Shehdeh Fareh
Biographic Data
| ID | 4428565 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Shehdeh Fareh |
| GIVEN NAMES | Shehdeh |
| FAMILY NAME | Fareh |
| SIGNATURE | FAREH S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Sharjah |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1196-9250 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 25 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 25 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The passive voice in the Holy Quran: An exploratory study
The passive voice represents a marked syntactic construction in language, and its usage requires a systematic analysis to fully comprehend its complexities. The role of the passive voice in the Holy Quran has not been adequately explored in previous studies. This research aims to provide a comprehensive analysis of all passive verbs found in the Holy Quran. We identified 1107 passive verbs using the categorization provided by the Quranic Corpus. …
Translating the Quranic word ‘Al- ð ann’ into English
Translating the Qur’an presents significant challenges at the syntactic, discoursal, lexical, and pragmatic levels, largely due to crosslinguistic differences between Arabic and target languages. These challenges are amplified when dealing with terms whose everyday Arabic usage is limited, yet whose Qur’anic meanings are broader and more nuanced. This paper aimed to assess how accurately the word ‘al-ðann’ (الظن) was rendered into three English t…
Explicitation and Implicitation in Arabic- English Translation of Institutional Academic Correspondence
Within the context of university communication, the choice of translation strategies can significantly impact the clarity and effectiveness of academic correspondence. This study investigates the role of explicitation and implicitation in translating from English (source language) to Arabic (target language). We explore how these strategies manifest in institutional academic correspondence (circulars and memos) and determine which strategy is mor…
Metadiscourse Markers in English and Arabic Opinion Columns: A Contrastive Study
Metadiscourse markers are crucial in opinion columns, enabling writers to engage readers and present persuasive arguments. However, their usage varies across languages for several reasons. Our study investigates the differences in the use of metadiscourse markers in English and Arabic opinion columns. Using Hyland's (2005) taxonomy, we analyzed 80 opinion columns through a mixed-method approach. While both languages exhibited similar patterns in …
Euphemisms for Same-Gender Relations in the Holy Quran and their English Translations
To support their argument about the position of Islam on same-gender relations, ‘Muslim’ proponents of these relations claim that there is no specific Arabic designation for these relations in the Holy Quran. Although it does not explicitly name them, the Quran addresses this topic euphemistically. This study aims to identify the Quranic euphemisms for same-gender relations and examine the Quranic strategies used for indicating them. Furthermore,…
Translating argumentation structures in the Holy Quran
This study examines Quranic argumentation structures and their translation strategies. Quranic verses with argumentative structures were identified based on a literature review and specific criteria. Four Quran translations, representing diverse approaches, were selected for comparative analysis. Using an analytical comparative method, the study assessed the accuracy and quality of translations through a four-point evaluation scale. Each translat…
Translation and ophthalmology during the Abbasid Era: Hunayn bin Isḥāq’s ‘In the Eye, Two Hundred and Seven Issues’ as a model of medical scholarship
This study explores the contributions of Hunayn bin Isḥāq al-Abbadi (d. 873 AD) to the fields of translation and ophthalmology in the Abbasid era. Focusing on the first fifty questions from his own innovative work In the Eye, Two Hundred and Seven Issues, it examines Hunayn’s innovative approach to Arabizing medical terminology, which avoided literal translations and expanded Arabic vocabulary, particularly in ophthalmology. His medical insights…
Framing Crisis Discourse in Biden’s Political Speech: The Use of Persuasion to Rally Public Support
Al-Jazeera Arabic and Al-Jazeera English headlines on the Russian-Ukrainian conflict: A Hallidayan transitivity analysis
Research in communication studies has suggested that Al-Jazeera produces different versions of news stories for different audiences. Yet, examining the linguistic means used to create these versions has remained under-researched. Drawing on Fairclough's three-dimensional model (1992) and Halliday's Transitivity Model (1985), this study aims at exploring how Al-Jazeera Arabic (AJA) and Al-Jazeera English (AJE) discursively represented the particip…
Framing the shooting of Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh in English and Arabic news headlines: A critical discourse study
The study aims to investigate the ideological manipulation of language within news media headlines regarding the killing of Palestinian journalist Shireen Abu Akleh. This study employs Van Dijk’s socio-cognitive model of Critical Discourse Analysis to conduct a comparative qualitative analysis of 100 Arabic and 100 English news headlines, exploring linguistic features at both microstructure and macrostructure levels. The analysis delves into iden…
