Sufyan Abuarrah
Biographic Data
| ID | 3860220 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sufyan Abuarrah |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sufyan |
| FAMILY NAME | Abuarrah |
| SIGNATURE | ABUARRAH S |
| AFFILIATIONS | An-Najah National University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0749-3229 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 11 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
When harm becomes a dilemma
This study examines how harm is discursively constructed and politically managed in U.S. foreign policy press briefings on the Gaza war. Drawing on van Dijk’s discourse semantics and its account of how semantic mechanisms encode and legitimize ideological positions, alongside Billig’s notion of ideological dilemmas, it analyzes 55 question–answer exchanges across three cases: Palestinian civilian casualties, the World Central Kitchen killings, an…
Addressing Untranslatability
This research paper examines ChatGPT's methodologies for addressing the untranslatability challenges posed by verbified proper nouns in English-Arabic translation. The process of denominalization, whereby proper nouns are converted into verbal forms, presents substantial translation difficulties due to its complex intersection of linguistic structure and cultural context. Previous scholarship by Phrisan et al. (2021) has investigated verbified pr…
Understanding the Roots and Mechanisms of Self-Harm among Palestinian University Students
Aim. This study investigates self-harm behaviors among Palestinian university students, utilizing both quantitative and qualitative methods. Subject and method. A sample of 528 Palestinian university students including, 174 males and 354 females’ students completed surveys measuring self-harm causes and behaviors. Results. Findings showing moderate causes (M = 3.07) and low frequency of self-harm behaviors (M = 1.95). Significant differences were…
Pandemic scepticism as politically driven talk
Reduced moral culpability
Framing of Honor Crimes
This study examines media coverage framing of two recent honor crimes in Jordan and Lebanon, exploring how media narratives shape perceptions in those culturally similar yet distinct contexts. Utilizing qualitative content analysis, it delves into crime‐related notions involving the legal institutions, culture, perpetrator psychology, and victim portrayal. The findings reveal key divergences: (1) crime depicted as generic homicide versus honor ki…
Stigmatization Through Positioning and Interpretative Repertoires
In the context of "honor" crimes in the Arab world, victims are subjected to stigmatization for deviating from societal norms by perpetrators seeking to assuage their culpability. Understudied is stigma as constructed by the Arab world's general public to establish different positions in relation to these cruel acts. Taking a critical discursive psychological approach, this research analyzed comments posted on a YouTube video reporting the killin…
Overlap of translation terms/methods implications for Arabic language and translation studies
Some translation methods overlap to the extent that they are an unnecessary proliferation of terms. The aim of this study therefore is twofold: Firstly, it examines four methods of translation (literal translation, overt translation, semantic translation, and direct translation). The study finds that these methods overlap to different degrees. While semantic and overt methods of translation apply similar features, literal translation has subtle d…
Time tells a story
This study provides a synthesized perspective on the functions and ideological orientation of time adverbials as (re)situated in their socio-political contexts in five speeches by the Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas at the UN. By analysing adverbials of truncated, extending, and fixed time references, the study reveals some systematic ideological formulations of conflict and resolution in the Palestinian political discourse. Adverbials of tru…
Gendered refusals in the Palestinian Arabic culture
In many societies, single-sex education is embedded in a culture that maintains women subordination with possible ramifications to their language performance and role in society. This paper seeks to explain the cultural grounds for Palestinian female direct refusals in their L1 culture and the consequences for their linguistic behaviour in multicultural educational contexts. For data collection, the study employed a self-reporting survey followed…
Literal meaning
Some traditional accounts view literal meaning (LM) as the central component in the process of meaning interpretation. This paper supports this view while adding that LM is the first but not the only piece of evidence available to the hearer of the speaker’s meaning. After critically evaluating examples from previous studies and my own examples, the study concludes that discourse comprehension is a sequential and graded process. To understand the…
Stigmatization Through Positioning and Interpretative Repertoires
