Nisreen Naji Al-Khawaldeh
Biographic Data
| ID | 3531316 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Nisreen Naji Al-Khawaldeh |
| GIVEN NAMES | Nisreen Naji |
| FAMILY NAME | Al-Khawaldeh |
| SIGNATURE | AL-KHAWALDEH N N |
| AFFILIATIONS | Hashemite University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1562-7071 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 23 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 23 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
A multi-theoretical analysis of Trump’s rhetorical strategies in the 2025 pro-Israel policy speech
This paper offers a multi-theoretical analysis of President Donald J. Trump’s rhetorical strategies during the joint press conference with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (February 2, 2025). Combining Speech Act Theory and Gricean pragmatics with the Metaphor Identification Procedure (MIP), automated-assisted repetition detection, and Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA), the study traces how clause-level moves accumulate into meso-level frames an…
Analyzing accusation patterns between Hamas and Israel during the Al-Aqsa flood operation
This study investigates the accusation strategies utilized by both Israel and Hamas during the Al Aqsa Flood operation. Through a comprehensive analysis of twenty-four speeches delivered by Abu-Obieda, the military spokesman of Hamas, and Rear Admiral Daniel Hagari, the military spokesperson of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF), this research identifies key accusation patterns and examines the application of Aristotle’s modes of persuasion (ethos, …
Interculturalizing ELT: Culture-based classes to enhance language skills and intercultural communicative competence dimensions
Higher institutions in Jordan and Morocco prioritize intercultural communicative competence (ICC) in their educational system. This study aimed to analyze the impact of culture-based classes on ICC dimensions and language skills learning, examine English teachers' instructional strategies regarding culture and interculturality, and explore whether current pedagogy caters to ICC dimensions and language skills among EFL undergraduate learners. Usin…
The verb ʔadʒa ‘come’ in Jordanian Arabic: Three levels of grammaticalization
This paper investigates the grammaticalization of the verb ʔadʒa ‘come’ in Jordanian Arabic. The study argues that the verb has been grammaticalized into three meanings that constitute three levels on the grammaticalization pathway. These three meanings coexist i.e. are not considered three diachronic stages. The first meaning is to introduce a purpose clause; it is the least grammaticalized since the core lexical meaning of the verb is still app…
Ideological representations of women in Jordanian folk proverbs from the perspective of cultural semiotics
This study analyses the semiotics of proverbs by presenting the ideological portrayals of women in Jordanian folk proverbs. The content analysis of the proverbs shows that women are represented both positively and negatively, though they are preponderantly depicted negatively in the majority of the analysed proverbs. They are represented negatively as a symbol of feebleness, foolishness, disgrace, cunning, deception, jealousy and reproduction. Fe…
The Semantic and Contextual Meanings of the Cognitive Words “yʕqilu: N, yatafakaru:n, yatadabaru:n, yafqahu:n” in Holy Qur’an
The current study endeavors to identify the semantic and contextual meanings of four cognitive words: “yʕqilu:n, yatafakaru:n, yatadabaru:n, yafqahu:n” in Holy Qur'an. The motive for this study comes from the vague semantic relations expressed by Muslim exegetes and interpreters of these words. Additionally, translating them into other languages such as English is considered challenging due to the cognitive resemblance, nature, and senses they ex…
Developing EFL Learners’ Vocabulary Repertoire Through Semantic Relations Techniques
The study investigates the impact of teaching vocabulary through semantic relations (i.e. including hyponymy, synonymy, antonymy, polysemy, homonymy and metonyms) on the breadth and depth of EFL learners’ vocabulary knowledge. A convenient sample of 50 freshman EFL learners from a state university in Jordan was recruited. The study followed an experimental approach; data were collected through pre- and post-tests over an academic term. An intervi…
Language Maintenance: The Case of Modern Standard Arabic Among Bilinguals
This study explores how Jordanians, especially bilinguals, can maintain the usage of Modern Standard Arabic (MSA). Despite the importance of this topic, it is a fairly unaddressed area of research in the Arabic context in general and Jordan in particular. The study contributes to knowledge by raising the awareness of Jordanians and authorities about the means necessary to maintain the usage of MSA among Jordanians. Data were collected via face-to…
Mean length of utterance of Jordanian Arabic-speaking children with language impairment