Problems of Translating annaa (أنى) in the Holy Quran
The present study endeavours to examine the challenges associated with translating the particle annaa from the Holy Quran into English, with a focus on three English translators of the Quran. The study identifies the multifaceted functions of annaa in Arabic grammar and its rhetorical functions within the Quranic context. Key challenges include conveying nuanced meanings, selecting appropriate modal verbs, and preserving rhetorical functions. The…
Is Arabic punctuation rule-governed
This paper investigates the extent to which Arabic punctuation is rule-governed, with the aim of improving text comprehension, disambiguation, and machine translation. The study highlights the lack of systematic punctuation in Arabic written discourse, which may be attributed to difficulties in sentence boundary identification or inadequate differentiation between various conjunctions. The punctuation behavior of Arabic speakers is examined in re…
Images of the Qur’an in Western scholarship: A socio-narrative approach
Despite the huge body of research that has developed around the Qur’an in the West, there is still a dearth of research on how this scholarship represents the Qur’an and could contribute to feeding dominant narratives about Islam and Muslims in the West. To fill this gap, and drawing on socio-narrative theory, the present article analyzes the textual choices made in two works published in the well-established journal Arabica: Journal of Arabic an…
Translating Denial Rhetorical Questions in the Holy Quran: Reiss’ Text Typology Perspective
This paper aims to analyze the informative, operative, and expressive functions of the Quranic denial rhetorical question following Reiss’ (1981) text typology. It also aims at investigating the extent to which three English translations of the meanings of the Quran can reflect these functions. The sample consists of ten denial questions randomly selected from five suras according to a list of admissibility conditions. The translations of each qu…
The role of language in advocacy: An SFL analysis of Hanan Ashrawi’s speech on Palestinian rights
The study aimed to examine the rhetorical and linguistic devices employed in one of Hanan Ashrawi’s speeches to support the Palestinian cause and promote her perspective. Based on the Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL) framework, this paper identified and analysed the thematic patterns in her speech qualitatively within the semiotic dimensions of text analysis, including contextual, semantic, and lexico-grammar features. The findings demonstra…
English and Arabic abstracts in medical research articles: A contrastive study
s in academic research serve important functions. An abstract is a summary of an entire article or thesis that defines its objectives, research problem, methodology, major findings, and implications. Abstracts help potential readers to decide whether the article is relevant to their work. Thus, it saves their time and effort. This study aims to answer the following questions: (1) To what extent are the move structures in English and Arabic medica…
Assessing the pragmatic competence of Arab learners of English: The case of apology
This paper aims at assessing the pragmatic competence of Arab EFL learners at the tertiary level. The learners’ ability to use the speech act of apology was assessed through a specially designed discourse completion test that consisted of nine items. The study aimed at answering the following questions. (1) What strategies do the participants use to express the speech act of apology? (2) What politeness strategies do the participants use in reali…
Integrating Literature into Teaching the Language Arts
The ultimate purpose of teaching a foreign language is to enable learners to understand others and to make themselves understood. Foreign language teaching is primarily about enabling learners to be communicatively competent at both receptive and productive levels. To accomplish this, teachers should seek to teach all language components in natural settings. More often than not, foreign language teaching not only takes place in unnatural contexts…
How Well can Healthcare Students Use Medical Collocations at both the Recognition and Production Levels
This study aimed at investigating healthcare students’ collocational competence at the level of recognition and production. It was an attempt to provide answers to the following five questions: (1) How well can students recognize medical collocations? (2) How well can they produce them? (3) What types of mistakes do they make in recognizing and producing collocations? (4) Which type of collocation is the most difficult? (5) What implications to t…
Towards a Discourse Grammar in Language Teaching
Language is often simply defined as a means of communication. However, communication is a highly complex and intricate process that involves an adequate mastery of a number of linguistic and non-linguistic components. Knowing a language that can effectively be used for successful communication includes, among other things, attaining a functional knowledge of the various language systems including the syntactic system, or the grammar of the langua…
Problems Arab EFL Students Encounter in Learning Prepositions
