Mohammed Nahar Al-Ali
Biographic Data
| ID | 3812339 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mohammed Nahar Al-Ali |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mohammed Nahar |
| FAMILY NAME | Al-Ali |
| SIGNATURE | AL-ALI M N |
| AFFILIATIONS | Jordan University of Science and Technology |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1055-5515 |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 18 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 19 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Verbo-visual metafunctions and interactional metadiscourse strategic cues in Arabic advertisements
This research examines the visual metafunctions employed to construct video images in Arabic advertisements. Additionally, it scrutinizes the accompanying verbal captions present in these visual images. The study aims to elucidate the collaborative interplay between visual and verbal strategic choices and their collective contribution to the overall efficacy of the video advertisements. To this end, the study analyzed 100 Arabic video ads from th…
The role of multimodality and intertextuality in accentuating humor in Algerian Hirak ’s posters
This study investigates how the interaction between multimodal modes and intertextual resources accentuates humor functions. Kress and van Leeuwen’s Visual Grammar ( 2006 ) was adopted to analyze a set of sixty humorous online posters of Hirak ’s movements. The results revealed that humor was generated from the purposeful interplay of various semiotic modes and the reproduction and recontextualization of shared socio-cultural and political resour…
The effectiveness of sarcastic multimodal semiotic analysis in revealing deficiencies among authority officials
Contextual and intertextual move components constituting openings and closings in Arabic non-live stand-up comedy
This article examines the various manifestations of the opening and closing of non-live stand-up comedy in Arabic. It aims to identify the sequential functional components comedians employ to open and close this genre, as well as the linguistic strategies utilized to articulate the pragmatic functions inherent in these ritualistic elements. Furthermore, the study examines the contextual and intertextual resources that performers utilize to compen…
Socio-cultural and contextual resources shaping the initiation of closings of public utility service interactions
This article investigates the pre-closings of interactions between inquirers and public utility service providers to find out what strategic sequential components the participants utilize to bid the closings of their conversations. We examined how these components are co-constructed and linguistically realized and what socio-cultural and co-textual influences have given rise to these sequences. The data analyzed was based on recorded face-to-face…
Opening Interactions Between Inquirers and Employees in Jordanian Public Utility Services
This article investigates the strategic sequential options used to open a real workplace discourse in public utilities between Jordanian inquirers and employees. We examined how these opening moves are co-constructed and function, what linguistic choices are utilized to articulate these moves, and how they reflect socio-cultural relations between the interlocutors. The data reported here were drawn from seven employees and 100 Jordanian inquirers…
Jordanian Males’ Impoliteness Strategies While Commenting on the Physical Appearance of Females on Facebook
This study aims to examine Jordanian males’ comments on females’ physical appearance on Facebook to identify the impoliteness strategies that Jordanian males utilize in online communication. The socio-cultural factors affecting the selection of impoliteness behavior in males’ comments are also investigated. As for the corpus of the study, a total of 470 comments and replies were chosen from 32 females’ picture posts posted on two different Jordan…
Extra cues extra views
In this article, we investigate how the visual, interactional, and interactive verbo-visual selections are utilized to qualify Arabic clickbait thumbnails to get extra views. To this end, we drew upon Kress and Van Leeuwen’s multimodal analysis and Hyland’s meta-discourse framework. The data comprised 100 Arabic YouTube clickbait thumbnails selected from five Arabic channels. Our analysis revealed that a fake clickbait is an ensemble of collabora…
Mitigating requesting acts by deaf Jordanian adults
The purpose of this study is to investigate the linguistic mitigating devices that deaf Jordanian adults use when making requests. To this end, a sample of 52 people (of whom 26 were hearing and 26 were deaf) was collected through a Discourse Completion Task (DCT). It was found that the two groups of participants showed variations in the way they structured their request acts and spelled them out. This was evident in the deaf group’s obvious unde…
Discoursal representation of masculine parenting in Arabic and English websites
The purpose of this study is to investigate the differences and similarities between Arabic and English parents’ role in Arabic and English parenting website texts and the linguistic exponents used to address parents and signal their roles, and to find out the socio-cultural ideologies that have given rise to variations in gender roles. To this end, a corpus of 40 articles targeting gender-neutral titles and father related ones were selected equa…
