them to make purchases. A corpus of 850 emails, encompassing over a million words, was compiled and analyzed using a mixed-method approach that integrated both quantitative and qualitative measures. The emails were collected between 2020 and 2021. The ca…
Native and Non‐Native Teachers of Second Language Pronunciation
This chapter examines the ongoing debate surrounding the roles and professional legitimacy of native (NS) and non‐native speaker (NNS) teachers in second language (L2) pronunciation instruction. Challenging the traditional binary distinction, we argue that native‐speakerism—a belief in the superiority of NS teachers—has long fostered discriminatory practices in English language teaching. Drawing on scholarly literature, we trace the historical an…
Psychology (30 works) · Linguistics (27 works) · Arabic (17 works) · Philosophy (17 works) · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies (16 works) · Computer Science (14 works) · Sociology (13 works) · Discourse Analysis in Language Studies (10 works) · Political science (8 works) · Swearing, Euphemism, Multilingualism (8 works)