Mohammed Albakry
Biographic Data
| ID | 4772942 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mohammed Albakry |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mohammed |
| FAMILY NAME | Albakry |
| SIGNATURE | ALBAKRY M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Middle Tennessee State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4416-6585 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Translation and the Intersection of Texts, Contexts and Politics
Translation and the Intersection of Texts, Contexts and Politics: Historical and Socio-Cultural Perspectives
This book analyzes the impact of historical, political and sociocultural contexts on the reading, rewriting and translating of texts. The authors base their arguments on their experiences of translating or researching different text types, taking in fiction, short stories, memoirs, religious texts, scientific treatises, and news reports from a variety of different languages and cultural traditions. In doing so they cover a wide range of contexts …
To be real honest, I’m just like you”: Analyzing the discourse of personalization in online sermons
This paper investigates the discourse of LifeChurch.tv, an American evangelical megachurch – headed by the influential pastor Craig Groeschel – whose sermons are accessed by thousands of followers on the Internet. The study is based on the transcripts of a five-year period of online preaching (177 sermons). The goal was to apply the framework of critical discourse analysis (CDA) to digital sermons, particularly focusing on examining the elements …
A little bit transparent with one another: Constructing vulnerability in the evangelical discourse of women preachers
Using four categories of Brown’s shame resilience theory (SRT), this paper analyses two similar online videos by prominent American evangelical female preachers: Joyce Meyer and Beth Moore. As each unpacks her survivor’s story of childhood sexual abuse, SRT (and its components of vulnerability, critical awareness, reaching out and speaking shame) can provide a matrix for interpreting the narrative in which each preacher frames her self-disclosure
Duality of Expression: Revolutionary and Linguistic Politics in Ibrahim Al-Husseini's Commedia Al-Ahzaan
This article discusses the Egyptian playwright Ibrahim Al-Husseini's recent play Commedia Al-Ahzaan (Comedy of Sorrows). The play is a bold dramatic attempt to capture the giddying experience of the Egyptian revolution of 25th January, 2011. By offering a glimpse into the lives of some of the nameless crowds that amassed in Cairo’s Tahrir Square, Commedia Al-Ahzaan gives a human face to their leaderless mass protests, which managed to topple Muba…
I own this language that everybody speaks: Ghanaians’ attitude toward the English language
Based on interviews conducted in ten Catholic churches of the Ghanaian capital, Accra, the paper offers a profile of English use in Ghana and reports on the attitudes of Ghanaians toward English as the official language of their country. The results reveal the influential role English plays in the different settings of Ghanaian communication as well as the high esteem afforded to the English language by the majority of Ghanaian respondents. Most …
Ghanaian English and code-switching in Catholic churches
This sociolinguistic study looks at language use at Catholic Masses and in informal social interactions by worshippers in the Ghanaian capital, Accra. The focus is on English employed monolingually as well as alternated or mixed with local languages. Data for the study were collected through the participant observation method. Findings revealed that, although it is mainly a second language in Ghana, English dominates Catholic Masses in urban cent…
Linguistic and Cultural Issues in Literary Translation A Case Study
Linguistic and Cultural Issues in Literary Translation A Case Study
U.S. "Friendly Fire" Bombing of Canadian Troops: Analysis of the Investigative Reports
This article compares two military investigative reports using the techniques of corpus linguistics and drawing on the interpretive framework provided by politeness theory and critical discourse analysis. The corpus data for the study comprise two bodies of texts investigating the Kandahar "friendly fire" incident of 17 April 2002: The U.S.-led Board of Inquiry Report and the Canadian Board of Inquiry Report. The analysis depended on interpreting…
Oxford Wordpower: English-English-Arabic. The Merits of a Combined Bilingual and Monolingual Dictionary
1English department, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, 86011-6032, AZ, U.S.A. Oxford Wordpower: English-English-Arabic. The Merits of a Combined Bilingual and Monolingual Dictionary Oxford Oxford University Press 1999 (Eighth impression 2002) ix + 886 0–19–431485–5
New Stories of English
Review Article| February 01 2004 NEW STORIES OF ENGLISH: Alternative Histories of English Edited by Richard Watts and Peter Trudgill London: Routledge, 2002. Pp. xiii + 280. MOHAMMED ALBAKRY MOHAMMED ALBAKRY Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google American Speech (2004) 79 (1): 101–104. https://doi.org/10.1215/00031283-79-1-101 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Permissions Search Site Citation MOHA…
I own this language that everybody speaks: Ghanaians’ attitude toward the English language
Based on interviews conducted in ten Catholic churches of the Ghanaian capital, Accra, the paper offers a profile of English use in Ghana and reports on the attitudes of Ghanaians toward English as the official language of their country. The results reveal the influential role English plays in the different settings of Ghanaian communication as well as the high esteem afforded to the English language by the majority of Ghanaian respondents. Most …
