Jona Fras
Biographic Data
| ID | 3843565 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jona Fras |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jona |
| FAMILY NAME | Fras |
| SIGNATURE | FRĄŚ J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Edinburgh |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7437-3569 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
No Sharp Turns: Neutrality in Jordanian Media Discourse on the War in Ukraine
The Jordanian government has officially adopted a ‘neutral’ foreign policy position on the war in Ukraine since 2022, providing an interesting case for examining media responses to conflict in a context where official positions are often supported and reproduced by media participants. To examine whether the official position on the war in Ukraine was reproduced by Jordanian media participants, we conducted an exploratory analysis of episodes of t…
Colloquial Arabic as a decolonial language: The case of linguistic hybridity in Jordanian satirical writing
In Arabic language, a distinction is often made between Classical Arabic and Modern Standard Arabic, fuṣḥā (formal language) and ʿāmmiyya (colloquial Arabic), and literary language and vernacular expressions. In this article, we reassess these frames to critically analyse the use of linguistic hybridity in Colloquial Jordanian Arabic (CJA), which mixes formal and vernacular Arabic expressions, and sometimes English loanwords, as a decolonial ling…
Choosing Jordanianness: The dialogic construction of Jordanian identity discourse on nationhood and belonging
This article investigates the dialogic construction of Jordanian identity discourse as reflected through the production of everyday discourse on the nation, following both Anderson’s (1983) idea of nation as a ‘socially constructed community’ and Billig’s (1995) concept of ‘banal nationalism’. Against both the narrative of unifying regime initiatives and Transjordanian ethnic exclusivism, we delve deeper into the narrative of everyday nationalism…
Every one of you is now a soldier’: War metaphors in Jordanian official discourse during the Covid-19 pandemic
In this article, we examine the use of war metaphors in Jordanian official discourse on the Covid-19 pandemic in 2020-21, through an analysis of videos of public statements and media releases made by Jordanian government officials at press conferences and interviews with local media outlets which were disseminated through social media. Against both the linguistic essentialism and the Western-centrism of conventional analyses of (war) metaphors, w…
Tuning in to God: Authorising religious talk in Jordanian Islamic advice programmes
Sound and spoken language play a major role in contemporary Islamic media. On Islamic advice programmes in Jordan, a genre of radio show in which listeners call in to the station with questions regarding pious Sunni Muslim conduct, broadcasters use language in ways that conveys authority to the Islamic textual tradition, and therefore presents their responses as legitimate advice for pious Muslims. By manipulating the language of quotations, broa…
Unifying voices, creating publics: The uses of media form in contemporary Jordanian radio
Questions of media form have not received sufficient attention in recent studies of Arabic-language media. In Jordanian radio today, however, media form is a highly relevant discursive resource for broadcasters, who strategically invoke the ways in which different types of media communication are conceived and framed, in a metapragmatic manner that goes beyond the impact of merely technical distinctions between media forms. This article examines …
Accessing Knowledge
Editorial to this issue
Transforming Capital
No abstract available
The Uncertainty of African Reflections
The ideology of swearwords in Slovenia
Choosing Jordanianness: The dialogic construction of Jordanian identity discourse on nationhood and belonging
This article investigates the dialogic construction of Jordanian identity discourse as reflected through the production of everyday discourse on the nation, following both Anderson’s (1983) idea of nation as a ‘socially constructed community’ and Billig’s (1995) concept of ‘banal nationalism’. Against both the narrative of unifying regime initiatives and Transjordanian ethnic exclusivism, we delve deeper into the narrative of everyday nationalism…
Every one of you is now a soldier’: War metaphors in Jordanian official discourse during the Covid-19 pandemic
In this article, we examine the use of war metaphors in Jordanian official discourse on the Covid-19 pandemic in 2020-21, through an analysis of videos of public statements and media releases made by Jordanian government officials at press conferences and interviews with local media outlets which were disseminated through social media. Against both the linguistic essentialism and the Western-centrism of conventional analyses of (war) metaphors, w…
The ideology of swearwords in Slovenia
Transforming Capital
No abstract available
The Uncertainty of African Reflections
The ideology of swearwords in Slovenia
Accessing Knowledge
Editorial to this issue
Unifying voices, creating publics: The uses of media form in contemporary Jordanian radio
Questions of media form have not received sufficient attention in recent studies of Arabic-language media. In Jordanian radio today, however, media form is a highly relevant discursive resource for broadcasters, who strategically invoke the ways in which different types of media communication are conceived and framed, in a metapragmatic manner that goes beyond the impact of merely technical distinctions between media forms. This article examines …
Tuning in to God: Authorising religious talk in Jordanian Islamic advice programmes
Sound and spoken language play a major role in contemporary Islamic media. On Islamic advice programmes in Jordan, a genre of radio show in which listeners call in to the station with questions regarding pious Sunni Muslim conduct, broadcasters use language in ways that conveys authority to the Islamic textual tradition, and therefore presents their responses as legitimate advice for pious Muslims. By manipulating the language of quotations, broa…
Every one of you is now a soldier’: War metaphors in Jordanian official discourse during the Covid-19 pandemic
In this article, we examine the use of war metaphors in Jordanian official discourse on the Covid-19 pandemic in 2020-21, through an analysis of videos of public statements and media releases made by Jordanian government officials at press conferences and interviews with local media outlets which were disseminated through social media. Against both the linguistic essentialism and the Western-centrism of conventional analyses of (war) metaphors, w…
Choosing Jordanianness: The dialogic construction of Jordanian identity discourse on nationhood and belonging
This article investigates the dialogic construction of Jordanian identity discourse as reflected through the production of everyday discourse on the nation, following both Anderson’s (1983) idea of nation as a ‘socially constructed community’ and Billig’s (1995) concept of ‘banal nationalism’. Against both the narrative of unifying regime initiatives and Transjordanian ethnic exclusivism, we delve deeper into the narrative of everyday nationalism…
No Sharp Turns: Neutrality in Jordanian Media Discourse on the War in Ukraine
The Jordanian government has officially adopted a ‘neutral’ foreign policy position on the war in Ukraine since 2022, providing an interesting case for examining media responses to conflict in a context where official positions are often supported and reproduced by media participants. To examine whether the official position on the war in Ukraine was reproduced by Jordanian media participants, we conducted an exploratory analysis of episodes of t…
Colloquial Arabic as a decolonial language: The case of linguistic hybridity in Jordanian satirical writing
In Arabic language, a distinction is often made between Classical Arabic and Modern Standard Arabic, fuṣḥā (formal language) and ʿāmmiyya (colloquial Arabic), and literary language and vernacular expressions. In this article, we reassess these frames to critically analyse the use of linguistic hybridity in Colloquial Jordanian Arabic (CJA), which mixes formal and vernacular Arabic expressions, and sometimes English loanwords, as a decolonial ling…
Political science (6 works) · Computer Science (4 works) · Politics (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Ideology (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Linguistics (3 works) · Arabic (2 works) · Context (archaeology (2 works) · Discourse analysis (2 works)