This paper reports the findings of a study that aimed at identifying the difficulties that Arab EFL learners encounter in using prepositions at the levels of both recognition and production. Data were collected through a specially designed questionnaire that was given to 50 university students. It was found that the overall performance of the subjects was low as they encounter a number of tangible difficulties in acquiring English prepositions. A…
Pragmatic Functions of Interrogative Sentences in English: A Corpus-based Study
This study attempts to identify the various discourse functions of interrogative sentences in English. A corpus of authentic literary texts of three plays is surveyed in order to determine the pragmatic functions of this type of sentence. It is found that interrogatives perform more than thirty-five pragmatic functions. The analysis also reveals that contextual factors pertaining to interlocutors, their status and relationships, in addition to th…
The Acquisition of Conditional Sentences by Arab Learners of English
This study attempted to assess the acquisition of conditional sentences by Arab learners of EFL at the levels of recognition and production. The analysis showed that the overall percentage of correct responses in both recognition and production was 44%. The subjects' overall performance in recognition was higher than theirs in production. The major problems the subjects' encountered relate to the subjects' inability to relate form to function in …
The Acquisition of the Verbs of Saying by Arab EFL Learners
This paper investigates the extent to which university Arab learners of English as a FL have acquired the verbs of saying, i.e., say, speak, talk, and tell at the two levels of linguistic competence: recognition and production. A~ attempt was made to answer the following questions: (i) How well have Arab learners of English acquired the English verbs of saying at the levels of both recognition and production? (ii) Can they recognize the similarit…
Difficulties Encountered by Bilingual Arab Learners in Translating Arabic ‘fa’ into English
This study investigates the problems that translators and Arab learners of English encounter in translating Arabic sentences containing the Arabic discourse marker ‘fa’ into English. Several types of texts were surveyed in order to identify the salient functions that this marker has in Arabic discourse. Five major functions were identified: Explanatory, Consequential, Causal, Sequential and Adversative. A translation task was designed to find out…
Al-Jazeera Arabic and Al-Jazeera English headlines on the Russian-Ukrainian conflict: A Hallidayan transitivity analysis
Research in communication studies has suggested that Al-Jazeera produces different versions of news stories for different audiences. Yet, examining the linguistic means used to create these versions has remained under-researched. Drawing on Fairclough's three-dimensional model (1992) and Halliday's Transitivity Model (1985), this study aims at exploring how Al-Jazeera Arabic (AJA) and Al-Jazeera English (AJE) discursively represented the particip…
The Acquisition of the Verbs of Saying by Arab EFL Learners
This paper investigates the extent to which university Arab learners of English as a FL have acquired the verbs of saying, i.e., say, speak, talk, and tell at the two levels of linguistic competence: recognition and production. A~ attempt was made to answer the following questions: (i) How well have Arab learners of English acquired the English verbs of saying at the levels of both recognition and production? (ii) Can they recognize the similarit…
Difficulties Encountered by Bilingual Arab Learners in Translating Arabic ‘fa’ into English
This study investigates the problems that translators and Arab learners of English encounter in translating Arabic sentences containing the Arabic discourse marker ‘fa’ into English. Several types of texts were surveyed in order to identify the salient functions that this marker has in Arabic discourse. Five major functions were identified: Explanatory, Consequential, Causal, Sequential and Adversative. A translation task was designed to find out…
The Acquisition of Conditional Sentences by Arab Learners of English
This study attempted to assess the acquisition of conditional sentences by Arab learners of EFL at the levels of recognition and production. The analysis showed that the overall percentage of correct responses in both recognition and production was 44%. The subjects' overall performance in recognition was higher than theirs in production. The major problems the subjects' encountered relate to the subjects' inability to relate form to function in …
Pragmatic Functions of Interrogative Sentences in English: A Corpus-based Study
This study attempts to identify the various discourse functions of interrogative sentences in English. A corpus of authentic literary texts of three plays is surveyed in order to determine the pragmatic functions of this type of sentence. It is found that interrogatives perform more than thirty-five pragmatic functions. The analysis also reveals that contextual factors pertaining to interlocutors, their status and relationships, in addition to th…
Problems Arab EFL Students Encounter in Learning Prepositions
