Rishad Habib
Biographic Data
| ID | 284783 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Rishad Habib |
| GIVEN NAMES | Rishad |
| FAMILY NAME | Habib |
| SIGNATURE | HABIB R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Syracuse University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6588-6442 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 43 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 14 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Beyond Religious Narcissistic Identification
Agnosticism and atheism are often grouped simply as nonreligious identities, yet emerging research highlights their distinct psychological profiles and social implications. Among these distinctions, collective narcissism – characterized by strong attachment to one’s group, exceptionalism, and grievance for recognition – offers a framework for understanding identity processes in both nonreligious groups. We examined whether agnostics and atheists …
Words as weapons
This study examines how Syrians discursively negotiate political legitimacy, authority, and sectarian identity following the collapse of the Assad regime in December 2024. Focusing on YouTube comments responding to the first public speeches of transitional president Ahmad al-Shar‘ (Abu Mohammad al-Jawlani), the analysis treats digital platforms as sites of political evaluation in a context marked by repression and absent institutionalized partici…
Reparative Consumption
In light of recent social and political movements advocating for racial equity and calls for more research on interracial marketplace interactions, this research explores the role racial identity plays in the consumption domain. Specifically, we investigate the marketplace consequences of U.S.-based White consumers’ feelings about their own racial identity by measuring and manipulating white guilt, defined as the sense of guilt and remorse experi…
Barks and bites
This study investigates the leisure activity of dining out with dogs, examining the experiences of 550 Canadian dog owners through a comprehensive online survey. The research explored multifaceted aspects of dog-friendly dining, including consumer attitudes, financial implications, dog-specific menus, and the dynamics of human-canine interactions in dining settings. The findings reveal engagement with various dining formats, such as traditional r…
Introducing the Special Issue
The Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region represents a rich tapestry of languages, cultures, and political, religious, and societal dynamics
Evidence of Variable Gender Role in Defining Language Change Leadership in Syrian Arabic
This study aims to present evidence of gender variability among leaders of language change across different sociolinguistic variables, five phonological variables (a consonant and four vowels) and a discourse variable in Syrian Arabic, within the same speech community. Employing a sociolinguistic variationist approach and comparing children to adults yielded different gendered linguistic behavior. Children show the same dramatic gendered linguist…
Arabic songs
Like other literary genres, songs can be a successful outlet for achieving certain goals. Using a qualitative and descriptive approach utilizing the stancetaking framework, this study examines the development and use of more than 50 Arabic songs as a vehicle to not only inform the public about COVID-19, but also take affective stances that connect the current distressing situation of the Arab people due to COVID-19 with past hardships and crises.…
The use of the discourse markers yaʕni and ʔinnu
How to SHIFT Consumer Behaviors to be More Sustainable
Highlighting the important role of marketing in encouraging sustainable consumption, the current research presents a review of the academic literature from marketing and behavioral science that examines the most effective ways to shift consumer behaviors to be more sustainable. In the process of the review, the authors develop a comprehensive framework for conceptualizing and encouraging sustainable consumer behavior change. The framework is repr…
Identity, ideology, and attitude in Syrian rural child and adolescent speech
Through ethnographic investigation, this study shows that the different linguistic behavior of girls and boys in the village of Oyoun Al-Wadi in Syria is due to gendered linguistic ideologies and attitudes that are utilized in different ways to project gendered (feminine or masculine) and spatial (local or supralocal) identities. Social meanings are gleaned from the naturally occurring speech of 72 speakers aged 6-18 and 29-57 to illuminate the i…
Vowel variation and reverse acquisition in rural Syrian child and adolescent language
Four vowel variables are investigated in the speech of 50 rural, nonmigrant children and adolescents aged 6 to 18 years in the Syrian village Oyoun Al-Wadi. Contrary to previous studies, the children initially acquire the urban and later the rural forms of these vowels. This process of acquisition shows the following. First, children show reversal in the acquisition of forms, and thus the rules associated with them; instead of acquiring the local…
Imala and rounding in a rural Syrian variety
This study investigates two concurrent phenomena— ’imala and rounding — in the Arabic variety spoken in the Syrian village of Oyoun Al-Wadi. ‘Imala refers to the use of [e] and [e:] in place of the urban vowels [a] and [a:] respectively; rounding refers to the use of [o] and [o:] in place of the urban vowels [a] and [a:] respectively. The use of two different vowels for each urban vowel is explained morpho-phonologically. The study economically p…
Towards determining social class in Arabic-speaking communities and implications for linguistic variation
One purpose of this paper is discovering the socioeconomic indicators that determine social class identification in Arabic-speaking Communities. Another purpose is investigating whether those socioeconomic indicators have the same influence as social class on linguistic variation. The study focuses on a community of fifty-two Christian rural migrant speakers to the City of Hims in Syria. They display variation in their use of the rural form, [q],…
Humor and disagreement
Humor and disagreement
Vowel variation and reverse acquisition in rural Syrian child and adolescent language
Four vowel variables are investigated in the speech of 50 rural, nonmigrant children and adolescents aged 6 to 18 years in the Syrian village Oyoun Al-Wadi. Contrary to previous studies, the children initially acquire the urban and later the rural forms of these vowels. This process of acquisition shows the following. First, children show reversal in the acquisition of forms, and thus the rules associated with them; instead of acquiring the local…
Identity, ideology, and attitude in Syrian rural child and adolescent speech
