Ghaleb Rabab''Ah

Biographic Data

ID1223947
NAMEGhaleb Rabab''Ah
GIVEN NAMESGhaleb
FAMILY NAMERabab''Ah
SIGNATUREAH G R
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Jordan
ORCID0000-0003-1804-5859
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS41
TOTAL CITATIONS12
AUTHOR COUNT41
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2004
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX2

  • Refusals in Jordanian Arabic and Chinese: A cross-cultural pragmatic study of language and gender

    Open AccessGhaleb Rabab''Ah, Sharif Alghazo et al.ARTICLEAmpersand2026

    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…

  • Native and Non‐Native Teachers of Second Language Pronunciation

    Open AccessSharif Alghazo, Marwan Jarrah et al.CHAPTEREncyclopedia of Applied Linguistics2025

    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…

  • The passive voice in the Holy Quran: An exploratory study

    Open AccessAbdallah Abu Quba, Abdallah Abu Qub’a et al.ARTICLEHumanities and Social Sciences…2025

    The passive voice represents a marked syntactic construction in language, and its usage requires a systematic analysis to fully comprehend its complexities. The role of the passive voice in the Holy Quran has not been adequately explored in previous studies. This research aims to provide a comprehensive analysis of all passive verbs found in the Holy Quran. We identified 1107 passive verbs using the categorization provided by the Quranic Corpus. …

  • Political rhetorical force: Analyzing the dynamics of threat in President Biden’s speeches

    Open AccessGhaleb Rabab''Ah, Noureddine Derki et al.ARTICLECogent Social Sciences2025

    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

    Open AccessSharif Alghazo, Ghaleb Rabab''Ah et al.ARTICLEAmpersand2025

    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…

  • From the American sitcom ‘Seinfeld’ to Modern Standard Arabic: Implicature translation by Arabic EFL students

    Open AccessMariam Cheikh, Ghaleb Rabab''AhARTICLEAmpersand2025

    Comprehension of conversational implicature, a crucial component of pragmatics, is vital for effective communication, specifically in translation between languages with distinct linguistic and cultural structures. This dimension of pragmatic competence, which involves understanding the implied meaning, has been largely ignored in education settings, particularly for Arabic-speaking EFL learners. This study analyzes implicature translation of 30 s…

  • The Role of Gender and Social Power in the Use of Advice-giving Strategies in Algerian Arabic

    Open AccessKhawla Lounis, Sharif Alghazo et al.ARTICLEInternational Journal of…2025

    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

    Open AccessMutasim Al-Deaibes, Rami Alsharefeen et al.ARTICLECogent Arts and Humanities2025

    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

    Open AccessGhaleb Rabab''Ah, Sharif Alghazo et al.ARTICLEOpen Cultural Studies2025

    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…

  • Rewriting Women in the Qur’an: Gender, Ideology and Translation

    Open AccessLobna Burohaima, Ghaleb Rabab''Ah et al.ARTICLEOpen Cultural Studies2025

    The aim of this study is to investigate how Shabbir Ahmed’s English rendering of selected verses from Surah al-Aḥzāb reshapes the portrayal of women. Drawing on Fairclough’s three-dimensional model and Lefevere’s theory of translation as rewriting, the analysis demonstrates that Ahmed’s textual and discursive strategies introduce shifts that bring women’s visibility, qualities, agency, and equality to the forefront. This portrayal aligns with fem…

  • Framing Crisis Discourse in Biden’s Political Speech: The Use of Persuasion to Rally Public Support

    Open AccessShehdeh Fareh, Rima Jamil Malkawi et al.ARTICLEInternational Journal for the…2025References: 3

  • Functions of Discourse Markers in Nonnative English Speech: The Case of Arab English Speakers

    Open AccessSharif Alghazo, Mohammad Rayyan et al.ARTICLELanguages2025References: 25