Struggling to retain the functions of passive when translating English thesis abstracts
The thesis abstract, as a genre has a set of communicative functions mutually-understood by established members of the academic community. A vast majority of translation studies of source language (SL) and target language (TL) equivalence seems to have overlooked the inherent relationship between form and function when translating. The purpose of this study was to find out whether the Arab students would translate the English passive structures i…
The functional components of telephone conversation opening phase in Jordanian Arabic
Our study purports to examine the rhetorical structure of informal telephone conversation opening phase in Jordanian Arabic and the lexico-grammatical and stylistic encodings of these pragmatic options. To this end, a corpus of 100 telephone conversation recordings was collected from Jordanian Arabic. The recordings were based on the participants’ personal cell phones with their families and friends. Our data analysis drew on House (1982) and Sun…
Linguistic mitigating devices in American and Jordanian students' requests
The present study purports to examine the linguistic mitigation devices that Jordanian learners of English use when making requests in English, and to compare these devices with those used by the native speakers of American English in order to find out what linguistic mitigation knowledge Jordanian learners lack in their L2 and what factors influence their pragmatic request behavior. To achieve this purpose, a sample of 90 undergraduate students …
Different pausing, different meaning
The present study examined the sources of syntactic ambiguity in a corpus of Qur'anic verses. It also investigated how professional translators render these verses that may be interpreted in different ways. It was found that certain constituents of some Qur'anic verses can be syntactically combined in more than one way depending on where a syntactic pause occurs. This, in turn, results in more than one interpretation and translation. The differen…
Genre-pragmatic Strategies in English Letter-of-application Writing of Jordanian Arabic–English Bilinguals
This study reports an investigation of the genre components and pragmatic strategies of letters of applications written by Jordanian Arabic–English bilinguals. Specifically it is set up to trace how far novice non-native speakers of English are able to utilise the generic components and politeness strategies of the target language that strongly correlate with communicative success in social interactions. A corpus of 90 job application letters wri…
Religious affiliations and masculine power in Jordanian wedding invitation genre
The present study examines through a genre and critical discourse analysis a total of 200 Arabic written wedding invitations in terms of their component patterns, and the role played by the broader socio-cultural norms and values in shaping this genre. It draws on two analytic frameworks from discourse: genre analysis, and critical discourse analysis (CDA). CDA has exposed at least two interrelated aspects of culture - religion and masculine auth…
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…
Familiar words in unfamiliar contexts
Studies of the translation of the Qur'an into English have produced countless descriptions of lexical, syntactic, stylistic, and rhetorical translation problems. This article seeks to fill a gap in this literature. Using a corpus of twenty Qur'anic texts, I investigated how Jordanian translation students render religious items that may be interpreted in different ways. It was found that the problems could be divided into ‘overt’ and ‘covert’ know…
How to Get Yourself on the Door of a Job
This cross-cultural study examined the generic structure of English and Arabic job application letters written by native Arabic speakers and English native speakers to find out the discourse genre text similarities and differences between them. A corpus of 60 job application letters written by 60 job applicants was subjected to the form of move structure analysis proposed by Bhatia (1993). The results revealed that writers with different cultural…
Religious affiliations and masculine power in Jordanian wedding invitation genre
The present study examines through a genre and critical discourse analysis a total of 200 Arabic written wedding invitations in terms of their component patterns, and the role played by the broader socio-cultural norms and values in shaping this genre. It draws on two analytic frameworks from discourse: genre analysis, and critical discourse analysis (CDA). CDA has exposed at least two interrelated aspects of culture - religion and masculine auth…
Linguistic mitigating devices in American and Jordanian students' requests
The present study purports to examine the linguistic mitigation devices that Jordanian learners of English use when making requests in English, and to compare these devices with those used by the native speakers of American English in order to find out what linguistic mitigation knowledge Jordanian learners lack in their L2 and what factors influence their pragmatic request behavior. To achieve this purpose, a sample of 90 undergraduate students …