This study serves as an explanatory investigation of the validity of mean length of utterance (MLU) to distinguish children with typical development from those with language impairment. Data were taken from 15 typically developing children and 11 children with language impairment, all aged 4-9 years old. A minimum of 100 utterances were taken from each participant which were then analyzed using Brown’s rules of counting MLU-w with some adaptation…
Diglossic Code-Switching Phenomenon in Jordanian Newspaper Satirical Articles
This study investigates the functions that the diglossic code-switching between Modern Standard Arabic and Jordanian Arabic serves in Jordanian newspaper ironic articles. It also explores Jordanians’ attitudes towards this linguistic phenomenon. Data were collected through mixed methods; a content analysis of numerous diglossic code-switched expressions in the target articles, an interview with a Jordanian satirist and a questionnaire distributed…
Negative scope ambiguity in serial verb constructions in Jordanian Arabic: An experimental investigation
This article provides a systematic investigation of serial verb constructions in Jordanian Arabic, reporting the results of two experiments. Experiment 1 (n = 86) involves an acceptability judgment task where participants rated serialized and non-serialized verbs on a 5-point Likert scale. The results of this experiment indicate that speakers of Jordanian Arabic find the serialized verbs to be as attested as their non-serialized counterparts. Exp…
The syntax of serial verbs in Jordanian Arabic: A cartographic analysis
Serial verb constructions have been the focus of much linguistic research, especially in studies on languages of East Africa, Southeast Asia, and the Pacific. This paper contributes to the growing body of research on the topic by providing empirical data from Jordanian Arabic, through an introspective study, which show that this dialect exhibits this type of phenomenon. The Jordanian Arabic data are examined against defined characteristics of ser…
Disagreement Strategies in the Discourse of American Speakers of Arabic
This study attempts to investigate the disagreement strategies that are used by American speakers of Arabic with a view to identifying which disagreement strategies they use in equal and non-equal status situations. In addition, it aims to see whether variables like gender and social status affect the linguistic choices and disagreement strategies that they use. The subjects of the study are 28 (14 male and 14 female) American speakers of Arabic …
Acoustics of long vowels in Arabic-speaking children with hearing impairments
The present study investigates formant frequencies and vowel space area in Jordanian hearing-impaired individuals who received cochlear implants. To achieve this task, they were compared with their hearing aids and normal-hearing peers. The study involved 60 participants aged between 7 and 11 years, consisting of 20 cochlear implant (CI) users, 20 hearing aid (HA) users, and 20 normal-hearing (NH) children. All participants were native speakers o…
The art of rhetoric: Persuasive strategies in Biden’s inauguration speech: a critical discourse analysis
This research investigated the main linguistic strategies used in President Biden’s inauguration speech presented in 2021. Data were analyzed in light of Fairclough’s CDA framework: macro-structure (thematic)—intertextually; microstructure in syntax analysis (cohesion); stylistic (lexicon choice to display the speaker’s emphasis); and rhetoric in terms of persuasive function. The thematic analysis of the data revealed that Biden used certain pers…
The impact of L2 English on choice perception, interpretation, and preference for L1 Arabic speakers
This article compares risk tolerance of native Arabic speakers under two language contexts: their first language (L1 Arabic) and their foreign language (L2 English). We aim to evaluate whether thinking in a foreign language actually reduces the negative effects of cognitive biases, such as loss aversion and mental accounting, on financial decision-making. Toward this aim, we conducted two experiments in which the risk tolerance levels of 144 part…
A corpus-based pragmatic analysis of Jordanians Facebook status updates during Covid-19
This study investigates the communicative functions of status updates on Facebook during COVID-19. For this purpose, a corpus of 500 status updates was collected from 100 Facebook users for 90 consecutive days. Subsequently, the data were characterized into five speech acts drawing heavily on Searle's speech act framework, prominent among which are expressives and assertives. Data analysis revealed that status updates could be considered a substa…
The impact of Covid-19 and its terminology learning strategies on EFL learners’ vocabulary repertoire
COVID-19 pandemic is an unprecedented crisis worldwide posing many linguistic challenges including understanding and learning new related terminology. This study explores the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and its terminology learning strategies on EFL learners' vocabulary acquisition, particularly in Jordan. A triangulated approach was employed for collecting data including interviews, tests and a questionnaire distributed to 100 EFL learners a…
The Ideology of Tolerance in King Abdullah’s Speeches: A Critical Discourse Analysis Study