    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…

  • Political self-praise in Clinton–Trump presidential debates

    Dana W Muwafi, Ghaleb Rabab''AhARTICLEEast Asian Pragmatics2024

    The speech act of political self-praise has received scant attention in East Asian contexts, unlike other speech acts. This study aims to explore the strategies of self-praise used by Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump. The 2016 US presidential debates were analysed quantitatively to examine if there are any differences in using self-praise strategies. This was followed by a qualitative analysis to explore how these strategies are linguistically re…

  • The construction of stance in English and Arabic newspaper editorials: A case study

    Open AccessSharif Alghazo, Khulood Al-Anbar et al.ARTICLEHumanities and Social Sciences…2024

    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…

  • Framing the shooting of Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh in English and Arabic news headlines: A critical discourse study

    Open AccessRima Jamil Malkawi, Shehdeh Fareh et al.ARTICLEHumanities and Social Sciences…2024

    The study aims to investigate the ideological manipulation of language within news media headlines regarding the killing of Palestinian journalist Shireen Abu Akleh. This study employs Van Dijk’s socio-cognitive model of Critical Discourse Analysis to conduct a comparative qualitative analysis of 100 Arabic and 100 English news headlines, exploring linguistic features at both microstructure and macrostructure levels. The analysis delves into iden…

  • Voices of discomfort: Metaphorical conceptualisations of physical pain in Algerian Arabic

    Open AccessGhaleb Rabab''Ah, Ghaleb Rababáh et al.ARTICLEFrontiers in Communication2024

    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

    Open AccessWafa Alhammadi, Ghaleb Rabab''Ah et al.ARTICLEKemanusiaan2024

    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…

  • Hate Speech in Political Discourse: An Analysis of Former US President Trump’s Rhetoric

    Open AccessGhaleb Rabab''Ah, Asmaa Hussein et al.ARTICLEInternational Journal for the…2024

  • A pragmatic analysis of compliment response strategies by Emirati Arabic speakers

    Open AccessGhaleb Rabab''Ah, Sharif Alghazo et al.ARTICLECogent Arts and Humanities2024

    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…

  • Ideology in the lexical choices of Mahir Nassim's translation of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

    Open AccessAya Kred, Ghaleb Rabab''AhARTICLECogent Arts and Humanities2024

    This study explores the important role of ideology in the translation process, highlighting the perspective of culture that translation studies have embraced in recent years to unveil how ideology interplays and influences the decisions of the translator. This paper focuses on the Arabic translation of Mark Twain's 'Huckleberry Finn', using Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) as an assisting analytical model. The main focus of the study was on the …

  • Unraveling Conversational Implicatures: A Study on Arabic EFL Learners

    Open AccessGhaleb Rabab''Ah, Ghaleb Rabab’ah et al.ARTICLEOpen Cultural Studies2024

    The present research aimed to evaluate the comprehension level of conversational implicature among a group of 30 senior Native Arabic-speaking students enrolled in the BA program of English Language and Literature at a UAE university. The participants’ comprehension of implicatures was assessed by providing them with 20 excerpts from the American sitcom Seinfeld ( https://www.seinfeldscripts.com/seinfeld-scripts.html ). The participants were aske…

  • Persuasive Strategies in Email Marketing: An Analysis of Appeal and Influence in Business Communication

    Open AccessGhaleb Rabab''Ah, Sane Yagi et al.ARTICLEJournal of Intercultural…2024References: 2

    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…

  • Deictic demonstrative variation in Jordanian Arabic: The role of visual prominence in encoding competing referents

    Open AccessSamer Jarbou, Ghaleb Rabab''Ah et al.ARTICLEJournal of Pragmatics2024References: 12

  • Engagement strategies in English and Arabic newspaper editorials

    Open AccessSharif Alghazo, Khulood Al-Anbar et al.ARTICLEHumanities and Social Sciences…2023

    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…

  • Ideological Dichotomy in the Arab Newspapers Coverage: The Case of the 2017 Riyadh Summit

    Open AccessShahd Dibas, Ghaleb Rabab''Ah et al.ARTICLEInternational Journal for the…2023