Through ethnographic investigation, this study shows that the different linguistic behavior of girls and boys in the village of Oyoun Al-Wadi in Syria is due to gendered linguistic ideologies and attitudes that are utilized in different ways to project gendered (feminine or masculine) and spatial (local or supralocal) identities. Social meanings are gleaned from the naturally occurring speech of 72 speakers aged 6-18 and 29-57 to illuminate the i…
Towards determining social class in Arabic-speaking communities and implications for linguistic variation
One purpose of this paper is discovering the socioeconomic indicators that determine social class identification in Arabic-speaking Communities. Another purpose is investigating whether those socioeconomic indicators have the same influence as social class on linguistic variation. The study focuses on a community of fifty-two Christian rural migrant speakers to the City of Hims in Syria. They display variation in their use of the rural form, [q],…
The use of the discourse markers yaʕni and ʔinnu
Humor and disagreement
Towards determining social class in Arabic-speaking communities and implications for linguistic variation
One purpose of this paper is discovering the socioeconomic indicators that determine social class identification in Arabic-speaking Communities. Another purpose is investigating whether those socioeconomic indicators have the same influence as social class on linguistic variation. The study focuses on a community of fifty-two Christian rural migrant speakers to the City of Hims in Syria. They display variation in their use of the rural form, [q],…
Imala and rounding in a rural Syrian variety
This study investigates two concurrent phenomena— ’imala and rounding — in the Arabic variety spoken in the Syrian village of Oyoun Al-Wadi. ‘Imala refers to the use of [e] and [e:] in place of the urban vowels [a] and [a:] respectively; rounding refers to the use of [o] and [o:] in place of the urban vowels [a] and [a:] respectively. The use of two different vowels for each urban vowel is explained morpho-phonologically. The study economically p…
Vowel variation and reverse acquisition in rural Syrian child and adolescent language
Four vowel variables are investigated in the speech of 50 rural, nonmigrant children and adolescents aged 6 to 18 years in the Syrian village Oyoun Al-Wadi. Contrary to previous studies, the children initially acquire the urban and later the rural forms of these vowels. This process of acquisition shows the following. First, children show reversal in the acquisition of forms, and thus the rules associated with them; instead of acquiring the local…
Identity, ideology, and attitude in Syrian rural child and adolescent speech
Through ethnographic investigation, this study shows that the different linguistic behavior of girls and boys in the village of Oyoun Al-Wadi in Syria is due to gendered linguistic ideologies and attitudes that are utilized in different ways to project gendered (feminine or masculine) and spatial (local or supralocal) identities. Social meanings are gleaned from the naturally occurring speech of 72 speakers aged 6-18 and 29-57 to illuminate the i…
How to SHIFT Consumer Behaviors to be More Sustainable
Highlighting the important role of marketing in encouraging sustainable consumption, the current research presents a review of the academic literature from marketing and behavioral science that examines the most effective ways to shift consumer behaviors to be more sustainable. In the process of the review, the authors develop a comprehensive framework for conceptualizing and encouraging sustainable consumer behavior change. The framework is repr…
The use of the discourse markers yaʕni and ʔinnu
Evidence of Variable Gender Role in Defining Language Change Leadership in Syrian Arabic
This study aims to present evidence of gender variability among leaders of language change across different sociolinguistic variables, five phonological variables (a consonant and four vowels) and a discourse variable in Syrian Arabic, within the same speech community. Employing a sociolinguistic variationist approach and comparing children to adults yielded different gendered linguistic behavior. Children show the same dramatic gendered linguist…
Arabic songs
Like other literary genres, songs can be a successful outlet for achieving certain goals. Using a qualitative and descriptive approach utilizing the stancetaking framework, this study examines the development and use of more than 50 Arabic songs as a vehicle to not only inform the public about COVID-19, but also take affective stances that connect the current distressing situation of the Arab people due to COVID-19 with past hardships and crises.…
Barks and bites
This study investigates the leisure activity of dining out with dogs, examining the experiences of 550 Canadian dog owners through a comprehensive online survey. The research explored multifaceted aspects of dog-friendly dining, including consumer attitudes, financial implications, dog-specific menus, and the dynamics of human-canine interactions in dining settings. The findings reveal engagement with various dining formats, such as traditional r…
Introducing the Special Issue
The Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region represents a rich tapestry of languages, cultures, and political, religious, and societal dynamics
Reparative Consumption
In light of recent social and political movements advocating for racial equity and calls for more research on interracial marketplace interactions, this research explores the role racial identity plays in the consumption domain. Specifically, we investigate the marketplace consequences of U.S.-based White consumers’ feelings about their own racial identity by measuring and manipulating white guilt, defined as the sense of guilt and remorse experi…
Beyond Religious Narcissistic Identification
Agnosticism and atheism are often grouped simply as nonreligious identities, yet emerging research highlights their distinct psychological profiles and social implications. Among these distinctions, collective narcissism – characterized by strong attachment to one’s group, exceptionalism, and grievance for recognition – offers a framework for understanding identity processes in both nonreligious groups. We examined whether agnostics and atheists …
Words as weapons
This study examines how Syrians discursively negotiate political legitimacy, authority, and sectarian identity following the collapse of the Assad regime in December 2024. Focusing on YouTube comments responding to the first public speeches of transitional president Ahmad al-Shar‘ (Abu Mohammad al-Jawlani), the analysis treats digital platforms as sites of political evaluation in a context marked by repression and absent institutionalized partici…
Linguistics (8 works) · Psychology (8 works) · Sociology (8 works) · Linguistic Variation and Morphology (7 works) · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies (6 works) · Social Psychology (6 works) · Multilingual Education and Policy (5 works) · Aesthetics (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Business (3 works)