This paper elucidates the ideology of tolerance underlying speeches delivered by HM King Abdullah II. Three speeches were analysed according to Fairclough’s framework (1989). The analysis has revealed the underlying ideological outlook emphasised and constructed in King Abdullah’s speeches to consolidate the value of tolerance, such as eliminating all types of ethnic, religious, and social intolerance; spreading mutual respect, compassion, and pe…
Normativity and Variation in the Address Terms System Practiced among the Jordanian Youth Community
This study investigates the key forms of address used amongst Jordanian university students, the impact of gender on using these forms and what accounts for the variation in their address system. By addressing the issue of normativity and heterogeneity in the use of address terms, in different social settings, the study enriches the understanding of the internal variation of the address term system. Data collected through questionnaires and semi-…
The Communication of Viewpoints in Jordanian Arabic: A Pragmatic Study
Expressing opinions is considered a significant communicative act frequently taking place in our conversations. It is one of the fairly neglected areas of research in the Arabic context. Among the studies conducted on the communicative acts, to the best of our knowledge, there has been no attempt to investigate the expressions of opinion and its strategies specifically in Jordanian Arabic (JA). To this end, the current study intends to investigat…
Acquisition of broken plural patterns by Jordanian children
This study examines the acquisition of broken plural (BP) patterns generated by child speakers of Jordanian Arabic (JA). Data were collected from 20 Jordanian children via an experimental production test. Children were given pictures of a set of singular entities depicting nouns and pictures containing their plural counterparts, and they were asked to say the names of the items in the pictures in an attempt to provide their corresponding plural f…
An Exploration of Graffiti on University’s Walls: A Corpus-Based Discourse Analysis Study
Graffiti have received a great attention from scholars as they have been considered a vital cultural phenomenon for many years (Trahan, 2011; Divsalar & Nemati, 2012; Zakareviciute, 2014; Farnia, 2014; El-Nashar & Nayef; 2016). Although there are extensive contemporary researches on graffiti in many disciplines, such as linguistics, cultural studies, politics, art, and communication (Pietrosanti, 2010; Farnia, 2014; Oganda, 2015), there are few s…
Normativity and Variation in the Address Terms System Practiced among the Jordanian Youth Community
This study investigates the key forms of address used amongst Jordanian university students, the impact of gender on using these forms and what accounts for the variation in their address system. By addressing the issue of normativity and heterogeneity in the use of address terms, in different social settings, the study enriches the understanding of the internal variation of the address term system. Data collected through questionnaires and semi-…
An Exploration of Graffiti on University’s Walls: A Corpus-Based Discourse Analysis Study
Graffiti have received a great attention from scholars as they have been considered a vital cultural phenomenon for many years (Trahan, 2011; Divsalar & Nemati, 2012; Zakareviciute, 2014; Farnia, 2014; El-Nashar & Nayef; 2016). Although there are extensive contemporary researches on graffiti in many disciplines, such as linguistics, cultural studies, politics, art, and communication (Pietrosanti, 2010; Farnia, 2014; Oganda, 2015), there are few s…
Acquisition of broken plural patterns by Jordanian children
This study examines the acquisition of broken plural (BP) patterns generated by child speakers of Jordanian Arabic (JA). Data were collected from 20 Jordanian children via an experimental production test. Children were given pictures of a set of singular entities depicting nouns and pictures containing their plural counterparts, and they were asked to say the names of the items in the pictures in an attempt to provide their corresponding plural f…
The Communication of Viewpoints in Jordanian Arabic: A Pragmatic Study
Expressing opinions is considered a significant communicative act frequently taking place in our conversations. It is one of the fairly neglected areas of research in the Arabic context. Among the studies conducted on the communicative acts, to the best of our knowledge, there has been no attempt to investigate the expressions of opinion and its strategies specifically in Jordanian Arabic (JA). To this end, the current study intends to investigat…
Acoustics of long vowels in Arabic-speaking children with hearing impairments
The present study investigates formant frequencies and vowel space area in Jordanian hearing-impaired individuals who received cochlear implants. To achieve this task, they were compared with their hearing aids and normal-hearing peers. The study involved 60 participants aged between 7 and 11 years, consisting of 20 cochlear implant (CI) users, 20 hearing aid (HA) users, and 20 normal-hearing (NH) children. All participants were native speakers o…