This paper reports the findings of a study that aimed at identifying the difficulties that Arab EFL learners encounter in using prepositions at the levels of both recognition and production. Data were collected through a specially designed questionnaire that was given to 50 university students. It was found that the overall performance of the subjects was low as they encounter a number of tangible difficulties in acquiring English prepositions. A…
Towards a Discourse Grammar in Language Teaching
Language is often simply defined as a means of communication. However, communication is a highly complex and intricate process that involves an adequate mastery of a number of linguistic and non-linguistic components. Knowing a language that can effectively be used for successful communication includes, among other things, attaining a functional knowledge of the various language systems including the syntactic system, or the grammar of the langua…
How Well can Healthcare Students Use Medical Collocations at both the Recognition and Production Levels
This study aimed at investigating healthcare students’ collocational competence at the level of recognition and production. It was an attempt to provide answers to the following five questions: (1) How well can students recognize medical collocations? (2) How well can they produce them? (3) What types of mistakes do they make in recognizing and producing collocations? (4) Which type of collocation is the most difficult? (5) What implications to t…
Integrating Literature into Teaching the Language Arts
The ultimate purpose of teaching a foreign language is to enable learners to understand others and to make themselves understood. Foreign language teaching is primarily about enabling learners to be communicatively competent at both receptive and productive levels. To accomplish this, teachers should seek to teach all language components in natural settings. More often than not, foreign language teaching not only takes place in unnatural contexts…
Translating Denial Rhetorical Questions in the Holy Quran: Reiss’ Text Typology Perspective
This paper aims to analyze the informative, operative, and expressive functions of the Quranic denial rhetorical question following Reiss’ (1981) text typology. It also aims at investigating the extent to which three English translations of the meanings of the Quran can reflect these functions. The sample consists of ten denial questions randomly selected from five suras according to a list of admissibility conditions. The translations of each qu…
The role of language in advocacy: An SFL analysis of Hanan Ashrawi’s speech on Palestinian rights
The study aimed to examine the rhetorical and linguistic devices employed in one of Hanan Ashrawi’s speeches to support the Palestinian cause and promote her perspective. Based on the Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL) framework, this paper identified and analysed the thematic patterns in her speech qualitatively within the semiotic dimensions of text analysis, including contextual, semantic, and lexico-grammar features. The findings demonstra…
English and Arabic abstracts in medical research articles: A contrastive study
s in academic research serve important functions. An abstract is a summary of an entire article or thesis that defines its objectives, research problem, methodology, major findings, and implications. Abstracts help potential readers to decide whether the article is relevant to their work. Thus, it saves their time and effort. This study aims to answer the following questions: (1) To what extent are the move structures in English and Arabic medica…
Assessing the pragmatic competence of Arab learners of English: The case of apology
This paper aims at assessing the pragmatic competence of Arab EFL learners at the tertiary level. The learners’ ability to use the speech act of apology was assessed through a specially designed discourse completion test that consisted of nine items. The study aimed at answering the following questions. (1) What strategies do the participants use to express the speech act of apology? (2) What politeness strategies do the participants use in reali…
Framing the shooting of Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh in English and Arabic news headlines: A critical discourse study
The study aims to investigate the ideological manipulation of language within news media headlines regarding the killing of Palestinian journalist Shireen Abu Akleh. This study employs Van Dijk’s socio-cognitive model of Critical Discourse Analysis to conduct a comparative qualitative analysis of 100 Arabic and 100 English news headlines, exploring linguistic features at both microstructure and macrostructure levels. The analysis delves into iden…
Problems of Translating annaa (أنى) in the Holy Quran
The present study endeavours to examine the challenges associated with translating the particle annaa from the Holy Quran into English, with a focus on three English translators of the Quran. The study identifies the multifaceted functions of annaa in Arabic grammar and its rhetorical functions within the Quranic context. Key challenges include conveying nuanced meanings, selecting appropriate modal verbs, and preserving rhetorical functions. The…
Is Arabic punctuation rule-governed
This paper investigates the extent to which Arabic punctuation is rule-governed, with the aim of improving text comprehension, disambiguation, and machine translation. The study highlights the lack of systematic punctuation in Arabic written discourse, which may be attributed to difficulties in sentence boundary identification or inadequate differentiation between various conjunctions. The punctuation behavior of Arabic speakers is examined in re…