In the context of "honor" crimes in the Arab world, victims are subjected to stigmatization for deviating from societal norms by perpetrators seeking to assuage their culpability. Understudied is stigma as constructed by the Arab world's general public to establish different positions in relation to these cruel acts. Taking a critical discursive psychological approach, this research analyzed comments posted on a YouTube video reporting the killin…
Literal meaning
Some traditional accounts view literal meaning (LM) as the central component in the process of meaning interpretation. This paper supports this view while adding that LM is the first but not the only piece of evidence available to the hearer of the speaker’s meaning. After critically evaluating examples from previous studies and my own examples, the study concludes that discourse comprehension is a sequential and graded process. To understand the…
Time tells a story
This study provides a synthesized perspective on the functions and ideological orientation of time adverbials as (re)situated in their socio-political contexts in five speeches by the Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas at the UN. By analysing adverbials of truncated, extending, and fixed time references, the study reveals some systematic ideological formulations of conflict and resolution in the Palestinian political discourse. Adverbials of tru…
Gendered refusals in the Palestinian Arabic culture
In many societies, single-sex education is embedded in a culture that maintains women subordination with possible ramifications to their language performance and role in society. This paper seeks to explain the cultural grounds for Palestinian female direct refusals in their L1 culture and the consequences for their linguistic behaviour in multicultural educational contexts. For data collection, the study employed a self-reporting survey followed…
Overlap of translation terms/methods implications for Arabic language and translation studies
Some translation methods overlap to the extent that they are an unnecessary proliferation of terms. The aim of this study therefore is twofold: Firstly, it examines four methods of translation (literal translation, overt translation, semantic translation, and direct translation). The study finds that these methods overlap to different degrees. While semantic and overt methods of translation apply similar features, literal translation has subtle d…
Addressing Untranslatability
This research paper examines ChatGPT's methodologies for addressing the untranslatability challenges posed by verbified proper nouns in English-Arabic translation. The process of denominalization, whereby proper nouns are converted into verbal forms, presents substantial translation difficulties due to its complex intersection of linguistic structure and cultural context. Previous scholarship by Phrisan et al. (2021) has investigated verbified pr…
Understanding the Roots and Mechanisms of Self-Harm among Palestinian University Students
Aim. This study investigates self-harm behaviors among Palestinian university students, utilizing both quantitative and qualitative methods. Subject and method. A sample of 528 Palestinian university students including, 174 males and 354 females’ students completed surveys measuring self-harm causes and behaviors. Results. Findings showing moderate causes (M = 3.07) and low frequency of self-harm behaviors (M = 1.95). Significant differences were…
Pandemic scepticism as politically driven talk
Reduced moral culpability
Framing of Honor Crimes
This study examines media coverage framing of two recent honor crimes in Jordan and Lebanon, exploring how media narratives shape perceptions in those culturally similar yet distinct contexts. Utilizing qualitative content analysis, it delves into crime‐related notions involving the legal institutions, culture, perpetrator psychology, and victim portrayal. The findings reveal key divergences: (1) crime depicted as generic homicide versus honor ki…
Stigmatization Through Positioning and Interpretative Repertoires
In the context of "honor" crimes in the Arab world, victims are subjected to stigmatization for deviating from societal norms by perpetrators seeking to assuage their culpability. Understudied is stigma as constructed by the Arab world's general public to establish different positions in relation to these cruel acts. Taking a critical discursive psychological approach, this research analyzed comments posted on a YouTube video reporting the killin…
When harm becomes a dilemma
This study examines how harm is discursively constructed and politically managed in U.S. foreign policy press briefings on the Gaza war. Drawing on van Dijk’s discourse semantics and its account of how semantic mechanisms encode and legitimize ideological positions, alongside Billig’s notion of ideological dilemmas, it analyzes 55 question–answer exchanges across three cases: Palestinian civilian casualties, the World Central Kitchen killings, an…
Philosophy (5 works) · Psychology (5 works) · Computer Science (3 works) · Epistemology (3 works) · History (3 works) · Linguistics (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Terrorism, Counterterrorism, and Political Violence (3 works) · Arabic (2 works)