How to Get Yourself on the Door of a Job
This cross-cultural study examined the generic structure of English and Arabic job application letters written by native Arabic speakers and English native speakers to find out the discourse genre text similarities and differences between them. A corpus of 60 job application letters written by 60 job applicants was subjected to the form of move structure analysis proposed by Bhatia (1993). The results revealed that writers with different cultural…
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…
Familiar words in unfamiliar contexts
Studies of the translation of the Qur'an into English have produced countless descriptions of lexical, syntactic, stylistic, and rhetorical translation problems. This article seeks to fill a gap in this literature. Using a corpus of twenty Qur'anic texts, I investigated how Jordanian translation students render religious items that may be interpreted in different ways. It was found that the problems could be divided into ‘overt’ and ‘covert’ know…
Familiar words in unfamiliar contexts
Studies of the translation of the Qur'an into English have produced countless descriptions of lexical, syntactic, stylistic, and rhetorical translation problems. This article seeks to fill a gap in this literature. Using a corpus of twenty Qur'anic texts, I investigated how Jordanian translation students render religious items that may be interpreted in different ways. It was found that the problems could be divided into ‘overt’ and ‘covert’ know…
How to Get Yourself on the Door of a Job
This cross-cultural study examined the generic structure of English and Arabic job application letters written by native Arabic speakers and English native speakers to find out the discourse genre text similarities and differences between them. A corpus of 60 job application letters written by 60 job applicants was subjected to the form of move structure analysis proposed by Bhatia (1993). The results revealed that writers with different cultural…
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…
Genre-pragmatic Strategies in English Letter-of-application Writing of Jordanian Arabic–English Bilinguals
This study reports an investigation of the genre components and pragmatic strategies of letters of applications written by Jordanian Arabic–English bilinguals. Specifically it is set up to trace how far novice non-native speakers of English are able to utilise the generic components and politeness strategies of the target language that strongly correlate with communicative success in social interactions. A corpus of 90 job application letters wri…
Religious affiliations and masculine power in Jordanian wedding invitation genre
The present study examines through a genre and critical discourse analysis a total of 200 Arabic written wedding invitations in terms of their component patterns, and the role played by the broader socio-cultural norms and values in shaping this genre. It draws on two analytic frameworks from discourse: genre analysis, and critical discourse analysis (CDA). CDA has exposed at least two interrelated aspects of culture - religion and masculine auth…
Different pausing, different meaning
The present study examined the sources of syntactic ambiguity in a corpus of Qur'anic verses. It also investigated how professional translators render these verses that may be interpreted in different ways. It was found that certain constituents of some Qur'anic verses can be syntactically combined in more than one way depending on where a syntactic pause occurs. This, in turn, results in more than one interpretation and translation. The differen…
Linguistic mitigating devices in American and Jordanian students' requests
The present study purports to examine the linguistic mitigation devices that Jordanian learners of English use when making requests in English, and to compare these devices with those used by the native speakers of American English in order to find out what linguistic mitigation knowledge Jordanian learners lack in their L2 and what factors influence their pragmatic request behavior. To achieve this purpose, a sample of 90 undergraduate students …
The functional components of telephone conversation opening phase in Jordanian Arabic
Our study purports to examine the rhetorical structure of informal telephone conversation opening phase in Jordanian Arabic and the lexico-grammatical and stylistic encodings of these pragmatic options. To this end, a corpus of 100 telephone conversation recordings was collected from Jordanian Arabic. The recordings were based on the participants’ personal cell phones with their families and friends. Our data analysis drew on House (1982) and Sun…
Mitigating requesting acts by deaf Jordanian adults
The purpose of this study is to investigate the linguistic mitigating devices that deaf Jordanian adults use when making requests. To this end, a sample of 52 people (of whom 26 were hearing and 26 were deaf) was collected through a Discourse Completion Task (DCT). It was found that the two groups of participants showed variations in the way they structured their request acts and spelled them out. This was evident in the deaf group’s obvious unde…