Ghanaian English and code-switching in Catholic churches
This sociolinguistic study looks at language use at Catholic Masses and in informal social interactions by worshippers in the Ghanaian capital, Accra. The focus is on English employed monolingually as well as alternated or mixed with local languages. Data for the study were collected through the participant observation method. Findings revealed that, although it is mainly a second language in Ghana, English dominates Catholic Masses in urban cent…
U.S. "Friendly Fire" Bombing of Canadian Troops: Analysis of the Investigative Reports
This article compares two military investigative reports using the techniques of corpus linguistics and drawing on the interpretive framework provided by politeness theory and critical discourse analysis. The corpus data for the study comprise two bodies of texts investigating the Kandahar "friendly fire" incident of 17 April 2002: The U.S.-led Board of Inquiry Report and the Canadian Board of Inquiry Report. The analysis depended on interpreting…
Oxford Wordpower: English-English-Arabic. The Merits of a Combined Bilingual and Monolingual Dictionary
1English department, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, 86011-6032, AZ, U.S.A. Oxford Wordpower: English-English-Arabic. The Merits of a Combined Bilingual and Monolingual Dictionary Oxford Oxford University Press 1999 (Eighth impression 2002) ix + 886 0–19–431485–5
New Stories of English
Review Article| February 01 2004 NEW STORIES OF ENGLISH: Alternative Histories of English Edited by Richard Watts and Peter Trudgill London: Routledge, 2002. Pp. xiii + 280. MOHAMMED ALBAKRY MOHAMMED ALBAKRY Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google American Speech (2004) 79 (1): 101–104. https://doi.org/10.1215/00031283-79-1-101 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Permissions Search Site Citation MOHA…
Linguistic and Cultural Issues in Literary Translation A Case Study
Linguistic and Cultural Issues in Literary Translation A Case Study
Ghanaian English and code-switching in Catholic churches
This sociolinguistic study looks at language use at Catholic Masses and in informal social interactions by worshippers in the Ghanaian capital, Accra. The focus is on English employed monolingually as well as alternated or mixed with local languages. Data for the study were collected through the participant observation method. Findings revealed that, although it is mainly a second language in Ghana, English dominates Catholic Masses in urban cent…
Duality of Expression: Revolutionary and Linguistic Politics in Ibrahim Al-Husseini's Commedia Al-Ahzaan
This article discusses the Egyptian playwright Ibrahim Al-Husseini's recent play Commedia Al-Ahzaan (Comedy of Sorrows). The play is a bold dramatic attempt to capture the giddying experience of the Egyptian revolution of 25th January, 2011. By offering a glimpse into the lives of some of the nameless crowds that amassed in Cairo’s Tahrir Square, Commedia Al-Ahzaan gives a human face to their leaderless mass protests, which managed to topple Muba…
I own this language that everybody speaks: Ghanaians’ attitude toward the English language
Based on interviews conducted in ten Catholic churches of the Ghanaian capital, Accra, the paper offers a profile of English use in Ghana and reports on the attitudes of Ghanaians toward English as the official language of their country. The results reveal the influential role English plays in the different settings of Ghanaian communication as well as the high esteem afforded to the English language by the majority of Ghanaian respondents. Most …
A little bit transparent with one another: Constructing vulnerability in the evangelical discourse of women preachers
Using four categories of Brown’s shame resilience theory (SRT), this paper analyses two similar online videos by prominent American evangelical female preachers: Joyce Meyer and Beth Moore. As each unpacks her survivor’s story of childhood sexual abuse, SRT (and its components of vulnerability, critical awareness, reaching out and speaking shame) can provide a matrix for interpreting the narrative in which each preacher frames her self-disclosure
To be real honest, I’m just like you”: Analyzing the discourse of personalization in online sermons
This paper investigates the discourse of LifeChurch.tv, an American evangelical megachurch – headed by the influential pastor Craig Groeschel – whose sermons are accessed by thousands of followers on the Internet. The study is based on the transcripts of a five-year period of online preaching (177 sermons). The goal was to apply the framework of critical discourse analysis (CDA) to digital sermons, particularly focusing on examining the elements …
Translation and the Intersection of Texts, Contexts and Politics
Translation and the Intersection of Texts, Contexts and Politics: Historical and Socio-Cultural Perspectives
This book analyzes the impact of historical, political and sociocultural contexts on the reading, rewriting and translating of texts. The authors base their arguments on their experiences of translating or researching different text types, taking in fiction, short stories, memoirs, religious texts, scientific treatises, and news reports from a variety of different languages and cultural traditions. In doing so they cover a wide range of contexts …
Linguistics (9 works) · Sociology (8 works) · Computer Science (6 works) · Philosophy (5 works) · History (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Psychology (4 works) · Art (3 works) · History (3 works) · Law (3 works)