The art of rhetoric: Persuasive strategies in Biden’s inauguration speech: a critical discourse analysis
This research investigated the main linguistic strategies used in President Biden’s inauguration speech presented in 2021. Data were analyzed in light of Fairclough’s CDA framework: macro-structure (thematic)—intertextually; microstructure in syntax analysis (cohesion); stylistic (lexicon choice to display the speaker’s emphasis); and rhetoric in terms of persuasive function. The thematic analysis of the data revealed that Biden used certain pers…
The impact of L2 English on choice perception, interpretation, and preference for L1 Arabic speakers
This article compares risk tolerance of native Arabic speakers under two language contexts: their first language (L1 Arabic) and their foreign language (L2 English). We aim to evaluate whether thinking in a foreign language actually reduces the negative effects of cognitive biases, such as loss aversion and mental accounting, on financial decision-making. Toward this aim, we conducted two experiments in which the risk tolerance levels of 144 part…
A corpus-based pragmatic analysis of Jordanians Facebook status updates during Covid-19
This study investigates the communicative functions of status updates on Facebook during COVID-19. For this purpose, a corpus of 500 status updates was collected from 100 Facebook users for 90 consecutive days. Subsequently, the data were characterized into five speech acts drawing heavily on Searle's speech act framework, prominent among which are expressives and assertives. Data analysis revealed that status updates could be considered a substa…
The impact of Covid-19 and its terminology learning strategies on EFL learners’ vocabulary repertoire
COVID-19 pandemic is an unprecedented crisis worldwide posing many linguistic challenges including understanding and learning new related terminology. This study explores the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and its terminology learning strategies on EFL learners' vocabulary acquisition, particularly in Jordan. A triangulated approach was employed for collecting data including interviews, tests and a questionnaire distributed to 100 EFL learners a…
The Ideology of Tolerance in King Abdullah’s Speeches: A Critical Discourse Analysis Study
This paper elucidates the ideology of tolerance underlying speeches delivered by HM King Abdullah II. Three speeches were analysed according to Fairclough’s framework (1989). The analysis has revealed the underlying ideological outlook emphasised and constructed in King Abdullah’s speeches to consolidate the value of tolerance, such as eliminating all types of ethnic, religious, and social intolerance; spreading mutual respect, compassion, and pe…
Normativity and Variation in the Address Terms System Practiced among the Jordanian Youth Community
This study investigates the key forms of address used amongst Jordanian university students, the impact of gender on using these forms and what accounts for the variation in their address system. By addressing the issue of normativity and heterogeneity in the use of address terms, in different social settings, the study enriches the understanding of the internal variation of the address term system. Data collected through questionnaires and semi-…
The verb ʔadʒa ‘come’ in Jordanian Arabic: Three levels of grammaticalization
This paper investigates the grammaticalization of the verb ʔadʒa ‘come’ in Jordanian Arabic. The study argues that the verb has been grammaticalized into three meanings that constitute three levels on the grammaticalization pathway. These three meanings coexist i.e. are not considered three diachronic stages. The first meaning is to introduce a purpose clause; it is the least grammaticalized since the core lexical meaning of the verb is still app…
Ideological representations of women in Jordanian folk proverbs from the perspective of cultural semiotics
This study analyses the semiotics of proverbs by presenting the ideological portrayals of women in Jordanian folk proverbs. The content analysis of the proverbs shows that women are represented both positively and negatively, though they are preponderantly depicted negatively in the majority of the analysed proverbs. They are represented negatively as a symbol of feebleness, foolishness, disgrace, cunning, deception, jealousy and reproduction. Fe…
The Semantic and Contextual Meanings of the Cognitive Words “yʕqilu: N, yatafakaru:n, yatadabaru:n, yafqahu:n” in Holy Qur’an
The current study endeavors to identify the semantic and contextual meanings of four cognitive words: “yʕqilu:n, yatafakaru:n, yatadabaru:n, yafqahu:n” in Holy Qur'an. The motive for this study comes from the vague semantic relations expressed by Muslim exegetes and interpreters of these words. Additionally, translating them into other languages such as English is considered challenging due to the cognitive resemblance, nature, and senses they ex…
Developing EFL Learners’ Vocabulary Repertoire Through Semantic Relations Techniques