Images of the Qur’an in Western scholarship: A socio-narrative approach
Despite the huge body of research that has developed around the Qur’an in the West, there is still a dearth of research on how this scholarship represents the Qur’an and could contribute to feeding dominant narratives about Islam and Muslims in the West. To fill this gap, and drawing on socio-narrative theory, the present article analyzes the textual choices made in two works published in the well-established journal Arabica: Journal of Arabic an…
The passive voice in the Holy Quran: An exploratory study
The passive voice represents a marked syntactic construction in language, and its usage requires a systematic analysis to fully comprehend its complexities. The role of the passive voice in the Holy Quran has not been adequately explored in previous studies. This research aims to provide a comprehensive analysis of all passive verbs found in the Holy Quran. We identified 1107 passive verbs using the categorization provided by the Quranic Corpus. …
Translating the Quranic word ‘Al- ð ann’ into English
Translating the Qur’an presents significant challenges at the syntactic, discoursal, lexical, and pragmatic levels, largely due to crosslinguistic differences between Arabic and target languages. These challenges are amplified when dealing with terms whose everyday Arabic usage is limited, yet whose Qur’anic meanings are broader and more nuanced. This paper aimed to assess how accurately the word ‘al-ðann’ (الظن) was rendered into three English t…
Explicitation and Implicitation in Arabic- English Translation of Institutional Academic Correspondence
Within the context of university communication, the choice of translation strategies can significantly impact the clarity and effectiveness of academic correspondence. This study investigates the role of explicitation and implicitation in translating from English (source language) to Arabic (target language). We explore how these strategies manifest in institutional academic correspondence (circulars and memos) and determine which strategy is mor…
Metadiscourse Markers in English and Arabic Opinion Columns: A Contrastive Study
Metadiscourse markers are crucial in opinion columns, enabling writers to engage readers and present persuasive arguments. However, their usage varies across languages for several reasons. Our study investigates the differences in the use of metadiscourse markers in English and Arabic opinion columns. Using Hyland's (2005) taxonomy, we analyzed 80 opinion columns through a mixed-method approach. While both languages exhibited similar patterns in …
Euphemisms for Same-Gender Relations in the Holy Quran and their English Translations
To support their argument about the position of Islam on same-gender relations, ‘Muslim’ proponents of these relations claim that there is no specific Arabic designation for these relations in the Holy Quran. Although it does not explicitly name them, the Quran addresses this topic euphemistically. This study aims to identify the Quranic euphemisms for same-gender relations and examine the Quranic strategies used for indicating them. Furthermore,…
Translating argumentation structures in the Holy Quran
This study examines Quranic argumentation structures and their translation strategies. Quranic verses with argumentative structures were identified based on a literature review and specific criteria. Four Quran translations, representing diverse approaches, were selected for comparative analysis. Using an analytical comparative method, the study assessed the accuracy and quality of translations through a four-point evaluation scale. Each translat…
Translation and ophthalmology during the Abbasid Era: Hunayn bin Isḥāq’s ‘In the Eye, Two Hundred and Seven Issues’ as a model of medical scholarship
This study explores the contributions of Hunayn bin Isḥāq al-Abbadi (d. 873 AD) to the fields of translation and ophthalmology in the Abbasid era. Focusing on the first fifty questions from his own innovative work In the Eye, Two Hundred and Seven Issues, it examines Hunayn’s innovative approach to Arabizing medical terminology, which avoided literal translations and expanded Arabic vocabulary, particularly in ophthalmology. His medical insights…
Framing Crisis Discourse in Biden’s Political Speech: The Use of Persuasion to Rally Public Support
Al-Jazeera Arabic and Al-Jazeera English headlines on the Russian-Ukrainian conflict: A Hallidayan transitivity analysis
Research in communication studies has suggested that Al-Jazeera produces different versions of news stories for different audiences. Yet, examining the linguistic means used to create these versions has remained under-researched. Drawing on Fairclough's three-dimensional model (1992) and Halliday's Transitivity Model (1985), this study aims at exploring how Al-Jazeera Arabic (AJA) and Al-Jazeera English (AJE) discursively represented the particip…
Linguistics (19 works) · Computer Science (17 works) · Psychology (15 works) · Philosophy (12 works) · Arabic (10 works) · Discourse Analysis in Language Studies (10 works) · Political science (8 works) · Sociology (8 works) · Translation Studies and Practices (7 works) · Natural language processing (6 works)