Discoursal representation of masculine parenting in Arabic and English websites
The purpose of this study is to investigate the differences and similarities between Arabic and English parents’ role in Arabic and English parenting website texts and the linguistic exponents used to address parents and signal their roles, and to find out the socio-cultural ideologies that have given rise to variations in gender roles. To this end, a corpus of 40 articles targeting gender-neutral titles and father related ones were selected equa…
Struggling to retain the functions of passive when translating English thesis abstracts
The thesis abstract, as a genre has a set of communicative functions mutually-understood by established members of the academic community. A vast majority of translation studies of source language (SL) and target language (TL) equivalence seems to have overlooked the inherent relationship between form and function when translating. The purpose of this study was to find out whether the Arab students would translate the English passive structures i…
Opening Interactions Between Inquirers and Employees in Jordanian Public Utility Services
This article investigates the strategic sequential options used to open a real workplace discourse in public utilities between Jordanian inquirers and employees. We examined how these opening moves are co-constructed and function, what linguistic choices are utilized to articulate these moves, and how they reflect socio-cultural relations between the interlocutors. The data reported here were drawn from seven employees and 100 Jordanian inquirers…
Jordanian Males’ Impoliteness Strategies While Commenting on the Physical Appearance of Females on Facebook
This study aims to examine Jordanian males’ comments on females’ physical appearance on Facebook to identify the impoliteness strategies that Jordanian males utilize in online communication. The socio-cultural factors affecting the selection of impoliteness behavior in males’ comments are also investigated. As for the corpus of the study, a total of 470 comments and replies were chosen from 32 females’ picture posts posted on two different Jordan…
Extra cues extra views
In this article, we investigate how the visual, interactional, and interactive verbo-visual selections are utilized to qualify Arabic clickbait thumbnails to get extra views. To this end, we drew upon Kress and Van Leeuwen’s multimodal analysis and Hyland’s meta-discourse framework. The data comprised 100 Arabic YouTube clickbait thumbnails selected from five Arabic channels. Our analysis revealed that a fake clickbait is an ensemble of collabora…
The role of multimodality and intertextuality in accentuating humor in Algerian Hirak ’s posters
This study investigates how the interaction between multimodal modes and intertextual resources accentuates humor functions. Kress and van Leeuwen’s Visual Grammar ( 2006 ) was adopted to analyze a set of sixty humorous online posters of Hirak ’s movements. The results revealed that humor was generated from the purposeful interplay of various semiotic modes and the reproduction and recontextualization of shared socio-cultural and political resour…
The effectiveness of sarcastic multimodal semiotic analysis in revealing deficiencies among authority officials
Contextual and intertextual move components constituting openings and closings in Arabic non-live stand-up comedy
This article examines the various manifestations of the opening and closing of non-live stand-up comedy in Arabic. It aims to identify the sequential functional components comedians employ to open and close this genre, as well as the linguistic strategies utilized to articulate the pragmatic functions inherent in these ritualistic elements. Furthermore, the study examines the contextual and intertextual resources that performers utilize to compen…
Socio-cultural and contextual resources shaping the initiation of closings of public utility service interactions
This article investigates the pre-closings of interactions between inquirers and public utility service providers to find out what strategic sequential components the participants utilize to bid the closings of their conversations. We examined how these components are co-constructed and linguistically realized and what socio-cultural and co-textual influences have given rise to these sequences. The data analyzed was based on recorded face-to-face…
Verbo-visual metafunctions and interactional metadiscourse strategic cues in Arabic advertisements
This research examines the visual metafunctions employed to construct video images in Arabic advertisements. Additionally, it scrutinizes the accompanying verbal captions present in these visual images. The study aims to elucidate the collaborative interplay between visual and verbal strategic choices and their collective contribution to the overall efficacy of the video advertisements. To this end, the study analyzed 100 Arabic video ads from th…
Linguistics (16 works) · Psychology (13 works) · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies (9 works) · Arabic (7 works) · Computer Science (7 works) · Political science (7 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Discourse Analysis in Language Studies (5 works) · Philosophy (5 works) · Social Psychology (5 works)