The study investigates the impact of teaching vocabulary through semantic relations (i.e. including hyponymy, synonymy, antonymy, polysemy, homonymy and metonyms) on the breadth and depth of EFL learners’ vocabulary knowledge. A convenient sample of 50 freshman EFL learners from a state university in Jordan was recruited. The study followed an experimental approach; data were collected through pre- and post-tests over an academic term. An intervi…
Language Maintenance: The Case of Modern Standard Arabic Among Bilinguals
This study explores how Jordanians, especially bilinguals, can maintain the usage of Modern Standard Arabic (MSA). Despite the importance of this topic, it is a fairly unaddressed area of research in the Arabic context in general and Jordan in particular. The study contributes to knowledge by raising the awareness of Jordanians and authorities about the means necessary to maintain the usage of MSA among Jordanians. Data were collected via face-to…
Mean length of utterance of Jordanian Arabic-speaking children with language impairment
This study serves as an explanatory investigation of the validity of mean length of utterance (MLU) to distinguish children with typical development from those with language impairment. Data were taken from 15 typically developing children and 11 children with language impairment, all aged 4-9 years old. A minimum of 100 utterances were taken from each participant which were then analyzed using Brown’s rules of counting MLU-w with some adaptation…
Diglossic Code-Switching Phenomenon in Jordanian Newspaper Satirical Articles
This study investigates the functions that the diglossic code-switching between Modern Standard Arabic and Jordanian Arabic serves in Jordanian newspaper ironic articles. It also explores Jordanians’ attitudes towards this linguistic phenomenon. Data were collected through mixed methods; a content analysis of numerous diglossic code-switched expressions in the target articles, an interview with a Jordanian satirist and a questionnaire distributed…
Negative scope ambiguity in serial verb constructions in Jordanian Arabic: An experimental investigation
This article provides a systematic investigation of serial verb constructions in Jordanian Arabic, reporting the results of two experiments. Experiment 1 (n = 86) involves an acceptability judgment task where participants rated serialized and non-serialized verbs on a 5-point Likert scale. The results of this experiment indicate that speakers of Jordanian Arabic find the serialized verbs to be as attested as their non-serialized counterparts. Exp…
The syntax of serial verbs in Jordanian Arabic: A cartographic analysis
Serial verb constructions have been the focus of much linguistic research, especially in studies on languages of East Africa, Southeast Asia, and the Pacific. This paper contributes to the growing body of research on the topic by providing empirical data from Jordanian Arabic, through an introspective study, which show that this dialect exhibits this type of phenomenon. The Jordanian Arabic data are examined against defined characteristics of ser…
Disagreement Strategies in the Discourse of American Speakers of Arabic
This study attempts to investigate the disagreement strategies that are used by American speakers of Arabic with a view to identifying which disagreement strategies they use in equal and non-equal status situations. In addition, it aims to see whether variables like gender and social status affect the linguistic choices and disagreement strategies that they use. The subjects of the study are 28 (14 male and 14 female) American speakers of Arabic …
Analyzing accusation patterns between Hamas and Israel during the Al-Aqsa flood operation
This study investigates the accusation strategies utilized by both Israel and Hamas during the Al Aqsa Flood operation. Through a comprehensive analysis of twenty-four speeches delivered by Abu-Obieda, the military spokesman of Hamas, and Rear Admiral Daniel Hagari, the military spokesperson of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF), this research identifies key accusation patterns and examines the application of Aristotle’s modes of persuasion (ethos, …
Interculturalizing ELT: Culture-based classes to enhance language skills and intercultural communicative competence dimensions
Higher institutions in Jordan and Morocco prioritize intercultural communicative competence (ICC) in their educational system. This study aimed to analyze the impact of culture-based classes on ICC dimensions and language skills learning, examine English teachers' instructional strategies regarding culture and interculturality, and explore whether current pedagogy caters to ICC dimensions and language skills among EFL undergraduate learners. Usin…
A multi-theoretical analysis of Trump’s rhetorical strategies in the 2025 pro-Israel policy speech
This paper offers a multi-theoretical analysis of President Donald J. Trump’s rhetorical strategies during the joint press conference with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (February 2, 2025). Combining Speech Act Theory and Gricean pragmatics with the Metaphor Identification Procedure (MIP), automated-assisted repetition detection, and Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA), the study traces how clause-level moves accumulate into meso-level frames an…
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